TheFA.com tests your knowledge with some quiz questions on The FA Cup...
10 Popular Questions About The FA Cup - and the answers...
1. Who has won it the most times?
Manchester United have won it 11 times. Next come Arsenal, who've won it 9
times.
2. What is the biggest win in a Cup Final?
Bury beat Derby County 6-0 in the 1903 Final.
3. Has it been won by a team from outside the top division?
Yes, several times. The last Second Division team to win it were West Ham
United in 1980.
4. How many different trophies have there been?
The current one is the fourth. The first one was stolen and never found, the
second was presented to the FA President and the third was replaced after 80
years of 'wear and tear'.
5. Who are the top giantkillers?
Yeovil Town, who now play in Football League Two, beat 20 Football League teams
when they were outside the League.
6. When did the Cup start?
The first competition took place in the 1871-72 season. 15 teams entered and
the first winners were Wanderers.
7. When was the Cup Final played at Wembley?
>From 1923 to 2000. The first Wembley Final had an official attendance of
>126,047.
8. Who was the last player to score a hat-trick in a Cup Final?
Stan Mortensen was the last - for Blackpool against Bolton Wanderers in 1953.
9. Which player has the most winners' medals?
Arthur Kinnaird (Wanderers & Old Etonians), Charles Wollaston (Wanderers) and
Jimmy Forrest (Blackburn Rovers) each had five.
10. Which player has scored the most Cup Final goals?
Ian Rush scored five for Liverpool - two in 1986, two in 1989 and one in 1992.
Here's some more FA Cup trivia...
Wanderers beat Royal Engineers in the first Cup Final in 1872 but the Cup was
not presented to the winners on the day. Instead the presentation took place
three weeks later at Wanderers' annual dinner.
Curtis Weston, at 17 years 119 days, is the youngest finalist in the history of
the Cup. He played for Millwall against Manchester United in 2004, substituting
for Dennis Wise.
In the nineteenth century seven Scottish clubs played in the English Cup.
Queen's Park reached two finals and Glasgow Rangers lost to Aston Villa in a
semi-final. Welsh clubs still compete to this day.
King George V saw Burnley play Liverpool at the old Crystal Palace ground in
1914 and became the first reigning monarch to attend the Cup Final. HM The
Queen last attended in 1976.
Charlton Athletic played in the 1946 Cup Final despite having lost in an
earlier round. Fulham had beaten them 2-1 in the second leg of their third
round tie but Charlton went through on aggregate.
The 'Big Freeze' winter of 1963 virtually brought football to a standstill for
two months. The FA Cup's third round took 66 days to complete and the Final had
to be moved back three weeks.
When Wimbledon beat Liverpool in the 1988 Cup Final, they became the 42nd and
last different club to win the Cup. The Dons had only joined The Football
League 11 years before.
Aston Villa's Bob Chatt is credited with the only goal of the 1895 Cup Final,
scored after just 30 seconds. Roberto Di Matteo's effort for Chelsea after 42
seconds in 1997 was Wembley's fastest.
The first Cup Final to be televised live in its entirety was Preston North End
v Huddersfield Town in 1938. The first to be televised in colour was the 1968
Final between West Bromwich Albion and Everton.
When Wimbledon goalkeeper Dave Beasant saved John Aldridge's spot-kick in 1988,
it was the first penalty miss in an FA Cup Final at Wembley. Three years later
Mark Crossley saved from Gary Lineker.
The first FA Cup match under floodlights was a Preliminary Round replay between
Kidderminster Harriers and Brierley Hill Alliance in 1955. In the same year
Carlisle United also played Darlington under lights.
Wrexham beat Arsenal 2-1 in a third round tie in 1992 and it was the first time
the club finishing bottom of the Football League in the previous season had
knocked out the League champions.
West Bromwich Albion's Dennis Clarke was the first substitute to be used in a
Cup Final when he replaced John Kaye against Everton in 1968. Albion won 1-0
with a Jeff Astle goal in extra-time.
It was not until the 116th Cup Final match, including replays, that a player
was sent off. Manchester United's Kevin Moran was dismissed by referee Peter
Willis for a late tackle against Everton in 1985.
Penalty shoot-outs were introduced to settle Cup-ties after a second drawn
match from the 1991-92 season. Before that, Birmingham City had beaten Stoke
City on penalties in the 'Match for Third Place' in 1972.
West Bromwich Albion were the first club to win the Cup with a team composed
entirely of English-born players (in 1888). The most recent has been West Ham
United, conquerors of Fulham in 1975.
Cardiff City, winners in 1927, took the Cup out of England for the one and only
time. Before the match Henry Lyte's famous hymn, 'Abide With Me', was sung at
the Final for the first time.
Gary and Philip Neville were in Manchester United's Cup-winning teams of 1996
and 1999, the first brothers to win together since Brian and Jimmy Greenhoff -
again for United - in 1977.
The Cup's longest tie lasted for eleven hours. Alvechurch needed six games to
knock out Oxford City in the fourth qualifying round in 1971, the scores being
2-2, 1-1, 1-1, 0-0, 0-0 and 1-0.
In a first qualifying round tie in 1996 21-year-old Nick Scaife (Bishop
Auckland) faced 41-year-old dad Bobby (Pickering Town). Both played in midfield
and Bishops, the home team, won 3-1.
Post-war victories in the Cup by non-League clubs over top-division teams
include Yeovil Town 2 Sunderland 1 in 1949, Hereford United 2 Newcastle United
1 in 1972 and, most recently, Sutton United 2 Coventry City 1 in 1989.
The record number of accepted entries for The FA Cup is 661 teams in 2004.
Ian Callaghan, a winger capped four times by England, played in 88 FA Cup
matches - 79 for Liverpool, 7 for Swansea and 2 for Crewe. John Barnes played
in 87, again mostly for Liverpool.
Players first wore numbers on their shirts in the Cup Final in 1933 when
Everton, who wore 1 to 11, beat Manchester City, who wore 12 to 22. Names as
well as numbers appeared from 1993.
Four players have appeared in the Cup Final for three different clubs - Harold
Halse (Man. United, Villa, Chelsea), Ernie Taylor (Newcastle, Blackpool, Man.
United), John Barnes (Watford, Liverpool, Newcastle) and Dennis Wise
(Wimbledon, Chelsea, Millwall).
Four clubs have reached the Cup Final in a season in which they were relegated
and all of them lost at Wembley - Manchester City (1926), Leicester City
(1969), Brighton & Hove Albion (1983) and Middlesbrough (1997).
The only non-League club to win The FA Cup is Tottenham Hotspur in 1901,
although prior to the formation of the league system in 1888-89, all winners
were technically non-League!
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