FA Cup first round draw: Hyde United (eighth tier) host MK Dons
Stevenage vs Nantwich or Kettering
Bradford City v Chesterfield
Port Vale v Oxford Utd
Newport County v Walsall
Morecambe v Hartlepool Utd
Yeovil v Southend
Peterborough Utd v Tranmere
Cambridge Utd v Sutton Utd
Forest Green Rovers v Macclesfield Town
AFC Fylde v Kidderminster Harriers
Luton v Portsmouth
Shrewsbury v Aldershot
Hereford v AFC Telford Utd
Guiseley v Accrington Stanley
Blackburn Rovers v Barnet
East Thurrock Utd/Ebbsfleet v Doncaster Rovers
Plymouth Argyle v Grimsby Town
Colchester Utd v Oxford City
Shaw Lane v Mansfield Town
Boreham Wood v Blackpool
Leatherhead v Brackley/Billericay
AFC Wimbledon v Lincoln City
Rochdale v Dover/Bromley
Coventry v Maidenhead Utd
Chorley/Boston Utd v Fleetwood
Carlisle Utd v Oldham Athletic
Notts County v Bristol Rovers
Dartford v Swindon Town
Cheltenham Town v Maidstone Utd/Enfield Town
Woking/Concord Rangers v Bury
Crewe Alexandra v Rotherham
Gillingham v Dag & Red/Leyton Orient
Hyde Utd v MK Dons
Gainsborough Trinity v Slough Town
Solihull/Ossett Town v Wycombe
Northampton v Scunthorpe
Charlton v Truro City
Wigan v Crawley
And that's the draw
The excitement is over! No more balls will be drawn!
Morecambe vs Hartlepool is pretty good, Doncaster will visit either East Thurrock or Ebsfleet. Hyde vs MK Dons is a brilliant tie for the minnows.
I was really hoping for a Slough vs Swindon draw, purely for Office quotes.
Eighth tier Hyde will play
MK Dons! The crowd goes wild in the BBC studio as the draw is announced. That's the big club the players wanted.
Lads, can we please have some music
Or something. This draw is not one of the most exciting things I've ever seen on television. That Liverpool vs Man Utd game on Saturday was more entertaining.
AFC Wimbledon vs Lincoln City
AFC Wimbledon are one of the clubs to have benefited immensely from TV money brought by the FA Cup and they are drawn against Lincoln City.
Some more fixtures for you
Peterborough Utd v Tranmere
Cambridge Utd v Sutton Utd
Forest Green Rovers v Macclesfield Town
AFC Fylde v Kidderminster Harriers
Luton v Portsmouth
Shrewsbury v Aldershot
Hereford v AFC Telford Utd
Guiseley v Accrington Stanley
Blackburn Rovers v Barnet
No huge match ups so far
Bradford City v Chesterfield
Port Vale v Oxford Utd
Newport County v Walsall
Morecambe v Hartlepool Utd
And it's set of balls number eight
And Lancelot is the FA Cup draw machine for tonight.
What a hilarious National Lottery joke. And the first fixture is Stevenage vs Nantwich or Kettering.
IT'S ALL KICKING OFF NOW, CLIVE.
Your Davids, your Goliaths
Hyde, Heybridge Swifts and Ossett Town are the lowest ranked teams in the competition, with all three occupying the eighth tier of English football.
David Sharpe
The Wigan chairman, grandson of Dave Whelan, fancies Wigan's chances this season.
And now it's time for the draw!
Who do the small teams want to get in the draw?
According to a couple of Hyde football staff (manager and player), the management want to play against a team they can probably beat whereas the players want to draw Blackburn or Charlton - one of the 'big' clubs.
Hyde actually own the record for biggest defeat in the FA Cup. A 26-0 hiding (see what I did) by Preston North End.
The live coverage begins!
Here we go. The draw is being held at Hyde United's ground. Look how cool their sun was earlier:
Red sun today. FA Cup draw at Hyde United. Is that an omen. #EmiratesFACuppic.twitter.com/LoZ27mZjKW
— Hyde United FC (@hydeunited) October 16, 2017
The difference the FA Cup actually makes
I wrote this in January about just how much an FA Cup run is worth to a small club. It turns out the answer is everything.
The FA awards a prize of £1.8million to the winners of the competition, the kind of short-change a Champions League club might use as a sweetener for a promising youth prospect’s signing-on fee. For non-league side Curzon Ashton just qualifying for the second round of the competition will, and has, had an enormous impact.
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“It means so much to us a club,” says their CEO Natalie Atkinson. “The FA Cup is enabling us, through prize money, funds gained and TV money to work with the FA and football foundations to replace our 3G pitch next to the stadium.”
Curzon Ashton, currently 15th in the National League North, lost 4-3 to AFC Wimbledon in December, conceding four goals in the final 10 minutes of the game. The prize for qualifying for the second round was £27,000, in addition to £18,000 earned from the first round.
Those sucker-punch goals prevented a windfall of £67,500 for making it to third round. However, thanks to the wonder of television money, the club received more for their defeat to Wimbledon than they would have if they’d won a non-televised second round match.
