1970–71 FA Cup

At this stage clubs from the Football League Third and Fourth Divisions joined 28 non-league clubs having come through the qualifying rounds. To complete this round Macclesfield Town, Telford United, Enfield and Dagenham were given byes as finalists of FA Trophy and FA Amateur Cup of the last season. Matches were scheduled to be played on Saturday, 21 November 1970, with the exception of the Great Harwood–Rotherham United match, which was played the following Tuesday. Nine matches were drawn, of which one went to a second replay.

The matches were scheduled for Saturday, 12 December 1970. Six matches were drawn, with replays taking place later the same week or the week after. The Lincoln City–Bradford City match required a second replay, which was played on the 21 December.

The 44 First and Second Division clubs entered the competition at this stage. The matches were scheduled Saturday, 2 January 1971, but ten were played at later dates. Seven matches were drawn and went to replays.

The matches were scheduled for Saturday, 23 January 1971. Seven matches were drawn, of which one required a second replay.

The matches were scheduled for Saturday, 13 February 1971 with one fixture and two replays played three or four days later.

The four sixth round ties were played on the 6 March 1971. There were two replays in the midweek fixtures of the following week.

The semi-final matches were played on Saturday, 27 March 1971 with the Arsenal–Stoke match needing a replay. Liverpool and Arsenal came through the semi-final round to meet at Wembley.

27 March 1971

15:00

Liverpool	2–1	Everton
Evans   60' Hall   75'	Report[dead link‍]	Ball   11'

Old Trafford, Manchester

Referee: Ken Burns, Stourbridge

27 March 1971

15:00

Arsenal	2–2	Stoke City
Storey   47'   90' (pen)	Report[dead link‍]	Smith   21' Ritchie   30'

Hillsborough, Sheffield

Referee: Pat Partridge, County Durham

31 March 1971

19:45

Arsenal	2–0	Stoke City
Graham   13' Kennedy   47'	Report[dead link‍]

Villa Park, Birmingham

Attendance: 62,500

Referee: Pat Partridge, County Durham

Between 1970 and 1974, a third place playoff between the two losing semi-finalists was held.^[1]

7 May 1971

Stoke City	3–2	Everton
Bernard   Ritchie		Whittle   Ball

Selhurst Park, London

Attendance: 5,031

The 1971 FA Cup Final was contested by Arsenal and Liverpool at Wembley on the 8 May 1971. Arsenal won 2–1 after extra time, with all three goals coming in the added half-hour.^{[citation needed]} Steve Heighway scored for Liverpool first, before Arsenal equalised with a scrambled goal from substitute Eddie Kelly - the first time a substitute had ever scored in an FA Cup final. Charlie George scored the winner six minutes into the second period.

8 May 1971

15:00 BST

Liverpool	1 – 2	Arsenal
Heighway   92'	(Report)	Kelly   101' George   111'

Wembley Stadium, London

Attendance: 100,000

Referee: Norman Burtenshaw, Great Yarmouth

Liverpool

Arsenal

The rights to show FA Cup games were, as with Football League matches, shared between the BBC and ITV network. All games were shown in a highlights format, except the Final, which was shown live both on BBC1 and ITV. The BBC football highlights programme Match Of The Day would show up to three games and the various ITV regional network stations would cover up to one game and show highlights from other games covered elsewhere on the ITV network. The ITV region Anglia showed highlights of the second round tie between Colchester United and Cambridge United, it would be the last game from outside the third round covered by ITV until 1982. Highlights of replays would be shown on either the BBC or ITV.

• 1970–71 WFA Cup

General

• The FA Cup Archive at TheFA.com
• English FA Cup 1970/71 at Soccerbase
• F.A. Cup results 1970/71 at Footballsite

Specific

• [1] MOTD listings