1949 FA Cup final

1949 FA Cup Final
Event	1948–49 FA Cup
Date	30 April 1949
Venue	Wembley Stadium, London
Referee	Reg Mortimer (Huddersfield)
Attendance	98,920
	← 1948 1950 →

Last updated August 19, 2024

The 1949 FA Cup final was the 68th final of the FA Cup. It took place on 30 April 1949 at Wembley Stadium and was contested between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Leicester City. Wolves had finished sixth in the First Division that season and had several England internationals among their ranks, while Leicester had narrowly avoided relegation from the Second Division and were making their first Wembley appearance.

Road to Wembley

Leicester City

3rd Round	Leicester City	1–1	Birmingham City
3rd Round (Replay)	Birmingham City	1–1	Leicester City
3rd Round (2nd Replay)	Leicester City	2–1	Birmingham City
4th Round	Leicester City	2–0	Preston North End
5th Round	Luton Town	5–5	Leicester City
5th Round (Replay)	Leicester City	5–3	Luton Town
6th Round	Brentford	0–2	Leicester City
Semi-final	Portsmouth	1–3	Leicester City ^[1]
	(at Highbury)

Wolverhampton Wanderers

3rd Round	Wolverhampton Wanderers	6–0	Chesterfield
4th Round	Sheffield United	0–3	Wolverhampton Wanderers
5th Round	Wolverhampton Wanderers	3–1	Liverpool
6th Round	Wolverhampton Wanderers	1–0	West Bromwich Albion
Semi-final	Wolverhampton Wanderers	1–1	Manchester United
	(at Hillsborough)
Semi-final (Replay)	Manchester United	0–1	Wolverhampton Wanderers
	(at Goodison Park)

Match summary

Wolves started determinedly and took a 13th-minute lead when Jesse Pye, who had been preferred to Dennis Wilshaw, stooped to head in an inch-perfect Hancocks cross. Leicester kept Wolves at bay until almost half-time, when Pye collected the ball in the penalty area with his back to goal, after the Foxes had struggled to clear a corner, and turned to slam it home for his second.

Leicester brought the game to life immediately after the interval courtesy of Mal Griffiths, who flicked the ball home after Williams parried Chisholm's initial effort. Within minutes, they believed they were level only for a narrow offside decision to rule out Chisholm's finish. Sammy Smyth quickly turned the game around when he picked up the ball in the centre circle and drove through the Leicester defence before hitting the ball low into the far corner to make it 3–1 and clinch the cup for Molineux men for the third time in their history. It was the first of five major trophies that they would win under the management of Stan Cullis.

Leicester were without two of their key players for the game, both of them ruled out by injury. Goalkeeper Ian McGraw was unable to play due to a broken finger, while Don Revie had suffered a nose injury.

Match details

30 April 1949

15:00 BST

Leicester City	1–3	Wolverhampton Wanderers
Griffiths 47'	Report	Pye 13', 42' Smyth 64'

Wembley Stadium, London

Attendance: 98,920

Referee: R. A. Mortimer (Huddersfield)

Leicester City

Wolverhampton Wanderers



	1	Gordon Bradley
	2	Ted Jelly
	3	Sandy Scott
	4	Walter Harrison
	5	Norman Plummer (c)
	6	Johnny King
	7	Mal Griffiths
	8	Jack Lee
	9	Jimmy Harrison
	10	Ken Chisholm
	11	Charlie Adam
Manager:
Johnny Duncan



	1	Bert Williams
	2	Roy Pritchard
	3	Terry Springthorpe
	4	Billy Crook
	5	Bill Shorthouse
	6	Billy Wright (c)
	7	Johnny Hancocks
	8	Sammy Smyth
	9	Jesse Pye
	10	Jimmy Dunn
	11	Jimmy Mullen
Manager:
Stan Cullis

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References

↑ "The Giant Killers". Archived from the original on 22 October 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2019.

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FA Cup Finals	1889 1893 1896 1908 1921 1939 1949 1960
Football League Cup Finals	1974 1980
Football League War Cup Final	1942
FA Charity Shields	1949 1954 1958 1959 1960
Football League play-off finals	1987 Fourth Division 2003 First Division
Football League Trophy Final	1988
UEFA Cup Final	1972
Other matches	Wolverhampton Wanderers 3–2 Budapest Honvéd (1954)

v t e Leicester City F.C. matches
FA Cup Finals	1949 1961 1963 1969 2021
League Cup Finals	1964 1965 1997 1999 2000
FA Community Shields	1971 2016 2021
Football League play-off Finals	1992 Second Division 1993 First Division 1994 First Division 1996 First Division
Notable league matches	Leicester City 6–6 Arsenal (1930) Southampton 0–9 Leicester City (2019)