when is the fa cup semi-finals being played
Wembley Stadium
title: FA Cup semi-finals text: FA Cup semi-finals The FA Cup semi-finals are played to determine which teams will contest the FA Cup Final. They are the penultimate phase of the FA Cup, the oldest football tournament in the world. The semi-finals have always been contested at neutral venues. Since 2008, all semi-finals have been held at Wembley. In the past any suitably large ground which was not the home ground of a teams in that semi-final was used. Villa Park in Birmingham, Old Trafford in Manchester, and Hillsborough in Sheffield were common hosts. All semi-finals between 1871 and 1881 were played at Kensington Oval. title: FA Cup semi-finals text: City's 5–3 victory over Sheffield United in the second 2014 semi-final. Queen's Park could not afford a second trip to London for their semi-final replay and were forced to withdraw Teams shown with an asterisk beside their name are no longer in existence. This table is updated after 2016–17 FA Cup. FA Cup semi-finals The FA Cup semi-finals are played to determine which teams will contest the FA Cup Final. They are the penultimate phase of the FA Cup, the oldest football tournament in the world. The semi-finals have always been contested at neutral venues. Since 2008, all semi-finals have title: FA Cup semi-finals text: Villa Park and Old Trafford hosting the games. In 2003, it was announced that all future semi-finals would be played at the new Wembley Stadium, once it had opened; this took effect in 2008. The decision was mainly for financial reasons, to allow the FA to recoup some of the costs of rebuilding the stadium. However, the move was to the disappointment of traditionalists and drew criticism from some supporters' groups. Over a decade after the move, Aston Villa (amongst others) have called to regionalise the semifinals once again. Tottenham Hotspur's 2018 semifinal was to some extant a home match, title: FA Cup text: replay. The semi-finals have been played exclusively at the rebuilt Wembley Stadium since 2008, one year after it opened and after it had already hosted a final (in 2007). For the first decade of the competition, the Kennington Oval was used as the semi-final venue. In the period between this first decade and the reopening of Wembley, semi-finals were played at high-capacity neutral venues around England; usually the home grounds of teams not involved in that semi-final, chosen to be roughly equidistant between the two teams for fairness of travel. The top three most used venues in this period were title: FA Cup semi-finals text: the final. Queen's Park again decided not to contest a semifinal, so Oxford University advanced automatically. Between 1877–1881 only one semi-final was played due to the format of the competition leaving three teams remaining. In 1991 the FA decided that only one replay should be played (starting with the 1991–92 competition). If this game ended in a draw, extra time would be played, followed by penalty kicks if the match was still even. In 1999 it was decided that the semi-finals should be decided in one game, with extra time and penalties used to determine the outcome if the game