The 1883–84 Football Association Challenge Cup was the 13th staging of the FA Cup, England's oldest football tournament. One hundred teams entered, sixteen more than the previous season, although three of the one hundred never played a match.
^Accrington was disqualified for fielding a professional, and Park Road, anticipating defeat by Blackburn Olympic, withdrew from the competition.
^After a protest that a Hurst player had been wearing metal plates in his boots, the FA ordered a replay, but Hurst failed to turn up, so Irwell Springs was put into the third round: Bolton Evening News, 29 December 1883, p. 3
^The FA upheld an Upton Park protest that Preston had fielded ineligible professionals, and disqualified Preston.
