FA Cup 2024/25: The odds of an underdog winner

As the 2024/25 competition reaches the semi-final stage, Ladbrokes assesses every team's FA Cup odds, with an underdog winner potentially on the cards.

With Manchester City the only remaining side to have won the FA Cup since 1959, this year's tournament sits wide open as we head into the final stages, with the prospect of a new winner one that has fans and pundits excited.

Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest are both looking to lift the FA Cup for the first time since the 1950s, as the two sides also compete against each other in the Premier League's race for Europe, while Crystal Palace are dreaming of their first ever major trophy.

The current favourites to win the FA Cup this year, Manchester City look to avenge last season's final defeat to rivals Manchester United and reclaim the trophy they won in 2023, with Nottingham Forest standing between them and a third consecutive FA Cup final.

Both sides have won a Premier League meeting this season, with Forest now hoping to reach the FA Cup final for the first time since a defeat to Tottenham in 1991. In their win at Brighton in the quarter-finals, Forest became the first team ever to win three penalty shootouts in the same FA Cup campaign, so they will also be confident should this match go the distance.

Man City have only won two of their previous five FA Cup semi-finals, and with the Premier League title seemingly heading to Liverpool, this competition presents Pep Guardiola with his last chance of a domestic trophy this season.

The bookies do fancy City to get the job done at Wembley and progress to the final, but with Nottingham Forest having such a strong season in the league, this is by no means a foregone conclusion.

After both sides registered 3-0 wins away from home in the quarter-finals to book their Wembley tickets, Crystal Palace and Aston Villa will be full of confidence heading into this semi-final, with the bookies finding it difficult to separate the sides.

Villa, who have reached this stage of the tournament for the first time since losing the final in 2015, are currently second-favourites to go on and win the trophy for the eighth time, but will have to get past a side who have caused them real problems this season.

After losing their Champions League quarter-final, the FA Cup presents Aston Villa with their last chance of a trophy this season, but Crystal Palace have already faced the Villans on three occasions this season, winning twice and drawing the other.

Palace will definitely fancy their chances of beating Unai Emery's side at Wembley, with their last meeting resulting in a resounding 4-1 victory for the Eagles, and after already knocking Villa out of the Carabao Cup this season, the stage is set for Oliver Glasner's side to reach another final and finally get their hands on that elusive first major trophy.

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