1974 FA Cup Final

1974 FA Cup Final

Event	FA Cup 1973–74
Liverpool Newcastle United 3 0
Date	4 May 1974
Venue	Wembley Stadium, London
← 1973 1975 →

The 1974 FA Cup Final was contested by Liverpool and Newcastle United at Wembley. In a one-sided match Liverpool won 3–0, with goals from Kevin Keegan (2) and Steve Heighway. BBC commentator David Coleman famously said that Newcastle's defence had been "undressed" by Liverpool.

It was manager Bill Shankly's last game in charge of Liverpool, as he retired during the 1974 close season and was succeeded by coach Bob Paisley – though Shankly led them out for the Charity Shield match at the start of the next season.

Match details

4 May 1974 15:00 BST	Liverpool	3–0	Newcastle United	Wembley, London Attendance: 100,000 Referee: Gordon Kew
	Keegan  57'  88' Heighway  74'	(Report)

Liverpool

Newcastle

GK 1 Ray Clemence RB 2 Tommy Smith LB 3 Alec Lindsay CB 4 Phil Thompson CM 5 Peter Cormack CB 6 Emlyn Hughes (c) CF 7 Kevin Keegan CM 8 Brian Hall LM 9 Steve Heighway CF 10 John Toshack RM 11 Ian Callaghan Substitute: DF 12 Chris Lawler Manager: Bill Shankly

GK 1 Willie McFaul RB 2 Frank Clark LB 3 Alan Kennedy CM 4 Terry McDermott CB 5 Pat Howard CB 6 Bobby Moncur (c) RW 7 Jimmy Smith 70' CM 8 Tommy Cassidy ST 9 Malcolm Macdonald ST 10 John Tudor LW 11 Terry Hibbitt Substitute: MF 12 Tommy Gibb 70' Manager: Joe Harvey

Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary. Replay if scores still level. One named substitute.

External links

• Line-ups
• LFC History Match Report