Which groups have gained home cups taking part in each sport at one floor?

Reuben, a Dutchman, will get in contact: “The ultimate of the KNVB Beker has been performed at Stadion Feyenoord (De Kuip) in Rotterdam for nearly 4 a long time. Feyenoord can attain the ultimate by solely taking part in residence matches – there aren’t any matches on impartial floor, no two-legged-ties and residential groups are decided by draw. Really, the final two occasions that Feyenoord gained the KNVB Beker – 2018 and 2024, the latter beneath Arne Slot – they didn’t play any match exterior their very own stadium

“I don’t suppose this has occurred in any ‘huge 5’ European nation; the Copa del Rey and Coppa Italia have two-legged-ties earlier than the ultimate, the finals of the FA Cup (Wembley) and Coupe de France (Stade de France) usually are not performed within the residence stadium of any membership workforce. Germany’s DFB-Pokal performs their closing on the venue of Hertha BSC (Olympiastadion), however Hertha have by no means lifted the trophy.”

Sorry to interrupt, Ruben, however now we have to chime in with the story of Hertha Berlin Amateure, Hertha’s reserve workforce, who made it to the DFB-Pokal closing in 1993. Hertha II, as they’re now identified, didn’t go away Berlin throughout their run however solely performed the semi-final and closing (which they misplaced 1-0 to Leverkusen) on the Olympiastadion.

“The ultimate of the DFB-Pokal was not all the time in Berlin,” resumes Reuben. “In 1983, the ultimate was held in Cologne between finalists FC Köln and Fortuna Köln. The winners have been FC Köln, who performed solely residence matches on their solution to the ultimate. Nonetheless, they didn’t play their first spherical match at their very own stadium however fairly in a smaller stadium in Cologne.” So, Cologne however no cigar.

Throughout the Atlantic: “The house workforce within the US Open Cup is set by draw for each spherical, together with the ultimate, which means any workforce can win the cup with solely matches in their very own stadium. This has occurred thrice: Chicago Hearth in 2006, Houston Dynamo in 2018 and Orlando Metropolis in 2022.” Plus: “Pohang Steelers gained the Korean FA Cup in 2012 and had residence benefit in all 5 rounds together with the ultimate. That’s a begin,” concludes Reuben, fairly modestly.

Sean DeLoughry subsequent: “Virtually each Rock Cup in Gibraltar has had all video games performed on the Victoria Stadium. And in Eire, Bohemians gained the 1928 FAI Cup beating Cobh Ramblers, St James’s Gate, Shelbourne and Drumcondra with all six video games performed at their residence floor, the nationwide stadium, Dalymount Park. Additionally, for a interval, the League Cup closing in Eire was performed on the residence of one of many finalists, drawn at random. In 2013, Shamrock Rovers gained the League Cup with out leaving Tallaght. In 2010, Sligo gained the League Cup with a completely residence run on the Showgrounds to raise the trophy. In 2006, Derry Metropolis beat every of Longford, Drogheda, Limerick and Shelbourne at residence, with out conceding a objective.”

Bob Cheval chimes in with a Caledonian reply: “Sadly Rangers gained’t even be the primary Scottish workforce to attain this. The primary ever Scottish Cup in 1873 noticed Queen’s Park emerge as victors taking part in each sport on the unique Hampden Park.”

Bob additionally provides, as had Reuben: “This was additionally achieved a number of occasions within the early years of the Copa del Rey because the format was a round-robin group with all matches performed on the similar floor. Because of a spat between teams of golf equipment, there have been two separate Copa del Rey competitions in 1910, each round-robin codecs at a single floor. So two golf equipment – Athletic and Barcelona – managed to attain successful the identical home cup while solely taking part in at a single (albeit totally different) floor in a single season.”

Swings and misses

“Sheffield Wednesday gained their opening league sport 4-0, then misplaced their second by the identical rating. What’s the most important swing between an opening-game win and a defeat within the subsequent league match?” asks Andrew Wilson.

Stephan Wijnen proffers a latest reply: “On this season’s Dutch first division Jong AZ gained their first match 6-0 at residence in opposition to Roda JC, however then misplaced 6-0 away at Den Bosch 4 days later. Chris Lowe has a good reply, truly: “Aston Villa’s 1925 season opened with a 10-0 win after which they adopted that up with a 0-3 reverse for a 13-goal swing. There are two latest occurrences from the Premier League, each in the identical 2010 season the place Blackpool began 4-0 (v Wigan), 0-6 (v Arsenal) and Aston Villa began 3-0 (v West Ham), 0-6 (v Newcastle).”

Vibrant workforce picks

“The north London derby subsequent month is more likely to characteristic Ben White v Archie Grey,” writes Rudy. “Which makes me surprise, which fixture has had essentially the most colors for surnames on the workforce sheet?”

Affords Rob Huggett: “If we’re permitting bench gamers then my workforce Leeds, throughout considered one of our many banter years, had a multi-coloured bench of (Paul) Inexperienced, (Aidy) White, (Michael) Brown and (Andy) Grey for a 1-0 residence defeat in opposition to Birmingham in October 2013. Little doubt, supervisor Neil Warnock added loads of vibrant language.”