What is the FA Cup? Does it have anything to do with Barclay's Premier League?

Question

I've only recently started watching soccer (*football) and LOVE IT but don't really understand the FA Cup (*or other 'Cups' for that matter). Is the FA Cup part of the Premier League? Is it like the Superbowl?

Answer 1

FA Cup is a totally different competion in which every round of games is a knockout round.....there are no points .....if u lose ur game ur out.....

Answer 2

No, the FA Cup is a separate competition.



If you are a Premier League club you will play in three domestic competitions. Premier League, FA Cup and League Cup.



The League Cup is usually sponsored so takes the sponsors name. At the moment it is called the Carling Cup. This cup is played by all the 92 league clubs in England. There are four leagues: Premier League, The Championship, League One and League Two.



The FA Cup is open to a lot of entrants and starts with many qualifying rounds for amateur clubs. League One and League Two teams join in the First Round Proper, but Championship and Premier League clubs don't join until the 3rd Round of the tournament.



Both the league cup and FA Cup are knockout tournaments (i.e. the team that wins goes through to the next round).



The Premier League has 20 teams who play each other twice over a season, home and away. After 38 matches, the team with the most points are the champions. You get 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for a loss.



The three lowest teams are relegated to the Championship. The top 4 go into the Champions League, then 5th and sometimes 6th go into the Uefa Cup.



Best place to find anything out about any of these competitions is Wikipedia, at least for the basics.

Answer 3

The FA Cup has nothing to do with the EPL. The FA Cup is a separate competition but both are still competitions played in England only. They also have a Carling Cup which makes three main cups in England football.



Order of importance:

1. English Premier League (Barclay's Premier League as it's officially called)

2. FA Cup

3. Carling Cup.

Answer 4

The Premier League is an English professional league for football clubs. At the top of the English football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. The Premier League is currently contested by 20 clubs, operating a system of promotion and relegation with The Football League, English football's governing body. Seasons run from August to May, with teams playing 38 games each. The competition formed as the FA Premier League on 20 February 1992 and the first games were played on 15 August that year, following the decision of clubs in the Football League First Division to break away from The Football League to take advantage of a lucrative television rights deal; The Football League had served as England and Wales' primary football competition since 1888. Since then, the Premier League has become the world's most watched sporting league[1] and the most lucrative football league, with cumulative club revenues of around £1.4 billion.[2] The league is a corporation with the 20 clubs acting as shareholders. A total of 40 clubs have competed in the Premier League, but only four have won the title: Manchester United, Blackburn Rovers, Arsenal, and Chelsea. The current Premier League champions are Manchester United, who won their ninth title in the 2006–07 season, the most of any Premier League team.

Answer 5

No...its a seperate thing to the Premiership.



The FA Cup (the oldest football trophy in the world) is the main knock-out competion in English football. It is open to ALL English football teams, including the thousands of amateur and semi-profesional ones outside the professional leagues. It is seeded like tennis, so that the higher ranked teams come into the competition at a later round.



The Premiership is a league format competition, with each team playing the others twice, between the top 20 professional teams in England.

Answer 6

no.



th fa cup and the premiership are different competitions.



The FA Cup is basically the english cup. All english teams can participate dont matter if they play in the premiership or the coca cola championship(2nd division).



The premiership is the league. everyteam plays each other twice and the team with most points at the end wins the league. Also the top 4 teams qualify for Champions League-

Answer 7

the premier league or first division depending on which country league you are referring to is actually the country's top domestic league, for example there's the English Premier League, Italian Serie A, Spanish Primera Liga, German Bundesliga, Scottish Premier League & French Ligue 1. most leagues in Europe begin in late July or early August & will finished in May the following year.



the premier league may consist from 18 to 20 teams. each team will plays against other teams in the league, home & away & whichever team scored the most points wins the league. the teams that finished in the bottom three position in the league relegated or demoted to the country's second division.



the FA Cup is open to ALL professional teams in ENGLAND, from clubs in the Premier League right down to the non-league. it is a straight knock-out competition which all teams will be drawn (no seedings) at random & teams which won their respective matches will progress to the next stage until the final two teams left in the competition.



the final two teams left in the competition will contest the FA Cup final at the Wembley Stadium, London.



teams from the lower league will begin their qualification as early as in the 1st qualifying round in August while teams from League One & Two will enter the competition in the first round. the Premier League & League Championship teams will compete from the third round onwards.

Answer 8

the fa cup is basically like all the clubs in england meaning premierleague, coca cola league one etc.



lets use hockey as an example



its like having nhl teams and the farm teams(ahl) in a big tournament.

Answer 9

FA Cup is the trophy that Man U won't win.