How To: Fix The FA Cup
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- čas přidán 23. 01. 2020
- Every January, English football fans ask themselves the same question: has the magic of the FA Cup died?
Everyone’s got an opinion on just what state the competition’s in and how they’d “fix” it. So ahead of 4th Round weekend, we spoke to fans of teams from up and down the pyramid to find out how they see it.
Can the tournament peacefully coexist with the global powerhouse that is the Premier League and how much room is there for good old fashioned Cup runs in an era of post-season tours?
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The FA Cup isn’t just big for the club, it’s big for the town. There’s such a buzz around town centres the week leading to when there’s a big team coming.
Exactly!
Seeded German style, premier league teams away in round 3 drawn against 20 lowest in the draw .Boosts revenue for smaller teams, creates stories. FA needs to boost prize money too.
Probably the best idea mentioned in or below the video. This also takes away the value of a replay for the smaller clubs that make it there, so scraping them becomes a real option, which gives, I think, the lesser clubs a bigger chance of progressing.
@Cameron Mistry Yes just ask Atletico Madrid how well that went.
I prefer open draw basis.
No thats not the fa cup, replays help smaller clubs literally survive in some cases.
"we spoke to people up and down the footballing pyramid"... From London...
Sam Blanchard prawn sandwich brigade
100% agree with all the fans’ suggestions.
- scrap the league cup
- bring PL teams in earlier
- play as many games at 3pm on Saturday as possible
- no Wembley semifinals
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Get rid of the league cup and have semi finals at a different venue every year, like when they used to be at Villa Park and Old Trafford.
Dudge there’s plenty of decent (soon to be) 60 k stadia up north and in the Midlands/south
Eg- St James Park (oops 55k)
Expanded Anfield and Etihad
Old Trafford
Everton’s Bramley Dock (again sub 60k)
Villa Park (needs expansion)
Emptycrates
New WHL
I just wonder if Wembley has lost its lustre. Teams seem to get a chance to play there with play off finals, Johnson Paint Trophies etc....
Abbas Zaidi “Emptycrates” yet it has one of the highest average stadium capacities in Europe, huge L
How to fix FA cup: Remove League cup
Agreed
Yes!
Yes !
Yes
why?
FA cup squads (18 players) need to be declared at the start of the competition, after which you can't bring in any other players. If teams don't want to play their first team then they can't bring them in in later rounds. If they want to win it they'll have to commit to it. And get rid of the Wembley semis. Return the final to 3pm on a Saturday.
cdeford Agreed
Maybe get rid of the league cup
Dead Man great idea
It makes u get distracted on the league
It's a nuisance
Why are prem teams even in the league cup if it's organised by the EFL??
@@westsideisdabest7825 only league team can only participate in league cup include Epl..
Give the winner a Champions League place, would make a big difference.
UEFA would never agree, this isn't the case in any other league.
@@maxschmidt6533 the other leagues (except Spain, German and Italy) cant qualify 4 teams to the Champions League
Sandro Alípio yeah exactly but in no other league does the cup winner qualify for UCL, so why would an exception be made for England?
Max Schmidt top 3 qualify for champions league and FA cup winner qualifies too, I don’t see why anyone would have any problem with this
Daniel Hayes don’t see many clubs being happy with that given that automatic 4th place qualification was introduced a few years ago
Stop man city from taking part
Cameron Mistry great answer
CANCEL MANCHEATER CITY FULL STOP!!!
YEHE BOI
Problem is you have managers like Klopp who just treat the Fa cup like it’s something that doesn’t matter
Caitlinmorrisxx because it doesn’t matter. For clubs of Liverpool’s size they are judged by UCLs and league titles. You think Leicester, Wolves, or even Sheffield wants to win the fa cup or get top 4 at the end of the season?
League cups aren’t that important. Valencia won copa del rey and nobody says “Oh Valencia is an amazing team for winning the cup!”
Liverpool in particular have suffered from ridiculous fixture congestion this season, no surprise Klopp wants to rest players during the winter break
mannygomez24 that’s kinda the thing though, you remember Valencia last season because they won a cup, not because they finished in the top 4.
Because Klopp is a manager and he manages his team. The high number of fixtures they are playing not mention his players' international matches. Look at the injuries LFC had already this year. Get rid of the Carabao Cup and schedule it earlier in the season.
How to fix cup competitions in England:
Clubs that qualified for European competitions should not be eligible for the League Cup unless they won it the previous season. Treat it as an alternative to European competitions. This will lessen the fixture congestion that larger clubs complain about.
