The 25/26 FA Cup Fourth Qualifying Round replays sees a number of upsets, an absolute screamer and a last minute winner.
The FA Cup first round is set after Tuesday’s replays, and we’ve seen some rather spectacular scenes posted on social media.
Chester beat Morecambe 2-0, earning a trip to Cambridge. Brackley thrashed Woking 6-2, setting up a clash with Notts County. Sutton defeated Farnham 3-2 in extra time, and will host Telford next up. Altrincham needed extra time to beat Harborough, to set up an away trip to Slough.
AFC Totton advanced past Truro on penalties, and will head to Macclesfield. Hartlepool fell to a 3-1 defeat at home to Gainsborough, who will next host Accrington. St Albans won it in extra time with a 1-0 win at home to Banbury, with Burton away being the first round tie.
Check out the screamer from Chester’s Jack Bainbridge below, and scroll to the end of the article for more videos / highlights from the other FA Cup replays…
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— Chester FC (@ChesterFC) October 14, 2025
Poetry in motion. ✨ pic.twitter.com/BW8L6A5H6Y
— Chester FC (@ChesterFC) October 15, 2025
The Emirates FA Cup first round proper draw for the 2025-26 season has been made, with ties scheduled to take place around the weekend of Saturday 1 November 2025.
Shown live by UK broadcast partner TNT Sports, the draw saw clubs from the EFL Leagues One and Two join the competition and pitted against the teams who have progressed through the qualifying rounds in recent months.
The draw was made by former West Ham striker Michail Antonio and Joel Ward, who was part of the Crystal Palace squad who won the Cup last season.
There will 40 ties in total, with the full schedule and broadcast picks to be confirmed in due course.
Winning clubs at this stage of the competition will receive £45,000 from the 2025-26 prize fund, with losing teams also picking up £15,000.
FA CUP FIRST ROUND DRAW IN FULL:
AFC Wimbledon (3) v Gateshead (5)
Barnsley (3) v York City (5)
Blackpool (3) v Scunthorpe United (5)
Bolton Wanderers (3) v Huddersfield Town (3)
Boreham Wood (5) v Crawley Town (4)
Bromley (4) v Bristol Rovers (4)
Burton Albion (3) v St Albans City (7)
Buxton (6) v Chatham Town (7)
Cambridge United (4) v Chester (6)
Chelmsford City (6) v Braintree Town (5)
Cheltenham Town (4) v Bradford City (3)
Colchester United (4) v Milton Keynes Dons (4)
Crewe Alexandra (4) v Doncaster Rovers (3)
Eastleigh (5) v Walsall (4) Eastleigh
Sutton United (5) v AFC Telford United (6)
FC Halifax Town (5) v Exeter City (3)
Fleetwood Town (4) v Barnet (4)
Gainsborough Trinity (7) v Accrington Stanley (4)
Grimsby Town (4) v Ebbsfleet United (6)
Luton Town (3) v Forest Green Rovers (5)
Macclesfield (6) v AFC Totton (6)
Mansfield Town (3) v Harrogate Town (4)
Newport County (4) v Gillingham (4)
Oldham Athletic (4) v Northampton Town (3)
Peterborough United (3) v Cardiff City (3)
Port Vale (3) v Maldon & Tiptree (8)
Reading (3) v Carlisle United (5)
Rotherham United (3) v Swindon Town (4)
Salford City (4) v Lincoln City (3)
Slough Town (6) v Altrincham (5)
South Shields (6) v Shrewsbury Town (4)
Spennymoor Town (6) v Barrow (4)
Stevenage (3) v Chesterfield (4)
Tamworth (5) v Leyton Orient (3)
Tranmere Rovers (4) v Stockport County (3)
Wealdstone (5) v Southend United (5)
Weston-super-Mare (6) v Aldershot Town (5)
Wigan Athletic (3) v Hemel Hempstead Town (6)
Brackley Town (5) v Notts County (4)
Wycombe Wanderers (3) v Plymouth Argyle (3)
FA CUP FOURTH QUALIFYING ROUND RESULTS
Tie – Home team – (Tier) – Score – Away team – (Tier)
32 – Farnham Town (7) 3–3 Sutton United (5)
1 – Darlington (6) 0–6 AFC Telford United (6)
2 – Macclesfield (6) 1–0 Stamford (7)
3 – Gainsborough Trinity (7) 1–1 Hartlepool United (5)
4 – Carlisle United (5) 5–2 Boston United (5)
5 – Rochdale (5) 1–2 York City (5)
6 – Runcorn Linnets (8) 0–1 Buxton (6)
7 – Morecambe (5) 1–1 Chester (6)
8 – South Shields (6) 4–0 Spalding United (7)
9 – Tamworth (5) 1–0 Hyde United (7)
10 – Scunthorpe United (5) 4–2 King’s Lynn Town (6)
11 – Aveley (7) 0–3 Gateshead (5)
12 – Spennymoor Town (6) 1–0 Billericay Town (7)
13 – Southport (6) 1–3 FC Halifax Town (5)
14 – Altrincham (5) 2–2 Harborough Town (7)
16 – Maldon & Tiptree (8) 1–0 Flackwell Heath (8)
17 – Woking (5) 1–1 Brackley Town (5)
18 – Wealdstone (5) 5–1 Whitstable Town (9)
19 – Slough Town (6) 3–2 Enfield Town (6)
20 – Eastbourne Borough (6) 0–3 Boreham Wood (5)
21 – Hampton & Richmond Borough (6) 0–2 Eastleigh (5)
