FA Amateur Cup
History
The rise of professional football in the 1880s meant that amateur teams were increasingly squeezed out of the FA Cup. So a competition exclusively for amateur clubs, the FA Amateur Cup (FAAC), was set up in 1893. Reading entered the first two competitions before turning professional in May 1895. The Old Boys clubs who dominated the competition in the early years withdrew in 1902 to set up their own Arthur Dunn Cup, named in memory of an Old Etonian player who had died young. The heyday of the FA Amateur Cup was in the 1950s when the Wembley finals regularly attracted crowds of 100,000. The competition continued until 1974 when the FA decided that "amateur" was no longer a meaningful term. It has been superseded by the FA Trophy for the higher level non-league teams and the FA Vase for the rest.
Finals 1893-1974
1893-94 | Old Carthusians | 2 | Casuals | 1 |
1894-95 | Middlesbrough | 2 | Old Carthusians | 1 |
1895-96 | Bishop Auckland | 1 | Royal Artillery | 0 |
1896-97 | Old Carthusians | 1/4 | Stockton | 1/1 |
1897-98 | Middlesbrough | 2 | Uxbridge | 0 |
1898-99 | Stockton | 1 | Harwich & Parkeston | 0 |
1899-00 | Bishop Auckland | 5 | Lowestoft Town | 1 |
1900-01 | Crook Town | 1/3 | King's Lynn | 1/0 |
1901-02 | Old Malvernians | 5 | Bishop Auckland | 1 |
1902-03 | Stockton | 0/1 | Oxford City | 0/0 |
1903-04 | Sheffield | 3 | Ealing | 1 |
1904-05 | West Hartlepool | 3 | Clapton | 2 |
1905-06 | Oxford City | 3 | Bishop Auckland | 0 |
1906-07 | Clapton | 2 | Stockton | 1 |
1907-08 | RE Depot Battalion | 2 | Stockton | 1 |
1908-09 | Clapton | 6 | Eston United | 0 |
1909-10 | RMLI Gosport | 2 | South Bank | 1 |
1910-11 | Bromley | 1 | Bishop Auckland | 0 |
1911-12 | Stockton | 1/1 | Eston United | 1/0 |
1912-13 | South Bank | 1/1 | Oxford City | 1/0 |
1913-14 | Bishop Auckland | 1 | Northern Nomads | 0 |
1914-15 | Clapton | 1 | Bishop Auckland | 0 |
1915-19 | no competition | |||
1919-20 | Dulwich Hamlet | 1 | Tufnell Park | 0 |
1920-21 | Bishop Auckland | 4 | Swindon Victoria | 2 |
1921-22 | Bishop Auckland | 5 | South Bank | 2 |
1922-23 | London Caledonians | 2 | Evesham Town | 1 |
1923-24 | Clapton | 3 | Erith & Belvedere | 0 |
1924-25 | Clapton | 2 | Southall | 1 |
1925-26 | Northern Nomads | 7 | Stockton | 1 |
1926-27 | Leyton | 3 | Barking Town | 1 |
1927-28 | Leyton | 3 | Cockfield | 2 |
1928-29 | Ilford | 3 | Leyton | 1 |
1929-30 | Ilford | 5 | B'mouth Gasworks A | 1 |
1930-31 | Wycombe Wanderers | 1 | Hayes | 0 |
1931-32 | Dulwich Hamlet | 7 | Marine | 1 |
1932-33 | Kingstonian | 1/4 | Stockton | 1/1 |
1933-34 | Dulwich Hamlet | 2 | Leyton | 1 |
1934-35 | Bishop Auckland | 0/2 | Wimbledon | 0/1 |
1935-36 | Casuals | 1/2 | Ilford | 1/0 |
1936-37 | Dulwich Hamlet | 2 | Leyton | 0 |
1937-38 | Bromley | 1 | Erith & Belvedere | 0 |
1938-39 | Bishop Auckland | 3 | Willington | 0 |
1939-45 | no competition | |||
1945-46 | Barnet | 3 | Bishop Auckland | 2 |
1946-47 | Leytonstone | 2 | Wimbledon | 1 |
1947-48 | Leytonstone | 1 | Barnet | 0 |
1948-49 | Bromley | 1 | Romford | 0 |
1949-50 | Willington | 4 | Bishop Auckland | 0 |
1950-51 | Pegasus | 2 | Bishop Auckland | 1 |
1951-52 | Walthamstow Avenue | 2 | Leyton | 1 |
1952-53 | Pegasus | 6 | Harwich & Parkeston | 0 |
1953-54 | Crook Town | 2/2/1 | Bishop Auckland | 2/2/0 |
1954-55 | Bishop Auckland | 2 | Hendon | 0 |
1955-56 | Bishop Auckland | 1/4 | Corinthian Casuals | 1/1 |
1956-57 | Bishop Auckland | 3 | Wycombe Wanderers | 1 |
1957-58 | Woking | 3 | Ilford | 0 |
1958-59 | Crook Town | 3 | Barnet | 2 |
1959-60 | Hendon | 2 | Kingstonian | 1 |
1960-61 | Walthamstow Avenue | 2 | West Auckland Town | 1 |
1961-62 | Crook Town | 1/4 | Hounslow Town | 1/0 |
1962-63 | Wimbledon | 4 | Sutton United | 2 |
1963-64 | Crook Town | 2 | Enfield | 1 |
1964-65 | Hendon | 3 | Whitby Town | 1 |
1965-66 | Wealdstone | 3 | Hendon | 1 |
1966-67 | Enfield | 0/3 | Skelmersdale United | 0/0 |
1967-68 | Leytonstone | 1 | Chesham United | 0 |
1968-69 | North Shields | 2 | Sutton United | 1 |
1969-70 | Enfield | 5 | Dagenham | 1 |
1970-71 | Skelmersdale United | 4 | Dagenham | 1 |
1971-72 | Hendon | 2 | Enfield | 0 |
1972-73 | Walton & Hersham | 1 | Slough Town | 0 |
1973-74 | Bishop's Stortford | 4 | Ilford | 1 |
Summary of Results
PL | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | P3/PL | |
TOTAL | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 34 | 21 | +13 | 2.200 |
HOME | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 11 | +5 | 2.167 |
AWAY | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 10 | +8 | 2.250 |
Results by Opponent
PL | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | P3 | ||
1 | Maidenhead | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 6 | +5 | 7 |
2 | Old Westminster | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 3 |
3 | Chesham | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | +4 | 3 |
4 | Casuals | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 3 |
5 | Royal Ordnance F | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 3 |
6 | Chesham Generals | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 3 |
7 | South Bank | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 0 |
8 | Old Carthusians | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | −3 | 0 |