The reward for winning the FA Cup should be qualification to the Champions League. It would give the big clubs an incentive to treat the competition seriously.
I think the cup competition that got it right is the DFB Pokal, qualification the year prior and the season kicks off with the round of 64, with the 18 bundesliga and 14 2. bundesliga playing away.
Keep the FA and bin the league cup but dont fine or ban a club if they dont play their first 11. The FA shouldn't have that type of power
Nutrual ground semi finals
No replays
All 3pm saturdays
I am from the USA but I always watch the FA Cup. It gives me a chance to see teams that I never heard of or don't hear a lot about. I also really care who wins the FA Cup because it is bragging rights.
Cup matches won't be celebrated outside of respective countries but it will always be a great thing to achieve for local fans.
Can’t beat the feeling when your team lifts that trophy
Guy said he wants them all on sat ar 3pm but then said Liverpool Monday night. Make your mind up pal.
People need to stop disrespecting the FA cup and look at it for what it is one of the biggest and oldest domestic cup competitions in the world the FA CUP existed has existed for over a century before the premier League and also way before the old division 1
Get rid of the carabao cup! this will make fa cup more interesting
Make the FA Cup winner qualify to the Champions League.
Problem solved.
Would be interesting to see a Wigan athletic in the Champions jejeje
Or even the Europea league since lower tier compete in them. Maybe even the runner up goes the the new UEFA cup.
You got here before me. You are so right.
@@45lxudmouth27 the winners already get in to the EL....
Or that the fa cup winners play 4 or summit
You can scrap replays......but compulsory home matches at the grounds of lower league teams against higher league teams...
Surely the smaller team would make more money playing away at the bigger ground, what with FA Cup revenue being split evenly between both sides.
Great video
Bring back the Cup Winners Cup! That was a great European tournament.
That could be better then the uefa super league
All teams from League Two up enter in First Round is a must. League Cup needs to be axed too.
If you ever think the FA Cup has lost its magic, especially if you happen to support a top six side - get yourselves down to a Non-League side for a qualifying/early round tie - there's simply nothing else like it.
I was at Winchester for university, and went along to Winchester City FC whilst I was there - getting through to the fourth qualifying round for the first time in 65 years, and heading on an away day to Torquay United has to be one of my favourite days I've ever had following this sport.
Don't forget about Chichester City FC :)
problem is that the fa cup used to be much bigger due to less games on tv and change in the champions league format. People need to accept that its not as big as the league or champions league and enjoy it for what it is
Do what the FA Vase & FA Trophy do and make replays optional. In those competitions, if both teams agree beforehand, a replay can be scrapped in favour of extra time & penalties. Would mean that for teams that play in Europe they can get rid of potential unnecessary fixtures whilst allowing the smaller teams who benefit from replays to still have them.
Just bring in the top 3 clubs from Scotland wales and ireland
That’s not bad
True Story or have qualifying with all the Welch and Irish teams with the odd Scottish league 2 team towards the end then add in national league and league twos, etc
Im Celtic fan and i do like that idea but Celtic and Rangers are in 4 competitions this season and a fifth would nearly be impossible to fit in a tight schedule.
@@luke5365 Enter instead of the Scottish league Cup.. I'd welcome yous, be right interesting
Craig Cullen I would not mind that as the league cup is pretty much only between rangers and celtic but would be a massive show of disrespect to the rest of the league.
great video :)
I think the League Cup is the one that needs reform. I think Premier League sides should mainly have to take under 23s and should have a cap of 4 over 23s that they can have in their squad for a match. This would give lower league clubs the chance to knock the Premier League sides out and would allow the Premier League sides to rest senior players and show off what their youth players can do.
Just do a direct copy of how Wimbledon is seeded...so basically the top 4 PL teams wouldn't play against each other until the semi finals at the earliest...it would add prestige, as well as getting rid of replays
There is one simple effective change that can transform the FA Cup, have the winners qualify for the Champions League group stage. That means winning it becomes a lucrative incentive.
So you have 1st 2nd in the Premier League also qualify for the group stage, then 3rd has to go through the playoffs. If the winner of the Champions League has already finished 1st, 2nd or 3rd, then have 4th now take the Champions League play off spot.
Watch how every team suddenly wants to win the cup! OVER NIGHT IT CHANGES THE CUP TO MUST WIN.
they should grant the winners of the cup a champions league playoff, and then if they lose that they have a Europa League playoff. and if they fail both well then they wont play in the cup unless they have qualified via league
I think the FA Cup isn’t dead but it’s almost going:
How to save it?
