Did you know?

[Snowflake Royal]

Only 8 ( now 7 as Newcastle will be there for the League cup final) teams in the entire football league have not played at the new Wembley. I was kinda shocked at that.

Just goes to show how “not special” getting to Wembley is now.

It's been over 15 years, even with just finals, 2 guaranteed L2 teams, 2 guaranteed L1, 2 Champ, plus another 2 for L1 & 2 to share. Plus 4 for, mostly, PL sides.

That's something close to 200 opportunities for the 92 clubs.

[Dirk Gently]

Only 8 ( now 7 as Newcastle will be there for the League cup final) teams in the entire football league have not played at the new Wembley. I was kinda shocked at that.

yup, let’s name them..

Fleetwood
Accrington
Burton
Crawley
Colchester?

At a guess…just two more…

I'll throw Carlisle Utd into the mix.

[Winston Biscuit]

An interesting thread on twitter of unusual facts

https://twitter.com/StokeyyG2/status/1641516470168428545?t=H8_bA6DZ6PpNPYCCtvCRQw&s=19

The Maldini/Baresi one is mind blowing (assuming it's true)

[Brum Royal]

Only 8 ( now 7 as Newcastle will be there for the League cup final) teams in the entire football league have not played at the new Wembley. I was kinda shocked at that.

yup, let’s name them..

Fleetwood
Accrington
Burton
Crawley
Colchester?

At a guess…just two more…

I'll throw Carlisle Utd into the mix.

Didn't Carlisle make a JPT final the other year?

[Dirk Gently]

yup, let’s name them..

Fleetwood
Accrington
Burton
Crawley
Colchester?

At a guess…just two more…

I'll throw Carlisle Utd into the mix.

Didn't Carlisle make a JPT final the other year?

Yep. 2010 & 2011. I stand corrected.

[Winston Biscuit]

Just learned that Ashley Barnes played for Austria Under 20's and wanted to play for their full national side but was not successful in his application for Austrian Citizenship so they couldn't pick him

[tmesis]

The 2018 World Cup final was the first since 1982 not to feature a Bayern Munich player.

Surely, with Germany in that 82 final, it contained some Bayern players?

A check suggests there were three.

[Clyde1998]

Just to update on the Wembley games - six of the current 92 still haven't played at the new Wembley:

Premier League: none
Championship: Blackburn; Ipswich
League One: none
League Two: Accrington; Colchester; Crawley; Forest Green

Accrington and Crawley never played at the old Wembley either.

Only eleven of the current twenty-four in the National League have played at the new Wembley: Bromley; Chesterfield; Dagenham; Ebbsfleet; Fylde; Gateshead; Halifax; Kidderminster; Rochdale; Southend; York.

Hartlepool and Solihull both missed out on playing their first game at Wembley the past couple of years, with National League play-off finals being moved to Ashton Gate (in 2021 due to the Euros/Covid) and the Olympic Stadium (in 2022) respectively.

[Hendo]

I wish we hadn’t have played at the new Wembley