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FA Cup Records including, appearances, goal-scorers, most wins, highest scores, and more.

Team Records in the Final

Most wins: 11 Manchester United Most consecutive wins: 3
  • Wanderers (1875-76, 1876-77, 1877-78)
  • Blackburn Rovers, (1883-84, 1884-85, 1885-86)
Most appearances: 18
  • Manchester United
Most appearances without winning: 4
  • Leicester City (1948-49, 1960-61, 1962-63, 1968-69)
Biggest win: 6-0
  • Bury 6-0 Derby County (1902-03)
Most goals in a final: 7
  • Blackburn Rovers 6-1 Sheffield Wednesday (1889-90)
  • Blackpool 4-3 Bolton Wanderers (1952-53)
Most goals by a losing side: 3
  • Bolton Wanderers lost 3-4 against Blackpool (1952-53)
Most defeats in Cup finals: 7
  • Arsenal
  • Everton
  • Manchester United
Lowest ranked team to win the Cup:
  • Tottenham Hotspur - Southern League, 1900-01
Highest Cup Final attendance (official): 120,081
  • Aston Villa v. Sunderland at Crystal Palace, 19/4/1913

FA Cup Records by Individual Players in the Final

Ashley Cole
Cole
Most wins: 6
  • Ashley Cole (Arsenal and Chelsea)
Most appearances: 9
  • Arthur Kinnaird (Wanderers and Old Etonians)
Most goals in a final: 3
  • Billy Townley (Blackburn Rovers) (1890)
  • Stan Mortensen
    Mortsensen
  • James Logan (Notts County) (1894)
  • Stan Mortensen (Blackpool) (1953)
Most goals (all finals): 5
  • Ian Rush (Liverpool)
Fastest goal: 25 seconds
  • Louis Saha (for Everton v. Chelsea, 2009)
Ian Rush
Rush
Youngest player: 17 years and 119 days
  • Curtis Weston, for Millwall v. Manchester United, 2003-04
Youngest goalscorer: 18 years and 18 days
  • Norman Whiteside, for Manchester United v. Brighton & Hove Albion, 1982-83
Oldest player: 41 years and 257 days
  • Billy Jonathan Hyde Hampson,for Newcastle United v. Aston Villa, 1923-24

FA Cup Records for All Rounds

Biggest win: 26-0
  • Preston North End 26-0 Hyde (First Round, 15/10/1887)
Highest attendance (other than Final): 84,569
  • Manchester City v. Stoke City, Quarter-Final, 3/3/1934
Longest tie: 660 minutes (6 matches)
  • Oxford City v. Alvechurch, 4th Qualifying Round, 1971-72
    (Alvechurch won the 6th game 1-0)
Longest penalty shootout: 20 penalties each
  • Tunbridge Wells v. Littlehampton Town, Preliminary Round Replay, 2005
    (Tunbridge Wells won 16-15)
Most rounds played in a season: 9
  • New Brighton (1956-57)
  • Blyth Spartans (1977-78)
  • Harlow Town (1978-79)
Most games played in a season: 13
  • Bideford (1974-75)
Fastest goal: 10.8 seconds
  • Paul Wardle, for Cheadle Town v. North Ferriby United, 1/9/2001
Most Career Goals: 49
  • Henry "Harry" Cursham, Notts County 1877 to 1888

FA Cup Records: Firsts

  • First Wembley Final:
    Bolton Wanderers vs. West Ham United, 1923
  • First hat trick in the final:
    William Townley (Blackburn Rovers vs. Sheffield Wednesday, 1890)
  • First hat trick in a Wembley final:
    Stan Mortensen (Blackpool vs. Bolton Wanderers, 1953)
  • First penalty scored in the final:
    Albert Shepherd (Newcastle vs. Barnsley, 1910)
  • First penalty missed in the final:
    Charlie Wallace (Aston Villa vs. Sunderland, 1913)
  • First penalty saved in the final:
    Dave Beasant (Wimbledon vs. Liverpool, 1988)
  • First year that substitutes were allowed: 1967
  • First substitute to score in a final:
    Eddie Kelly (Arsenal vs. Liverpool, 1971)
  • First player sent off in a final:
    Kevin Moran (Manchester United vs. Everton,1985)
  • First goalkeeper to captain a cup-winning side:
    Dave Beasant (Wimbledon vs. Liverpool, 1988)
  • First final broadcast on radio:
    Cardiff City vs. Arsenal, 1927
  • First final broadcast on television:
    Preston North End vs. Huddersfield Town, 1938
  • First tie won on penalties:
    Rotherham United vs. Scunthorpe United, 1991
  • First final won on penalties:
    Arsenal vs. Manchester United, 2005
  • First FA Cup final replay:
    Royal Engineers vs. Old Etonians, 1875
  • First replay played at Wembley:
    1981 Tottenham vs. Manchester City

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