2013 FA Cup Final

The 2013 FA Cup Final was the 132nd final of the FA Cup, the world's oldest football cup competition. The match, contested by Manchester City and Wigan Athletic, took place on 11 May 2013 at Wembley Stadium in London, and kicked off at 5:15 p.m. It was Wigan's first FA Cup final and Manchester City's 10th. Wigan pulled off a shock victory against favourites City, winning in circumstances reminiscent of the 1988 FA Cup Final when Wimbledon overcame Liverpool. Ben Watson's stoppage-time headed goal produced the "greatest FA Cup Final upset for a quarter of a century". In the United Kingdom, the match was televised by ITV and ESPN.
The competition winners were awarded a place in the group stage of the 2013–14 Europa League competition. Because Manchester City and their semi-final opponent Chelsea had already qualified for the following season's Champions League by virtue of the clubs' league positions, Wigan gained a Europa League place by winning their semi-final match. 
Wigan owner Dave Whelan led out the Wigan team before kick off along with manager Roberto Martínez. The only goal of the game came a few minutes after City's Pablo Zabaleta had been sent off for a second yellow card, becoming the third player to be sent off in an FA Cup final.
The cup was jointly lifted by playing captain Emmerson Boyce and club captain Gary Caldwell. 
On 20 May Wigan had an open-top bus tour of the town to celebrate the FA Cup victory. Manchester City sacked manager Roberto Mancini two days later amid rumours of the manager's fate pre-match while Wigan failed to avoid relegation from the Premier League, becoming the first team to win the Cup and succumb to relegation in the same season.
==Details==
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GK 	1 	Joe Hart 	 	
RB 	5 	Pablo Zabaleta 	 	
CB 	4 	Vincent Kompany 	 	
CB 	33 	Matija Nastasić 	 	
LB 	22 	Gaël Clichy 	 	
RM 	21 	David Silva 	 	
CM 	42 	Yaya Touré 	 	
CM 	18 	Gareth Barry 	 	
LM 	8 	Samir Nasri 	 	
CF 	16 	Sergio Agüero 	 	
CF 	32 	Carlos Tévez 	 	
Substitutes: 	Substitutes: 	Substitutes: 	Substitutes: 	
GK 	30 	Costel Pantilimon 	 	
DF 	6 	Joleon Lescott 	 	
DF 	13 	Aleksandar Kolarov	 	
MF 	7 	James Milner 	 	
MF 	14 	Javi García 	 	
MF 	17 	Jack Rodwell 	 	
FW 	10 	Edin Džeko 	 	
Manager: 	Manager: 	Manager: 	Manager: 	
Roberto Mancini	Roberto Mancini	Roberto Mancini 	Roberto Mancini	
Man of the match
*Callum McManaman (Wigan Athletic)
Match officials
*Assistant referees:
**Stephen Child (London)
**Simon Long (Cornwall)
*Fourth official: Anthony Taylor (Cheshire)
*Reserve official: Gary Beswick (Durham)	
Match rules
*90 minutes.
*30 minutes of extra-time if necessary.
*Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
*Seven named substitutes.
*Maximum of three substitutions.
===Statistics===
 	Manchester City	Wigan Athletic
Total shots 	15 	15
Shots on target	12 	7
Ball possession	52% 	48%
Corner kicks 	5 	3
Fouls committed	11 	5
Offsides 	4 	2
Yellow cards 	3 	1
Red cards 	1 	0
Source: BBC Sport
==External links==
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