{"id":514320,"date":"2026-03-02T17:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T17:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/514320\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T17:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T17:54:07","slug":"fa-trophy-southport-v-southend-and-wealdstone-v-marine-in-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/514320\/","title":{"rendered":"FA Trophy: Southport v Southend and Wealdstone v Marine in semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former runners-up Southport will be at home to Southend United in the semi-finals of this season&#8217;s FA Trophy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Sandgrounders, 17th in National League North, progressed to the last four of the competition &#8211; in which they reached the final in 1998 &#8211; by beating Yeovil Town on penalties, while Southend won 2-1 at Horsham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Southend are looking to end a run of defeats in finals, having lost three times in the EFL Trophy and in last season&#8217;s National League play-off showpiece against Oldham Athletic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wealdstone, Trophy winners in 1985, will enjoy home advantage against Marine in the other semi-final, with Gary Waddock looking to guide them to Wembley after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cn5g11949glo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">appointed as manager.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marine claimed a National League scalp in the quarter-finals, beating Woking 1-0, while Wealdstone saw off Kidderminster Harriers in a penalty shootout at Aggborough. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two matches will be played on Saturday, 28 March, with the final taking place at Wembley on Sunday, 17 May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the FA Vase, Cockfosters will take on Punjab United, from Kent, while Gloucestershire side Hallen will be up against Hampshire&#8217;s AFC Stoneham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The semi-finals of that competition will be played over two legs on 28 March and 4 April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former runners-up Southport will be at home to Southend United in the semi-finals of this season&#8217;s FA Trophy.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-514320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}