Football tournament season
The 1880–81 Football Association Challenge Cup was the tenth staging of the FA Cup , England's oldest football tournament. Sixty-two teams entered, eight more than the previous season, although four of the sixty-two never played a match.
First round [ ]
Home Club
Score
Away Club
Date
Darwen
8–0
Brigg
13 November 1880
Reading
5–1
Hotspur
13 November 1880
Sheffield
5–4
Blackburn Olympic
30 October 1880
Royal Engineers
0–0
Remnants
13 November 1880
Marlow
6–0
Clarence
30 October 1880
Maidenhead
1–1
Old Harrovians
13 November 1880
Clapham Rovers
15–0
Finchley
13 November 1880
Upton Park
8–1
Mosquitos
13 November 1880
Pilgrims
Walkover
Old Philberdians
Swifts
1–1
Old Foresters
6 November 1880
Herts Rangers
6–0
Barnes
6 November 1880
Rochester
1–2
Dreadnought
13 November 1880
Notts County
4–4
Derbyshire
4 November 1880
Nottingham Forest
Walkover
Caius College
Romford
1–1
Reading Minster
13 November 1880
Grey Friars
0–0
Windsor Home Park
13 November 1880
Brentwood
0–10
Old Etonians
6 November 1880
West End
1–0
Hanover United
6 November 1880
Blackburn Rovers
6–2
Providence
30 October 1880
St Peter's Institute
1–8
Hendon
6 November 1880
Aston Villa
5–3
Wednesbury Strollers
30 October 1880
Stafford Road
7–0
Spilsby
6 November 1880
Turton
5–0
Brigg Brittania
16 October 1880
Old Carthusians
7–0
Saffron Walden Town
23 October 1880
Acton
1–1
Kildare
13 November 1880
Calthorpe
1–2
Grantham
11 November 1880
Sheffield Wednesday
Walkover
Queen's Park
Astley Bridge
4–0
Eagley
30 October 1880
Weybridge Swallows
3–1
Henley
13 November 1880
Reading Abbey
1–0
St Albans
13 November 1880
Rangers (London)
Walkover
Wanderers
First round replays [ ]
Home Club
Score
Away Club
Date
Remnants
0–1
Royal Engineers
20 November 1880
Old Harrovians
0–1
Maidenhead
20 November 1880
Old Foresters
1–2
Swifts
20 November 1880
Derbyshire
2–4
Notts County
27 November 1880
Romford
Walkover
Reading Minster
Windsor Home Park
1–3
Grey Friars
20 November 1880
Kildare
0–5
Acton
20 November 1880
Second round [ ]
Home Club
Score
Away Club
Date
Grantham
1–1
Stafford Road
11 December 1880
Reading
0–1
Swifts
18 December 1880
Sheffield
1–5
Darwen
18 December 1880
Royal Engineers
1–0
Pilgrims
9 December 1880
Marlow
4–0
West End
11 December 1880
Clapham Rovers
Bye
Old Etonians
2–0
Hendon
4 December 1880
Herts Rangers
Bye
Notts County
Bye
Nottingham Forest
1–2
Aston Villa
4 December 1880
Romford
Bye
Grey Friars
1–0
Maidenhead
11 December 1880
Blackburn Rovers
0–4
Sheffield Wednesday
18 December 1880
Old Carthusians
5–1
Dreadnought
11 December 1880
Astley Bridge
0–3
Turton
18 December 1880
Weybridge Swallows
0–3
Upton Park
18 December 1880
Reading Abbey
2–1
Acton
11 December 1880
Rangers (London)
Bye
Second round replay [ ]
Home Club
Score
Away Club
Date
Stafford Road
7–1
Grantham
16 December 1880
Third round [ ]
Home Club
Score
Away Club
Date
Darwen
Bye
Royal Engineers
6–0
Rangers (London)
9 February 1881
Marlow
Bye
Clapham Rovers
2–1
Swifts
8 January 1881
Upton Park
Bye
Herts Rangers
0–3
Old Etonians
5 February 1881
Notts County
1–3
Aston Villa
12 February 1881
Romford
2–0
Reading Abbey
12 February 1881
Grey Friars
Bye
Stafford Road
Bye
Turton
0–2
Sheffield Wednesday
8 January 1881
Fourth round [ ]
Home Club
Score
Away Club
Date
Darwen
5–2
Sheffield Wednesday
5 February 1881
Clapham Rovers
5–4
Upton Park
12 February 1881
Old Etonians
4–0
Grey Friars
19 February 1881
Romford
2–1
Marlow
19 February 1881
Aston Villa
2–3
Stafford Road
19 February 1881
Old Carthusians
2–0
Royal Engineers
19 February 1881
Fifth round [ ]
Semi-finals [ ]
Final [ ]
References [ ]
FA Cup
Seasons Qualifying rounds Finals
FA competitionsClub seasons