Birmingham Senior Cup
The Birmingham Senior Cup is a regional football competition for Birmingham County FA club teams, organised by the Birmingham County Football Association. It began in 1876 and is the oldest county cup competition still active and the third oldest in the world overall.
The Birmingham Senior Cup is a regional cup contest, which has featured all of the West Midlands' big clubs, Aston Villa, Birmingham City, Burton Albion, Coventry City, Port Vale, Stoke City, West Bromwich Albion, Walsall and Wolverhampton Wanderers.
In recent years many of region's higher division clubs have tended to treat the cup as a reserve or academy/youth team competition, giving non-league sides a greater chance of success, while the competition's most successful team, Aston Villa, did not compete at all for several years, before returning for the 2018-19 competition. In the 2016–17 season, Leamington became the first team to win the cup in a penalty shootout, defeating Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Records
Final appearances and wins
- Record number of wins: 20
- * Aston Villa
- Most consecutive wins: 4
- * Aston Villa
- * Aston Villa
- * Birmingham City
- Most consecutive lost: 3
- * Walsall
- * Stoke City
- Most finals played without winning: 3
- * Alvechurch
- * Bromsgrove Rovers
- * Hereford United
- Record number of final appearances: 29
- * Aston Villa
- Five or more wins by club:
- *20 Aston Villa
- *13 Birmingham City
- *9 Nuneaton Town
- *8 Leamington
- *7 Wolverhampton Wanderers
- *7 West Bromwich Albion
- *7 Kidderminster Harriers
- *5 Stourbridge
- *5 Redditch United
Scoring
- Highest scoring finals: 9 goals
- *Aston Villa 9–0 Racing Club Warwick
- *Small Heath 7–2 West Bromwich Albion
- *Kidderminster Harriers 6–3 Nuneaton Borough
- *Tamworth 6–3 Bilston Town
- Most final matches without conceding: 10
- *Aston Villa