1888 to 2021: Won a League Title and Won an FA Cup Quiz

Answer: League first

First league title - 1891.
First FA Cup win - 1906.
Everton was originally founded in 1878 as St Domingo's FC, allowing members of the congregation of St Domingo Methodist New Connexion Chapel in the Everton area of Liverpool to play sport all-year round. The club was renamed Everton in 1879 in order to allow local people that weren't members of the chapel to join and play. Everton were one of twelve clubs across the north and Midlands of England to become foundation members of the Football League in 1888, and won their first league title in the 1890-91 season. The club reached its first FA Cup final in 1893, when it lost 1-0 to Wolverhampton Wanderers. Their first victory in the FA Cup came in 1906, when they beat Newcastle United 1-0.

Answer: League first

First league title - 1892.
First FA Cup win - 1937.
Sunderland's formation dates from 1879, when Sunderland and District Teachers AFC was founded. The following year, the club was renamed as Sunderland, allowing amore people to join. Sunderland joined the Football League for the 1890-91 season, when they replaced Stoke City, and won the league title for the first time the following season. The club's first FA Cup final came in 1913, when they lost by a goal to nil against Aston Villa. The club's first victory in the FA Cup final came in 1937, when they beat Preston North End 3-1.

Answer: League first

First league title - 1898.
First FA Cup win - 1899.
Sheffield United was formed in 1889 by members of the Sheffield United Cricket Club, to provide a tenant to occupy Bramall Lane, a major stadium in Sheffield; six days prior to the club's foundation, a crowd of more than 22,000 had been at the stadium for an FA Cup semi-final, which provided the final impetus for a team to use it as its home. Initially playing as members of first the Midlands Counties League, and then the Northern League, the club was one of the founder members of the Football League Second Division, which was established for the 1892-93 season. The club won promotion at the end of its first season in the Football League, and won its first league title in the 1897-98 season. The following season, the club reached the FA Cup final for the first time, where they played Derby County, winning the game 4-1 to take the trophy for the first time.

Answer: FA Cup first

First league title - 1903.
First FA Cup win - 1896.
Sheffield Wednesday was originally founded in 1867 as an offshoot of The Wednesday Cricket Club, a local cricket club in Sheffield, as a means of allowing the players to maintain fitness during the winter months. Named as simply The Wednesday FC, the club did not officially adopt the name of its home city until 1929, although it had been known as Sheffield Wednesday since at least 1883. The club first applied to join the Football League in 1889, but were rejected, which led to their joining the rival Football Alliance. The club won the Alliance title in its first season, as well as reaching the 1890 FA Cup final, which they lost 6-1 to Blackburn Rovers. After three years in the Alliance, Sheffield Wednesday joined the Football League for the 1892-93 season, winning their first league title ten years later in the 1902-03 season. Prior to this however, they reached their second FA Cup final in 1896, which they won 2-1 against Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Answer: League first

First league title - 1905.
First FA Cup win - 1910.
Newcastle United was founded as a result of the merger of two clubs in Newcastle - Newcastle East End FC and Newcastle West End FC - in May 1892. On its formation, the new club applied to join the Football League First Division but was turned down; although offered membership of the Football League Second Division, they instead decided to retain their membership of the Northern League, as they felt that the potential gates from the level of opponents would not be sufficient to meet the club's travelling costs. After making a second application for the First Division in 1893, which again was turned down, the club did join the Second Division for the 1893-94 season. Having gained promotion for the first time in 1898, Newcastle United won their first league title in the 1904-05 season, the same year as they reached their first FA Cup final, which they lost 2-0 to Aston Villa. The club's first victory in the FA Cup final came in 1910 at their fourth attempt, when they beat Barnsley 2-0 in a replay, having drawn the first game 1-1.

Answer: FA Cup first

First league title - 1912.
First FA Cup win - 1881.
Blackburn Rovers was founded in 1875 following a meeting at a hotel in the town by a group of young men who had the idea to form a football club. The club became one of the founding members of the Football League in 1888. However, the club had first entered the FA Cup in 1879, and reached their first final in 1882, becoming the first provincial club to play in the showpiece event, although they lost 1-0 to Old Etonians FC. The club returned to the final two seasons later, this time winning 2-0 against Scottish side Queen's Park. Blackburn Rovers eventually won its first league title in the 1911-12 season.

Answer: FA Cup first

First league title - 1920.
First FA Cup win - 1888.
West Bromwich Albion was founded in 1878 as West Bromwich Strollers FC, a team made up of employees of George Salter's Spring Works in the town of West Bromwich. Two years after the club was formed, it took the name West Bromwich Albion, after the district of Albion in West Bromwich, where a number of the players lived. The club became one of the twelve founding members of the Football League in 1888, but had previously made its debut in the FA Cup in the 1883-84 season, reaching its first final in 1886, where they lost 2-0 in a replay against Blackburn Rovers. The club reached the final again in both of the following seasons, eventually winning at the third time of asking in the 1888 final, where they defeated Preston North End 2-1. West Bromwich Albion eventually won the league title for the first time in the 1919-20 season, the first season to be played after the First World War.

