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Wanderers |
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Based in Battersea, Wanderers won five FA Cup
finals in seven years including the first in 1872. Players were selected
from the various former public school clubs but as these schools began
to enter the FA Cup individually, Wanderers were wound up in 1887. |
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Royal Engineers |
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Formed in 1862 under the captaincy of Major
F.Marindin, the army club were beaten FA Cup finalists in 1872, 1874 and
1878, and winners in 1875 when they defeated Old Etonians 2-0 in a
replay after a 1-1 draw. They are commonly regarded as the first team to
adopt a passing game rather than adhering to the dribbling and ‘kick
and rush’ styles in vogue at the time. |
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Old Etonians |
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Formed by former pupils of Eton College, the club
appeared in six FA Cup Finals, winning the finals of 1879 against
Clapham Rovers and 1882 against Blackburn Rovers, and losing those of
1875, 1876, 1881 and 1883. |
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Oxford University |
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Formed in 1872, the club won the FA Cup in 1874,
beating Royal Engineers 2-0 in the final, and were runners-up in 1873,
1877 and 1880, the last year in which they competed. No fewer than
twenty-nine of the club’s players were capped for England. |
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Clapham Rovers |
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Formed in 1869, Rovers were runners-up in the 1879
FA Cup against Old Etonians and winners at the expense of Oxford
University the following year. Shortly afterwards the club was wound up.
A new club was formed in 1996 and currently plays Sunday League
football. |
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Blackburn Olympic |
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Formed in 1877, the team was principally made up of young factory workers. In 1883, Olympic became the first northern club to win the FA Cup, breaking the monopoly of the southern ex-public school teams. Opposed in the final by Old Etonians, they won 2-1 after extra time. They were ultimately overshadowed by local rivals Blackburn Rovers. |
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Crystal Palace |
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Not to be confused with the modern club of the same
name, the original Crystal Palace was formed in 1861 and competed in the
FA Cup between 1872 and 1876 after which they seem to have disbanded. |
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Scotland's oldest club, formed in 1867, Queen's Park competed in the English FA Cup between 1872 to 1885, and getting as far as the final in their last two seasons. They provided all eleven players for the first Scotland-England international in 1872. Scotland still wear navy, white and red, Queen's Park's original colours. |
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Hitchin |
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Formed in 1865, Hitchin played in the first FA Cup
when they got as far as the second round. They later turned professional
but were wound up during the first world war. Their successor, Hitchin
Town, formed in 1928, plays in the Southern League. |
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Civil Service |
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Founder members of the FA and participants in the
first FA Cup, Civil Service FC regularly toured Europe while former
players posted as diplomats did much to foster the game around the
world. They still play as an amateur side. |
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Old Carthusians |
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Established in 1875, the club comprised former
pupils of Charterhouse School. They won the FA Cup in 1881 at the
expense of Old Etoniansand the FA Amateur Cup in 1894 and 1897. The club
still exists and plays in the Amateur Football Alliance. |
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Cambridge University |
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Recent research has revealed that the first attempt
to draw up a universal set of rules took place at Cambridge in 1848. The
football club entered the FA Cup several times during the late
nineteenth century but without success. |
