FA Cup 2020–21 Champions, Matches, Scorers and facts

FA Cup 2020–21 was the 140th edition of the oldest football tournament in the world, the Football Association Challenge Cup. It was sponsored by Emirates and known as the Emirates FA Cup for sponsorship purposes. The winners qualified for the 2021–22 UEFA Europa League group stage.
Premier League side Arsenal were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the fourth round by Southampton.
Leicester City beat Chelsea 1–0 in the final to win their first FA Cup, having been runners-up on four previous occasions.

Champions: Leicester City (1st title)
Runner-up: Chelsea

FA Cup 2020–21 top goal scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Tammy Abraham	Chelsea	4
2	Kelechi Iheanacho	Leicester City	4
3	Gary Madine	Blackpool	4
4	Alfie May	Cheltenham Town	4
5	Tom Nichols	Crawley Town	4

FA Cup 2020–21 Fourth round
The draw for the fourth round proper was held on 11 January 2021, right before the fifth round proper draw. The 32 winners from the third round proper played in 16 ties over the weekend of 23 January 2021. This round included one team from level 6, Chorley, the lowest ranked and the only non-league team left in the competition.

Date	Team 1	Result	Team 2
22 January 2021	Chorley	0 – 1	Wolves
23 January 2021	Southampton	1 – 0	Arsenal
23 January 2021	Barnsley	1 – 0	Norwich City
23 January 2021	Brighton	2 – 1	Blackpool
23 January 2021	Millwall	0 – 3	Bristol_City
23 January 2021	Sheffield United	2 – 1	Plymouth Argyle
23 January 2021	Swansea City	5 – 1	Nottingham Forest
23 January 2021	West Ham United	4 – 0	Doncaster Rovers
23 January 2021	Cheltenham Town	1 – 3	Manchester City
24 January 2021	Chelsea	3 – 1	Luton Town
24 January 2021	Brentford	1 – 3	Leicester City
24 January 2021	Fulham	0 – 3	Burnley
24 January 2021	Manchester United	3 – 2	Liverpool
24 January 2021	Everton	3 – 0	Sheffield Wednesday
25 January 2021	Wycombe Wanderers	1 – 4	Tottenham Hotspur
26 January 2021	AFC Bournemouth	2 – 1	Crawley Town

FA Cup 2020–21 Fifth round
The draw for the fifth round proper was held on 11 January 2021, immediately after the fourth round proper draw. The 16 winners from the fourth round proper played in eight ties in midweek during the week commencing Monday 8 February 2021.
The round featured 12 teams from the Premier League (level 1) and four from the EFL Championship (level 2).

Date	Team 1	Result	Team 2
9 February 2021	Burnley	0 – 2	AFC Bournemouth
9 February 2021	Manchester United	1 – 0 (a.e.t.)	West Ham United
10 February 2021	Swansea City	1 – 3	Manchester City
10 February 2021	Leicester City	1 – 0	Brighton
10 February 2021	Sheffield United	1 – 0	Bristol_City
10 February 2021	Everton	5 – 4 (a.e.t.)	Tottenham Hotspur
11 February 2021	Wolves	0 – 2	Southampton
11 February 2021	Barnsley	0 – 1	Chelsea

FA Cup 2020–21 Quarter finals
The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 11 February 2021, before the match between Barnsley and Chelsea. The eight winners from the fifth round proper play in four ties played on the weekend of 20 March 2021.
The round featured seven teams from the Premier League (level 1) and one from the EFL Championship (level 2). AFC Bournemouth were the only non-top flight team to play in this round.

Date	Team 1	Result	Team 2
20 March 2021	AFC Bournemouth	0 – 3	Southampton
20 March 2021	Everton	0 – 2	Manchester City
21 March 2021	Chelsea	2 – 0	Sheffield United
21 March 2021	Leicester City	3 – 1	Manchester United

FA Cup 2020–21 semi finals

Date	Team 1	Result	Team 2	Stadium
17 April 2021	Chelsea	1–0	Manchester City	Wembley, London
18 April 2021	Leicester City	1–0	Southampton	Wembley, London

FA Cup 2020–21 Final match
15 May 2021 17:15 BST, Wembley Stadium, London

Chelsea	0 – 1	Leicester City
		Tielemans 63′

Teams
The FA Cup is a knockout competition involving 124 teams, all vying to reach the final at Wembley in May 2021. The competition included the 92 teams from the Football League system (20 teams from the Premier League and 72 from the EFL Championship, EFL League One, and EFL League Two) plus 32 surviving teams out of the 644 teams from the National League System (levels 5–10 of the English football league system) that started the competition in the qualifying rounds.
All rounds were drawn randomly, usually either at the completion of the previous round or on the evening of the last televised game of a round being played, depending on television broadcasting rights.
This year’s competition was subject to changes to the rules and round dates at short notice to adhere to the latest national and local government guidelines regarding the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.