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The FA Cup Final is one of the oldest, and most respected, football cup finals in the history of world club football. The 2008 Final saw premiership team Portsmouth win by a single goal against Championship team Cardiff.
The 2009 FA Cup Final will be played on Saturday, 30th May 2009 at Wembley. The semi-finals will be played on Saturday, 18th April 2009 and Sunday, 19th April 2009.
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The FA Cup started life in the offices of The Sportsman in London on 20th July 1871. The then FA Secretary, Charles Alcock, stated that he wanted to establish a Challenge Cup for all clubs of the Football Association - The FA - were able to enter.
Shortly after, the first FA Cup competition was launched, and in the 1871-72 season, 15 clubs entered. The first FA Cup Final was played between Wanderers and Royal Engineers at Kennington Oval. A crowd of just 2,000 attended, paying one shilling entrance fee, and saw Wanderers win 1-0 to the scorer of the first ever FA Cup Final goal, Morton Betts, but who played under the name, A.H. Chequer.
The 1923 FA Cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United was the first football match at the new stadium and it drew an estimated crowd of 200,000, vastly exceeding the official capacity. It was only due to the good nature of the spectators and the efforts of the police, notably PC George Scorey on his white horse 'Billy', that the match took place at all.