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• Saturday's clash between Gloucester and Northampton is the 32nd English knockout cup final. Gloucester were the first winners in 1972.
  


• Bath hold the record for most cup final wins, with 10, followed by Leicester (five).
  


• Leicester have lost most finals (five), followed by Wasps (four), Northampton, Harlequins and Bristol (all three).
  


• Bath's 48-6 victory over Gloucester in 1990 is the record winning margin in an English cup final.
  


• Only two previous finals failed to produce a try - Gloucester v Moseley (1982) and Leicester v Sale (1997).
  


• Three players have been sent off in English cup finals - Nigel Horton (Moseley, 1972), Bob Mordell (Rosslyn Park, 1976) and John Gadd (Gloucester, 1990).
  


• Only three cup final-winning captains have been non-English players - New Zealander Mark Weedon (Wasps, 1999), Scotsman Doddie Weir (Newcastle, 2001) and South African Ryan Strudwick (London Irish, 2002).
  


• Three players have captained winning and losing cup final teams - Mike Rafter (Bristol), Peter Winterbottom (Harlequins) and Lawrence Dallaglio (Wasps).
  


• The youngest try-scorer in a final was 20-year-old Barry Evans, for Leicester against Bristol in 1983.
  


• Three previous finals have gone to extra-time - Gloucester v Moseley (1982), Harlequins v Northampton (1991) and Bath v Harlequins (1992).

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