There's more on the article, if you fancy clicking on it.
This most holy of trophies always produces magical moments and even if a guilty few/most don't pay attention to the competition until their team is involved, those matches between minnows of the lower leagues and giants of... in this case, League One, are always thoroughly enjoyable.
Sutton are looking to make a lot more money from another (pie free) run at the cup this year, Accrington Stanley's involvement will be upping the YouTube view count on this milk advert, and today is the first time I have ever heard of Gainsborough Trinity. Perhaps they will become my new favourite non-league - maybe they'll be yours! It all depends who has to play who - and which of those games the people in charge at BBC decide to broadcast...
Hello there sports fans. Welcome to our live coverage of what is sure to be a riveting FA Cup first round draw. The action will kick-off at 7:10pm and we'll keep you up to date with the draw as it happens. For right now, that wait should give you time to look at all the nice photographs of that weird looking sun from earlier today. It was like being in Blade Runner.
What is it?
It's the draw for the first round proper of the FA Cup: the oldest competition in world football.
The first round sees the 48 teams from League One and League Two joined by 32 non-league sides.
When is it?
Monday October 16.
What time is it?
The draw itself will begin at 7:10pm on Monday evening.
What TV channel is it on?
The draw will be broadcast live on both BBC Two and BT Sport.
Mark Chapman will present the BBC's coverage of the draw in half-hour long episode from 7pm, while BT Sport 3's show will also begin at 7pm.
When will the matches take place?
The first round will take place over the weekend of Friday November 3 to Monday 6 November 2017
Who's in the hat?
Three teams from the eighth tier of English football are among the non-league teams in the hat for the first round.
Hyde United, who play in the Northern Premier League, beat Scarborough Athletic on Sunday afternoon to book their place in the competition.
Hampton and Richmond, who are coached by Sky Sports commentator Martin Tyler, failed in their bid to reach the FA Cup proper after losing to National League South rivals Truro City.
Truro's 2-0 victory over their league rivals means they become the first Cornwal team to reach the FA Cup first round since 1969.
Billericay Town, whose current players include Jamie O'Hara, Paul Konchesky and Jermaine Pennant, will also take their place in the draw.
FA Cup first round numbers
1 ACCRINGTON STANLEY
2 AFC WIMBLEDON
3 BARNET
4 BLACKBURN ROVERS
5 BLACKPOOL
6 BRADFORD CITY
7 BRISTOL ROVERS
8 BURY
9 CAMBRIDGE UNITED
10 CARLISLE UNITED
11 CHARLTON ATHLETIC
12 CHELTENHAM TOWN
13 CHESTERFIELD
14 COLCHESTER UNITED
15 COVENTRY CITY
16 CRAWLEY TOWN
17 CREWE ALEXANDRA
18 DONCASTER ROVERS
19 EXETER CITY
20 FLEETWOOD TOWN
21 FOREST GREEN ROVERS
22 GILLINGHAM
23 GRIMSBY TOWN
24 LINCOLN CITY
25 LUTON TOWN
26 MANSFIELD TOWN
27 MILTON KEYNES DONS
28 MORECAMBE
29 NEWPORT COUNTY
30 NORTHAMPTON TOWN
31 NOTTS COUNTY
32 OLDHAM ATHLETIC
33 OXFORD UNITED
34 PETERBOROUGH UNITED
35 PLYMOUTH ARGYLE
36 PORT VALE
37 PORTSMOUTH
38 ROCHDALE
39 ROTHERHAM UNITED
40 SCUNTHORPE UNITED
41 SHREWSBURY TOWN
42 SOUTHEND UNITED
43 STEVENAGE
44 SWINDON TOWN
45 WALSALL
46 WIGAN ATHLETIC
47 WYCOMBE WANDERERS
48 YEOVIL TOWN
49 TRANMERE ROVERS
50 SOLIHULL MOORS OR OSSETT TOWN
51 HARTLEPOOL UNITED
52 SHAW LANE ASSOCIATION
53 CHORLEY OR BOSTON UNITED
54 AFC TELFORD UNITED
55 GAINSBOROUGH TRINITY
56 NANTWICH TOWN OR KETTERING TOWN
57 GATESHEAD
58 GUISELEY
59 AFC FYLDE
60 KIDDERMINSTER HARRIERS
61 HYDE UNITED
62 MACCLESFIELD TOWN
63 BRACKLEY TOWN OR BILLERICAY TOWN
64 DAGENHAM & REDBRIDGE OR LEYTON ORIENT
65 HEREFORD
66 ALDERSHOT TOWN
67 BATH CITY OR CHELMSFORD CITY
68 OXFORD CITY
69 MAIDENHEAD UNITED
70 HEYBRIDGE SWIFTS
71 WOKING OR CONCORD RANGERS
72 TRURO CITY
73 DOVER ATHLETIC OR BROMLEY
74 SLOUGH TOWN
75 DARTFORD
76 BOREHAM WOOD
77 MAIDSTONE UNITED OR ENFIELD TOWN
78 LEATHERHEAD
79 SUTTON UNITED
80 EAST THURROCK UNITED OR EBBSFLEET UNITED