The 2014–15 FA Cup, also called the 2014–15 FA Challenge Cup is scheduled to be the 134th occurrence of the FA Cup, the main domestic cup in English football and the oldest knockout competition in the world. The main sponsor is not yet confirmed, the contract between The Football Association and Budweiser expired at the end of the 2013–14 season. It will be also the first season when the BBC and BT Sport hosted televised matches, seven years after the BBC lost the rights to ITV. The 2014–15 season's cup also marks the first time that 3G (third generation) artificial pitches are allowed in all rounds of the competition, designed to lower costs for maintenance. After Queens Park Rangers (the first English artificial pitch, from 1981 to 1988), Luton Town, Oldham Athletic and Preston North End