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Tournament details | |
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Country | England |
Teams | 54 |
Defending champions | Old Etonians |
Final positions | |
Champions |
Clapham Rovers (1st title) |
Runner-up | Oxford University |
The 1879β80 Football Association Challenge Cup was the ninth staging of the FA Cup, England's oldest football tournament. Fifty-four teams entered, eleven more than the previous season, although five of the fifty-four never played a match.
Home Club | Score | Away Club | Date |
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Finchley | 1β2 | Old Harrovians | 8 November 1879 |
Sheffield | Walkover | Queen's Park | |
Royal Engineers | 2β0 | Cambridge University | 13 November 1879 |
Maidenhead | 3β1 | Calthorpe | 25 October 1879 |
Clapham Rovers | 7β0 | Romford | 8 November 1879 |
South Norwood | 4β2 | Brentwood | 1 November 1879 |
Oxford University | 1β1 | Marlow | 6 November 1879 |
Old Etonians | Walkover | Barnes | |
Pilgrims | 5β2 | Clarence | 1 November 1879 |
Herts Rangers | 2β1 | Minerva | 15 November 1879 |
Rochester | 0β6 | Wanderers | 15 November 1879 |
Kildare | 0β3 | Gresham | 1 November 1879 |
Remnants | 1β1 | Upton Park | 15 November 1879 |
Hendon | 1β1 | Old Foresters | 8 November 1879 |
Nottingham Forest | 4β0 | Notts County | 8 November 1879 |
Eagley | 0β1 | Darwen | 1 November 1879 |
Grey Friars | 2β1 | Hanover United | 8 November 1879 |
Henley | Walkover | Reading | |
West End | Walkover | Swifts | |
Blackburn Rovers | 5β1 | Tyne Association | 1 November 1879 |
Hotspur | 1β1 | Argonauts | 8 November 1879 |
Mosquitoes | 3β1 | St Peter's Institute | 1 November 1879 |
Aston Villa | Bye | ||
Stafford Road | 2β0 | Wednesbury Strollers | 8 November 1879 |
Turton | 7β0 | Brigg | 1 November 1879 |
Providence | Bye | ||
Birmingham [1] | Walkover | Panthers | |
Acton | 0β4 | Old Carthusians | 8 November 1879 |
Home Club | Score | Away Club | Date |
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Marlow | 0β1 | Oxford University | 10 November 1879 |
Upton Park | 5β2 | Remnants | 25 November 1879 |
Old Foresters | 2β2 | Hendon | 15 November 1879 |
Hendon | 3β1 | Old Foresters | 22 November 1879 |
Argonauts | 0β1 | Hotspur | 15 November 1879 |
Home Club | Score | Away Club | Date |
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Sheffield | 3β3 | Providence | 15 December 1879 |
Royal Engineers | 4β1 | Upton Park | 23 December 1879 |
Clapham Rovers | 4β1 | South Norwood | 20 December 1879 |
Wanderers | 1β0 | Old Carthusians | 10 January 1880 |
Birmingham [1] | 0β6 | Oxford University | 19 January 1880 |
Old Etonians | Bye | ||
Pilgrims | Walkover | Herts Rangers | |
Old Harrovians | Bye | ||
Hendon | 7β1 | Mosquitos | 20 December 1879 |
Grey Friars | 9β0 | Gresham | 20 December 1879 |
Henley | 1β3 | Maidenhead | 29 November 1879 |
West End | 1β0 | Hotspur | 13 December 1879 |
Blackburn Rovers | 3β1 | Darwen | 6 December 1879 |
Stafford Road | 1β1 | Aston Villa | 13 December 1879 |
Turton | 0β6 | Nottingham Forest | 13 December 1879 |
Home Club | Score | Away Club | Date |
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Sheffield | 3β0 | Providence | 29 December 1879 |
Aston Villa | 3β1 | Stafford Road | 24 January 1880 |
Home Club | Score | Away Club | Date |
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Sheffield | Bye | ||
Royal Engineers | 2β0 | Old Harrovians | 4 February 1880 |
Maidenhead | Bye | ||
Clapham Rovers | 7β0 | Pilgrims | 17 January 1880 |
Oxford University | Walkover | Aston Villa | |
Old Etonians | 3β1 | Wanderers | 24 January 1880 |
Hendon | Bye | ||
Nottingham Forest | 6β0 | Blackburn Rovers | 31 January 1880 |
Grey Friars | Bye | ||
West End | Bye |
Home Club | Score | Away Club | Date |
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Royal Engineers | 1β0 | Grey Friars | 18 February 1880 |
Maidenhead | 0β1 | Oxford University | 14 February 1880 |
Clapham Rovers | 2β0 | Hendon | 14 February 1880 |
Old Etonians | 5β1 | West End | 7 February 1880 |
Nottingham Forest | 2β2 [note 1] | Sheffield | 19 February 1880 |
Home Club | Score | Away Club | Date |
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Clapham Rovers | 1β0 | Old Etonians | 21 February 1880 |
Oxford University | 1β1 | Royal Engineers | 5 March 1880 |
Nottingham Forest | Bye |
Home Club | Score | Away Club | Date |
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Oxford University | 1β0 | Royal Engineers | 15 March 1880 |
Home Club | Score | Away Club | Date |
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Clapham Rovers | Bye | ||
Oxford University | 1β0 | Nottingham Forest | 27 March 1880 |
Score | Date | ||
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Clapham Rovers | 1β0 | Oxford University | 10 April 1880 |