Who won the first f.a cup at the old wembley stadium?
Classic Cup Finals: 1923 TheFA.com takes a look back at the historic match which saw the first ever win for Bolton Wanderers in the first of our new series of ‘Classic Cup Finals’… Bolton Wanderers 2-0 West Ham United Jack 2 JR Smith 53 The FA Cup Final Empire Stadium, Wembley Saturday 20 April 1923 The first Final at the new stadium at Wembley, played on 28 April 1923, was amrked by disorderly scenes unparalleled in the history of the game. Before the match a crowd of 100,000 outside the stadium rushed the gates, burst the barriers and swarmed onto the field of play. In all about 200,000 people – a record football crowd – squeezed into a space supposed to accomodate 127,000. The stadium had been completed in 300 working days at a cost of £750,000. The workmen had made use of 25,000 tons of concrete, 1500 tons of steel and half a million rivets. But for the anger of the mob of 200,000 people, and the presence of King George V in the Royal Box, the match would probably been called off
