1883 FA Cup Final
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1883 FA Cup Final
Winner
Blackburn Olympic
Blackburn Olympic F.C.
Blackburn Olympic F.C. was an English association football club based in Blackburn, Lancashire in the late 19th century. Although the club was only in existence for just over a decade, it is significant in the history of football in England as the first club from the north of the country and the...

Runner Up
Old Etonians
Old Etonians F.C.
The Old Etonians Football Club is an English football club whose players are taken from previous attendees of Eton College, in Eton, Berkshire.-History:...

Score
2-1 (after extra-time)
Date
31 March 1883
Venue
Kennington Oval
The Oval
The Kia Oval, still commonly referred to by its original name of The Oval, is an international cricket ground in Kennington, in the London Borough of Lambeth. In the past it was also sometimes called the Kennington Oval...


The 1883 FA Cup Final was contested by Blackburn Olympic
Blackburn Olympic F.C.
Blackburn Olympic F.C. was an English association football club based in Blackburn, Lancashire in the late 19th century. Although the club was only in existence for just over a decade, it is significant in the history of football in England as the first club from the north of the country and the...

 and Old Etonians
Old Etonians F.C.
The Old Etonians Football Club is an English football club whose players are taken from previous attendees of Eton College, in Eton, Berkshire.-History:...

 at the Kennington Oval
The Oval
The Kia Oval, still commonly referred to by its original name of The Oval, is an international cricket ground in Kennington, in the London Borough of Lambeth. In the past it was also sometimes called the Kennington Oval...

. Blackburn Olympic won 2–1 after extra time. Jimmy Costley and Arthur Matthews scored for Blackburn; Harry Goodhart
Harry Goodhart
Harry Chester Goodhart was an English amateur footballer who played as a forward in four FA Cup Finals for Old Etonians, before going on to become Professor of Humanities at the University of Edinburgh.-Early life and education:...

 for Old Etonians.

Teams

BLACKBURN OLYMPIC 2 (Matthews, Costley)
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GK Thomas Hacking 
DF James Ward
James Ward (footballer)
James Thomas "Jim" Ward was a part-time footballer who was part of the Blackburn Olympic team which won the FA Cup in 1883, playing at left back.-Career:Born in Blackburn, he was a cotton machine operator by trade...

 
DF Albert Warburton
Albert Warburton
Squire Albert Warburton was an English association football player in the Victorian era, born in Oldham, Lancashire...

MF Thomas Gibson 
MF William Astley 
MF Jack Hunter
Jack Hunter (footballer)
John Hunter was an English footballer who won the FA Cup with Blackburn Olympic in 1883 and made seven appearances for England between 1878 and 1882 playing at half back.-Career:...

 
FW Thomas Dewhurst 
FW Arthur Matthews 
FW George Wilson 
FW Jimmy Costley
FW John Yates
John Yates (footballer)
John Yates was an English footballer who won the FA Cup with Blackburn Olympic in 1883 and made one appearance for England in 1878 playing on the left wing.-Career:...

 
OLD ETONIANS 1 (Goodhart)
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GK John Rawlinson
John Frederick Peel Rawlinson
John Frederick Peel Rawlinson was an amateur English footballer who won the FA Cup with Old Etonians in 1882 and made one appearance for England in 1882 playing as a goalkeeper, before serving as a Member of Parliament for Cambridge University from 1906 to 1926.-Football:Rawlinson was born in New...

 
DF Thomas French 
DF Percy de Paravicini
Percy de Paravicini
Percy John de Paravicini was an English amateur cricketer and international footballer in the late nineteenth century.He was born in Kensington, London, the son of Baron James Prior de Paravicini, of Riverside, Datchet, Windsor...

 
MF Hon Arthur Kinnaird
Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird
Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird KT was a principal of The Football Association and a leading footballer....

 
MF Charles Foley 
MF Arthur Dunn
Arthur Dunn
Arthur Tempest Blakiston Dunn was a noted amateur footballer who founded the English boarding school Ludgrove in 1892.-Football career:...

 
FW Herbert Bainbridge 
FW John Chevallier 
FW William Anderson 
FW Harry Goodhart
Harry Goodhart
Harry Chester Goodhart was an English amateur footballer who played as a forward in four FA Cup Finals for Old Etonians, before going on to become Professor of Humanities at the University of Edinburgh.-Early life and education:...

 
FW Reginald Macaulay
Reginald Macaulay
Reginald Heber Macaulay was an amateur English footballer who won the FA Cup with Old Etonians in 1882 and made one appearance for England in 1881 playing as a forward.-Career:...

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