Manchester City and Crystal Palace will compete in the 2025 FA Cup final at Wembley on 17 May. Ahead of the match, we look at the teams with the most FA Cup wins in English football history.
Manchester City and Crystal Palace will battle it out for the 2025 FA Cup on 17 May, with the former looking to put their 2024 final defeat to rivals Manchester United behind them.
Man City are competing in their 14th FA Cup final, and have won the trophy seven times, behind five other teams.
Crystal Palace are competing in their third FA Cup final, losing to Man Utd in both 1990 and 2016. They’re one of four clubs to compete in two finals without ever winning the trophy along with Queen’s Park (1884 & 1885), Birmingham City (1931 & 1956) and Watford (1984 & 2019).
There have been 44 different winners of the oldest competition in world football, but who has won the FA Cup the most often?
14 FA Cup TitlesArsenal
Arsenal are the most successful club in FA Cup history, having won the competition 14 times.
They won their first FA Cup in 1930 in a 2-0 victory over Huddersfield Town under the stewardship of Herbert Chapman, who kickstarted a dominant period for the club in the 1930s, with the Gunners scooping up five league titles and another FA Cup win in 1936.
But Arsenal’s real period of FA Cup success has come in more recent years with the north London side winning the competition eight times between 1998 and 2020, with seven of those trophies coming under the management of Arsène Wenger. With those seven wins, Wenger is the most decorated manager in the competition and is the only Arsenal boss to have won the competition on more than one occasion.
Wenger’s first triumph came in 1998 against Newcastle United, before he guided Arsenal to the showpiece event three years later where they were beaten by Liverpool.
But from then on, Arsenal have won seven consecutive FA Cup finals and their unbeaten finals streak is the joint-longest in history (tied with Tottenham Hotspur who went seven unbeaten between 1901 and 1987).
Arsenal’s most recent win came in 2020 under Mikel Arteta when they defeated Chelsea 2-1. Having won the competition twice as a player, this was Arteta’s first trophy with Arsenal.
13 FA Cup TitlesManchester United
Manchester United have won the FA Cup 13 times, most recently in 2024 when they beat rivals Man City 2-1 at Wembley.
They have also featured in the most FA Cup finals in history (22), meaning they’ve lost more FA Cup finals (nine) than any other club.
Their first FA Cup win came in 1908-09 when they beat Bristol City 1-0, while five of their 13 wins came under legendary manager Alex Ferguson.
8 FA Cup TitlesChelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur
English Premier League giants Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur follow close behind with eight FA Cup wins each.
Chelsea have an exceptional recent record of getting to FA Cup finals. Prior to 2022-23, they had appeared in five of the previous six. Winning them, however, has proven more difficult.
The Blues hold the unwanted record for the most consecutive finals lost in FA Cup history, losing three in succession between 2020 and 2022.
Chelsea’s first FA Cup honour came back in 1970, with a 2-1 victory over Leeds United at Old Trafford. A barren spell followed but was finally ended in 1997 with Ruud Gullit leading them to victory against Middlesbrough.
A further six FA Cups have arrived since then, four of them coming in a six-year period between 2007 and 2012. Chelsea and Arsenal full-back Ashley Cole was present in the Chelsea squad for each of those four victories, and together with three trophies he won under Wenger at Arsenal in the early noughties, he has seven FA Cup trophies to his name – the most of any player in history.
Liverpool’s most recent FA Cup success was their penalty-shootout win against Chelsea in the 2022 final; their eighth FA Cup title in the club’s history. Prior to that, their last FA Cup win came back in 2006 against West Ham United, in a game that’s become known as ‘The Steven Gerrard Final’. Liverpool’s ex-skipper scored twice, including a 91st-minute equaliser from long range to salvage the game for the Reds, before also scoring his penalty in the shootout.
Liverpool legend Ian Rush holds the record for the most FA Cup final goals with five. The striker scored two against Everton in 1986, and got another brace against the Toffees in 1989 before scoring once more against Sunderland in 1992.
Tottenham Hotspur haven’t appeared in the FA Cup final in over 30 years now, with their last appearance coming in 1991 against Nottingham Forest. Spurs have a fantastic record in finals though, winning eight out of the nine they have appeared in (89%). Defeat to Coventry City in 1987 is their only FA Cup defeat.
Spurs’ best period of FA Cup dominance came in the early 1980s when they won back-to-back cup finals against Man City and Queens Park Rangers.
7 FA Cup TitlesAston Villa, Manchester City
Man City have largely dominated English football since Pep Guardiola joined the club in 2016, so it might be surprising to learn his tenure so far has only yielded two FA Cups.
The first came in 2019, as City crushed Watford 6-0 in the final. That six-goal victory equalled the biggest FA Cup final victory in history (tied with Bury’s 6-0 over Derby County in 1903) and saw City complete a domestic treble in England, alongside winning the Premier League and League Cup.
In 2023, they won Pep Guardiola’s second FA Cup, and their seventh overall, with a 2-1 victory over rivals Manchester United, part of another treble along with the league and their first ever Champions League victory.
City were on the end of one of the biggest FA Cup final upsets in history in 2013, going down 1-0 to Wigan Athletic, who were also relegated from the Premier League that season.
Aston Villa won their seven FA Cup honours relatively early in the competition’s history, and haven’t won the trophy since 1957 when they beat Manchester United 2-1. It took another 43 years for Villa to even reach the final again after that, where they lost 1-0 to Chelsea thanks to a Roberto Di Matteo strike.
Villa’s last final appearance came in 2015 when they were beaten 4-0 by Arsenal.
6 FA Cup TitlesNewcastle United, Blackburn Rovers
Blackburn Rovers’ six FA Cup wins all came in a 44-year period between 1884 and 1928. In fact, between 1884 and 1891, Blackburn won five of the eight finals contested, including winning three in a row between 1884 and 1886. Three consecutive wins is the joint-most in the history of the FA Cup, tied with Wanderers in the late 1870s.
Newcastle United won their first FA Cup in 1910 at the fourth attempt, having previously lost in each of the 1905, 1906 and 1908 finals. Numbers two and three followed in 1924 and 1932, before another mini-era of success dawned in the early 1950s. Newcastle won back-to-back trophies in 1951 and 1952 under Stan Seymour, before winning their sixth, and most recent, FA Cup trophy in 1955 – defeating Man City 3-1 in the final.
Newcastle also played their part in perhaps the biggest non-league giant-killing in the Cup’s history, where they were beaten by non-league Hereford United. Hereford were trailing 1–0 with less than seven minutes to go in the third-round replay, when Ronnie Radford scored a famous equaliser. Hereford’s Ricky George then won the game in extra-time.
Other Clubs with Multiple FA Cup Titles
5 FA Cup Titles: Everton, West Bromwich Albion, Wanderers4 FA Cup Titles: Wolves, Bolton Wanderers, Sheffield United3 FA Cup Titles: Sheffield Wednesday, West Ham United2 FA Cup Titles: Preston North End, Old Etonians, Portsmouth, Sunderland, Nottingham Forest, Bury
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