Jeff Astle
Nominated by West Bromwich Albion
Astle was West Bromwich Albion’s battering ram of a centre-forward for ten years and scored a hatful of goals, mostly with his head. But his most famous strike was a left-footer from outside the box that flew past Everton’s Gordon West to win the 1968 Final in extra-time. Jeff had also netted in each round before the Final.

Tim Buzaglo
Nominated by Woking
Buzaglo was Woking’s hat-trick hero as they shocked Second Division West Bromwich Albion with a 4-2 victory at The Hawthorns in a Third Round tie in 1991. Geoff Chapple’s Isthmian Leaguers were worthy winners on a damp afternoon and Tim was unstoppable in the second half. Woking then lost by one goal at Everton.

Eric Cantona
Nominated by Manchester United
Cantona was snapped up by Manchester United late in 1992 after just a few months at Leeds and "The Magnificent Seven" became a United legend. Within four years he had won The Cup twice, converting two spot-kicks against Chelsea in ’94 and volleying a late winner to beat Liverpool in ’96 when he was skipper.

Allan Clarke
Nominated by Leeds United
Clarke was "Sniffer", a lethal striker who was man of the match in the 1969 Final but finished on the losing side for Leicester against Manchester City. Three months later he joined Leeds and featured in three Finals in four years for the Yorkshire outfit, heading the goal that won the 1972 Final against Arsenal.

Ray Crawford
Nominated by Colchester United
Crawford, formerly with Ipswich and England, signed for Fourth Division Colchester United when he was 33. In his second season he scored twice as the U’s sensationally beat Leeds, then the best team in the country, 3-2 at Layer Road. Dick Graham’s "Grandad’s Army" had caused one of The Cup’s greatest upsets.

Roy Essandoh
Nominated by Wycombe Wanderers
Essandoh’s story was pure "Roy of the Rovers". His career had been spent with Motherwell and a couple of foreign clubs before he answered a teletext plea for new players from Wycombe Wanderers in 2001. They were glad they took a chance on the striker – he headed their Sixth Round winner at Leicester City.

Charlie George
Nominated by Arsenal
George delighted Arsenal followers on the North Bank, where he used to stand as a fan, with his confident displays as a teenager in the first team. He was only 20 when his goal won the 1971 Final against Liverpool. After his extra-time shot had beaten Clemence, he lay flat on the pitch to be engulfed by team-mates.

Ricky George
Nominated by Hereford United
George had brief spells in the League in the ‘60s with Watford, Bournemouth and Oxford but is best known as the player who notched non-League Hereford’s extra-time winner at 2-1 against First Division Newcastle in the famous Third Round replay in 1972. Compared to Radford’s earlier effort it was unspectacular.

Jimmy Greaves
Nominated by Tottenham Hotspur
Greaves, initially a scoring phenomenon with Chelsea, came back to English football with Spurs after a tough year in Italy and ended his first season with a Cup winners’ medal. In fact, he slid home the opening goal against Burnley in that 1962 Final. Five years later he was a winner again in the first all-London Final.

Keith Houchen
Nominated by Coventry City
Houchen played for six different League clubs as well as Hibs in Scotland. He had already scored one significant Cup goal – a last-minute penalty for Third Division York City to knock Arsenal out in 1985 – when he flew horizontally to power in a header for Coventry to make it 2-2 against Spurs in the 1987 Final.

Mark Hughes
Nominated by The Panel*
Hughes, a feisty two-footed striker, is the only player to have won four Finals at the old Wembley. "Sparky" won with Manchester United in 1985, 1990 and 1994 and with Chelsea in 1997. But his best-remembered goal is probably a volleyed equaliser against Oldham Athletic in the last few seconds of the 1994 Semi-Final.

Nigel Jemson
Nominated by Shrewsbury Town
Jemson, 33 and a scorer for eight different League clubs, notched a brace in a Third Round tie for Shrewsbury in 2003 that put Everton out of The Cup and made the headlines. His second on that frenzied afternoon at Gay Meadow came in the 89th minute. But Town were later relegated into the Conference.

Peter Kitchen
Nominated by Leyton Orient
Kitchen was lethal in front of goal in one Cup season with Second Division Orient. He didn’t manage to score in the only Semi-Final in Orient’s history, against Arsenal at Stamford Bridge, but he managed to chalk up two in the Third Round, two in the Fourth, two in the Fifth and one in the Sixth. That was in 1978.

