FA Cup and Championship play-off final are one day apart Coventry could be in both

Football bosses have had to come up with a backup plan for the FA Cup final and Championship play-off final due to a possible date clash.

The FA Cup final is scheduled for Saturday, May 25 at Wembley, with the Championship play-off final set to take place at the same venue the next day. However, Leicester City and Coventry City, who are both still in the FA Cup, could also be involved in the Championship play-offs, which might require a date change.

Leicester, currently leading the Championship, will face Chelsea on Sunday in their FA Cup quarter-final and are just two matches away from the final. Despite a recent dip in form, they could still end up in the play-offs, as could Coventry, who are now just one game away from the showpiece.

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Coventry booked themselves a place in the FA Cup semi-final with a dramatic 3-2 victory over Wolves. Injury time goals from will Ellis Sims and Haji Wright saw the Robins turn a 2-1 FA Cup exit to the most astonishing 3-2 triumph. The Championship play-off final is one of the most important dates in football, often referred to as the £100m game.

However, if either Leicester or Coventry make it to the FA Cup final, extra dates have been pencilled in at Wembley as potential backups. This would mean moving the Championship play-off final, but it's believed there's room for manoeuvre in an emergency situation, reports the Mirror.

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This year, the Champions League final being held at Wembley on Saturday, June 1 has made things trickier. The stadium is effectively given to UEFA before and after the Champions League final.

This means England have to play one of their Euro warm-up matches - against Bosnia and Herzegovina - at St James's Park on Monday, June 3.

They then play Iceland at Wembley on June 7. The Football Association says that all stakeholders were consulted but it seems it was decided based on the unlikely chance of a Championship team reaching the FA Cup final.

The last time a Championship team made it to the FA Cup final was in 2008 when Premier League Portsmouth beat Cardiff City. Since then, football's date makers have been betting on it not happening again.

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