1877–78 FA Cup#First round

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{{Infobox football tournament season

| title = 1877–78 FA Cup

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| country = England
Wales

| num_teams = 43

| defending_champions = Wanderers

| winners = Wanderers

| count = 5

| second = Royal Engineers

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| prev_season = 1876–77

| next_season = 1878–79

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The 1877–78 Football Association Challenge Cup was the seventh staging of the FA Cup, England's oldest football tournament. Forty-three teams entered, six more than the previous season, although four of the forty-three never played a match.