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

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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.

FA Cup winners enter the Europa League at the Group Stage.

The FA Cup winners also qualify for the single-match FA Community Shield against the Premier League Champions.

The Albion team of 1888, FA Cup winners and Football League founder members

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Swindon reached the FA Cup semi-finals for the first time in the 1909 – 10 season, losing to eventual winners Newcastle United.

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* Sierra Leonean FA Cup winners: 4

League Cup winners receive £ 100, 000 prize money ( awarded by the Football League ) with the runners up receiving £ 50, 000, considered relatively worthless to top flight teams, compared to the £ 2 million prize money of the FA Cup, which is in turn eclipsed by the Premier League's television money awarded on final league position as well as participation in the Champions League.

At this point new Stoke manager Frank Taylor enquired as to whether he might bring Matthews back to the club ; all parties agreed to the idea in principle until Joe Smith put his foot down to ensure he stayed, with an inspirational speech he promised Matthews that an FA Cup winners medal was still possible, telling him that " a lot of people think I'm mad, but even though you're 37, I believe your best football is still to come.

Despite spending some three months of the season out with a muscle injury, the 1952 – 53 campaign proved Smith's words to be accurate, as a 38 year old Matthews won an FA Cup winners medal in a match which was, despite Mortensen's hat-trick, subsequently dubbed the ' Matthews Final '.

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Reading's best performance in the FA Cup came in 1926 – 27 when they lost to eventual winners Cardiff City at Wolverhampton in the semi-final.

Stoke also made it to the quarter finals of the FA Cup for the first time since 1972, beating York City, Arsenal and Manchester City before losing out to eventual winners Chelsea.

The 1953 – 54 saw Vale storming to the Third Division North title as well as reaching the semi – finals of the FA Cup, losing out to eventual winners West Brom in very controversial fashion, seeing an Albert Leake goal disallowed for offside.

The club then became one of the twelve founders of the English Football League in 1888 and finished the inaugural season in a creditable third place, as well as reaching their first ever FA Cup Final, losing 3 – 0 to the first " Double " winners, Preston North End.

They lost their defence of the FA Cup ( which they held for two seasons in a row ) after losing to eventual winners Manchester United in the semi-final.

As Farnborough Town F. C., the team came to national prominence in 2003 when they reached the 4th round of the FA Cup, where they played the previous season's Cup winners Arsenal at Highbury.

A similar disappointment followed a year later, as they were pipped to promotion by a single place – this time by a Wimbledon side who were First Division members and FA Cup winners less than a decade later.

On the plus side, Aldershot finished above two much more illustrious clubs – Portsmouth and Huddersfield Town – who were both former winners of the league title and FA Cup.

In the semi-finals, they condemned Third Division Bolton Wanderers ( four times winners of the FA Cup, and First Division remembers as recently as 1980 ) to Fourth Division football for the first time in their history.

This gave them a place in the final, against another historic side – Wolverhampton Wanderers, three times league champions, four times FA Cup winners, and twice Football League Cup winners, who had only been relegated from the top flight in 1984.