2025-26 FA Cup 1st Round map (80 teams)
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By Bill Turianski on the 26th of October 2025; twitter.com/billsportsmaps.
Links…
-The competition…FA Cup (en.wikipedia.org).
-2025-26 FA Cup (en.wikipedia.org).
-BBC’s page on the competition…bbc.com/fa-cup.
The FA Cup – the oldest football tournament in the world – begins its 145th edition on Friday the 31st of October 2025, with a televised match: 3rd tier side Luton Town versus 5th division side Forest Green Rovers.
The 2 televised matches on Saturday are: Chelmsford City (6) v Braintree Town (5), and Brackley Town (5) v Notts County (4).
The 4 televised matches on Sunday are: South Shields (6) v Shrewsbury Town (4), Eastleigh (5) v Walsall (4), Port Vale (3) v Maldon & Tiptree (8), and Gainsborough Trinity (7) v Accrington Stanley (4).
And the televised match on Monday the 3rd of November is Tamworth (5) v Leyton Orient (3).
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Sources…
Thanks to all, at the links below…
-Blank relief map of England (and Wales), by Nilfanion, at File:England relief location map.jpg (commons.wikimedia.org).
-Blank relief map of Greater London, by Nilfanion (using UK Ordnance Survey data), at File:Greater London UK relief location map.jpg.
-Blank relief map of Greater Manchester, by Nilfanion (using Ordnance Survey data), at File:Greater Manchester UK relief location map.jpg.
-Fixtures list: screenshot from bbc.com/fa-cup.
-FA Cup (en.wikipedia.org).
Attendance figures…
-worldfootball.net (current average attendances for the 3rd division and the 4th division).
-nonleaguematters.co.uk (current average attendances for the 5th division, and the 6th and the 7th levels).
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