1) Positive Press and fan base needs change the negative attitude
2) Keep replays as it saves clubs
3) Semi-finals not a Wembley
4) Stick to the 1st Saturday (90% of matches need to be then)
5) And this one is for every cup- no advertising in its name so just call it The FA Cup
6) Keep the league cup but give it similar status as the FA Cup as it’s a cup with prestige too
7) Being PL teams in the second round so that they’re in sooner but not too soon that is lower clubs take it for granted
8) Enable youngsters to play- it doesn’t degrade the cup it inspires young players to make history and think ‘maybe a 18 year old lad from a lower league team score the winner in extra time...’
The FA Cup is still magical - look at the clips of my club Shrewsbury playing Liverpool at the Greenhouse Meadows tonight. It had everything! And guess what we came back from 2-0 down to get a draw and a replay at Anfield. To have the European and world club cup winners at Shrewsbury tonight was a dream. Even Jurgen couldn’t believe he’s drawn against a time 56 places below him! That’s why the cup is magical- it keeps teams going and no matter how bad the league run might be- the cup run can change the whole mood of a club.
what's wrong with the semis at Wembley?
The fa cup like all other cup competitions don’t matter. Big clubs are judged by the media to win ucls and league titles.
surely if prem teams came in first round, they'd only be playing the types of depleted line ups people are already mad at liverpool for
Yes.
English football as a whole needs a revamp. Fixture congestion is a problem and this is one of the main reasons why bigger teams field weaker sides in the FA cup, particularly the early stages. Would be solved by getting rid of the league cup and also FA cup replays. Even though replays create a lot of money for smaller teams, a penalty shootout after a draw would give them pretty much a 50% chance of progressing, instead if going to Old Trafford/Anfield/ Stamford bridge and getting hammered. League cup also isn't taken seriously enough to merit its continued existence. All the other top 5 leagues have scrapped their league cups now This would Also allow for a proper premier league winter break and give players more of a time to rest.
First people have to decide if they want the Premier league teams in or not. If you want them in then you have to make it worth their while. That means:
1. Dump the league cup
2. Starting in the 3rd round seed every team based on their current league position and do a draw for home/away
3. Dump the replays. 90 minutes then Pens. Not sure why it's somehow the prem clubs responsibility to financially support football clubs in league two.
4. Neutral ground semis-not at wembley
How I will fix the FA Cup:
1: Remove replays
2: Premier League and Championships teams play in the early rounds, either the 1st or 2nd round.
3: Remove extra time in the main rounds (expect the final) and go straight to penalties.
4: Premier League teams play away in the early rounds.
5: Reorganise the football schedule.
6: Revamp, change and improve the League Cup. Possibly merging the League Cup with League Cups from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
7: Don't have games in the winter break.
8: Improve ticket prices.
9: Increase the number of low level teams in the qualifying rounds. From level 11 onwards.
10: Increase the prize money for winning the FA Cup
11: If possible have the winners of the FA Cup will qualify for the Champions League.
12: Remove the semi final games at Wembley, move them to league grounds and have the semi final be either single or two legged games.
Foreign influence over the premier league and English football in general is the main factor.
I’m gonna chime in and also say get rid of the League Cup.
Absolutely love the romance of seeing a lower league team or non league team playing a big club like Liverpool or United.
They should get the fa cup winners to play 4 th for the ucl spot
ali naeem that’s a big idea
I would remove the League cup, and the FA cup should follow the same system as the DFL Pokal where Premier League, Championship, League 1 and 2 enter 1st round, the lower leagues qualifying for the FA cup 1st round after winning their respective leagues the previous season.
To be honest, if you want to see where the real magic of the FA Cup resides, you need look no further than the qualifying rounds, over 600 non-league clubs battling to be one of just 32 looking to join the league clubs in the first round proper
Over the weekend, I saw my team South Shields get to the first round for the first time in nearly half a century, we celebrated it like we had won the whole thing.
Or look at Skelmersdale this season, they're a 9th tier club who had to get through SIX rounds to get to Round 1, thats a monumental achievement
Make the lower league clubs get the home fixture against the teams from the premier league and championship. Allows the home club to get a full attendance, make heaps of money through the canteen, create lifelong memories for the fans that would never get the chance to see the bigger clubs in the flesh on the regular occasion. It will also bring money and create a buzz to the city. If it is a draw then have a replay which gives the players the added reward of getting to play football in a premier league/championship stadium so they get those additional memories as well and the club gets even more revenue from the fixture.
