[5] The club's run ended in the fourth round at home to eventual winners Blackburn Olympic in front of "several thousand" spectators.

[6] Church were twice expelled from the Lancashire Senior Cup, in 1883-84 and 1884–85, for fielding ineligible players, both times after protests from neighbours Accrington.

3,500-4,000 saw the club beat Darwen in the fourth round to reach the last eight,[9] with special trains being run to bring the visiting supporters to the village.

[10] The quarter-final with the Old Carthusians was also played in front of a crowd of 4,000, which was not far short of the village's population,[11] but the Charterhouse side won with a breakaway goal in the second half.

[12] The following year, the club looked like it had been eliminated in the first round, losing 4–2 at Blackburn Olympic, but the Light Blues' goalkeeper Jack Southworth had been ineligible for the tie, and the FA ordered a replay, at Church's ground.

[15] The last FA Cup tie for the club was a 2–0 defeat to Darwen on 5 November 1887, with both sides fielding eleven Lancastrians, and a shortage of players requiring Church's coach, Hartley Gregson, to come out of his recent retirement to make up the numbers.