* 1938 – The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End.

Category: FA Cup winners

United won the League championship but were denied the 20th century's first " double " when they controversially lost the 1957 FA Cup final to Aston Villa.

Yet somehow they reached their second consecutive FA Cup final, and the big day at Wembley coincided with Busby's return to work.

Further success with Manchester United came at last when they beat Leicester City 3 – 1 in the FA Cup final of 1963, with Charlton finally earning a winners ' medal in his third final.

After World War II, the club reached the FA Cup Final twice, losing in 1946 and winning in 1947.

Charlton were finalists in the 1946 FA Cup, but lost 4 – 1 to Derby County.

But they made amends with their performance in the FA Cup, reaching the final once again.

In 1987 Charlton also returned to Wembley for the first time since the 1947 FA Cup final for the Full Members Cup final against Blackburn.

Charlton continued their poor run of form to go 18 games without a win, a new club record, before finally achieving a 1 – 0 away victory over Norwich City in an FA Cup Third Round replay.

In 1938 the highest attendance to date at the ground was recorded at over 75, 000 for a FA Cup match against Aston Villa.

In the 1940s, Charlton used a design featuring a robin sitting in a football within a shield, sometimes with the letters CAFC in the four quarters of the shield, which was worn for the 1946 FA Cup Final.

They reached the 1915 FA Cup Final, where they lost to Sheffield United at Old Trafford, and finished 3rd in the First Division in 1920, the club's best league campaign to that point.

The following season saw UEFA create the European Champions ' Cup, but after objections from The Football League and the FA Chelsea were persuaded to withdraw from the competition before it started.

They were on course for a treble of League, FA Cup and League Cup going into the final stages of the 1964 – 65 season, winning the League Cup but faltering late on in the other two.

In three seasons the side were beaten in three major semi-finals and were FA Cup runners-up.

Under Docherty's successor, Dave Sexton, Chelsea won the FA Cup in 1970, beating Leeds United 2 – 1 in a final replay.

Chelsea's form in the new Premier League was unconvincing, although they did reach the 1994 FA Cup Final.

He added several top international players to the side, as the club won the FA Cup in 1997 and established themselves as one of England's top sides again.

Gullit was replaced by Gianluca Vialli, who led the team to victory in the League Cup Final and the Cup Winners ' Cup Final in 1998, the FA Cup in 2000 and their first appearance in the UEFA Champions League.

This is still a record loss for an FA Cup semi-final game.

The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football and is the oldest association football competition in the world.

Its current sponsored name is the FA Cup with Budweiser.

Entry is open to all teams who compete in the Premier League, the Football League and in steps one to five of the FA National League System, as well as selected teams in step 6.

The FA Cup has a set pattern for when each round is played.

However, if the FA Cup winning team has also qualified for the following season's Champions League, then the losing FA Cup finalist is given the Europa League place instead.

At the end of the final, the winning team is presented with a trophy, also known as the " FA Cup ", which they hold until the following year's final.

The present FA Cup trophy is the fourth.

An otherwise identical, but smaller replica was also made by Fattorini, the North Wales Coast FA Cup trophy, and is contested annually by members of that regional Association.

Though the FA Cup is the oldest domestic football competition in the world, its trophy is not the oldest ; that title is claimed by the Youdan Cup.

However, to protect the identity of the competition, the sponsored name has always included ' The FA Cup ' in addition to the sponsor's name, unlike sponsorship deals for the League Cup where the word ' cup ' is preceded by only the sponsor's name.

The term " natural family planning " ( NFP ) is sometimes used to refer to any use of FA methods.

LAM is distinct from fertility awareness, but because it also does not involve devices or chemicals, it is often presented alongside FA as a method of " natural " birth control.

With Havant & Waterlooville twice leading Liverpool, the match was promoted by the English FA as a fine example of what the FA Challenge Cup is all about.

* February 14 – In the FA Cup Quarter Final, a goal is deliberately stopped by handball on the goal line.

