FA Cup to get Champions League-style anthems

The Soccer Affiliation has commissioned a Common Music Group firm to create anthems for each the lads’s and ladies’s FA Cup tournaments.

The music might be performed earlier than each match, in an identical method to the .

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The FA plans to nominate a British composer to create separate theme music for the lads’s and ladies’s competitions.

The music will even be given to broadcasters for use of their tv protection of the tournaments. The rights for the lads’s FA Cup are shared by BBC and TNT, whereas Channel 4 and TNT each broadcast the Ladies’s FA Cup.

Sources have instructed BBC Sport the anthems is not going to substitute Abide With Me, which is performed on the FA Cup closing.

The custom of singing the hymn started in 1927 when Cardiff Metropolis beat Arsenal 1-0 at Wembley.

The Champions League anthem was created by British composer Tony Britten in 1992 and has turn out to be iconic, with former Actual Madrid supervisor Zinedine Zidane calling it “magical”.

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In 2015, Uefa launched an anthem for the Europa League, which the Europa Convention League later adopted.

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