Five NPL clubs in the hat for FA Cup first round draw

By James Gordon

Five Northern Premier League clubs will have an interest in the FA Cup first round draw on Sunday afternoon.

The draw will be shown live on ITV on Sunday afternoon at 1pm.

The five clubs include Marine, whose love affair with the FA Cup continued with a 1-1 draw against Wrexham in front of 1,914 at the Marine Travel Arena.

And it could have been even better - Jordan Davies’ last gasp equaliser secured the Welshmen a replay on Tuesday night to halt, temporarily hopefully, Marine from achieving the first round proper for a second successive season.

Pontefract Collieries welcomed a huge 1,429 crowd and held FC Halifax Town, who sit third in the National League - three divisions above the NPL East Division.

Marske United, who dumped Chester out in the previous round, secured a replay against another National League North opponent, Gateshead, after holding them to a goalless draw.

Diego de Girolamo scored a dramatic late equaliser for Buxton to help them come from 2-0 down to draw 2-2 away Kettering Town to maintain their unbeaten start to the season in all competitions.

And Morpeth Town will host York City in a replay on Tuesday after Ben Sayer’s equaliser earned them a 1-1 draw in front of 2,258 at the LNER Community Stadium.

Of the six NPL clubs left in the competition at the start of the weekend, only Stamford failed to make it through to the draw.


They put up a plucky fight in going down 3-0 away at Stockport County, who sit three divisions above them in the pyramid.

The draw numbers to look out for are listed below (NPL teams in bold):

1. Accrington Stanley
2. AFC Wimbledon
3. Barrow
4. Bolton Wanderers
5. Bradford City
6. Bristol Rovers
7. Burton Albion
8. Cambridge United
9. Carlisle United
10. Charlton Athletic
11. Cheltenham Town
12. Colchester United
13. Crawley Town
14. Crewe Alexandra
15. Doncaster Rovers
16. Exeter City
17. Fleetwood Town
18. Forest Green Rovers
19. Gillingham
20. Harrogate Town
21. Hartlepool United
22. Ipswich Town
23. Leyton Orient
24. Lincoln City
25. Mansfield Town
26. Milton Keynes Dons
27. Morecambe
28. Newport County
29. Northampton Town
30. Oldham Athletic
31. Oxford United
32. Plymouth Argyle
33. Port Vale
34. Portsmouth
35. Rochdale
36. Rotherham United
37. Salford City
38. Scunthorpe United
39. Sheffield Wednesday
40. Shrewsbury Town
41. Stevenage
42. Sunderland
43. Sutton United
44. Swindon Town
45. Tranmere Rovers
46. Walsall
47. Wigan Athletic
48. Wycombe Wanderers
49. Marine or Wrexham
50. Marske United or Gateshead
51. Chesterfield
52. Brackley Town or Guisely
53. Solihull Moors
54. Pontefract Collieries or FC Halifax Town
55. York City or Morpeth Town
56. Kettering Town or Buxton
57. Boston United or Stratford Town
58. King's Lynn Town
59. Grimsby Town
60. Stockport County
61. Altrincham
62. Tamworth or Notts County
63. Ebbsfleet
64. Horsham
65. Dorking Wanderers or Hayes & Yeading United
66. Corinthian Casuals or St Albans City
67. Maidenhead United
68. Kidderminster Harriers
69. Bromley
70. Harrow Borough
71. Dagenham & Redbridge
72. AFC Sudbury
73. Banbury United
74. Boreham Wood
75. Yeovil Town or Weymouth
76. Eastleigh or Folkestone Invicta
77. Bowers & Pitsea
78. Dover Athletic or Yate Town
79. Torquay United or Havant & Waterlooville
80. Southend United

Photos from Marske United v Gateshead by Darren Murphy

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