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F.A. Cup
1888/89 Results
* denotes non-league club

First Round
Sat	Feb	2	Accrington		1	-	1	Blackburn Rovers
Sat	Feb	9		Blackburn Rovers	5	-	0		Accrington
Sat	Feb	2	Aston Villa		3	-	2	Witton*
Sat	Feb	2	Birmingham St George's*		3	-	2	Long Eaton Rangers*
Sat	Feb	2	Bootle*		0	-	3	Preston North End
Sat	Feb	2	Burnley		4	-	3	Old Westminsters*
Sat	Feb	2	Chatham*		2	-	1	South Shore*
Sat	Feb	2	Derby County		1	-	0	Derby Junction*
Sat	Feb	2	Grimsby Town*		3	-	1	Sunderland Albion*
Sat	Feb	2	Halliwell*		2	-	2	Crewe Alexandra*
Sat	Feb	9		Crewe Alexandra*	1	-	5		Halliwell*
Sat	Feb	2	Nottingham Forest*		2	-	2	Linfield Athletic*
				Nottingham F.* (walk-over)					Linfield Athletic* (scratched)
Sat	Feb	2	Notts County		2	-	0	Old Brightonians*
Sat	Feb	2	Notts Rangers*		1	-	1	Sheffield Wednesday*
Sat	Feb	9		Sheffield Wednesday*	3	-	0		Notts Rangers*
Sat	Feb	2	Small Heath*		2	-	3	West Bromwich Albion* (holders)
Sat	Feb	2	Swifts*		3	-	1	Wrexham*
Sat	Feb	2	Walsall Town Swifts*		5	-	1	Sheffield Heeley*
Sat	Feb	2	Wolverhampton Wanderers		4	-	3	Old Carthusians*

Second Round
Sat	Feb	16	Aston Villa		5	-	3	Derby County
			Blackburn Rovers (walk-over)					Swifts (scratched)
Sat	Feb	16	Chatham*		1	-	1	Nottingham Forest*
Sat	Feb	23		Nottingham Forest*	2	-	2		Chatham*
Thur	Feb	28		Chatham*	3	-	2		Nottingham Forest*
				(the match was played at the Kennington Oval)
Sat	Feb	16	Grimsby Town*		0	-	2	Preston North End
Sat	Feb	16	Halliwell*		2	-	3	Birmingham St George's*
Sat	Feb	16	Sheffield Wednesday*		3	-	2	Notts County
Sat	Feb	16	West Bromwich A.* (holders)		5	-	1	Burnley
Sat	Feb	16	Wolverhampton Wanderers		6	-	1	Walsall Town Swifts*

Third Round
Sat	Mar	2	Blackburn Rovers		8	-	1	Aston Villa
Sat	Mar	2	Chatham*		1	-	10	West Bromwich Albion* (holders)
Sat	Mar	2	Preston North End		2	-	0	Birmingham St George's*
Sat	Mar	2	Wolverhampton Wanderers		3	-	0	Sheffield Wednesday*

Semi-Finals
Sat	Mar	16	Wolverhampton Wanderers		1	-	1	Blackburn Rovers
				(played at Alexandra Road, Crewe)
Sat	Mar	23		Wolverhampton W.	3	-	1		Blackburn Rovers
				(played at Alexandra Road, Crewe)
Sat	Mar	16	Preston North End		1	-	0	West Bromwich Albion* (holders)
				(played at Bramall Lane, Sheffield)

Final (at the Oval)
Sat	Mar	30	Preston North End		3	-	0	Wolverhampton Wanderers

Bramall Lane My first thought was to add 'Sheffield United FC' to 'Bramall Lane' as the venue for the Preston v WBA semi-final but to do so would not, strictly speaking, be correct. Originally Bramall Lane was the home of Sheffield Cricket Club who were formed in 1854 with Yorkshire County Cricket Club playing their first match there a year later. The first football match to be played on the ground was between Sheffield FC (the oldest club in the world) and Hallam in 1862 and later Sheffield Wednesday (then The Wednesday) played a few of their more important fixtures there. History was made on Monday October 14th 1878 when the ground hosted the first recorded floodlit fixture. Two representative sides from Sheffield provided the opposition and a crowd of around 20,000 - which was massive for the times - witnessed the spectacle which was considered a great success. In March 1883 England entertained Scotland in the first international match at Bramall Lane but still there was no regular football at the ground. That was to change just six days after the Preston v WBA semi in 1889. Such was the success of the match - with nearly £600 in receipts being taken - the cricket club were convinced it would be a good move to form their own football club, and so Sheffield United were born as a direct result of that semi-final. Three years later they were elected to the Football League and the rest, as they say, is history. Sheffield United became independent of the cricket club and bought the ground but Bramall Lane still hosted both sports for many years until the cricket club were finally given their marching orders. The last County cricket match played at Bramall Lane was in August 1973 which at the time left Northampton's County Ground as the only one which staged both first-class cricket and League football. When that particular relationship ended it was to be the football club who had to move on, to the Sixfields Stadium.