FA Cup 2014-2015

Kings Lynn Town (NPL) v FC Flyde (Top of Conference North) should be nearly a 1000 at the Walks today, will be a huge achievement for the Linnets to beat Fylde!

Here goes - full results today 25th October 2014:


half-times in brackets -

Aldershot 2 - 0 Torquay (1 - 0)    
 Alfreton 1 - 1 Lincoln (0 - 1)    
 Barwell 0 - 3 Altrincham  (0 - 1)    
 Basingstoke 1 - 1 Harrow Borough (1 - 0)    
 Canvey Island 0 - 0 Havant & W (0 - 0)    
 Chelmsford 0 - 0 Barnet (0 - 0)    
 Chorley 0 - 0 Halifax (0 - 0)    
  Dartford 3 - 1 Burgess Hill (3 - 1)    
 Dorchester 1 - 7 Bristol Rovers  (0 - 2)    
  East Thurrock 7 - 1 Bath City (2 - 1)    
 Eastbourne 0 - 0 Dover (0 - 0)    
 Evesham 1 - 2 Bromley  (1 - 1)    
  Gateshead 4 - 0 Gainsborough (1 - 0)    
Gloucester 1 - 4 Forest Green  (1 - 2)    
  Grimsby 3 - 0 Guiseley (0 - 0)    
 Kidderminster 0 - 1 Eastleigh  (0 - 1)    
 Kings Lynn 3 - 4 Fylde      
 Leek 3 - 4 Blyth  (2 - 0)    
 Maidstone 2 - 1 Welling (1 - 0)    
 Norton Utd 1 - 1 Shildon (0 - 1)    
 Nuneaton 0 - 0 Hemel Hempstead (0 - 0)    
 Spennymoor 2 - 2 Telford (1 - 0)    
 St. Albans 0 - 1 Concord  (0 - 0)    
 Stockport 2 - 4 Chester  (0 - 2)    
 Tamworth 1 - 1 Southport (1 - 0)    
  Warrington 1 - 0 North Ferriby (0 - 0)    
Weymouth 0 - 0 Braintree (0 - 0)    
 Willand 1 - 3 Gosport  (0 - 2)    
 Witham 1 - 2 Weston  (1 - 1)    
 Woking 2 - 1 Boreham Wood (0 - 0)


SATURDAY ROUND-UP

Warrington Town and Gosport Borough won their FA Cup fourth-qualifying round matches on Saturday to reach the first round for the first time.

Warrington, in the eighth tier of English football, beat North Ferriby United 1-0, while Conference South side Gosport won 3-1 at Willand Rovers.

Bristol Rovers, relegated from League Two to the Conference Premier last season, beat Dorchester Town 7-1.

East Thurrock United, who play in the eighth tier of English football, secured a surprise 7-1 win at Conference South side Bath City, with Sam Higgins scoring a hat-trick.

A club from the ninth tier, the lowest level of sides left in the FA Cup, is in the hat for Monday's draw, with Northern League Division One side Shildon drawing 1-1 at Norton United.

Elsewhere, An impressive 2,226 spectators watched as Maidstone United edged Welling United 2-1 to progress, while former Football League sides Stockport County and Chester played out a thrilling encounter, with the latter winning 4-2.

Famed giant killers Blyth Spartans, who reached the FA Cup fifth round in 1977-78, won 4-3 at Leek Town.

Conference North side Chorley, managed by former Blackburn team-mates Garry Flitcroft and Matt Jansen, have kept alive their hopes of reaching the first round for the first time in 24 years by holding Conference Premier side Halifax Town to a goalless draw.

In total 13 games on Saturday ended in a draw, with replays to be played on Tuesday and Wednesday 28 and 29 October.

Finally, Macclesfield were held to a 1-1 draw by Wrexham on Friday while on Sunday, Worcester City host Greenwich Borough.





Which team/s would you like to see do well?

The FA Cup returns to the BBC on Monday when the draw for the first round takes place at the National Football Centre at St George's Park in Burton.

Mark Chapman hosts the draw from 19:00 GMT on BBC Two, BBC 5 live and online, in front of a live audience of 300.

The ties will take place across the weekend of 7-10 November.

The FA Cup first round will receive special treatment across BBC TV, radio and online, with one match to be shown live on BBC Two on Friday, 7 November.



