FA Cup 1962-63

The FA Cup 1962–63 was the 82nd staging of the world's oldest football cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup. Manchester United won the competition for only the third time, beating Leicester City 3–1 in the final at Wembley.

Matches were scheduled to be played at the stadium of the team named first on the date specified for each round, which was always a Saturday. Some matches, however, might be rescheduled for the Sunday or other days if there were clashes with games for other competitions or the weather was inclement. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played, a replay would take place at the stadium of the second-named team later the same week. If the replayed match was drawn further replays would be held until a winner was determined. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played in a replay, a 30-minute period of extra time would be played.

Calendar

Third Round

The 44 First and Second Division clubs entered the competition at this stage. The matches were scheduled for Saturday, 5 January 1963, but due to the Big Freeze of 1963, only three games were completed at this date. [cite web |url=http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.arc?toDate=1963-01-08&fromDate=1963-01-07&currentPageNumber=1&resultsPerPage=10&sortBy=default&offset=0&viewName=&addFilters=&removeFilters=&addCat=&queryKeywords=Preston&sectionId=1040&currPgSmartSet=1&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1963-01-07-03&articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1963-01-07-03-003&xmlpath=&pubId=17&totalResults=2&addRefineFilters=&removeRefineFilters=&addRefineCat=&next_Page=false&prev_Page=false&date_dd_From=7&date_mm_From=01&date_yyyy_From=1963&date_dd_to_range=8&date_mm_to_range=01&date_yyyy_to_range=1963&date_dd_from_precise=7&date_mm_from_precise=01&date_yyyy_from_precise=1963&isDateSearch=false&dateSearchType=range&refineQuerykeywordText= |title=The Times Archive |accessdate=2008-09-09 |publisher=Times Newspapers Ltd. |date=1963-01-07 ] [cite web|title=Replay The Big Freeze 1962-63|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20030119/ai_n9682040|accessdate=2008-09-14|publisher=CNET Networks, Inc (Article originally published by The Independent on Sunday)|date=2003-01-19|work=Findarticles.com website] The bulk of matches were not completable until February and March, with the final non-replay tie being played on the 7 March. There were nine replays in total, of which the earliest possible playing date was 30 January, and the latest the 11 March.

ixth Round

The four quarter-final ties were scheduled to be played on Saturday, 9 March 1963, but as explained above, were postponed until the 30 March. The Nottingham Forest–Southampton match went to two replays before the tie was settled, in Southampton's favour.

emi finals

The semi-final matches were originally scheduled to be played on Saturday, 30 March 1963. However, due to the problems of completing the earlier rounds due to the particularly inclement weather, on 18 February 1963 the FA Challenge Cup committee announced that the semi finals would be put back by four weeks to 27 April, and that the final would not be played until three weeks after its original date, on 25 May [cite web |url=http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.arc?toDate=1963-02-20&fromDate=1963-02-19&currentPageNumber=1&resultsPerPage=10&sortBy=default&offset=0&viewName=&addFilters=&removeFilters=&addCat=&queryKeywords=FA+Cup&sectionId=1040&currPgSmartSet=1&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1963-02-19-04&articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1963-02-19-04-016&xmlpath=&pubId=17&totalResults=1&addRefineFilters=&removeRefineFilters=&addRefineCat=&next_Page=false&prev_Page=false&date_dd_From=19&date_mm_From=02&date_yyyy_From=1963&date_dd_to_range=20&date_mm_to_range=02&date_yyyy_to_range=1963&date_dd_from_precise=19&date_mm_from_precise=02&date_yyyy_from_precise=1963&isDateSearch=false&dateSearchType=range&refineQuerykeywordText= |title=The Times Archive |accessdate=2008-09-09 |publisher=Times Newspapers Ltd. |date=1963-02-19 ] . Leicester City and Manchester United came through the semi final round to meet at Wembley.

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referee= A. Holland, Barnsley

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team2=Southampton
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stadium=Villa Park, Birmingham
attendance=65,000
referee= George McCabe, Sheffield

Final

The 1963 FA Cup Final was a football match played on 25 May 1963 at Wembley. The final was contested by Manchester United and Leicester City. United won 3–1, with goals by Denis Law and David Herd (2). Ken Keyworth scored the Foxes' goal.

Match details

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Herd goal goal
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stadium=Wembley, London
attendance=99,604
referee=Ken Aston, London

References

;General
* [http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/TheFACup/Archive/ The FA Cup Archive] at TheFA.com
* [http://www.soccerbase.com/cup2.sd?competitionid=58&seasonid=104 English FA Cup 1962/63] at Soccerbase
* [http://footballsite.co.uk/Statistics/LeagueTables/Season1962-63/F.A.Cup1962-63.html F.A. Cup results 1962/63] at Footballsite;Specific