The big clubs have ruined the FA cup, they forget without the small clubs there wouldnt even be big clubs ..... a loyal Plymouth Argyle fan
The league cup should be restricted to only teams from the Championship, League 1 and League 2.
Fixing the F.A Cup requires either of these two things to happen:
1. Increase the prize money to a reasonable sum.
2. Provide European qualification (Europa/CL) for the winners.
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You want to fix the Fa cup. Few suggestions
- have a bracket of the 72 teams in pyramid. Rank on league position and no1 plays no 72 and so on
- the weaker team always play at home, no replay.
The fun about the fa cup is a big team coming to non league team. This also brings revenue for smaller teams.
Something similar is done in France, during the early rounds. So big teams have to take it serious or they will get knocked out.
2:22 is that Gary Vee?
Maybe it’s about the awarding, you should try give a place on Champions League for F.A. Cup Winners, in Colombia the Cup and League Winners get a place on Conmebol Libertadores.
Nicole and Laura Woodsy are going to put the funds for the statue for Ceballos 🤣😂😅
Where did that guy get his jacket is what I would love to know
Whose idea was it to put the 5th round over 3 midweek nights in early March instead of a weekend in February?
1. Increase the payouts at every round bigger Clubs only want things that make them more money.
2. Scrap Replays- If you Increase payouts then Replays are not necessary bcz the money is already made.
3.Discuss with EUFA an Premier league and make a proper Fixture Calendar that Accomodates for enough player Rest.
4. If a lower league Club wins it they may gain promotion🤔
5. Discuss with other football federations to have a preseason tournament were all FA Cup winners from other Countries play for a Trophy
Great video I do wish to see big tears play early so the little teams have the chance
Get rid of both the League Cup and Checkatrade trophy, and replace it with a tournament just for teams Championship and below.
Also offer a Champions League qualifying place for the FA Cup winners. Replace 4th place in the EPL with it; but if you're Top 3 and win the cup, then have a play-off between the losing finalists and 4th place for the Champions League place.
If you think about it, the FA Cup winners figuratively are more 'Champions' than 4th place in a league anyway...
Get UEFA to re-intoduce the Cup Winners' Cup.
Yes. I loved the cup winners cup. Always made more sense to me than the Europa League/UEFA Cup.
I love the FA Cup so much
Take the 4th place Champions League spot and give it to the FA Cup winner.
TO FIX THE FA CUP - HERE IT IS.
1. The Semi-final to be played on Neutral pitches
2. More tickets to be to the clubs and their supporters - when they reach the semi-finals
3. Replies to be played. No Penalty shootout
4.The fInal its self - more tickets to be given to the fans of both clubs - not celebrities
5. The final to be played at 3pm on the Last Day of the UK season
6. Offer a bigger incentive to reach the Semi-Final and Final of the competition
I think Auba needs to watch this after he lifted it lol
Bin the league cup
Remove replay games
Ok now do a video on how to fix this channel.
FA cup winner should qualify for Europa atleast....Also bigger teams come in earlier, cause they have the biggest fan bases.
adreta ryder You already get in the Europa League for winning the FA Cup
adreta ryder they do?
Remember copa90 haha
Easy, get rid of the league cup and make the winner qualify to UCL
Swap the fa cup and league cup dates around and make the league cup a uk cup
Premier Teams should return to FA tradition (only 1 sub) when they play a lower league team. Also return to 1-12 kit numbers.
Slogan could be: “Don’t Fac Up the FA Cup”
They should give the Fa cup winner a place in the Champions league instead of having the top 4 spots making it into a top 3.
If only this happened pre-2012. Championship Wigan in the UCL would have been something special 😂
@@Copa90 Keep the League Cup BUT BAN clubs that already qualified for Europe🎉no more FA cup replays
FA cup is fine my only issue with it is that the semi finals are at Wembley. There should be 2 grounds chosen at the start of the season to host the semi finals. Having semi finals at Wembley ruins the romance of a cup final day out to Wembley
When Premier league teams field weaker squads in the FA Cup, you tell me if the magic of the competition is still there.
Do what the germans do. The end.
Invade Russia 12 weeks before the onset of winter? No thanks.
@@shanewright2772 That escalated quickly :D
Scrap the Carabao Cup, or make that Championship, L1 and L2 only.
