| Event | 2015–16 FA Women's Cup | ||||||
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| Date | 14 May 2016 (2016-05-14) | ||||||
| Venue | Wembley Stadium,London | ||||||
| Player of the Match | Danielle Carter | ||||||
| Referee | Sarah Garratt (Birmingham) | ||||||
| Attendance | 32,912[1] | ||||||
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The2016 FA Women's Cup final was the 46th final of theFA Women's Cup, England's primarycup competition forwomen's football teams. The showpiece event was the 23rd to be played directly under the auspices ofthe Football Association (FA) and wasnamed theSSE Women's FA Cup Final forsponsorship reasons. The final was contested betweenArsenal Ladies andChelsea Ladies on 14 May 2016 atWembley Stadium in London. The match was the second FA Women's Cup Final to be held at Wembley.
Chelsea, managed byEmma Hayes, went into the match as defending champions, having won the2015 FA Cup, while Arsenal, managed by Pedro Martínez Losa, had won the competition on thirteen previous occasions. But Chelsea were favourites to lift the trophy as Arsenal had enjoyed only moderate success since their victory at the2014 Cup Final, and had been beaten by Chelsea in a match earlier in the2016 season of theWomen's Super League.[1][2][3] Arsenal won the match 1–0, with a first-half goal fromDanielle Carter scored in the eighteenth minute, and securing the team their fourteenth FA Cup victory. Carter was also named Player of the Match.[1][2] The match was attended by a crowd of 32,912, an increase on the 30,710 who attended the 2015 final.[1]
The match was refereed bySarah Garratt of theBirmingham Football Association, whose appointment was announced by the Football Association on 5 May. The match saw Garratt taking charge of her first FA Cup Final.[4]
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