FA Cup first-round draw numbers

1 - Accrington Stanley
2 - AFC Wimbledon
3 - Barnsley
4 - Bradford
5 - Bristol City
6 - Burton Albion
7 - Bury
8 - Cambridge
9 - Carlisle
10 - Cheltenham
11 - Chesterfield
12 - Colchester
13 - Coventry
14 - Crawley
15 - Crewe
16 - Dagenham & Redbridge
17 - Doncaster
18 - Exeter
19 - Fleetwood
20 - Gillingham
21 - Hartlepool
22 - Leyton Orient
23 - Luton
24 - Mansfield
25 - MK Dons
26 - Morecambe
27 - Newport
28 - Northampton
29 - Notts County
30 - Oldham
31 - Oxford
32 - Peterborough
33 - Plymouth
34 - Port Vale
35 - Portsmouth
36 - Preston
37 - Rochdale
38 - Scunthorpe
39 - Sheffield United
40 - Shrewsbury
41 - Southend
42 - Stevenage
43 - Swindon
44 - Tranmere
45 - Walsall
46 - Wycombe
47 - Yeovil
48 - York City
49 - Spennymoor Town or AFC Telford
50 - AFC Fylde
51 - Grimsby
52 - Norton or Shildon
53 - Warrington Town
54 - Alfreton or Lincoln
55 - Macclesfield or Wrexham
56 - Chorley or Halifax
57 - Altrincham
58 - Leek or Blyth Spartans
59 - Chester
60 - Gateshead
61 - Tamworth or Southport
62 - Bristol Rovers
63 - East Thurrock
64 - Forest Green Rovers
65 - Dartford
66 - Maidstone
67 - Gosport Borough
68 - Weston-Super-Mare
69 - Eastbourne Borough or Dover Athletic
70 - Weymouth or Braintree
71 - Worcester City or Greenwich Borough
72 - Canvey Island or Havant & Waterlooville
73 - Concord Rangers
74 - Basingstoke or Harrow Borough
75 - Aldershot
76 - Eastleigh
77 - Bromley
78 - Chelmsford or Barnet
79 - Nuneaton or Hemel Hempstead
80 - Woking



Ties to be played on 7, 8, 9, 10 November 2014

Great day all round today.

Had the hammers game on the radio whilst driving to St Albans for the FA Cup match.

Fully deserved 1-0 win to make the first round proper for the first time in the clubs history.

FA Cup 2014-15 - key dates

FA Cup first round draw: Monday, 27 October 2014

FA Cup first round weekend: Friday, 7 November 2014 - Monday, 10 November 2014

FA Cup third round draw: Monday, 8 December 2014

FA Cup third round weekend: Friday, 2 January 2015 - Monday, 5 January 2015

Kray JR wrote:Great day all round today.

Had the hammers game on the radio whilst driving to St Albans for the FA Cup match.

Fully deserved 1-0 win to make the first round proper for the first time in the clubs history.

 

Yep, I was looking out for that one thinking of you. Congrats, pleased it went well!

Replies, FA Cup - Qualifying - Fourth Round


SUNDAY
Worcester City  V Greenwich Borough


TUESDAY
Wrexham V Macclesfield



In total 13 games on Saturday ended in a draw, with replays to be played on Tuesday and Wednesday 28 and 29 October.

daib0 wrote:

Kray JR wrote:Great day all round today.

Had the hammers game on the radio whilst driving to St Albans for the FA Cup match.

Fully deserved 1-0 win to make the first round proper for the first time in the clubs history.

 

Yep, I was looking out for that one thinking of you. Congrats, pleased it went well!

Cheers mate.

Lynn lost 3-4 to FC Flyde who are top of the league above them, poor defending by the Linnets allowed Flyde to dominate the second half, although they managed to pull the game back to just one goal in the end. Cracking crowd of over 1400 which shows the potential at the Walks.

I shall now be following Bromley in the FA cup, last time I went to see them was in 2005 when they played AFC Wimbledon in the Ryman league premier division, nine years later the Dons have been a league two side for a couple of years, shows what can be done with the right backing!

Poor show from the 'stoke yesterday , way off the pace 1-1 replay on tuesday evening

Result today: Worcester 2 - 1 Greenwich Borough

Basingstoke or Harrow V Spennymoor or AFC Telford
Mansfield town V Concord R

Just got back from the club. Went over to watch the draw with the team, superb draw for us fingers crossed for being one of the live matches now lol

The draw for the third round of the FA Cup will take place on Monday 8th December.

Ties will take place on the weekend of Saturday 3rd January - but note many ties involving Premier League teams may not take place on Saturday 3rd January, but would most likely be on Sunday 4th January...

Well we got though
1-1 after 90 mins but wore them down in extra time to win 4-1, made it much harder than it should have been
didnt get home until the early hours, knackered

at home now to Telford



Jon Neill ‏@Jonno81 14h14 hours ago
@BASINGSTOKE_FC I can hear your fans from half a mile away, good effort!

Well done dude.

Apparently who the fupp are Concord Rangers was trending on twitter after the FA Cup draw was made

Strangely we beat St Albans to make the First Round against Mansfield who beat St Albans 8-1 in last years First Round

We began our defence of the Essex Senior Trophy against a fairly strong Colchester side last night...3-1 down at one point only for two goals from ex-hammer Tony Stokes pulled us level and took the game to penalties which we won.

our luck has to run out soon
last 8 games
won 7
drawn 1

Warrington V Exeter on BBC 2 on Friday the 7th at 7.30pm


BT Sport will also televise two first-round ties. The first from midday on Sunday, 9 November will be the Yorkshire derby between non-league FC Halifax and League One Bradford City.