Answer: FA Cup first

First league title - 1921.
First FA Cup win - 1914.
Burnley was founded in 1882 by members of Burnley Rovers, a rugby club based in the town, who elected to switch codes, as a number of other clubs in the local area had also made the decision to start playing football. A few days after the decision to switch codes, the members decided to drop the word "Rovers" from their name, with the club becoming simply Burnley FC. The club was one of the foundation members of the Football League in 1888, although its first appearance in the FA Cup came in the 1885-86 season. However, the club did not reach the final of the competition until 1914 when, in their first appearance, they beat Liverpool 1-0. Burnley eventually won the league title for the first time in the 1920-21 season.

Answer: FA Cup first

First league title - 1924.
First FA Cup win - 1922.
Huddersfield Town was founded in 1908, with the new club formed as part of a company that also set about purchasing the recreation fields at Leeds Road in the town, where the club's first stadium was constructed. The club applied for membership of the Football League in 1910; while their application was considered, they played their first two seasons in first the North-Eastern League, then the Midland Football League. Once full plans for the development of their pitch into a stadium were confirmed, Huddersfield Town were admitted to the Football League Second Division in 1911.

The club gained promotion at the end of the 1919-20 season, the first to be played after the First World War, which was the same season that they reached the FA Cup final for the first time, losing 1-0 to Aston Villa. They returned to the final just two seasons later, where they won the competition for the first time, beating Preston North End 1-0. In the 1923-24 season, having finished third the previous season, Huddersfield Town won the league title for the first time, which became the first of three successive league titles, the first team to achieve this feat.

Answer: FA Cup first

First league title - 1949.
First FA Cup win - 1939.
Portsmouth was originally formed in 1898 by a group of local sporting enthusiasts from the local area who sought to purchase land and build a football stadium, and establish a club to play there. The new club was admitted to the Southern League First Division for the 1899-1900 season. Portsmouth played in the Southern League, winning the title twice, before being elected as founder members of the Football League Third Division in 1920. The club achieved promotion to the Second Division in 1924, and then to the First Division in 1927. They reached their first FA Cup final in 1929, losing to Bolton Wanderers 2-0, and were runners-up a second time in 1934, before they won the FA Cup for the first time in 1939, the last tournament to be completed before the Second World War. Portsmouth eventually won their first league title in the 1948-49 season.

Answer: FA Cup first

First league title - 1954.
First FA Cup win - 1893.
Wolverhampton Wanderers was originally founded in 1877 as St Luke's FC by two former pupils of St Luke's Church School in Blakenhall, a suburb of Wolverhampton. Two years later, in 1879, St Luke's merged with the football section of Blakenhall Wanderers, a local cricket club, renaming themselves Wolverhampton Wanderers. The club became a founder member of the Football League in 1888, although they first entered the FA Cup in 1884. Their first final was in 1889 when they lost 3-0 to Preston North End. Their first victory in the competition came four seasons later in 1893, with victory over Everton by one goal to nil.

However, it took until the 1953-54 season for the club to finally win the league title. Around the same time, the club played a series of friendlies against a number of club sides from around the world, with their victory against Hungarian side Honvéd leading to Stan Cullis, the Wolverhampton manager, declaring them "Champions of the World". This was a spur that led to the foundation of the European Cup, which began in the 1955-56 season.

Answer: League first

First league title - 1962.
First FA Cup win - 1978.
Ipswich Town was originally founded in 1878 as Ipswich AFC. The club retained this name for ten years until it merged with Ipswich Rugby Club to form Ipswich Town. The new club played in a number of local leagues in East Anglia, eventually turning professional in 1936 and joining the Southern League. Two seasons later, the club was elected to the Football League Third Division (South), remaining in the division until 1954, when they won promotion to the Second Division. The club eventually gained promotion to the First Division at the end of the 1960-61 season and, the following season, became the league champions when they won the First Division title at the first attempt. Ipswich eventually reached their first FA Cup final in 1978, again winning the trophy at the first attempt.

Answer: League first

First league title - 1969.
First FA Cup win - 1972.
Leeds United was founded in 1919 following the forced dissolution of Leeds City FC. The new club played its first season in the Midland League, before being elected to the Football League Second Division the following season. The club spent much of its first four decades bouncing between the First and Second Divisions but, in 1965, the first season back in the top flight, the club reached its first FA Cup final, which they lost 2-1 to Liverpool. The following few years were a sustained period of success, and led to Leeds winning the league title for the first time in the 1968-69 season. Three seasons later, in their third appearance in the showpiece game, Leeds won their first FA Cup, when they beat Arsenal 1-0.

