Which Team Never Played at Wembley?
Ericka Kiehn
2025-05-25 00:30:54
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Oldham, founded in 1876, are – perhaps surprisingly – on this list. 1929 was when Challenge Cup finals began to be played at Wembley. The Roughyeds thrice lifted the cup, in 1899, 1925 & 1927 and ended as runners-up on four occasions prior to the ’27 triumph with the locations of their final venues including Wigan, Leeds & Manchester.
Formed in 1871, Rochdale‘s situation is similar to Oldham’s. The Hornets lifted the Challenge Cup in 1922 when they beat Hull 10-9 at Headingley, that their only appearance in the competition’s final to date.
Swinton are three-time Challenge Cup winners, and ended as runners-up in the competition on two other occasions, but just like Oldham, all five of their final appearances came away from the capital. The Lions in fact played in – and won – the last-ever Challenge Cup final (prior to 2022) held outside of Wembley in 1928, beating Warrington 5-3 at Wigan’s Central Park.
Unless something changes anytime soon, it’s literally impossible for Toulouse to get to Wembley because they don’t compete in either the Challenge Cup or 1895 Cup by choice. Joining the British game in 2016, they played in the Challenge Cup for the first two years, reaching Round 6 at the first attempt, but haven’t partaken since, even when in Super League for a season in 2021.
Abagail Kirlin
2025-05-15 21:48:32
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Blackburn Rovers, however, are one of five top 92 sides who have never played at the ground. Accrington, Colchester, Crawley and Ipswich, alongside former Premier League winners Blackburn, have never played at the ground.
Chet Block
2025-05-06 09:10:40
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Out of all the 91 clubs in the top four leagues of English football, he mentioned 8 teams left who have never played at the new Wembley. Find out who are those clubs to have never played at the national stadium, which opened back in 2007, below…
ACCRINGTON STANLEY
BLACKBURN ROVERS
COLCHESTER UNITED
CRAWLEY TOWN
IPSWICH TOWN
NOTTINGHAM FOREST
OLDHAM ATHLETIC
PORT VALE
Althea Casper
2025-04-28 04:29:51
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only four current Football League clubs have never made it to Wembley and they are Accrington Stanley, Crawley Town, Hartlepool United and Walsall. But that might change soon, because Walsall are on the verge of making their first visit to the home of English football this season, having won the first leg of their Johnstone’s Paint Trophy Northern Area semi-final 2-0 away at Preston North End.
Glenda Lehner
2025-04-25 04:43:05
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Once Crawley line up at Wembley that will leave just one other EFL club as the odd one out - Accrington Stanley.
The League Two minnows have come close to the hallowed turf previously, but lost in the play-off semi-final to Stevenage in 2011 before AFC Wimbledon in 2016.
Brycen Schmidt
2025-04-13 19:01:43
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Blackburn are the highest-ranked team never to make it to the 'new' Wembley. Although Rovers have been English champions three times, won six FA Cups and one League Cup, those successes came well before the new Wembley opened, with the last trip coming in 1995's Charity Shield.
Another big team that haven't graced the Wembley turf since 2007, former FA Cup and UEFA Cup winners Ipswich came closest when they lost in the 2014/15 Championship play-off semi-finals. Their back-to-back League One and Championship promotions in 2022/23 and 2023/24 came without the need for the play-offs.
Accrington have come a whisker away from Wembley three times, reaching the League Two play-off semi-finals in 2011 and 2016 but losing both ties, to Stevenage and AFC Wimbledon respectively, before their semi-final defeat to Bolton Wanderers in the 2023 EFL Trophy. In fact, a non-league side for decades since their formation 1968, they never visited the old Wembley either.
Colchester fans haven’t had much to celebrate since being relegated from the Championship in 2008 – after years of mid to low-table finishes in League One, they dropped into League Two in 2016 and haven’t found their way back up since. They were a game away from Wembley when they reached the play-off semi-finals in 2019/20, but lost to Exeter City.
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