Blackburn Rovers are the only club to have won the English FA Cup three times in three consecutive seasons. For this achievement, Blackburn Rovers are the only club in English football with the right to display their club crest on the four corner flags. 

Rumours are that back in 1885, the Football Association could not afford the FA Cup Trophy for Blackburn Rovers. Hence the club was granted the unique permission to display the club crest on all four corner flags on match days.

The rumour has been denied by the Football Association.

Date 

06 April 1891

Venue 

Ewood Park, England

Competition 

Home Championship , 1891

Fixture 

England 2 v 1 Scotland 

England Scorers

John Goodall [20 mins] 

Edgar Chadwick [30 mins]

Scotland Scorers 

Francis Watt [85 mins]

England Team

William Moon

Old Westminsters

Robert Howarth

Preston North End

Robert Holmes

Preston North End

Albert Smith

Nottingham Forest

John Holt       

Everton

Alfred Shelton

Notts County

William Bassett

West Bromwich Albion

John Goodall

Derby County

Fred Geary

Everton

Edgar Chadwick

Everton

Alfred Milward

Everton

Scotland

James Wilson, 

Walter Arnott, 

Robert Smellie, 

Isaac Begbie, 

John McPherson, 

John Hill, 

Gilbert Rankin, 

Francis Watt, 

William Sellar, 

William Berry, 

David Baird.

Attendance 10,000

Referee W Morrow [Ireland]

Date

03 Mar 1924

Venue

Ewood Park, England

Competition

Home Championship , 1924

Fixture

England 1 v 2 Wales 

England Scorers

William Roberts

Wales Scorers

William Davies 

Ted Vizard 

England Team

Walter Sewell

Blackburn Rovers

Thomas Smart

Aston Villa

Thomas Mort

Aston Villa

Frederick Kean

Sheffield Wednesday

George Wilson

Sheffield Wednesday

Percival Barton

Birmingham

Samuel Chedgzoy

Everton

David Jack

Bolton Wanderers

William Roberts

Preston North End

Clement Stephenson

Huddersfield Town

Frederick Tunstall

Sheffield United

Wales Team

Albert Gray, 

Moses Russell, 

John Jenkins, 

Herbert Evans, 

Frederick Keenor, 

William Jennings, 

William Davies, 

John Nicholls, 

Leonard Davies, 

Richard Richards, 

Ted Vizard.

Attendance30,000

RefereeWatson [England]

Bobby Moore, World Cup winning Captain for England in 1966 played his final professional game in England for Fulham on 14 May 1977 against Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park. Fittingly, Moore was also making his 1,000th appearance in senior football.

Blackburn Rovers presented Bobby Moore with a trophy to mark the occasion. 

The 2002 New Zealand Rugby League tour of Great Britain and France was a tour by the New Zealand national Rugby League team. The New Zealand Kiwis drew the series 1-1 against Great Britain and also defeated Wales and France.

On 9th November 2002 Great Britain played New ealand at Ewood Park. New ealand won 30 - 16. Attendance: 16,654.

Result: England 2 - 0 Wales

Kick Off: 20:00, Friday 8th October 2004

Location: Ewood Park, Blackburn, England.

Fixture Type: UEFA U21 Championship 2004/2006

Referee: D.Ledentu (France)

Assistant Referee: J.Texier (France)

Assistant Referee: P.Larose (France)

The 2005 UEFA Women's Championship was a football tournament for women held from 05.06.2005 - 19.06.2005 in Lancashire, England. 

England played two of their three First Round games at Ewood Park in front of 14,695 against Denmark losing 1 - 2 on 08.06.2005 and 25,694 against Sweden losing 0 - 1 on 11.06.2005.

England finished bottom of their group and were knocked out of the competition.

The Final was played at Ewood Park on 19.06.2005 between Germany and Norway:

German 3 - 1 Norway

Ewood Park, Blackburn, Lancashire.

