Hello Football fans, hope you all are doing good. I have a good news for you all. The Emirates FA Cup Final is going to take place in Wembley Stadium, London On May 19.
The FA Cup, also known officially as The Football Association Challenge Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men’s domestic English football. It is the oldest National Football Competition in the world. The Football Association was founded in 1871 (148 years ago). There are total 736 teams under this association.
Emirates Airline is the sponsor from 2015 to 2018, renaming the competition as ‘The Emirates FA Cup’, unlike previous editions.
Top 3 Teams of FA Cup :
- Arsenal is the most top performing team of FA Cup. The team has won total 13 matches till now. Last match was won in 2017. Arsenal has appeared 20 times in the finals. The very first final was won by this team was in 1930.
- The second most top performing team of FA Cup is Manchester United. This team has won total of 12 matches. The last final was won in 2016 by this team. Manchester has appeared 20 times in the finals. The very first final was won in year 1909 by this team.
- The third most top performing team is Chelsea. This team has won total number of 8 finals. Last final was won in 2018 last year. The very first final was won in the year 1970. Chelsea has appeared 13 times in the finals.
The FA Cup Trivia :
Here is some FA Cup trivia :
- The competition did not take place during the First and Second World Wars, except for the 1914–15 and 1939–40 season, though the 1939-40 competition was abandoned during the qualifying rounds.
- Only one non-English team has ever won the Cup. In 1927 the FA Cup was won by Cardiff City, a team which plays in the English Football League despite being based in Wales.
- In 1953, a hat-trick by Stan Mortensen remains to be the only hat-trick ever scored at Wembley in the competition’s final.
- Louis Saha, Everton, scored a goal after 27.9 seconds in the 2009 Cup Final – the fastest goal in FA Cup Final history.
- There have only been two Cup Finals that have required a penalty shootout – in 2005 and 2006.
- In the 2012 Cup Final, Didier Drogba of Chelsea became the first player to score goals in four different Finals.
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