1985 FA Cup Final

1985 FA Cup Final
Event	1984–85 FA Cup
	After extra time
Date	18 May 1985
Venue	Wembley Stadium, London
Referee	Peter Willis (County Durham)
Attendance	100,000
	← 1984 1986 →

The 1985 FA Cup Final was contested by Manchester United and holders Everton at Wembley Stadium. United won by a single goal, scored in extra time by Norman Whiteside when he curled the ball into the net past the reach of Neville Southall after a run from the right.

Late in the second half, Kevin Moran of Manchester United was sent off for a professional foul on Peter Reid, who was clean through on goal. He became the first player to be dismissed in an FA Cup Final. TV cameras revealed that he had gone for the ball, and not for Peter Reid in the offending tackle. He was later presented with the winner's medal that had at first been withheld. Had Everton won the match they would have completed an unprecedented Treble of League, FA Cup and European Cup Winners' Cup.

All of Manchester United's players (including the substitute who played) had been capped at full international level, making them the first FA Cup winning team to consist entirely of players who had gained full international recognition.

However, United were unable to compete in the following season's Cup Winner's Cup, as all English clubs were subsequently banned from European competitions indefinitely two weeks later as a sequel to the Heysel disaster on 29 May 1985, in which rioting by Liverpool and Juventus fans at the European Cup final resulted in the death of 39 spectators.

Everton, the previous year's FA Cup winners, had just won the Cup Winners' Cup as well as the league title, and so would have competed in the 1985–86 European Cup had it not been for the ban. Manchester United had been winners two years earlier, and had just finished in the First Division's top four for the fourth successive season under the management of Ron Atkinson.

Eight of United's starting 11 players had been members of the cup winning side from two years earlier, while Arthur Albiston was the only remaining player from the FA Cup winning side of 1977 still in the team. However, when United next won the trophy five years later, Mark Hughes and Bryan Robson were the only players from the 1985 side to feature in the winning team. Both had gone by the start of the 1995-96 season.

Everton's last remaining player from the game was Neville Southall, who stayed with them until 1998 and helped them win a league title in 1987 and the FA Cup in 1995.

Match details

Everton v Manchester United

18 May 1985
15:00 BST

Everton	0–1 (a.e.t.)	Manchester United
	Report	Whiteside 110'

Wembley Stadium, London
Attendance: 100,000
Referee: Peter Willis (County Durham)

Everton

Manchester United



GK	1	Neville Southall
RB	2	Gary Stevens
LB	3	Pat Van Den Hauwe
CB	4	Kevin Ratcliffe (c)
CB	5	Derek Mountfield
CM	6	Peter Reid
RM	7	Trevor Steven
CF	8	Graeme Sharp
CF	9	Andy Gray
CM	10	Paul Bracewell
LM	11	Kevin Sheedy
Substitute:
DF	12	Alan Harper
Manager:
Howard Kendall



GK	1	Gary Bailey
RB	2	John Gidman
LB	3	Arthur Albiston		91'
CM	4	Norman Whiteside
CB	5	Paul McGrath
CB	6	Kevin Moran	78'
CM	7	Bryan Robson (c)
RM	8	Gordon Strachan
CF	9	Mark Hughes
CF	10	Frank Stapleton
LM	11	Jesper Olsen
Substitute:
DF	12	Mike Duxbury		91'
Manager:
Ron Atkinson

Match rules

90 minutes.
30 minutes of extra-time if necessary.
Replay if scores still level.
One named substitute.
Maximum of one substitution.

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