M102 howitzer belonging to Battery A, 1-206th FA, is towed north from Camp New York, Kuwait by a M1114 Up-Armored HMMWV.

The Football Association, also known simply as the FA, is the governing body of football in England.

The club progressed all the way to the semi-final of that season's FA Cup, a run that included an 8 – 3 away win at Luton Town.

from 1986 to 1989 ( a period which included two top five finishes and a run to the FA Cup semi-finals ).

At the final meeting, F. M. Campbell, the first FA treasurer and the Blackheath representative, withdrew his club from the FA over the removal of two draft rules at the previous meeting, the first which allowed for the running with the ball in hand and the second, obstructing such a run by hacking ( kicking an opponent in the shins ), tripping and holding.

Bonetti played in every game of Chelsea's Fairs Cup run the following season, putting in a series of impressive displays against the likes of AS Roma, AC Milan and FC Barcelona, though the side were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals, as they were in the FA Cup for the second consecutive year.

However, United ( now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish ) had a good run in the FA Cup ; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final.

The highlight of that first season back in the 5th tier was a sensational run to the FA Cup 3rd round, only losing in a replay away to League One side Colchester United.

Boosted by the loan signings of players such as Kyle Naughton and later Yakubu, results steadily improved under Eriksson as Leicester gradually began to climb the table, until a good run of form in the new year saw Leicester win seven of their first eight league games of 2011 and also take Premier League title-challengers and eventual cup-winners Manchester City to a replay in the FA Cup.

The team were also on an 11-match unbeaten run, and had booked their place in the Fifth Round of the FA Cup two weeks previously.

In recent time the club has had a successful FA Vase run, reaching the quarter finals in 2005 / 06.

The Leicester match was the start of a cup run that saw Manchester City reach the 2011 FA Cup Final.

This led to a decade of successfully remaining in the First Division, which included a run to the FA Cup Final in 1966 – notable in that Wednesday played all their ties away from home.

This design would have received greater notoriety had Wednesday not worn their away kit for all of their games in the 1966 FA Cup run, when all of their ties were drawn away.

By the time Wolves were crushed 6 – 0 by Rotherham United in the FA Cup first round on 16 November 1985, a third of the league season had already gone and Wolves had still yet to put together a run of good results, so a third successive relegation – a humiliation which only Bristol City four seasons earlier had so far suffered – was now looking a real possibility.

A 3 – 1 home win over Gillingham the weekend after the FA Cup exit raised hopes that survival might be achieved, but Wolves never managed to put together a good run in the league and their relegation to the Fourth Division – for the first time in their history – was confirmed on 26 April 1986 despite a 3 – 1 home win over Cardiff City, who had gone down with them the previous season and would also suffer a second successive relegation.

Caernarvon Athletic are still remembered for their FA Cup run in 1929 when they defeated before going out to Bournemouth in a second round replay, the first game at the Oval attracting a crowd of some 9, 000.

Despite a poor start, new manager John King turned playing affairs round and the club enjoyed its most successful FA Cup run in 1986 – 87.

The Canaries finished third in the NPL and felt that, if not for the FA Cup run, they would probably have gained promotion to the Football Conference.

Additionally, there was a run to the FA Cup Final, with Aston Villa, Coventry, Luton Town, Middlesbrough and Liverpool being defeated before Charlton Athletic beat Burnley 1 – 0 after extra time in the final at Wembley.

The following season Burnley played in European competition for the first time beating Reims and losing to Hamburger SV, lost in an FA Cup semi-final and finished fourth in the league and the highlights of the 1961 – 62 season were finishing second in the league and a run to The FA Cup Final, where a Jimmy Robson goal was Burnley's only reply to 3 from Spurs.

The club has 19 teams ranging from U6s to U17s ( all run by FA qualified coaches ), offering both girls and boys the opportunity to learn the game and develop their skills to the highest possible standards.

Keane scored three goals during a run to the 1991 FA Cup Final, which Forest ultimately lost to Tottenham Hotspur.