{"id":515272,"date":"2026-04-06T04:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/515272\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T04:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:27:09","slug":"chelsea-leeds-and-man-city-discover-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/515272\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea, Leeds and Man City discover opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See who has been pitted against each other in the last-four stage of the competition<\/p>\n<p>The draw for the FA Cup semi-finals has been made, with three Premier League clubs discovering who they will play.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/clubs\/8\/chelsea\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea<\/a> will take on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/clubs\/2\/leeds-united\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leeds United<\/a>, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/clubs\/43\/manchester-city\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester City<\/a> face Championship side Southampton. Both matches will be played at Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>FA Cup semi-final draw<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea v Leeds<br \/>Man City v Southampton<\/p>\n<p>*PL teams in bold<\/p>\n<p>The semi-final ties will be played on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 April, which is the same weekend as Matchweek 34 in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>There will be no replay if a match ends in a draw after 90 minutes. All ties will go to extra-time and a penalty shootout if required.<\/p>\n<p>FA Cup round dates<\/p>\n<p>Semi-finals: Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 April<br \/>Final: Saturday 16 May<\/p>\n<p>The FA Cup winners will qualify automatically for the UEFA Europa League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"See who has been pitted against each other in the last-four stage of the competition The draw for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,1602,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-515272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-text","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515272","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=515272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}