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FA Cup (first season)

First held

1871

The oldest national football competition in the world.

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Checked 2026-10-19: Claude (AI build agent): Wikidata statement compared, passages containing the year extracted from the fetched pages and read. Quotes are short passages from each source, in their original language.

Wikidata P571: 1871Q11151, CC0, retrieved 2026-10-19
“The Football Association Cup , er verdens eldste og mest kjente, nasjonale utslagsturnering i fotball , første gang arrangert i 1871–1872. Faktaboks Også kjent som The Football Association Cup eller The Football”Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian): source, retrieved 2026-10-19
“Cup - Engelsk fodboldturnering - Stiftet i 1871 - Lex Spring til hovedindholdet Quizzer Nyhedsbrev Log ind FA Cup Lex Livsstil,”Lex (Den Store Danske) (in Danish): source, retrieved 2026-10-19

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