Manchester City have reached the FA Cup Final without a single English team scoring a goal against them. That must be a record surely. Of course the 2 Welsh teams they played against in the Cup both scored (County and Swansea).

Is it also the first time that a top flight team has played all 3 South Wales teams in the same season?

Middlesbrough don't like coming to Wales this year..!

Three teams have *won* the FA Cup without conceding a goal to ANYONE on the way:

The Wanderers 1873 (only played one game tbf as defending champions)
Preston NE 1899
Bury 1903

Hasn't happened since and won't happen this season. Quite few teams have conceded one goal, Manchester City have conceded more than that, putting them alongside literally hundreds of others (irrespective of "welsh" stuff).You may also be able to add some other 1800s teams who only conceded to Scottish clubs too, but as there are the three above beating all of that, I'm not checking.

As far as playing all 3 south Wales team in the same season, West Brom in 2013/14.
Cardiff and Swansea were both in the Premier League with them in 2013/14 and West Brom played us in the League Cup.
Cardiff won 1-0 home and drew 3-3 away, Swansea won 2-0 away and lost 2-1 at home, County lost 3-0 away.
There may be other examples but it's far more likely with 18 top tier teams playing 2 of the 3 in the league in 2013/14 than in any of the seasons where a top tier side would have to draw both of the other two in a cup.

(If you want to get into semantics, seeing as all welsh teams were in the same division in 1987/88 and in that division were Wolves and Burnley who are now Prem sides, you could argue that too).

SJG99 wrote:Three teams have *won* the FA Cup without conceding a goal to ANYONE on the way:

The Wanderers 1873 (only played one game tbf as defending champions)
Preston NE 1899
Bury 1903

Hasn't happened since and won't happen this season. Quite few teams have conceded one goal, Manchester City have conceded more than that, putting them alongside literally hundreds of others (irrespective of "welsh" stuff).You may also be able to add some other 1800s teams who only conceded to Scottish clubs too, but as there are the three above beating all of that, I'm not checking.

As far as playing all 3 south Wales team in the same season, West Brom in 2013/14.
Cardiff and Swansea were both in the Premier League with them in 2013/14 and West Brom played us in the League Cup.
Cardiff won 1-0 home and drew 3-3 away, Swansea won 2-0 away and lost 2-1 at home, County lost 3-0 away.
There may be other examples but it's far more likely with 18 top tier teams playing 2 of the 3 in the league in 2013/14 than in any of the seasons where a top tier side would have to draw both of the other two in a cup.

(If you want to get into semantics, seeing as all welsh teams were in the same division in 1987/88 and in that division were Wolves and Burnley who are now Prem sides, you could argue that too).

Ok ok I'd forgotten the league cup at West Brom (even though I was there) was when Wales had 2 premier clubs.

Anyway it would still be a feather in the Welsh clubs caps if they were the only 2 teams to score against Man City in the FA Cup this season.