The 1886–87 Football Association Challenge Cup was the 16th FA Cup, England's oldest football tournament. One hundred and twenty-eight teams entered, two fewer than the previous season, in addition to four of the one hundred and twenty-eight never playing a match.

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1886–87 FA Cup

The Aston Villa team following the final
Tournament details
Country	England  Scotland  Wales  Ireland
Teams	128
Defending champions	Blackburn Rovers
Final positions
Champions	Aston Villa (1st title)
Runner-up	West Bromwich Albion
← 1885–86 1887–88 →

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The Football Association also rejected a number of entries for being made too late.^[1]

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Home club	Score	Away club	Date
Clapton	0–5	Crusaders	23 October 1886
Darwen	7–1	Heart of Midlothian	30 October 1886
South Bank	0–4	Gainsborough Trinity	30 October 1886
Stoke	10–1	Carnarvon Wanderers	30 October 1886
Sheffield	0–3	Notts Rangers	30 October 1886
Clapham Rovers	0–6	Old Brightonians	30 October 1886
Queen's Park	0–3	Preston North End	30 October 1886
Upton Park	9–0	1st Surrey Rifles	23 October 1886
Old Etonians	1–0	Royal Engineers	30 October 1886
Swifts	13–0	Luton Wanderers	23 October 1886
Rochester	0–2	Marlow	23 October 1886
Old Wykehamists	3–0	Hanover United	30 October 1886
Old Harrovians	0–4	Old Westminsters	30 October 1886
Notts County	13–0	Basford Rovers	30 October 1886
Hendon	1–2	London Caledonians	30 October 1886
Old Foresters	Walkover *	Cannon
Nottingham Forest	3–0	Notts Olympic	30 October 1886
Blackburn Rovers	Walkover	Halliwell
Hotspur	3–1	Luton Town	23 October 1886
Aston Villa	13–0	Wednesbury Old Athletic	30 October 1886
Old Carthusians	2–1	Reading	23 October 1886
Blackburn Olympic	1–3	Partick Thistle	23 October 1886
Astley Bridge	3–3	Burnley	23 October 1886
Staveley	7–0	Attercliffe	30 October 1886
Small Heath Alliance	1–3	Mitchell St. George's	30 October 1886
Sheffield Heeley	1–4	Grimsby Town	30 October 1886
Bootle	2–4	Great Lever	16 October 1886
Blackburn Park Road	2–2	Cliftonville	9 October 1886
Bolton Wanderers	5–3	South Shore	30 October 1886
Lockwood Brothers	1–0	Long Eaton Rangers	30 October 1886
Chatham	Walkover	Bournemouth Rovers
Northwich Victoria	10–0	Furness Vale Rovers	30 October 1886
Church	1–1	Rawtenstall	30 October 1886
Aston Unity	1–4	Derby County	30 October 1886
South Reading	0–2	Maidenhead	30 October 1886
Redcar	4–0	Tyne Association	30 October 1886
Wrexham Olympic	1–4	Crewe Alexandra	23 October 1886
Wolverhampton Wanderers	6–0	Matlock	30 October 1886
West Bromwich Albion	6–0	Burton Wanderers	30 October 1886
Birmingham Excelsior	3–3	Derby Midland	30 October 1886
Leek	2–1	Druids	23 October 1886
Sunderland	2–1 Match void	Newcastle West End	30 October 1886
Derby St Luke's	3–3	Walsall Town	30 October 1886
Darwen Old Wanderers	1–4	Cowlairs	23 October 1886
Goldenhill	4–2 Match void	Macclesfield Town	30 October 1886
Casuals	2–4	Dulwich	30 October 1886
Chirk	8–1	Hartford St John's	23 October 1886
Oswaldtwistle Rovers	2–3	Witton	23 October 1886
Burton Swifts	0–1	Crosswell's Brewery	30 October 1886
Bollington	2–8	Oswestry Town	30 October 1886
Burslem Port Vale	1–1	Davenham	30 October 1886
Lincoln Lindum	0–1	Grantham	23 October 1886
Third Lanark	5–0	Higher Walton	16 October 1886
Horncastle	2–0	Darlington	30 October 1886
Rangers	Walkover ***	Everton	30 October 1886
Chesham	4–2	Lyndhurst	30 October 1886
Wellington St George's	0–1	Derby Junction	30 October 1886
Fleetwood Rangers	Walkover **	Newton Heath	30 October 1886
Renton	1–0	Accrington	30 October 1886
Bishop Auckland Church Institute	0–1	Middlesbrough	30 October 1886
Cleethorpes Town	2–1	Mellors	30 October 1886
Swindon Town	1–0	Watford Rovers	23 October 1886

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[*] The Cannon side (from Tottenham) had entered the competition without being registered with the Football Association, so was ineligible to play^[2]

[**] Newton Heath turned up for the match with several ineligible players, and so scratched before the game; the sides played a friendly, which ended 2-2.^[3]

[***] Due to a number of their first-team being ineligible to play, Everton scratched to Rangers and played a friendly match instead, with Rangers winning 1-0^[4]

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Home club	Score	Away club	Date
Burnley	2–2 Burnley disqualified	Astley Bridge	30 October 1886
Cliftonville	7–2	Blackburn Park Road	23 October 1886
Rawtenstall	1–7	Church	13 November 1886
Derby Midland	2–1	Birmingham Excelsior	13 November 1886
Newcastle West End	1–0	Sunderland	13 November 1886
Walsall Town	6–1	Derby St Luke's	13 November 1886
Macclesfield Town	2–3	Goldenhill	13 November 1886
Burslem Port Vale	3–0	Davenham	13 November 1886

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