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Football match

1885 FA Cup final

Event

Blackburn Rovers	Queen's Park

2	0

Date

4 April 1885 (1885-04-04)

Venue

Kennington Oval, London

Referee

Major Francis Marindin

Attendance

12,500

← 1884 1886 →

The 1885 FA Cup final was a football match between Blackburn Rovers and Queen's Park on 4 April 1885 at Kennington Oval in London. It was the fourteenth final of the world's oldest football competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (known in the modern era as the FA Cup). Blackburn had won the Cup in the previous season while Queen's Park were competing in their second final with the previous final being previous year. Rovers won 2–0 in their second successive FA Cup Final victory, with the goals coming from Jimmy Forrest and James Brown. This would be the only final in which two clubs meet in consecutive FA Cup Finals until Manchester City and Manchester United in 2023 and 2024.

Match details

Blackburn Rovers	2–0	Queen's Park
Forrest Brown

Kennington Oval, LondonAttendance: 12,500Referee: Francis Marindin

Blackburn Rovers

Queen's Park


Blackburn Rovers
GK	Herby Arthur
DF	Richard Turner
DF	Fergus Suter
MF	George Haworth
MF	Hugh McIntyre	(c)
MF	Jimmy Forrest
FW	Joe Sowerbutts
FW	Joe Lofthouse
FW	Jimmy Douglas
FW	James Brown
FW	Howard Fecitt


Queens Park
GK	George Gillespie
DF	Walter Arnott
DF	William McLeod
MF	John Macdonald
MF	Charles Campbell	(c)
MF	William Sellar
FW	William Anderson
FW	Ninian MacWhannell
FW	Alexander Hamilton
FW	David Allan
FW	Woodville Gray

Played 4 April 1885
Attendance 12,500
Referee Major Francis Marindin

References

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FA Cup Finals	1882 1884 1885 1886 1890 1891 1928 1960
League Cup Final	2002
FA Charity Shields	1912 1928 1994 1995
Full Members' Cup Final	1987
Football League play-off Finals	1989 Second Division 1992 Second Division
Other matches	1940 Football League War Cup final

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Scottish Cup Finals	1874 1875 1876 1880 1881 1882 ~~1884~~ 1886 1890 1892 1893 1900
FA Cup Finals	1884 1885
Other matches	'World Championship' (1876, 1881, 1882, 1893) 1899 Sheriff of London Charity Shield

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