Last 10 different FA Cup runners up, not including 2024/25

We take a look at the last 10 different FA Cup runners up, not including the 2024/25 season.

• Manchester City

Manchester United captured their 14th FA Cup at the end of the 2023/24 campaign with Erik ten Hag's men seeing off fierce rivals Manchester City in the Wembley showpiece.

Alejandro Garnacho and player of the match Kobie Mainoo were on target for the Red Devils before Jeremy Doku ignited late hope for Pep Guardiola's side with an 87th minute effort.

It ultimately proved to be in vain however, as United held on for a famous victory.

• Manchester United

In a repeat of the 2024 final, the two Manchester sides locked-horns once more in 2023, only this time the Citizens managed to reign supreme.

German international Ilkay Gundogan bagged the two priceless goals for City, either side of a Bruno Fernandes penalty.

Pep Guardiola's side, of course, went on to land the coveted treble at the end of the season, adding the UEFA Champions League title to their Premier League and FA Cup crowns.

• Chelsea

It was an FA Cup final of firsts in 2022 where Liverpool edged past Chelsea in hugely dramatic fashion, capturing the FA Cup via a tense penalty shootout success.

After 120 minutes of action, without a goal, Jurge Klopp's men reigned supreme from the 10-yard spot, ensuring they replicated their penalty shootout triumph of 2006, which was the last time the final was determined by penalties.

As well as that, the Reds victory was also the first FA Cup final at the new Wembley Stadium to have finished 0-0 and also the first at the state-of-the-art stadium to be won in a penalty shootout.

Incredibly, this was also Chelsea's third successive FA Cup final loss in as many seasons, having previously lost out to Leicester City and Arsenal in the previous couple of years.

• Watford

Watford's 6-0 drubbing at the hands of Manchester City in 2019 is an occasion the Hornets fans will still be desperate to forget.

The Hertfordshire side had conceded just three goals in their five matches en-route to the showpiece final, but were humbled by a rampant Citizens side, who breezed to victory thanks to goals from David Silva and Kevin De Bruyne, as well as braces from Gabriel Jesus and Raheem Sterling.

• Crystal Palace

The 2016 FA Cup final saw Crystal Palace and Manchester United lock-horns at Wembley Stadium as the Eagles looked to land their first major domestic trophy.

Agonisingly however, they went on to miss out - succumbing to a narrow 2-1 defeat against the Old Trafford giants.

Jason Puncheon thought he had delivered the most crucial goal in Palace history, rifling home the opener in the 78th minute, only for United to level matters with eight minutes remaining through Juan Mata.

Then, with just 10 minutes of extra-time remaining, Jesse Lingard proved the matchwinner, firing home a sensational effort to capture a 12th FA Cup crown for the Red Devils.

• Aston Villa

For many, one of the more forgetful FA Cup finals in recent times - largely due to the fact that it was a non-event.

Arsenal cruised to a 4-0 triumph over Aston Villa with Theo Walcott, Alexis Sanchez, Per Mertesacker and Olivier Giroud all on target for the Gunners.

Disappointingly for Villa fans, their side failed to register a single shot on target in a truly one-sided Wembley showdown.

• Hull City

Twelve months earlier, Hull City fell victim to Arsenal, but the Tigers produced a far more heroic showing than Villa managed in 2015.

James Chester and Curtis Davies had the underdogs in dreamland inside eight minutes, but as the old football adage stipulates, 'always beware of a two-goal advantage'...

So it proved, as strikes from Santi Cazorla and Laurent Koscielny, either side of the interval, levelled the tie, before Aaron Ramsey secured the FA Cup for the Gunners deep into extra-time.

• Liverpool

Having lost more FA Cup finals than Chelsea fans would care to remember, they did have plenty to celebrate at Wembley in 2012 when they got the better of Liverpool in contentious fashion.

Brazilian midfielder Ramires fired the Blues in front in the 11th minute before Didier Drogba doubled the Londoners advantage seven minutes after the half-time break.

Liverpool were offered some hope when Andy Carroll stepped off the bench to halve the deficit in the 64th minute and then went on to net what he thought was a second goal nine minutes from time, only for the referee to deem his header to have not crossed the line.

Chelsea, just about, held on for victory!

• Stoke City

Stoke City reached their first ever FA Cup final in 2011, but it ultimately proved one hurdle too far as they slipped to a narrow 1-0 defeat against Manchester City.

Having seen off the likes of Wolverhampton Wanderers, Brighton & Hove Albion and West Ham United en-route to the final, the Potters were eventually undone by a second half Yaya Toure strike as Roberto Mancini and his side celebrated the club's fifth FA Cup triumph.

• Portsmouth

Like Stoke, Portsmouth were on the end of a narrow 1-0 defeat of their own in their own Wembley showdown 12 months earlier as Didier Drogba maintained his hot-streak for the Blues.

The Ivory Coast international had bagged 36 goals in 43 appearances throughout the campaign, and extended that sensational record further with arguably the most important of the lot to settle the 2010 FA Cup final.