{"id":585568,"date":"2026-04-04T19:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/585568\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T19:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:19:20","slug":"when-is-the-fa-cup-semifinal-draw-how-to-watch-in-uk-date-start-time-ball-numbers-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/585568\/","title":{"rendered":"When is the FA Cup semifinal draw? How to watch in UK, date, start time, ball numbers, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the FA Cup quarterfinals coming to a close on Easter Sunday as West Ham host Leeds, we will have our final four teams and the stage will be set for Wembley.<\/p>\n<p>The FA Cup semifinals are sure to throw up plenty of drama with teams getting their first taste of Wembley and wanting to reward their fans with a second one and a shot at lifting the oldest trophy in football.<\/p>\n<p>But while we do only have four teams remaining, the FA Cup is at least partly down to luck of the draw and with <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"94fd5d7e-35b1-9d52-c9f2-4a37259bea36\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=382\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester City<\/a> and <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c43a00b9-2826-72b3-77a0-62730abc936e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=363\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea<\/a> winning comfortably and <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"feb44e87-58fa-9597-2691-b3c32768ebe4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=359\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a> in action against Southampton, those three teams will hope to avoid each other until the final.<\/p>\n<p>But when is the FA Cup semifinal draw? How can you watch it? And what are the ball numbers of the remaining four teams?<\/p>\n<p>When and where is the FA Cup semifinal draw?<\/p>\n<p>The FA Cup semifinal draw will take place on Sunday April 5 and will take place after our final quarterfinal between West Ham and Leeds has been concluded, which kicks off at 4.30 p.m. BST at the London Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Chelsea enjoyed an easy afternoon as they dispatched Port Vale 7-0 at Stamford Bridge.\u00a0Photo by Shaun Botterill\/Getty ImagesHow to watch FA Cup semifinal draw?<\/p>\n<p>The FA Cup semifinal draw will be live on TNT Sports 1, HBO Max and the TNT Sports YouTube channel from 7.05 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Ball numbers for FA Cup semifinal draw<img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Erling Haaland was on fine form for Manchester City when scoring three of their four goals against Liverpool.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n<p>1. Arsenal or Southampton<\/p>\n<p>2. Chelsea<\/p>\n<p>3. Manchester City<\/p>\n<p>4. West Ham United or Leeds United<\/p>\n<p>What happened in the quarterfinals?<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City made light work of <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"a47fbcec-c948-cf4c-9e41-3dfa37588c9c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=364\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a> at the Etihad Stadium as <a data-player-guid=\"63b48f6c-a73d-78e7-71b9-21edae6b0e31\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/253989\/erling-haaland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erling Haaland<\/a> scored a hattrick and <a data-player-guid=\"ed520531-3344-157f-7be2-dec0351d41db\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/273292\/antoine-semenyo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Antoine Semenyo<\/a> added a goal in a 4-0 thumping.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea booked their place in the last four with a 7-0 drubbing of League One strugglers Port Vale.<\/p>\n<p>An own goal from Jordan Lawrence-Gabriel as well as six goals from six different scorers &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/player\/_\/id\/353951\/jorrel-hato\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jorrel Hato<\/a>, <a data-player-guid=\"23bd493f-7c2f-347f-92d9-78ed75a80811\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/339075\/joao-pedro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jo\u00e3o Pedro<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/player\/_\/id\/231198\/tosin-adarabioyo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tosin<\/a>, <a data-player-guid=\"3ceb48c0-1eba-3cd3-a3d1-bc5eb08fb7ef\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/314858\/andrey-santos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrey Santos<\/a>, <a data-player-guid=\"8e1c5222-3aa2-3284-8ed7-277cf69dcd41\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/376481\/estevao\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Est\u00eav\u00e3o<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"b196e000-27cb-3b5f-ac9b-6c3888e8d51d\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/325555\/alejandro-garnacho\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Garnacho<\/a> &#8212; saw Liam Rosenior&#8217;s men book their place in a second cup semi-final of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the FA Cup quarterfinals coming to a close on Easter Sunday as West Ham host Leeds, we&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-585568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585568","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=585568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}