City’s record in FA Cup semi-finals | OneFootball

City are gearing up for a seismic meeting with Manchester United in the FA Cup semi-finals this weekend.

Nick Cushing’s side welcome our cross-city rivals to the Joie Stadium on Sunday 13 April, with kick-off scheduled for 15:00 (UK).

It’s shaping up to be an exciting afternoon with a sell-out crowd expected at our home as a place in the historic competition’s showpiece is fiercely contested in Manchester.

By reaching this stage of the FA Cup, it represents our ninth-ever appearance in the last-four since our professional reforming in 2014 and there are a swathe of interesting and impressive numbers behind our success so far.

Take a deep dive below ahead of the clash with United on Sunday…

OVERALL RECORD

City possess a 50% win percentage in FA Cup semi-finals having won four and lost four of our eight appearances in last-four ties.

Our first outing came in 2015 where we suffered a narrow 1-0 defeat to Chelsea following Ji So-yun’s late strike.

Since then, we’ve beaten Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, West Ham at the last-four stage with each of our other three defeats coming to Sonia Bompastor’s team.

DERBY DELIGHT

Cushing’s side have locked horns with Manchester United in the FA Cup on two occasions before Sunday’s clash with City winning both.

The first meeting between the cross-city rivals came in a 2020 fourth round clash where an Ellen White brace and Jill Scott’s strike helped us to a 3-2 victory at Leigh Sports Village.

We then travelled away to Skinner’s team over two years later in Round Five and we came from a goal down to record a 4-1 victory.

Katie Zelem had given the hosts the lead inside the 14th minute before second-half goals from Lauren Hemp, Ellen White, Caroline Weir and Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw flipped the match on its head.

TOP SCORERS

In total, City have scored nine goals across our eight outings in FA Cup semi-finals meaning we’ve averaged 1.1 per outing in last-four ties.

Lauren Hemp and Chloe Kelly currently lead the way as our top-scoring players at this stage of the competition with two goals each.

Jane Ross, Melissa Lawley, Steph Houghton, Sam Mewis and White are then all tied on one each.

CUSHING’S RECORD

Cushing has a stellar personal record in the FA Cup which he’ll be hoping to extend on Sunday against Manchester United.

Our interim head coach has overseen 22 matches in the competition, winning 18 and losing four – meaning he’s holds a win percentage of 81.8%.

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He guided us to our first triumph in the prestigious tournament in 2017 when we beat Birmingham City 4-1 in the final.

Cushing then also presided over our 2019 success where goals from Keira Walsh, Georgia Stanway and Lauren Hemp helped us to a 3-0 win over West Ham.