{"id":521706,"date":"2026-04-09T16:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521706\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:10:09","slug":"bbc-to-show-man-city-southampton-fa-cup-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521706\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC to show Man City-Southampton FA Cup semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC will broadcast the FA Cup semi-final between Manchester City and Southampton on Saturday 25 April. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The last-four tie, held at Wembley Stadium, will kick-off at 17:15 BST and be shown live on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The second semi-final between Chelsea and Leeds United has a scheduled kick-off of 15:00 BST on Sunday 26 April. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Full radio coverage of both matches will be available on BBC Radio 5 Live and local BBC radio stations, with additional coverage, including live text commentary and clips, on the BBC Sport website. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Seven-time champions Man City beat Liverpool 4-0 to reach a record-extending eighth consecutive FA Cup semi-final. They last lifted the trophy in 2022-23. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Southampton, who are eyeing a first FA Cup final since 2003, beat Arsenal 2-1 and are the only non-Premier League team left in the competition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leeds reached the semi-finals for the first time in 39 years after beating West Ham on penalties while Chelsea thrashed League One side Port Vale 7-0. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BBC will broadcast the FA Cup semi-final between Manchester City and Southampton on Saturday 25 April. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-521706","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\/521706","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=521706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}