{"id":242393,"date":"2025-11-04T01:22:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T01:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/242393\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T01:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T01:22:15","slug":"fa-cup-second-round-draw-two-sixth-tier-sides-guaranteed-third-round-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/242393\/","title":{"rendered":"FA Cup second-round draw: Two sixth-tier sides guaranteed third-round ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two sides from the sixth-tier of the English football pyramid are guaranteed to be in this season&#8217;s FA Cup third round following Monday&#8217;s second-round draw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">National League South&#8217;s Slough Town were the first team to be pulled out and will host Macclesfield of National League North.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chelmsford City, who dispatched local rivals Braintree Town 4-1 at the weekend to make the second round, have a home tie against fellow National League South side Weston-super-Mare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere, Bristol Rovers boss Darrell Clarke goes back to his former club Port Vale and National League side Gateshead host League Two leaders Walsall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following their dramatic 4-3 victory against Forest Green Rovers on Friday, Jack Wilshere&#8217;s Luton Town travel to the north west coast for a tie at Fleetwood Town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brackley Town are at home to League One Burton Albion and National League side Wealdstone visit Grimsby Town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">2013 winners Wigan Athletic, who needed a penalty shootout to overcome Hemel Hempstead Town in the first round, are treated to a home tie against League Two Barrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following their extra-time heroics, National League North club Buxton go to League Two strugglers Cheltenham Town. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ties will be played across the weekend of 6-7 December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Holders Crystal Palace and the rest of the clubs playing in the Premier League and Championship will enter the competition in the third round in the new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two sides from the sixth-tier of the English football pyramid are guaranteed to be in this season&#8217;s FA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-242393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}