The Football Association Challenge Vase is an annual football competition for teams playing in the lower regional leagues of England. Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Currently over 400 teams compete each season, with two qualifying rounds preceding the six proper rounds, semi-finals and final.

Until 1974, football players were either professionals or amateurs. Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. Professionals were paid to play by their clubs, and the only cup competitions such clubs were allowed to enter were the FA Cup and, for clubs outside The Football League, the FA Trophy. The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football, run by and named after The Football League, also known as the Coca-Cola Football League for sponsorship reasons is a league competition featuring professional football clubs History It was created by The Football Association in 1969 for Semi-professional teams to complement the existing FA Amateur Cup. Amateurs, on the other hand, did not get paid by their clubs, and such clubs had their own cup competition, the FA Amateur Cup. The FA Amateur Cup was an English football competition The cup was launched by The Football Association in 1893 as a response to the domination

In 1974, with many of the top amateur players receiving payment for playing, The Football Association abolished the distinction, scrapped the Amateur Cup and introduced the FA Vase for the majority of clubs who had previously played in the Amateur Cup. Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. The Football Association, also known as simply The FA, is the governing body of football in England and the Crown Dependencies of Jersey Well over 200 clubs entered in the first season, 1974-75 and Hoddesdon Town of the Spartan League beat Epsom & Ewell of the Surrey Senior League 2-1 in the final at Wembley Stadium before a crowd of 9,000. Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Hoddesdon Town FC is an football club based in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, England,playing their home matches at Lowfield The Spartan League was an English football league covering London and adjacent counties Epsom & Ewell Football Club is a football club now based in Tadworth, Surrey, England. The Surrey Senior League was an English regional football league for teams based in Surrey although teams from just outside the county boundary were sometimes original Wembley Stadium was a football Stadium in Wembley, a suburb of north-west London, standing on the site now occupied by the

In recent years, entry to the FA Vase has been restricted to clubs in the eighth and lower tiers of the English football league system, (those in the three levels above that qualified for the FA Trophy. The English football league system, also known as the football pyramid, is a series of interconnected leagues for club football in England (although ) Reorganization of the National League System for 2004 onwards moved the dividing line down to the new "Step 5" (ninth tier overall). The National League System comprises the seven levels of the English football league system immediately below the level of the FA Premier League and The Football Clubs from the Channel Islands (First Tower United and Vale Recreation) and the Isle of Man (Douglas HSOB) also entered the Vase in the past, though none have done so in recent years. The Channel Islands ( Norman: Îles d'la Manche, French: Îles Anglo-Normandes or Îles de la Manche) are a group of Islands First Tower United FC is an amateur Association football club in Jersey, Channel Islands. Douglas High School Old Boys Football Club ( DHSOB FC) are a football club from Onchan on the Isle of Man.

Only four teams have managed to win the FA Vase more than once. Two FA Vase winners, Forest Green Rovers and Tamworth, have gone on to play in the Football Conference at the top level of the non-league pyramid. Forest Green Rovers FC is an English football team based in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire. Tamworth Football Club are an English professional football club based in the town of Tamworth, Staffordshire. Organisation The Football Conference stands at the top of the National League System (NLS a comprehensive structure linking together over 50 different leagues under the No FA Vase winner has yet reached the Football League, however. The Football League, also known as the Coca-Cola Football League for sponsorship reasons is a league competition featuring professional football clubs

The record attendance for an FA Vase match was set on Sunday 13 May 2007, when 27,754 spectators watched Truro City come from behind to beat AFC Totton 3-1 at Wembley in the final. Truro City FC are a football club based in Truro, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. AFC Totton is a football club based in Totton, Hampshire, England.

List of finals

Season	Winner	Runner-up	Score	Venue	Attendance
1974-75	Hoddesdon Town	Epsom and Ewell	2-1	Wembley	9,000
1975-76	Billericay Town	Stamford	1-0 (aet)	Wembley	11,848
1976-77	Billericay Town	Sheffield	1-1 (aet) replay 2-1 (aet)	Wembley replay at City Ground	14,000 3,482
1977-78	Newcastle Blue Star	Barton Rovers	2-1	Wembley	16,858
1978-79	Billericay Town	Almondsbury Greenway	4-1	Wembley	17,500
1979-80	Stamford	Guisborough Town	2-0 (aet)	Wembley	11,500
1980-81	Whickham	Willenhall Town	3-2	Wembley	12,000
1981-82	Forest Green Rovers	Rainworth Miners Welfare	3-0	Wembley	12,500
1982-83	VS Rugby	Halesowen Town	1-0	Wembley	13,700
1983-84	Stansted	Stamford	3-2	Wembley	8,125
1984-85	Halesowen Town	Fleetwood Town	3-1 (aet)	Wembley	16,715
1985-86	Halesowen Town	Southall	3-0	Wembley	18,340
1986-87	St Helens Town	Warrington Town	3-2	Wembley	4,254
1987-88	Colne Dynamoes	Emley	1-0	Wembley	15,000
1988-89	Tamworth	Sudbury Town	1-1 (aet) replay 3-0	Wembley replay at London Road	26,487 11,201
1989-90	Yeading	Bridlington Town	0-0 (aet) replay 1-0	Wembley replay at Elland Road	7,932 5,000
1990-91	Guiseley	Gresley Rovers	4-4 (aet) replay 3-1	Wembley replay at Bramall Lane	11,314 7,585
1991-92	Wimborne Town	Guiseley	5-3	Wembley	10,772
1992-93	Bridlington Town	Tiverton Town	1-0	Wembley	9,061
1993-94	Diss Town	Taunton Town	2-1 (aet)	Wembley	13,450
1994-95	Arlesey Town	Oxford City	2-1	Wembley	13,670
1995-96	Brigg Town	Clitheroe	3-0	Wembley	7,340
1996-97	Whitby Town	North Ferriby United	3-0	Wembley	11,098
1997-98	Tiverton Town	Tow Law Town	1-0	Wembley	13,139
1998-99	Tiverton Town	Bedlington Terriers	1-0	Wembley	13,878
1999-00	Deal Town	Chippenham Town	1-0	Wembley	20,083
2000-01	Taunton Town	Berkhamsted Town	2-1	Villa Park	8,439
2001-02	Whitley Bay	Tiptree United	1-0 (aet)	Villa Park	4,742
2002-03	Brigg Town	A.F.C. Sudbury	2-1	Boleyn Ground	6,634
2003-04	Winchester City	A.F.C. Sudbury	2-0	St Andrews	5,080
2004-05	Didcot Town	A.F.C. Sudbury	3-2	White Hart Lane	8,862
2005-06	Nantwich Town	Hillingdon Borough	3-1	St Andrews	3,286
2006-07	Truro City	A.F.C. Totton	3-1	Wembley	27,754
2007-08	Kirkham and Wesham	Lowestoft Town	2-1	Wembley	19,537

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