{"id":357465,"date":"2026-01-07T18:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/357465\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T18:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:09:10","slug":"fa-cup-exeter-city-ask-man-city-for-bigger-share-of-gate-receipts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/357465\/","title":{"rendered":"FA Cup: Exeter City ask Man City for bigger share of gate receipts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since last season replays have been scrapped from the first round onwards, meaning clubs such as Exeter do not get the chance of a second pay day should they earn a draw.<\/p>\n

Last season, the Grecians were knocked out in the fourth round on penalties by Nottingham Forest,<\/a> missing the chance of a lucrative replay at the City Ground having drawn 2-2 after extra time. <\/p>\n

Exeter received a massive boost in 2005, when they were a non-league club with millions of pounds of debt, when Manchester United gave them all the gate receipts from their 0-0 third-round draw at Old Trafford,<\/a> with the Premier League side progressing in a televised replay. <\/p>\n

“We just wanted to flag up to the football world about how the smaller clubs can be penalised in the FA Cup now,” chairman Pete Ferlie told BBC Radio Devon.<\/p>\n

The trust has put in further loans worth more than \u00a3600,000<\/a> this season after an overspend last year left the club with worrying debts. <\/p>\n

They were then hit by a fire in November, which caused more than \u00a3100,000 worth of damage<\/a> and led to a League One game being postponed on safety grounds.<\/p>\n

“Money is tight at the moment, but we have worked our way through that,” added Ferlie.<\/p>\n

“There are actions and plans being put in place to put the situation back on a more even keel.<\/p>\n

“This extra money from the FA Cup helps, of course it does, but we would like to see a little bit more to really make sure that the summer is easier than it could be.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since last season replays have been scrapped from the first round onwards, meaning clubs such as Exeter do…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-357465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357465","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=357465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}