{"id":514676,"date":"2026-03-04T22:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/514676\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T22:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:52:13","slug":"how-to-watch-fa-cup-fifth-round-on-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/514676\/","title":{"rendered":"How to watch FA Cup fifth round on ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"

The race to the 2025-26 FA Cup title is down to 16 clubs. The fifth round of the prestigious soccer tournament in England features several intriguing storylines, including Manchester City<\/a> seeking a fourth straight FA Cup final appearance. The 2023 champions will face Newcastle United<\/a> at St James’ Park in an all-Premier League<\/a> fifth-round matchup.<\/p>\n

Eight-time winners Chelsea<\/a>, who lost three consecutive FA Cup finals from 2020 to 2022, will play at Wrexham, who are in the round of 16 for the first time in 29 years. Arsenal<\/a>, who look to capture their first major trophy since winning their record 14th FA Cup six years ago, will go head-to-head with Mansfield Town. The Stags are in the fifth round for the first time since 1975.<\/p>\n

Here are key facts about the fifth round of the 2025-26 FA Cup:<\/p>\n

How can fans watch?<\/p>\n

Fans can catch all of the action in the ESPN App<\/a> and in the English FA Cup streaming hub<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What is the schedule?<\/p>\n

*All times Eastern<\/p>\n

March 6<\/p>\n

2 p.m.: Wolverhampton Wanderers<\/a> vs. Liverpool<\/a><\/p>\n

March 7<\/p>\n

7 a.m.: Mansfield Town vs. Arsenal on ESPN2<\/p>\n

12:35 p.m.: Wrexham vs. Chelsea<\/p>\n

2:50 p.m.: Newcastle United vs. Manchester City<\/p>\n

March 8<\/p>\n

7:30 a.m.: Fulham<\/a> vs. Southampton on ESPN2<\/p>\n

9:20 a.m.: Sunderland<\/a> vs. TBD<\/p>\n

12:20 p.m.: Leeds United<\/a> vs. Norwich City<\/p>\n

March 9<\/p>\n

3:20 p.m.: West Ham United<\/a> vs. Brentford<\/a><\/p>\n

How can fans access more soccer content from ESPN?<\/p>\n

Check out the ESPN soccer hub page<\/a> for the latest news, analysis, scores<\/a>, standings<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The race to the 2025-26 FA Cup title is down to 16 clubs. The fifth round of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-514676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}