The 2001 FA Cup Final was a football match held at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on Saturday, 12 May 2001 and was the first final to be played outside of England. The game had an attendance of 72,000. The final was contested between Arsenal and Liverpool, with Liverpool winning 2–1, after Arsenal had led 1–0.
It was the second trophy of Liverpool's treble-winning season of 2000–01. They had won the Football League Cup in late February and would win the UEFA Cup the following week. It was their sixth FA Cup triumph to date, their previous triumph coming nine years earlier.
Arsenal, who had also finished runners-up in the league, were "double runners-up" for the second season running, having been runners-up in the league and the UEFA Cup a year earlier.
It was the first FA Cup Final in which the managers of both teams were from outside the British Isles.
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