Manchester United, 2023/24 — FA Cup Winners

The road to Wembley, mapped at the venue of the final.

A trophy edition commemorating Manchester United's 2024 FA Cup victory. The map is centred on Wembley Stadium — the venue of the final — and the streets are renamed for the players who appeared in the cup campaign, with road length proportional to minutes played in those fixtures.

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The trophy is decided where the trophy is held.

Manchester United's 2024 FA Cup campaign ended at Wembley Stadium on the 25th of May, with a 2–1 victory over Manchester City. The piece records that campaign — and it does so by mapping Wembley, not Old Trafford.

The choice is deliberate. Trophy editions in the Stadium Heritage catalogue map the venue most associated with the trophy itself. For the FA Cup, that is always Wembley Stadium. For a league title, it is the home ground where the title was clinched. For a European trophy, it is the venue of the final. The mapping records the place where the moment happened — and for cup competitions, that place is the final venue.

"Trophy editions map the venue most associated with the trophy itself."

The streets around Wembley are renamed for the players who appeared during United's road to the trophy: from the third-round tie against Newport County, through Wigan Athletic, Nottingham Forest, Liverpool, Coventry City, and finally Manchester City in the final. Six matches. The players who featured in those six fixtures are the cast of this map. Road length is proportional to minutes played in the cup campaign.

The cartouche records the date of the final, the result, and the trophy. The 3D model is Wembley Stadium with its full arch — and because Wembley is exceptionally tall, this is the only edition in the Stadium Heritage catalogue produced in a 75mm-deep box frame rather than the standard 45mm. The depth accommodates the arch correctly.

Six matches. Twenty-three players. One trophy.

For trophy editions, the methodology constrains itself to the campaign in question. The Manchester United piece names only the players who took the field in the six FA Cup fixtures between January and May 2024. Players from elsewhere in the season — the Premier League, the Champions League group stage, the Carabao Cup — are excluded if they did not feature in the cup matches.

The numerals in brackets after each name on the map record the player's total competitive appearances for Manchester United at the date of the final. They are a record of seniority and depth at the club, not of minutes played in this campaign — that information is encoded in road length. Reading the map, an attentive viewer can therefore read two stories at once: who featured in the cup run, and how each player sits in the wider Manchester United history.

Wembley Stadium is rendered in its current form, with the Bobby Moore Bridge approach correctly placed. The cartouche dates the piece to 25th May 2024 and records the final result.

Map source: Ordnance Survey MasterMap, licensed.
Scale: 1:1250 (large) or 1:2500 (standard).
Players named: All who appeared in the 2024 FA Cup campaign.
Road weighting: Proportional to minutes played in the cup campaign.
Venue: Wembley Stadium — the venue of the final.
Appearance counts: Career competitive appearances at the date of the final.
Revision date: 25th May 2024 — Wembley Stadium, FA Cup Final.
Paper: Giclée on Ilford Cotton Textured.
Frame: Box frame, 75mm depth (deeper, to accommodate the Wembley arch).
Edition: 75 copies, signed and numbered.

Every piece, every owner, recorded.

Edition Number

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Hand-numbered in ink by the cartographer. Each number is unique to one piece. The edition is closed when the seventy-fifth piece is sold.

Certificate of Authenticity

A5 folded card

Signed and dated in ink. Carries the methodology, the edition number, and the studio's full attribution. Stays with the piece.

Inheritance Record

For the owners

The back of the certificate carries four ruled lines for successive owners. The piece is intended to be passed on, and the record travels with it.

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