Claim: Everton F.C. played at Wembley Stadium.

The 1995 FA Cup Final was a football match played at Wembley Stadium in London on 20 May 1995 to determine the winner of the 1994 -- 95 FA Cup . The 50th FA Cup Final to be played at Wembley since the Second World War , it was contested by Everton and Manchester United . Everton won the match 1 -- 0 via a headed goal by Paul Rideout , after Graham Stuart 's shot rebounded off the crossbar . The rest of the game saw Manchester United dominating the attack , only for Welsh international goalkeeper Neville Southall to hold on to a clean sheet .   Manchester United , double-winners the previous season , had lost their league crown the previous Sunday to Blackburn Rovers . United had to play the final without three of their most important players : Eric Cantona -LRB- suspended -RRB- , Andrei Kanchelskis -LRB- injured -RRB- and Andy Cole -LRB- cup-tied -RRB- . Between them , those three had scored 41 goals during the season . The final saw final Manchester United appearances for Paul Ince and Mark Hughes -LRB- who had contributed greatly to United 's successes under the management of Alex Ferguson -RRB- , as they both moved to new clubs within weeks of the final . However , the game saw some promising performances from breakthrough players Gary Neville , Nicky Butt and Paul Scholes , all of whom would go on to win numerous major honours for the club .   Everton , meanwhile , had escaped from a relegation dogfight which had seen them make their worst start to a league campaign -LRB- eight points from a possible 42 after 14 games -RRB- , with a superbly successful cup run which saw them reach Wembley having conceded only one goal -LRB- a penalty for Jürgen Klinsmann of Tottenham Hotspur in the semi-final , which Everton won 4 -- 1 -RRB- . Everton 's only absentee was defender Earl Barrett who was cup-tied , and had therefore not been part of Everton 's FA cup campaign . Duncan Ferguson passed a fitness test on the day of the game , however , Ferguson was only given a place on the substitutes bench , with Everton fielding the same starting XI that defeated Tottenham Hotspur in the FA Cup semi-final . There was no place among the substitutes for homegrown boyhood Blue John Ebbrell , with Daniel Amokachi being preferred on the bench after he scored twice in the semi-final . Stuart Barlow and Vinny Samways were the other players from the original 17-man cup final squad to not make the 14-man matchday squad . Ebbrell , Barlow and Samways all missed the semi-final against Spurs due to injury , allowing Amokachi to take a place on the substitutes bench ; he then scored two goals after mistakenly coming on for Paul Rideout . Rideout had been a doubt for the game with a knee ligament injury and appeared to have suffered a recurrence midway through the second half ; after receiving treatment from the Everton physio , Rideout indicated he was ready to return to action , but Amokachi misinterpreted his signal and entered the field , with the substitution confirmed by the fourth official .   It was Everton 's first major trophy since they won the league championship eight years earlier , and is their most recent major trophy to date . In contrast , Manchester United were left without a major trophy for the first time since the 1988 -- 89 season and were denied the opportunity to become the first club to win the FA Cup nine times .   This was the last time that an English manager had won the FA Cup -- as well as the last time a club outside of Arsenal , Chelsea , Liverpool and Manchester United had won the FA Cup -- until 2008 , when Harry Redknapp managed Portsmouth to victory .   The trophy was presented to Everton captain Dave Watson by The Prince of Wales , whose sons Princes William and Harry were attending their first FA Cup Final .