Event | 1992–93 FA Cup | ||||||
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Arsenal won after a replay | |||||||
Final | |||||||
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After extra time | |||||||
Date | 15 May 1993 | ||||||
Venue | Wembley Stadium, London | ||||||
Referee | Keren Barratt (Warwickshire) | ||||||
Attendance | 79,347 | ||||||
Replay | |||||||
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After extra time | |||||||
Date | 20 May 1993 | ||||||
Venue | Wembley Stadium, London | ||||||
Referee | Keren Barratt (Warwickshire) | ||||||
Attendance | 62,267 | ||||||
The 1993 FA Cup final was contested by Arsenal and Sheffield Wednesday at Wembley. The original match, played on 15 May 1993, finished 1–1. Arsenal won the replay on 20 May, 2–1 after extra-time.
It was Arsenal's sixth FA Cup final victory, and their first since the 1979 FA Cup final. They became the first English side to achieve a domestic cup double, having also won the 1993 Football League Cup final.
It was Sheffield Wednesday's first appearance in the FA Cup final since 1966. They also reached the League Cup final that season, also losing 2–1 to Arsenal (though without a replay). This appearance of the same two sides in the final of both of England's domestic knock-out tournaments in the same season had never happened before, and would be the only time until 2022. Sheffield Wednesday have not appeared in a domestic cup final since, reaching two League Cup semi-finals since then.
The replay saw the last Arsenal appearance by veteran defender David O'Leary, who left shortly afterwards to join Leeds United, after an 18-year spell with Arsenal which had yielded 722 competitive games and six major trophies.