Gary Lineker
Nominated by Leicester City
Lineker, a legendary marksman for club and country, scored in earlier rounds as Leicester reached the Semis in 1982. Later he played in the Final for both Everton and Tottenham. He gave the Toffees a first-half lead against Liverpool in ’86 and five years later won The Cup with Spurs, despite missing a penalty.

Nat Lofthouse
Nominated by Bolton Wanderers
Lofthouse was Bolton-born and a Bolton Wanderers player throughout his 19-year career. England’s "Lion of Vienna" appeared in two Finals in the 1950s, scoring but losing against Stanley Matthews’ Blackpool in ’53 but winning against Man United in ’58 after his shoulder charge on Gregg had produced a controversial goal.

Ted MacDougall
Nominated by AFC Bournemouth
MacDougall had three years at Bournemouth in Divisions 3 and 4 before hitting the big time with Manchester United. He left a fantastic scoring legacy in The Cup with the South Coast side, with six against Oxford City in the First Round in 1970 and a record nine to flatten Margate in another First Round match a year later.

Dixie McNeil
Nominated by Wrexham
McNeil, actual first name Richard, had five years at Wrexham from 1977 and was like a scoring machine in The Cup. He found the net in ten consecutive rounds, starting with the First Round in November 1977 and ending with the Fourth Round in January 1980. "Dixie" knocked in a total of 22 Cup goals for the Welsh club.

Jackie Milburn
Nominated by Newcastle United
Milburn, the Tyneside legend known as "Wor Jackie", was a Cup winner three times in five years with Newcastle. He scored both when the Magpies beat Blackpool 2-0 in the 1951 Final, was in the side that edged Arsenal 1-0 a year later and then contributed the first-minute opener against Manchester City in 1955.

Stan Mortensen
Nominated by Blackpool
Mortensen was Stanley Matthews’ team-mate and pal at Blackpool. They finished on the losing side together in the Finals of 1948 and 1951, though "Morty" did score against Manchester United in ’48, before they finally got their winners’ medals in Coronation Year. "Morty" grabbed a hat-trick, the last player to do so in a Final.

George Mutch
Nominated by Preston North End
Mutch is remembered for his penalty winner for Preston against Huddersfield in the 1938 Final, the first to be shown in full on the BBC. George, in his first season with North End, was sent flying by Young’s tackle in the last minute of extra-time and, slightly dazed, picked himself up to fire home from the spot.

Peter Osgood
Nominated by Chelsea
Osgood scored in every round, including the Final, when Chelsea won The Cup for the first time in 1970. His eighth goal of the campaign was the Blues’ 78th-minute equaliser in the Final replay against Leeds at Old Trafford. For once he escaped Jack Charlton’s attentions to net with a diving header from Cooke’s pass.

Paul Rideout
Nominated by Tranmere Rovers
Rideout signed for Everton, his seventh club, in 1992 and three years later his header was enough to win the Final against Manchester United. Paul was involved in an extraordinary Fifth Round replay for Tranmere against Southampton in 2001, scoring a hat-trick as Rovers won 4-3 after being 3-0 down.

Ian Rush
Nominated by Liverpool
Rush had two long spells as Liverpool’s hitman, either side of a year with Juve, and the Merseyside legend’s five goals in Finals remains a record for the competition. He got two against Everton in ‘86, two as a substitute against the same opposition in ‘89 and one against Sunderland in ’92. The Reds won all three.

Alan Taylor
Nominated by West Ham United
Taylor was the "Rochdale Whippet" who earned a move to top-flight West Ham United in November 1974 and finished the season as a Cup winner. His contribution to Hammers’ success was significant – he scored twice in the Sixth Round, twice in the Semi-Final and twice in the Final against Second Division Fulham.

Ian Wright
Nominated by Crystal Palace
Wright didn’t become a pro’ until Crystal Palace signed him from non-League Greenwich Borough when he was 21. He was an instant hit for the Eagles. At the end of an injury-ravaged season Ian came on as a 69th-minute substitute in the 1990 Final against Manchester United and scored two classy goals.

* The FA's expert panel selected two wild card players into the final 125.

We asked the 92 clubs from the Premier League and Football League along with the top 33 clubs in the history of The FA Cup from outside the top four divisions, based on number of wins in all rounds, for their five nominations. Where clubs were unable to decide, the panel and fans put forward their suggestions for players from these clubs.