150-year-old FA Cup medal could sell for £6,000 at auction | British News

150-year-old FA Cup medal up for auction

The Wanderers won the medal in 1877 (Image: Ewbank’s Auctioneers/SWNS)

A football trophy awarded 145 years ago goes under the hammer.

An FA Cup medal was awarded to Wanderers FC in 1877 after winning the second of three consecutive cups.

The game was the sixth final of the world’s oldest football competition and the Wanderers’ fourth cup win.

The medal is inscribed ‘Football Association Challenge Cup, Wanderers 1877’ and is expected to sell for £6,000 when it is auctioned next week.

The team’s captain, Charles William Alcock, is the founder of the FA Cup tournament and makes the medal a real piece of footballing history.

Alastair McCrea is Head of Entertainment and Sports Memorabilia at Ewbank’s Auctioneers in Surrey, where the medal is sold.

He said: “An early cup winners’ medal at the oldest domestic football tournament in the world is rare enough indeed.”

“But to have someone so closely associated with the founding father of the competition and the top team of the time is just great.”

The only known photograph of the team that became Wanderers dates from 1863, a year before it changed its name from Forest Football Club. See SWNS story SWMRfootball. An FA Cup medal over 150 years old, awarded to the first club to win the trophy three years in a row, is expected to be auctioned for £6,000. The medal was awarded to Wanderers FC players after they had won the second of their three consecutive trophies in 1877. The team, whose captain Charles William Alcock created the competition, defeated Oxford University 2-1 in front of 3,000 spectators at Kennington Oval on March 24. It was the sixth final of the world's oldest football competition and the fourth time that Wanderers won the cup.

The only known photo of the Wanderers football team (Image: Ewbank’s Auctioneers/SWNS)

This 150-year-old FA Cup medal, awarded to the first club to win the trophy three years in a row, is expected to sell for £6,000 at auction. See SWNS story SWMRfootball. The medal was awarded to Wanderers FC players after they had won the second of their three consecutive trophies in 1877. The team, whose captain Charles William Alcock created the competition, defeated Oxford University 2-1 at Kennington Oval on March 24 in front of a crowd of 3,000. It was the sixth final of the world's oldest football competition and the fourth time Wanderers had lifted the trophy.

The medal is more than 150 years old (Image: Ewbank’s Auctioneers/SWNS)

The Wanderers started out as a Forest Football Club in 1859 and are believed to have changed their name in 1864 as the club never had its own home stadium.

In all, the club won the competition five times, including the hat-trick from 1876 to 1878. Only one other club has achieved this feat: Blackburn Rovers won three consecutive cups between 1884 and 1886.

The rule at the time was that any team that won three times in a row could keep the trophy permanently – but Mr Alcock returned it on the condition that the rule was changed so no club could ever keep it.

Wanderers finally failed in 1884 after losing players to new up-and-coming clubs.

The medal has a presale price of £4,000 to £6,000.

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Justin Scaccy

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