{"id":689,"date":"2026-04-05T21:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/?p=689"},"modified":"2026-04-05T21:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:29:09","slug":"the-teams-with-the-most-fa-cup-semi-final-appearances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"The teams with the most FA Cup semi-final appearances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_79\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>The FA Cup semi-finals are set following this weekend\u2019s last-eight action, with Chelsea, Manchester City, Southampton and Leeds United set for Wembley.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Each deserve huge credit for reaching the final four, and now sit just one win from a final appearance in May.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea have reached the FA Cup semi-finals for the 28th time, with only two teams in the competition\u2019s history having achieved the feat more often.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United (32) hold the record for the most semi-final appearances, while record FA Cup winners Arsenal are second (30) on the list. The Gunners missed out on the chance to reach a 31st semi-final after losing 2-1 at Southampton in the upset of the quarter-final ties.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City, who aim to add the FA Cup to their League Cup triumph last month, have reached the last four for the 21st time.<\/p>\n<p>Leeds United will play in the FA Cup semi-finals for the first time in 39 years after beating West Ham on penalties.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The teams with the most FA Cup semi-final appearances in history<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Manchester United \u2013 32<\/li>\n<li>Arsenal \u2013 30<\/li>\n<li>Chelsea \u2013 28<\/li>\n<li>Everton \u2013 26<\/li>\n<li>Liverpool \u2013 25<\/li>\n<li>Aston Villa \u2013 22<\/li>\n<li>Tottenham Hotspur \u2013 21<\/li>\n<li>Manchester City \u2013 21<\/li>\n<li>West Bromwich Albion &#8211; 20<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013\u00a0Cole claims FA Cup win would \u2018settle down\u2019 Chelsea project<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See more \u2013\u00a0Arsenal treble dream over after \u2018very strange\u2019 Southampton defeat<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Follow the Football Faithful on Social Media:<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FootyFaithful\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thefootballfaithfull\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootyFaithful_\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCUgN0WQEhxRbfTdlbkEG7zQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FA Cup semi-finals are set following this weekend\u2019s last-eight action, with Chelsea, Manchester City,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}