FA Cup 2023–24 was the 143rd season of the Football Association Challenge Cup, the oldest football tournament in the world. It was sponsored by Emirates and known as the Emirates FA Cup for sponsorship purposes.
Champions: 
Manchester United (13th title)
Runner-up: 
Manchester City
Top goal scorer: 
Ellis Simms (
Coventry City) and 
Sammie Szmodics (
Blackburn Rovers), (6 goals each)
FA Cup 2023–24 Fifth Round Qualifying Matches
The draw was made on 28 January 2024 by Glen Johnson. The round included Maidstone United from the sixth tier, the lowest-ranked team remaining in the competition, and the first side outside of the top five divisions to reach the last 16 since Blyth Spartans in 1977–78.
Date Team 1 Result Team 2
26 February 2024 Coventry City5–0 
Maidstone United
27 February 2024 
Bournemouth0–1 (a.e.t.) 
Leicester City
27 February 2024 Blackburn_Rovers1–1 (a.e.t.)
3–4 (penalties)
Newcastle United
27 February 2024 
Luton Town2–6 Manchester City
28 February 2024 
Chelsea3–2 
Leeds United
28 February 2024 
Nottingham Forest0–1 Newcastle United
28 February 2024 
Wolves1–0 
Brighton
28 February 2024 
Liverpool3–0 
Southampton
FA Cup 2023–24 Quarter Final matches
The draw for the quarter-finals was made on 28 February 2024 by Seema Jaswal and David Seaman on ITV4. The round included Championship sides Coventry City and Leicester City, the lowest-ranked teams left in the competition.
Date Team 1 Result Team 2
16 March 2024 Wolves2–3 Coventry City
16 March 2024 Manchester City2–0 Newcastle United
17 March 2024 Chelsea4–2 Leicester City
17 March 2024 Manchester United4–3 (a.e.t.) Liverpool
FA Cup 2023–24 Semi Final matches
The draw for the semi-finals was made on 17 March 2024 by Ian Wright on ITV1, following the quarter-final match between Manchester United and Liverpool. The round included Championship club Coventry City, the only remaining non-top flight team in the competition.
Manchester United extended their English record of a 32nd overall FA Cup semi-final appearance and their second consecutive season, after advancing past Brighton & Hove Albion on penalties last season. Manchester City made a sixth consecutive FA Cup semi-final appearance, also an English record; the club had won two and lost three of the previous five encounters.
Date Team 1 Result Team 2
20 April 2024 Manchester City1–0 Chelsea
21 April 2024 Coventry City3–3 (a.e.t.)
2–4 (penalties) Manchester United
FA Cup 2023–24 Final match
25 May 2024 15:00 BST, Wembley Stadium, London
| Manchester City |
1-2 | Manchester United |
Jeremy Doku  87′ |
Garnacho 30′ Mainoo 39′ |
Referee: Andrew Madley
FA Cup 2023–24 Top Goal scorers
Rank Player Club Goals
1 Ellis Simms Coventry City6
2 Sammie Szmodics Blackburn_Rovers6
3 
Erling Haaland Manchester City5
4 
João Pedro Brighton5
5 Callum O'Hare Coventry City4
6 Kyle Wootton
Stockport County4
FA Cup 2023–24 Summary
The final was played on 25 May 2024 between defending champions Manchester City and local rivals Manchester United, a repeat of the previous final which Manchester City won 2–1.This made the final the first to feature the same teams in consecutive editions since the 1884–85 season. Manchester United beat Manchester City, avenging their defeat by the same score line a year earlier, to clinch their 13th title in the competition. Their victory prevented Manchester City from becoming the first team to retain the trophy since Arsenal, who won the 2013–14 and 2014–15 editions. As the winners, Manchester United qualified for the 2024–25 UEFA Europa League league stage, as well as earned the right to play against the winners of the 2023–24 Premier League, Manchester City, in the 2024 FA Community Shield.
This was the last edition of the tournament to feature replays in the non-qualifying rounds, as well as the last one to have the final played after the end of the Premier League season. The changes were made as part of a six-year agreement between the Football Association and the Premier League due to pressure on the domestic calendar from expanded UEFA competitions, but were criticized since replays were cited as an important source of revenue for lower league clubs.
Teams
The FA Cup is a knockout competition with 124 teams taking part from the first round proper, and all trying to reach the final at Wembley Stadium on 25 May 2024. The competition consisted of the 92 teams from the Football League system (20 teams from the Premier League and the 72 in total from the EFL Championship, EFL League One and EFL League Two) plus the 32 surviving teams out of 640 teams from the National League System that started the competition in the qualifying rounds.
All rounds were drawn randomly, usually either at the completion of the previous round discounting any replays or on the evening of the last televised game of a round being played, depending on television broadcasting rights.
