The story of the oldest cup in the world
With the victory of Manchester City this afternoon, it'll be 5th time victory of the clubs. After the highest spending around 300 million pound for player transfer, this is the first cup for them. And also this winning of oldest cup of England after last time won in 1969.
FA cup, or in the full name is The Football Association Challenge Cup, is the knockout competition of English football tounament which is the oldest tournament in this world. The tournament started in 1871-72. The competition will be challenged until May with the FA Cup Final match, which is normally played after English Premier League is over. One interesting point of this tournament is suprising match can be seen all time. It's always happen that smaller club can beat bigger club. Because of this thophy is not for the loser, so in 90 mins there is nothing to lose, just fight.
Suprisingly when i looked back to the statistic of this thophy, the challenge has been held fro over a hundred but the top winner of this is only 11 times winner. So let take a look for the club of most winning this longest story of the cup.
5 times winner - Manchester City, Wanderers F.C. (was an amateur association football club based in London), West Bromwich Albion, and Everton.
8 times winner - Tottenham Hotspur
10 times winner - Arsenal
11 times winner - Manchester United
The highrst official attendance in final match was recorded in 1923, the number of attendance is around 126,047, but actually people belive that there were anywhere between 150,000 and 300,000 witnesses of the match between Bolton and West Ham.
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