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FA CUP: Third round draw - Spurs draw Leicester, Whitehawk could face Everton, holders Arsenal at home to Sunderland

Holders to meet the team they beat three days ago, non-league Eastleigh drawn at home to Championship strugglers Bolton and Aston Villa won't fancy the trip to Wycombe

Mark Lawford
FA CUP: Third round draw - Spurs draw Leicester, Whitehawk could face Everton, holders Arsenal at home to Sunderland

Only one non-league team - Eastleigh - are guaranteed a place in the third round of the FA Cup but two others - Whitehawk and Salford City - and Grimsby who play Shrewsbury tonight - will also be in the hat.

Former Wales striker John Hartson and England women's team manager Mark Sampson will draw the teams at the Sport Wales National Centre at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff.

The numbers of all the teams involved are:

1 AFC Bournemouth

2 Arsenal

3 Aston Villa

4 Birmingham

5 Blackburn

6 Bolton

7 Brentford

8 Brighton

9 Bristol City

10 Burnley

11 Cardiff City

12 Charlton

13 Chelsea

14 Crystal Palace

15 Derby

16 Everton

17 Fulham

18 Huddersfield

19 Hull

20 Ipswich

21 Leeds

22 Leicester

23 Liverpool

24 Manchester City

25 Manchester Utd

26 Middlesbrough

27 MK Dons

28 Newcastle

29 Norwich

30 Nottingham Forest

31 Preston

32 QPR

33 Reading

34 Rotherham

35 Sheffield Wednesday

36 Southampton

37 Stoke

38 Sunderland

39 Swansea

40 Tottenham

41 Watford

42 West Brom

43 West Ham

44 Wolves

45 Bradford City

46 Newport County

47 Peterborough Utd

48 Portsmouth

49 Eastleigh

50 Northampton Town

51 Exeter City

52 Doncaster Rovers

53 Grimsby/Shrewsbury

54 Yeovil

55 Bury

56 Carlisle Utd

57 Leyton Orient/Scunthorpe

58 Wycombe

59 Colchester Utd

60 Chesterfield/Walsall

61 Sheffield Utd

62 Salford/Hartlepool

63 Dagenham & Redbridge/Whitehawk

64 Oxford

Arsenal have won the FA Cup for the past two years and manager Arsene Wenger has won the competition seven times.

Everyone will fancy a go at toppling the injury-hit holders but not as much as they will fancy a tilt at relegation-haunted Chelsea or marooned Aston Villa.

Follow the draw live with Yahoo Sport from 7pm as the 736 teams that entered the tournament back in August are whittled down to 32 ties and 64 teams after replays.

Here's how it's going to work... as Hartson and Sampson draw the ties, we will publish them one by one.

People are tweeting about the draw and their hopes...

Sorry about the delay - it seems the 7pm start time was an educated guess from BBC TV planners and not a set-in-stone thing - but things are happening in Cardiff.

Anyway, here's the bag with all the balls in to really get you in the mood...

The FA Cup third round bag
The FA Cup third round bag

Anyway, enough guff - here's the draw.

Hartson empties the ball into the pot...

THE TIES

Watford v Newcastle

West Brom v Bristol City

West Ham v Wolves

Salford/Hartlepool v Derby

Exeter v Liverpool

Tottenham v Leicester

Colchester v Charlton

Peterborough v Preston

Northampton Town v MK Dons

Arsenal v Sunderland

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Newport v Blackburn

Ipswich v Portsmouth

Birmingham v Bournemouth

Wycombe v Aston Villa

Sheffield Wednesday v Fulham

Oxford v Swansea

Brentford v Chesterfield or Walsall

Bury v Bradford

Manchester United v Sheffield United

Everton v Dagenham or Whitehawk

Southampton v Crystal Palace

Eastleigh v Bolton

Nottingham Forest v QPR

Carlisle v Yeovil

Chelsea v Leyton Orient or Scunthorpe

Doncaster v Stoke

Leeds v Rotherham

Cardiff v Grimsby or Shrewsbury

Huddersfield v Reading

Middlesbrough v Burnley

Norwich v Manchester City

Hull City v Brighton