Answer: FA Cup first

First league title - 1972.
First FA Cup win - 1946.
Derby County was founded in 1884 as a football section of Derbyshire County Cricket Club, primarily as a means of providing the cricket club with income during the winter months, as well providing playing and fitness opportunities for the players during the winter. The club was eventually invited to be one of the 12 foundation members of the Football League in 1888. However, the club did not achieve great success in the league to begin with, although they reached their first FA Cup final in 1898, where they lost 3-1 to Nottingham Forest. The club eventually won its first FA Cup in 1946, the first holding of the final after the end of the Second World War, when they beat Charlton Athletic 4-1. Derby's league status fluctuated between Division 2 and Division 3 (North) for twenty years, until they returned to the First Division in 1969. Three seasons later, Derby won their first league title when they finished top in the 1971-72 season.

Answer: FA Cup first

First league title - 1978.
First FA Cup win - 1898.
Nottingham Forest was founded by a group, primarily involved at the time in playing shinty, during a meeting in a pub in Nottingham in 1865 (making it one of the oldest football clubs in England). Although initially a multi-sports club, it eventually began to focus on football, first entering the FA Cup in the 1878-79 competition, and applying for membership of the newly founded Football League in 1888. Upon being turned down, the club joined the rival Football Alliance in 1889, which they played in for three seasons, winning the competition's last title in 1892 before joining the Football League the same year. Nottingham Forest reached the FA Cup final for the first time in 1898, when they won the trophy 3-1 against Derby County. However, it was eighty years before the club eventually won their first league title, which was achieved in the 1977-78 season.

Answer: League first

First league title - 2016.
First FA Cup win - 2021.
Leicester City's foundation came in 1884, when a group of old boys of Wyggeston School decided to form a new football club, which they named Leicester Fosse FC. Having joined the Midland League in 1891, the club was elected into the Football League Second Division in 1894. Leicester Fosse was eventually dissolved in 1919 and reformed as Leicester City, but continued to regularly move between the First and Second Divisions. In 1949, the club reached the FA Cup final for the first time, losing 3-1 to Wolverhampton Wanderers. However, the club remained one of England's lesser lights until the 1990s, when it began to achieve some success. It wasn't until the 2015-16 season however that Leicester eventually won its first league title, while their first win in the FA Cup came five years later, in the 2021 FA Cup final at their fifth attempt (1949, 1961, 1963 and 1969 were their previous four).

As of the end of the 2020-21 season, Leicester City have won a single league title and a single FA Cup.

Answer: Double

Double:
League title - 1889.
FA Cup win - 1889.
Preston North End traces its history back to 1863, when it was founded as a cricket club. Twelve years later, as many other cricket clubs had done, it formed a section to play sport in the winter, in this case rugby, to allow its players to maintain fitness during the winter months, and to generate additional income for the club. However, this was only moderately successful, and in 1879 the rugby team switched to football. Preston North End FC was officially formed in 1880, and became one of the founder members of the Football League in 1888.

Preston won the inaugural Football League title in the 1888-89 season, which they achieved by a margin of eleven points without losing a game. The same season, the club reached its second (and second successive) FA Cup final - the previous season saw them lose 2-1 to West Bromwich Albion. The 1889 FA Cup final featured Preston play Wolverhampton Wanderers, winning the game 3-0 to become the first team to achieve the league and cup double.

Answer: Double

Double:
League title - 1897.
FA Cup win - 1897.
Aston Villa were founded in 1874 by members of the Villa Cross Wesleyan Chapel in Handsworth, a suburb of Birmingham. The club soon established itself as one of the top sides in the Midlands, eventually being invited to become one of the founding members of the Football League in 1888. The club achieved significant success during the last two decades of the 19th century, with its most notable coming in the 1896-97 season, when it became the second team in eight years to achieve the double by winning the league title, which they did by eleven points, and the FA Cup, beating Everton 3-2 in the final. However, by that point Aston Villa had won both the league (in 1894 and 1896) and the FA Cup (in 1887 and 1895) twice.

Answer: Double

Double:
League title - 1961.
FA Cup win - 1961.
Tottenham Hotspur was founded in 1882 by a group of members of the Hotspur Cricket Club, who sought to find a way of maintaining their fitness during the winter months. The club was admitted to the Southern League in 1895, winning the league title in the 1899-1900 season. In 1908, it was elected to the Football League Second Division, and won promotion the following year. However, the club had only intermittent success, regularly moving between the First and Second Divisions, until after the Second World War, when they gained promotion to the First Division in the 1949-50 season, and won their first league title the following year. A decade later, Tottenham became the first club in the 20th century, and the first since 1897, to achieve the league and cup double, when the 1960-61 season saw them win the league title by eight points, and gain victory in the FA Cup final, beating Leicester City 2-0.