The second on Monday, 10 November at 20:00 GMT, sees Havant & Waterlooville of Conference South take on two-time FA Cup winners Preston North End, also of League One.

BBC Sport


FA Cup: What you may have missed in the qualifying rounds


Norton's 2-1 victory over Shildon in an FA Cup fourth-qualifying round replay on Wednesday has completed the line-up for the first round proper.

More than 600 non-league sides have been knocked out since qualifying got under way in August, with just 32 left in the competition.

From a team named after a country to a defender playing like Gordon Banks in goal, BBC Sport looks back at some tales from the qualifying rounds.


Big names beaten already

Former Football League clubs and past giant-killers are some of the sides to have already fallen by the wayside.

Bristol Rovers and Torquay were the two teams relegated to the Conference Premier from League Two last season. Rovers were 7-1 winners at Dorchester Town in the fourth qualifying round but Torquay were beaten 2-0 by Aldershot.

Stockport County, in the second tier of English football at the turn of the century but now playing in the Conference North, lost 4-2 to Chester City in the fourth qualifying round.

One of the FA Cup's most famous non-league giant killers failed to make it through.

In 1989, Sutton United beat Coventry City, then in the top tier of English football, 2-1. For 24 years, they held the record as the last non-league side to knock out a top division team - until Luton beat Norwich in 2013. Sutton exited at the third qualifying round stage.


Remember them?

Former England winger Trevor Sinclair retired from football after playing in the 2008 FA Cup final for Cardiff City and almost dusted off his football boots to play in the competition this season.

The 41-year-old, who is assistant manager at Lancaster City, was on bench in the early qualifying rounds for the eighth-tier side, but could not prevent them from losing in the third qualifying round.

Matt Jansen, who played for Blackburn in the Premier League, is currently assistant to ex-Rovers midfielder Garry Flitcroft at Chorley, who lost to Halifax in the fourth qualifying round.

Meanwhile, former Birmingham, QPR and Blackburn striker DJ Campbell, who was playing Championship football a few months ago, is playing for free at Maidenhead United. He scored in this season's FA Cup but could not help his side reach the first round.


From Dog and Duck to FA Cup

A team named after a country who were playing Sunday League football just a few years ago enjoyed a dream debut in the competition.

FC Romania, formed in 2006 and made up predominantly of Romanian immigrants, entered the competition at the extra preliminary round - the very start of the FA Cup - and overcame Haverhill Rovers, Heybridge Swifts and AFC Sudbury before losing 3-2 to Sutton in the second qualifying round.


Copying Kane with mixed results

A real moment of excitement for spectators is the prospect of seeing an outfield player going in goal but it is a prospect that likely terrifies most footballers - just ask Tottenham's Harry Kane.

The result can either be unexpected heroics or tremendous embarrassment.

In the second qualifying round, defender Jack Lampe went in goal for Concord Rangers, who have progressed all the way to the first round, and helped his side to a 2-0 win against Wealdstone, producing a performance he described as "like Gordon Banks".

But a stint in goal for Alfreton midfielder Anthony Howell was one to forget.

He let in five goals as his side lost 5-1 to Lincoln City in Tuesday's fourth qualifying round replay.

FA Cup qualifying in numbers

** The qualifying competition had six rounds and lasted for 76 days - 15 August to 29 October. It had 611 ties, one bye, two abandonments, 749 matches, 2,498 goals and 14 penalty shootouts.

** The highest score was Molesey 11-0 Haywards Heath Town in the extra preliminary round). Coleshill Town and Maidstone United both recorded 10-0 wins.

** Some 612 clubs have already been knocked out of the competition from an original entry of 736

** The highest scorers so far are Norton United (19), with Gosport Borough second on 17. Both clubs are in the first round.

** The highest attendance was 4,612 for Stockport County v Chester FC and the lowest 27 for London Tigers v FC Clacton.

** Karn Miller-Neave scored for Ebbsfleet United at the age of 16 years 183 days.

Norton United thrilled to reach first round for the first time

Norton United manager Scott Dundas wants to "keep this fairytale going" after his non-league side reached the FA Cup first round for the first time. The Potteries-based Evo-Stik South club won Wednesday's fourth qualifying-round replay at Shildon 2-1 to book a home tie with Conference side Gateshead.

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Exeter City boosted by live television match at Warrington

Exeter City manager Paul Tisdale has said the financial boost of the club's televised match at Warrington in the first round of the FA Cup has come at just the right time. City will pocket £67,500 as a result of the game being shown live on BBC Two on Friday, 7 November, and they will also get an extra £18,000 should they win.
"It's a very welcome boost to the coffers," Tisdale told BBC Sport. "We are particularly tight at the moment with our cash flow."
City were placed under a transfer embargo this summer after being forced to go to the Professional Footballers' Association for a loan because the club's projected income did not match their actual takings.

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For a bit of a Meh! draw we are expecting around 2000

One for the memory - Leeds in the 70s heydays ...

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