2019 FA Cup final

The 2019 FA Cup final was an <a href="/facts/Association_football/yttjeD0D">association football</a> match between <a href="/facts/Manchester_City_F.C./wtCrlIju">Manchester City</a> and <a href="/facts/Watford_F.C./IkUydn8X">Watford</a> on 18 May 2019 at <a href="/facts/Wembley_Stadium/mQC5Bonq">Wembley Stadium</a> in <a href="/facts/London/KozCCsy9">London</a>, England, and the 138th <a href="/facts/FA_Cup_Final/StPGjSUo">FA Cup final</a>. It was Manchester City's eleventh appearance at the FA Cup final and Watford's second.
<a href="/facts/Kevin_Friend/QTPSbdSK">Kevin Friend</a> was the <a href="/facts/Referee_(association_football)/urt4skQf">referee</a> for the match played in front of 85,854 spectators. Manchester City dominated the early stages of the final. In the 21st minute <a href="/facts/Abdoulaye_Doucour%25C3%25A9/tu5Vx2Iy">Abdoulaye Doucouré</a>'s shot struck <a href="/facts/Vincent_Kompany/y2TIpDlD">Vincent Kompany</a>'s arm in the Manchester City <a href="/facts/Penalty_area/dyEStqdt">penalty area</a>, but after consultation with the <a href="/facts/Video_assistant_referee/2EWMEJ62">video assistant referee</a> (VAR), Friend declined to award a <a href="/facts/Penalty_kick_(association_football)/glKqM6zf">penalty</a> and showed Doucouré the first <a href="/facts/Penalty_card/LqFY9QjD">yellow card</a> of the game for his subsequent protests. In the 26th minute the deadlock was broken as <a href="/facts/David_Silva/bXhYr26e">David Silva</a> scored from a <a href="/facts/Raheem_Sterling/4Ktr5MyK">Raheem Sterling</a> <a href="/facts/Header_(association_football)/bkqJBnMv">header</a>. Twelve minutes later Manchester City doubled their lead after <a href="/facts/Gabriel_Jesus/4k6XoS4r">Gabriel Jesus</a> side-footed the ball past <a href="/facts/Kiko_Femen%25C3%25ADa/0cM3xdbg">Kiko Femenía</a> and <a href="/facts/Heurelho_Gomes/d56RRpLo">Heurelho Gomes</a> in the Watford goal. At 61 minutes City further extended their lead to 3–0 with a goal from <a href="/facts/Substitute_(association_football)/aTw8y3Pt">substitute</a> <a href="/facts/Kevin_De_Bruyne/v7FUrtMT">Kevin De Bruyne</a> from close range. Seven minutes later Jesus made it 4–0 after taking the ball on the counter-attack and shooting past Gomes. In the 81st minute Sterling scored from a <a href="/facts/Bernardo_Silva/WCfovgeU">Bernardo Silva</a> <a href="/facts/Cross_(association_football)/zyp9smaG">cross</a> to make it 5–0, before scoring again in the 87th minute after his initial shot was pushed onto the post by Gomes. The match ended 6–0 to Manchester City: it was only the third time that a team had scored six goals in an FA Cup final, and the margin of victory is the joint-largest in an FA Cup final, equalling <a href="/facts/Bury_F.C./Tst3XPIn">Bury</a>'s 6–0 win over <a href="/facts/Derby_County_F.C./23w9nJsB">Derby County</a> in <a href="/facts/1903_FA_Cup_final/fMm5MJPM">1903</a>. 
De Bruyne was named <a href="/facts/Player_of_the_match/jlIfHUde">man of the match</a>. The win completed a <a href="/facts/Treble_(association_football)/G4329E88">domestic treble</a> for Manchester City, who had already won the <a href="/facts/2018%25E2%2580%259319_EFL_Cup/fVefLbFk">League Cup</a> and the <a href="/facts/2018%25E2%2580%259319_Premier_League/nUCGa9VL">Premier League</a> that season, which at the time was unprecedented by any English men's team. As they had already qualified for the <a href="/facts/2019%25E2%2580%259320_UEFA_Champions_League/WzCo9Ywj">UEFA Champions League</a>, City's continental qualification place for winning the FA Cup went to the team that finished seventh in the league (<a href="/facts/Wolverhampton_Wanderers_F.C./vU7SA9CN">Wolverhampton Wanderers</a>), who entered the <a href="/facts/2019%25E2%2580%259320_UEFA_Europa_League/CCWoDJjs">second qualifying round</a> of <a href="/facts/UEFA_Europa_League/aQeea4zp">UEFA Europa League</a>.

2019 FA Cup final open-in-new

2019 FA Cup final