This site will serve as the official source for information on regional qualifiers, schedules and team registration. The National Amateur Cup was established in This tournament is the premier tournament for competitive amateur teams in the U. Teams qualify for the tournament by entering at the state or regional level.

It commenced in and ended in when The Football Association abolished official amateur status. Following the legalisation of professionalism within football, professional teams quickly came to dominate the sport's main national knock-out tournament , the FA Cup. In response to this, the committee of the country's oldest club, Sheffield F. Jackson of Corinthian F.

In , U. Soccer established the National Amateur Cup in response to the growing number of teams entering the open National Challenge Cup now known as the U. Open Cup. The competition was played through the semifinals, however the tournament was never completed due to inclement weather. Starting with the U.

All the original competitiors in the F. Cup had been amateurs. Within a few years, professionalism had taken off, particularly in the North West of England, and by the mid s very few amateur clubs reached the later stages of the F. Queen's Park were the last amateur finalists in The world's oldest football club, Sheffield F.