22 – Southend United (5) 4–1 Folkestone Invicta (7)
23 – Ebbsfleet United (6) 2–0 Solihull Moors (5)
24 – Braintree Town (5) 2–0 Farnborough (6)
25 – Tonbridge Angels (6) 1–3 Chatham Town (7)
26 – Weston-super-Mare (6) 1–0 Needham Market (7)
27 – Hemel Hempstead Town (6) 2–1 Yeovil Town (5)
28 – Banbury United (7) 1–1 St Albans City (7)
29 – Chelmsford City (6) 4–3 Chippenham Town (6)
30 – AFC Totton (6) 1–1 Truro City (5)
31 – Dorking Wanderers (6) 2–3 Aldershot Town (5)
15 – Worthing (6) 1–4 Forest Green Rovers (5)
Replays
3R – Hartlepool United (5) 1–3 Gainsborough Trinity (7)
7R – Chester (6) 2–0 Morecambe (5)
14R – Harborough Town (7) 0–3 (a.e.t.) Altrincham (5)
17R – Brackley Town (5) 6–2 Woking (5)
28R – St Albans City (7) 1–0 (a.e.t.) Banbury United (7)
30R – Truro City (5) 1–1 (3–5 p) AFC Totton (6)
32R – Sutton United (5) 3–2 (a.e.t.) Farnham Town (7)
Manager Calum McIntyre told Chester FC TV: “The FA Cup, brilliant. It’s why we want to be in it.
“Did really well over the tie. So, a tough test.
“Listen, I’m real that we’ve played a side that are at the bottom of the division above.
“But, it’s a side that were playing in the Football League last year, that have a massive advantage in terms of resources, contact time, the ability around salaries for players, that makes it massively tough for those National League North sides to beat those National League outfits, and I thought we played a type of way on Saturday that’d give us the opportunity to get back here and I thought we took that opportunity.
“I think the timing of the goals won’t reflect how good we were this evening, that I thought we could have been 2-0 up after a quarter-of-an-hour.
“Tonight, I thought we played our game and we’ve been really strong here.
“There’s a real belief here and to have those moments late on, unbelievable, and that is why we love this competition and that’s what this group of players are all about.
“Maximum commitment, maximum effort, keep going and for them to have had those moments, the two goals, full-time, is really special and they deserve that.
“But, so do our supporters that have stuck with us.”
Morecambe boss Ashvir Singh Johal said: “I the last few games we’ve had since the Gateshead game, we’ve seen a lot better performances.
“We did consistent work on effort, on attitude, on desire, on commitment. And the three games before this game, we showed that in abundance.
“Today we didn’t show anything at the level we wanted to. So was a really disappointing performance.”
Interviewer: “And Chester made things difficult from the first whistle. What do you think we struggled with most in trying to break them down?”
Ashvir: “We struggled with our mentality, our mentality to want to compete, to want to win, to want to run more than the guy we were against. So the work we’ve done in the last few weeks today, we didn’t see any of that.
“And it’s really disappointing because we thought we were so close to having the team we wanted, uh especially in parts of the Scunthorpe game, the Tamworth game. But today we made it really, really difficult for ourselves.”
Interviewer: “And you’ve spoken a lot about learning moments. What can the lads take away from a night like this?”
Ashvir: “Today we need to park. We need to move on quickly. We’ve got a league game on Saturday, we’ve got a league game on Tuesday, and a league game on Saturday.
“We’ve got three games in a week, and our priority’s got to be now is to put in a better performance like we know we can in those games.”
Interviewer: “And how important is it to quickly park this one and move on to the league?”
Ashvir: “Yeah, that’s the most important thing. Today, really disappointed. But we know we can do better. We’ve seen that in the last few games.
“We should have competed better in this game to have our first chance, real chance on goal in the 91st minute. It isn’t good enough. It’s not what we want.
“And to switch off like we did for their first goal from a quick throw in so late into the game, we need to move on from these moments and we need to make sure we’re better in the next three games”.
Hartlepool’s tweet comes back to haunt them as they delete post after upset to Gainsborough
SPOT ON 🦌🤍🎯
Here’s Tyler Cordner’s penalty that sent The Stags through to the @EmiratesFACup 1st Round!!
Commentary: JOSH COLE (@Joshua_Cole04)#GoStags🦌 #AwayDays #WeAreTotton pic.twitter.com/oHIHfo6DYE
— AFC Totton ⚽️🦌 (@AFCTotton) October 14, 2025
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