More FA Cup and Trophy news

The FA have today given an update on the FA Cup and FA Trophy for the forthcoming season. Let's start with the Cup!

The FA Cup round dates will be as follows:

Extra preliminary round: Tuesday 1 September 2020

Preliminary round: Saturday 12 September 2020

First round qualifying: Tuesday 22 September 2020

Second round qualifying: Saturday 3 October 2020

Third round qualifying: Tuesday 13 October 2020

Fourth round qualifying: Saturday 24 October 2020

We will have seven clubs in the Extra Preliminary Round. They are:

AFC Sudbury, Harlow Town, Hullbridge Sports, Phoenix Sports, Romford, Ware, Whyteleafe.

The rest of our Step Four clubs will join in the Preliminary Round, along with these clubs from Step Three:

Bowers and Pitsea, Carshalton Athletic, Kingstonian.

The prize fund for the Qualifying period looks like this:

Extra Preliminary Round winners (184) £1,125
Extra Preliminary Round losers (184) £375
Preliminary Round winners (160) £1,444
Preliminary Round losers (160) £481
First Round Qualifying winners (116) £2,250
First Round Qualifying losers (116) £750
Second Round Qualifying winners (80) £3,375
Second Round Qualifying losers (80) £1,125
Third Round Qualifying winners (40) £5,625
Third Round Qualifying losers (40) £1,875
Fourth Round Qualifying winners (32) £9,375
Fourth Round Qualifying losers (32) £3,125

Read more about the FA Cup here.

Onto the FA Trophy now. First of all, here are the round dates:

First Round Qualifying Saturday 26 September 2020
Second Round Qualifying Saturday 17 October 2020
Third Round Qualifying Saturday 31 October 2020
First Round Proper Saturday 14 November 2020
Second Round Proper Saturday 5 December 2020
Third Round Proper Saturday 19 December 2020
Fourth Round Proper Saturday 16 January 2021
Fifth Round Proper Saturday 6 February 2021
Quarter Final Saturday 27 February 2021
Semi Final Saturday 27 March 2021
Final Saturday 8 May 2021

And the prize pot looks like this:

Winning Club/ Losing Club
Extra Preliminary Round £1,500 £400
Preliminary Round £2,250 £575
First Round Qualifying £2,450 £625
Second Round Qualifying £3,000 £775
Third Round Qualifying £3,750 £1,000
First Round Proper £4,500 £1,250
Second Round Proper £5,250 £1,500
Third Round Proper £6,000 £1,750
Fourth Round Proper £7,500 £2,000
Semi Final £15,000 £5,000
Final £60,000 £30,000

Find out more about the FA Trophy by heading here.

As soon as we have the actual draws for both competitions, we'll post them here.