Attendance: 21,107

A local mosque had withdrawn an invitation because of threats by extremists to disrupt the visit, and anti-war activists had vowed to dog her every move during her two days in Lancashire with Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary.

The police made sure she had no close encounter with the clusters of protesters that turned up to shout "Condi Rice! Terrorist!" as she made her way around Blackburn and Liverpool, where 2,000 turned out for the main anti-war demonstration.

Her trip was ostensibly an attempt to see the real country beyond the government offices of London. In an intriguing political courtship, Miss Rice last year went out of her way to take Mr Straw and his wife Alice to her home town of Birmingham, Alabama. Now it was their turn to show off his constituency of Blackburn, Lancashire.

The Foreign Secretary tried to draw on the slaving connection between the two places. He pointed out that cotton produced by slaves in the American south was exported to Liverpool, Lancashire and then turned into textiles in Blackburn's mills, and re-exported across the world. But such interest in history did not answer the nagging question of what she was doing in the land of the dark satanic mills.

But much of the day was a strange form of tourism. Instead of trying to get away from the crowds, they attracted them in the shape of journalists and protesters.

In the short drive from the BAE Systems military factory at Samlesbury to the Pleckgate school in Blackburn, Miss Rice saw two different faces of the country.

At the military factory managers had put up a banner heralding the enduring Anglo-American alliance: a Union Flag bound seamlessly with the Stars and Stripes.

But at the school, 200 protesters denounced what those allies had done in Iraq and held up the flag of Palestine, universal symbol of western oppression of the Arabs. "Hey! Hey! Condi Rice! How many kids have you killed today?" they chanted. The crowd included several dozen children.

Still, in the school's grounds, the children seemed excited enough by the arrival of the most important foreign visitor to Blackburn since Mahatma Gandhi came in 1931.

The moment that perhaps meant most to Mr Straw came when he took his guest to Ewood Park, home to Blackburn Rovers and "the centre of the world", according to the Foreign Secretary.

Mr Straw had planned to show her Blackburn playing against rival Wigan, but Sky television unexpectedly moved the fixture to Monday. So Miss Rice had to make do with a few children playing football in an empty stadium, and a chat with Rovers' American keeper Brad Friedel. In Ewood Park's conference room, the two secretaries delivered speeches on the virtues of democracy in the Middle East.

In keeping with her view that America had to be more understanding of the world, Miss Rice admitted that the US had committed "many mistakes, maybe thousands of mistakes" in recent years.

She was ALSO on a musical pilgrimage to discover the meaning of the Beatles song, A Day in the Life, and its baffling lyrics: "I heard the news today, oh boy. Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire." Before her trip, one newspaper had quoted Miss Rice as saying: "I never understood that Beatles song. Perhaps now I will get the chance."

The English Schools’ FA Under-18s took on their Scottish counterparts in a Centenary Shield match at Ewood Park, Kick Off 19:00, Friday 11th April 2014, which ended 1 - 1.

The Centenary Shield was presented to Scools Association Football International Board in 1973 by the Scottish FA to mark the Association’s centenary year. It is currently contested for by U18 Boys selects representing the Schoolboy Associations of the British Isles countries.

Past winners of the Centenary Shield, including occasions on which the award has been shared, have been:

1973 England & Wales

1974 England

1975 Wales

1976 Scotland & England

1977 Wales

1978 Scotland

1979 Scotland

1980 England

1981 Wales

1982 England

1983 Scotland

1984 England

1985 England

1986 England

1987 England

1988 England

1989 England

1990 Switzerland

1991 Switzerland

1992 England & Switzerland

1993 England

1994 England

1995 Switzerland

1996 N. Ireland

1997 England

1998 N Ireland

1999 N Ireland

2000 Scotland

2001 England & Scotland

2002 England

2003 Rep of Ireland

2004 Rep of Ireland

2005 N Ireland & Rep of Ireland

2006 England

2007 England

2008 Rep of Ireland

2009 England & N. Ireland

2010 Rep of Ireland

2011 Scotland & N Ireland

2012 England

2013 Northern Ireland