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The record for the most wins of the Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is held by Manchester United with eleven victories, followed by Arsenal with ten and Tottenham Hotspur (1921 win pictured) with eight. The winners of the first tournament were Wanderers, a team of former public schoolboys based in London, who went on to win the competition five times in its first seven seasons. The early winners of the competition were all teams of wealthy amateurs from the south of England, but in the 1883 final, Blackburn Olympic became the first team from the north to win the cup, defeating Old Etonians. The cup has been won by the same team in two or more consecutive years on eight occasions, and three teams have won consecutive finals more than once: Wanderers, Blackburn Rovers and Tottenham Hotspur. The cup is held by Chelsea, who defeated Liverpool in the 2012 final. (Full list...)