Answer: Double

Double:
League title - 1971.
FA Cup win - 1971.
Arsenal's foundation came about in 1886, when a group of munitions works at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich decided to form a new football club, which they initially named as Dial Square FC, before deciding on the name Royal Arsenal FC a month later. The club became the first team from Southern England to join the Football League, when they were admitted in 1893, when they took the name Woolwich Arsenal. However, the club achieved little success in either league or cup until the late 1920s, by which time they had moved to Highbury, becoming known as simply Arsenal, winning their first FA Cup in 1930, before gaining their first league title the following season. The club eventually became the second team in the 20th century to win the double, which they did in the 1970-71 season, ten years after their local rivals Tottenham Hotspur - Arsenal won the league title by a single point, and beat Liverpool 2-1 in the FA Cup final.

Answer: Double

Double:
League title - 1986.
FA Cup win - 1986.
Liverpool's foundation came about, unlike many other clubs, as a result of a rent dispute, when Everton FC decided to leave their home ground of Anfield in 1892, which left the owner with a football stadium but no club to play in it. So, he formed his own club, which was eventually named as Liverpool FC. Liverpool was admitted to the Football League Second Division in 1893, and gained promotion to the First Division in 1896, before winning its first league title in 1901. The club achieved periodic success in the league during the first half of the 20th century, but did not begin to become a major force in English football until the 1960s, during which period they won their first FA Cup at the third time of asking. By the 1980s, Liverpool had become the dominant force in England, which led to their becoming the third club in the 20th century to achieve the double, which they did in the 1985-86 season, winning the league title by two points, and beating their local rivals Everton 3-1 in the FA Cup final.

Answer: Double

Double:
League title - 1994.
FA Cup win - 1994.
Manchester United's formation came about in 1878 as Newton Heath LYR FC, a works team based at the carriage works of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. The club joined the Football Alliance in 1889, playing in the competition for the three seasons of its existence before it merged with the Football League in 1892. By this point, the club became independent of the railway, and dropped the "LYR" from its name. In 1902, following a winding-up order, new investors put money into the club and it changed its name to Manchester United. This led to an upturn for the club, which won its first league title in 1908, and first FA Cup in 1909. Manchester United gained a reputation as a "yo-yo" club up to the Second World War, after which a sustained period of success began during the late 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.

However, it wasn't until the 1990s that this was replicated, following an extended period of mediocrity interspersed with occasional success. The club achieved the double in the 1993-94 season, winning the league title by eight points, and beating Chelsea 4-0 in the FA Cup final. Manchester United won the Double three times in the 1990s decade: 1994, 1996 and 1999. The third of these also saw the club become the first from England to win the league title, FA Cup and European Champions Cup in the same season.

Answer: Double

Double:
League title - 2010.
FA Cup win - 2010.
Chelsea were founded in 1905 by the owner of the Stamford Bridge athletics stadium; he sought to convert the facility into a football stadium and, after offering it to existing clubs, decided to form his own team instead. The club was immediately elected into the Football League Second Division, and gained promotion in its first season. However, the club only achieved intermittent success in its early years, and only won its first major title in 1955, when it won the league title for the first time. Chelsea won the FA Cup for the first time in 1970, the club's third appearance in the final, beating Leeds United after a replay. However, it was only after the turn of the 21st century that Chelsea began to have sustained success, which included winning the double in 2009-10, with the league title won by a single point, and the FA Cup gained by beating Portsmouth 1-0 in the final.

Answer: Double

Double:
League title - 2019.
FA Cup win - 2019.
Manchester City's foundation came when members of St Mark's Church in West Gorton, a district of Manchester, founded a football club in 1880 as a means of helping men in the area to get away from gang violence and alcoholism. Initially named as St Mark's (West Gorton) FC. The club's initial success led to it moving to the Ardwick district in 1887, which saw it renamed as Ardwick AFC, and led to it joining the Football Alliance in 1891. Following the merger between the Alliance and the Football League the following year, the club became members of the Second Division. Financial difficulties in 1894 saw the club reorganised, and renamed, becoming Manchester City FC.

The club has often existed in the shadow of its local rival Manchester United, with intermittent success throughout its history - the club's first FA Cup final victory came in 1904, while its first league title was won in 1937 (which was followed by relegation the following season). It was only in the 21st century that Manchester City began to achieve sustained success, with victory in the 2011 FA Cup followed in 2012 by a first league title since 1968. In the 2018-19 season, Manchester City gained won the double, winning the league title by a single point, and the FA Cup by beating Watford 6-0, a joint record for the final. The club also won the 2019 Football League Cup to become the first to win all three major English domestic trophies in a single season.