London (AFP) – England's governing Football Association announced on Monday it had agreed a new overseas broadcast rights deal for the FA Cup worth a reported $1 billion (919 million euros, £820 million). The new agreement will run for six seasons starting in 2018/19. Although the FA refused to specify an exact figure, simply saying […]

London (AFP) – FA Cup quarter-final replays will be scrapped from next season, the Football Association announced on Thursday. The last-eight stage of the cup competition will revert to a sudden-death format over one weekend in a bid to ease English football's congested fixture list. "The Emirates FA Cup remains at the heart of English […]

London (AFP) – Ahead of Crystal Palace's meeting with Manchester United in Saturday's FA Cup final at Wembley, AFP Sport selects five of the best finals from the world's oldest domestic cup tournament: Blackpool 4 Bolton Wanderers 3, 1953 Even with his team-mate Stan Mortensen grabbing a hat-trick, the performance of Blackpool's Stanley Matthews stole […]

Editor's note/warning: A version of this analysis will be published on Jan. 8 by the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective. Andrew has been kind enough to adapt his work for World Soccer Talk ahead of this weekend's FA Cup matchups. Any precision lost in the editing of this post is unintentional and may not represent Andrew's […]

FOX Sports won't be announcing their TV schedules for the FA Cup 3rd Round until next week, but we can share the details with you now so you can start making your plans of which games you'll want to watch and which ones you want to DVR. While the 3rd Round of the oldest soccer […]

The draw for the 5th Round of the FA Cup will be streamed live at 2:15pm ET/11:15am PT today. You can watch it live via the video below. BBC and NBCSN presenter Gary Lineker will be picking the balls out of the hat alongside talent from UK's The One Show. There are several surprise names […]

Picture the scene: It’s FA Cup third round weekend and non-league Macclesfield Town are hosting Championship side Sheffield Wednesday. Steve Williams has just scored a lovely equalizing goal for the underdogs with 12 minutes to go, and a woefully out of form Owls team look on the rack. The crowd of 5,873 roars, sensing blood […]

Manchester United plays Swansea City in the final FA Cup match of the day. At Old Trafford, the starting line-ups are in: Manchester United: Lindegaard; Smalling, Evans, Ferdinand, Büttner; Valencia, Fletcher, Cleverley, Kagawa; Welbeck, Hernandez. Subs: De Gea, Fabio, Anderson, Carrick, Giggs, Zaha, Januzaj. Swansea City: Tremmel, Tiendalli, Amat, Chico Flores, Taylor, Britton (capt), de […]

Watch the draw for the FA Cup Fourth Round, which was streamed courtesy of The FA. Find out who will play whom in the next round of the oldest club soccer tournament in the world. The draw was conducted by Martin Allen and Paul Allen, two former West Ham United footballers who are also brothers. […]

For the second time in four years, we are presented with an FA Cup devoid of a big four team (you can thank Yaya Toure for that, or perhaps Michael Carrick). Let me preempt any comments about a “new big four” by saying that I’m going to oblige King Kenny’s Liverpool team and stick to […]

Join me Saturday for the live blog/live chat of the FA Cup Third Round. The fun begins with the 7:45am ET/12:45pm UK kickoff featuring Arsenal versus Leeds United followed by keeping track of all of the goals going in across England during the 10am ET/3pm UK matches, and concluding with the 12:30pm ET/5:30pm UK match […]

And then there were five. With one FA Cup Quarterfinal yet to be played (Arsenal v Hull City, to be played on either the 17th or 18th of March per the BBC), Sunday afternoon the FA Cup Semi-Final draw was held. Both matches will be played at Wembley Stadium April 18th or 19th for a […]