Semi Finals not at Wembley, rather a neutral ground like Old Trafford or Villa Park
Prem Clubs in earlier
Start qualifying earlier
Stop showing dead prem vs prem games on tv
Give at least a Europa League spot with winning the FA cup. Would give massive incentive for midtable teams and underperforming big teams to play a full strength team.
david keegan You already get a Europa League spot for winning the Fa Cup
The big teams in the Prem don't care about the FA Cup. They focus more on the league and Europe. Everyone else in the cup from Premier League midtable to non league, it means the world to them!
FA Cup died in 2000 when united dropped out
Not much wrong with it for me but champions league place would help and maybe runners up get Europa league, also scrap the league cup. I disagree with Premier league teams entering the 1st round, they will end up playing the 17th teams
If you’re looking for fan friendly fixtures you can’t go past German football, English football was sold to the highest bidder long ago. My condolences to English football fans
Its Arsenals Cup. Needs renamed. To The Arsenal Fa Cup.
I prefer the german mode in their cup.
Like the French cup, the lower seeded team gets to play at home. And yes, get rid of the league cup.
The only realistic proposal mentioned was making semi finals a non Wembley affair, it was moved to Wembley to help the fa recoup the money spent on building it. This has been more or less done, so removing this shouldn't be an issue. All the other suggestions are pure naivety
Bring in 50/50 revenue splitting from cup ties. Wouldn't fix the cup, but it would at least have it serve a higher purpose.
I think English FA Cup should do the same as German Cup; draw all clubs eligible for FA Cup from the first round proper, and do away with League Cup.
To accommodate all 736 clubs in FA Cup with all EPL clubs play from the first round like German Cup, it should be expanded to 9 rounds proper where 512 clubs play from the first round. All clubs will be drawn in open basis with no seedings involved; therefore possibility for any Premier League club to meet another Premier League club from first round is real.
All Football League and Conference National/North/South will automatically play in the first round, the rest will have to play qualifying rounds to get to the first round proper.
In case of draw, no replay will be played. Instead the game will be played into extra time and penalties when needed.
1: All fixtures in each round should take place at 15.00 on a Saturday, save for when two clubs aren't allowed to play at the same time.
2: The Final should take place at 15.00 on a Saturday in May, a week after the normal domestic season has ended.
3: Give the fixture a big build up. Coverage should start from 11.30 on the day.
4: Introduce a competition that Cup winners throughout Europe would take part in the following season. A Cup for the winners of Cups.
5: Make the above competition even more attractive by limiting Champions' League places to those clubs who were champions of their own country (and introduce a third-tier European competition for clubs finishing highly in their leagues).
6: The Semi-Finals shouldn't be staged at Wembley, but at neutral venues instead.
7: Replays should be reintroduced for drawn Sixth-Round fixtures.
8: The Fifth-Round fixtures should be moved back to a Saturday, and replays should be reintroduced for drawn matches.
9: Scrap the televised draws for the next round and have them on radio only on a Monday lunchtime.
10: Finally, to really restore this match to the showpiece of the English season, all live televised coverage of domestic football in this country - except this match - should be stopped.
Captain Cardboard are u living in the 1950s lol. Radio during Monday lunch time? Just stream it. Fa cup is boring for people who don’t live in England and don’t have those roots
Give a promotion to a team from outside the Premier League for winning it. Or give a league point for each round progressed. This would encourage most teams to play their strongest sides. Oh, and get rid of those Wembley semis and the League Cup.
It's the last thing we ever won, so it means the world to an Everton supporter.
If they can't get rid of the league cup, at least don't include the top 6. Give championship teams and mid table premier league teams a chance to win and go to qualify for the Europa League. Even if it means spurs don't win anything....
Give the FA Cup Winner a bonus three domestic league points would make league results interesting especially when it comes to Top four, relegations & promotions.
There's one simple solution: give the FA Cup winners the 4th Champions League place. They're way more deserving of the title "Champions" than the team that finishes 4th in the league.
Get rid of the 4th place champions league qualification and who ever wins the FA cup, qualifies for the champions league. I swear clubs will take it seriously
Put more money into the FA cup and people will put more effort into it. The cup is magic as it gives park teams the chance to go to wembley
Get rid of the League Cup. Get rid of replays. Make the big teams have to go to the little teams. Increase the prize money with the prize money of the league cup
Literally nothing needs to be fixed it is fine with how it is. It is laughable how premier teams complain about the number of games they have to play while all the clubs champ down play 8 more league games + cup with typically smaller squads.
They aren't travelling all around Europe... Or the world. They play at a lower intensity... And being in the premier league and qualifying for xyz = £££.
The winner is qualified for the Champions League