The 1885 FA Cup final was a football match between Blackburn Rovers and Queen's Park on 4 April 1885 at Kennington Oval in London. It was the fourteenth final of the world's oldest football competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (known in the modern era as the FA Cup). Blackburn had won the Cup in the previous season while Queen's Park were competing in their second final with the previous final being previous year. Rovers won 2–0 in their second successive FA Cup final victory, with the goals coming from Jimmy Forrest and James Brown. This would be the only final in which two clubs met in consecutive FA Cup finals until Manchester City and Manchester United in 2023 and 2024, albeit with a contrasting result.
Match details
Blackburn Rovers GK Herby Arthur RB Richard Turner LB Fergus Suter RH George Haworth CH Hugh McIntyre LH Jimmy Forrest OR Jimmy Douglas IR Joe Lofthouse CF James Brown (c)IL Joe Sowerbutts OL Howard Fecitt Queens Park GK George Gillespie RB Walter Arnott LB William McLeod CH Charles Campbell (c)CH John Macdonald OR Ninian MacWhannell IR William Anderson CF Alexander Hamilton CF William Sellar IL David Allan OL Woodville Gray
References Line-ups Match report at www.fa-cupfinals.co.uk