Fixtures
| Date | R | Hjemme vs Borte | - |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/20 16:15 | 2 |
Man City vs Chelsea
|
View |
| 04/21 14:30 | 2 |
Coventry vs Man Utd
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Results
| Date | R | Hjemme vs Borte | - |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03/17 15:30 | 3 |
Man Utd vs Liverpool
|
4-3 |
| 03/17 12:45 | 3 |
Chelsea vs Leicester
|
4-2 |
| 03/16 17:30 | 3 |
Man City vs Newcastle
|
2-0 |
| 03/16 12:15 | 3 |
Wolverhampton vs Coventry
|
2-3 |
| 02/28 20:00 | 11 |
Liverpool vs Southampton
|
3-0 |
| 02/28 19:45 | 11 |
Nottm Forest vs Man Utd
|
0-1 |
| 02/28 19:45 | 11 |
Wolverhampton vs Brighton
|
1-0 |
| 02/28 19:30 | 11 |
Chelsea vs Leeds
|
3-2 |
| 02/27 20:00 | 11 |
Luton vs Man City
|
2-6 |
| 02/27 19:45 | 11 |
Blackburn vs Newcastle
|
4-5 |
| 02/27 19:30 | 11 |
Bournemouth vs Leicester
|
0-1 |
| 02/26 19:45 | 11 |
Coventry vs Maidstone Utd
|
5-0 |
Teams
Man City
West Ham
West Brom
Middlesbrough
Boreham Wood
Maidstone Utd
Wrexham
Stockport
Salford City
AFC Fylde
Woking
Marine
York
Halifax
Brackley
Harrogate Town
Hitchin
Kidderminster
Altrincham
Braintree Town
Ebbsfleet United
Boston Utd
Alfreton Town
Chester
Chorley
Bishop's Stortford
AFC Telford
Margate
Hampton & Richmond
Warrington Town
Hemel Hempstead
Darlington 1883
Torquay
Curzon Ashton
Gloucester
FC United of Manchester
Dartford
Gainsborough
Skelmersdale Utd
Worcester City
Hungerford Town
Stalybridge
Tamworth
Corby
Spennymoor Town
Dunstable
Ashton Utd
Bradford P A
Nuneaton
Wealdstone
Wikipedia - FA Cup
The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football. First played during the 1871–72 season, it is the oldest national football competition in the world. It is organised by and named after The Football Association (The FA). Since 2015, it has been known as The Emirates FA Cup after its headline sponsor Emirates. A concurrent Women's FA Cup has been held since 1970.
The competition is open to all eligible clubs down to Level 9 of the English football league system with Level 10 clubs acting as stand-ins in the event of non-entries from above. A record 763 clubs competed in 2011–12. The tournament consists of 12 randomly drawn rounds followed by the semi-finals and the final. Entrants are not seeded, although a system of byes based on league level ensures higher ranked teams enter in later rounds – the minimum number of games needed to win, depending on which round a team enters the competition, ranges from six to fourteen.
The first six rounds are the Qualifying Competition, and are contested by clubs in the National League System, levels 5 to 10 of the English football system, more commonly called non-League. 32 of these teams progress to the first round of the Competition Proper, meeting the first of the 48 professional teams from Leagues One and Two. The last entrants are the 20 Premier League and 24 Championship clubs, into the draw for the third round proper. In the modern era, only one non-League team has ever reached the quarter-finals, and teams below Level 2 have never reached the final. As a result, significant focus is given to the smaller teams who progress furthest, especially if they achieve an unlikely "giant-killing" victory.
Winners receive the FA Cup trophy, of which there have been two designs and five actual cups; the latest is a 2014 replica of the second design, introduced in 1911. Winners also qualify for the UEFA Europa League and a place in the upcoming FA Community Shield. Arsenal are the most successful club with fourteen titles, most recently in 2020, and their former manager Arsène Wenger is the competition's most successful, having won seven finals with the team. Manchester City are the current holders, having defeated local rivals Manchester United in the 2023 final.
History
In 1863, the newly founded Football Association (the FA) published the Laws of the Game of Association Football, unifying the various different rules in use before then. On 20 July 1871, in the offices of newspaper, the FA Secretary C. W. Alcock proposed to the FA committee that "it is desirable that a Challenge Cup should be established in connection with the Association for which all clubs belonging to the Association should be invited to compete". The inaugural FA Cup tournament kicked off in November 1871. After thirteen games in all, Wanderers were crowned the winners in the final, on 16 March 1872. Wanderers retained the trophy the following year. The modern cup was beginning to be established by the 1888–89 season, when qualifying rounds were introduced.
Following the 1914–15 edition, the competition was suspended due to the First World War, and did not resume until 1919–20. The 1923 FA Cup Final, commonly known as the "White Horse Final", was the first final to be played in the newly opened Wembley Stadium (known at the time as the Empire Stadium). The 1927 final saw "Abide with Me" being sung for the first time at the Cup final, which has become a pre-match tradition. Due to the outbreak of World War II, the competition was not played between the 1938–39 and 1945–46 editions. Due to the wartime breaks, the competition did not celebrate its centenary year until 1980–81.
After some confusion over the rules in its first competition, the FA decided that any drawn match would lead to a replay, with teams competing in further replays until a game was eventually won. Alvechurch and Oxford City contested the most replayed tie in the 1971–72 qualification, in a tie which went to 6 matches. Multiple replays were scrapped for the competition proper in 1991–92, and the qualifying rounds in 1997–98. Replays were removed altogether from the semi-final and final matches in 2000, from the quarter-finals in 2016–17 and the fifth round in 2019–20.
Redevelopment of Wembley saw the final played outside of England for the first time, the 2001–2006 finals being played at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. The final returned to Wembley in 2007, followed by the semi-finals from 2008.
FA-cupen er en årlig fotballturnering som arrangeres i England. Turneringen er åpen for alle engelske fotballklubber, både profesjonelle og amatørklubber.
FA-cupen ble første gang arrangert i 1871-72-sesongen, og er dermed verdens eldste fotballturnering. Den er også en av de mest prestisjefylte cupturneringene i verden.
Finalen i FA-cupen spilles på Wembley Stadium i London. Vinneren av FA-cupen får en plass i UEFA Europa League.
De mest suksessrike klubbene i FA-cupens historie er Arsenal og Manchester United, som begge har vunnet turneringen 14 ganger.
FA-cupen er en viktig del av engelsk fotballkultur. Turneringen gir mindre klubber muligheten til å spille mot de beste lagene i landet, og har ofte gitt opphav til store overraskelser.