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Originally Posted by Itse
If you used the regular season for cup seeding, that would also give a real for all teams to play until the end, because every position would count.
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I can't agree with this. In the pre-cap era then maybe this would work, but now it feels like the seeding is so much less meaningful given parity. And I really don't think it would be good for the game for a team to finish dead last in the league and then fluke their way to a cup.
In soccer, I wonder how many times a team has won the FA cup while simultaneously getting demoted to a lower league?
Edit: Wigan!?
Wigan Athletic during the 2012-2013 Season.
Wigan beat Manchester City 1:0, scored in injury time to win the cup.
Three days later a 4–1 defeat to Arsenal got them relegated from the Premier League making them the first team to win the FA Cup and be relegated in the same season.