FA Cup could see most unlikely winner in years as remaining teams’ staggering waits for a major trophy revealed

AN UNLIKELY winner could get their hands on the FA Cup this year after the Premier League’s top clubs crashed out.

Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham and Liverpool are all out by the fifth round with only Manchester United and City rival sides to progress.

Cardiff City, Doncaster, Burnley, Plymouth, Exeter, Milwall and Preston make up the underdogs in the next round.

Meanwhile Brighton, Nottingham Forest, Ipswich, Wolves, Fulham, Newcastle, Bournemouth, Aston Villa and Crystal Palace are also still in the mix.

Amazingly, Fulham, Brighton, Bournemouth, Brentford, and Crystal Palace have NEVER won a major trophy.

And Newcastle have been waiting 70 YEARS for silverware – last winning the FA Cup in 1955.

Forest are two-time European Cup winners but their last piece of silverware was the League Cup in 1990.

Southampton have been waiting nearly 50 years to lift a major trophy – winning the FA Cup in 1976.

Everton are also former winners but not since 1995 while Wolves lifted the League Cup in 1980.

Cardiff won the Championship in 2013 but it was in 1927 that they last won the FA Cup while Ipswich were Uefa Cup winners in 1981.

Burnley won the Championship as recently as 2023 but had not had major silverware since their top-flight title win in 1960.

Doncaster, Plymouth, Exeter and Milwall are also without major trophies in their cabinets.

Preston, however, won the top-flight in 1990 and FA Cup in 1889.

The FA Cup fifth round draw will take place TONIGHT on BBC’s The One Show.