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| Teams | 124 | ||
| Defending champions | Blackburn Rovers | ||
| Champions | Aston Villa | ||
| Runners-up | West Bromwich Albion | ||
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The 1886–87 Football Association Challenge Cup was the sixteenth FA Cup, England's oldest football tournament. One hundred and twenty-four teams entered, six fewer than the previous season, in addition to four of the one hundred and twenty-four never playing a match.