FA Cup Preliminary Rounds – 2024/25
Fixtures and Results for SCEFL sides in the early rounds of the 2024/25 Emirates FA Cup
Preliminary Round
AFC Croydon 4-0 VCD Athletic
Corinthian 3-1 Camberley Town
Lordswood 3-1 Shoreham
Larkfield & New Hythe 3-1 Lingfield
Littlehampton Town 2-3 Faversham Town
Rusthall 1-2 Punjab United
Congratulations go to Lordswood, Punjab United, Larkfield & New Hythe and Corinthian who all earned FA Cup wins today!
Punjab United came out best in an all-SCEFL game at Rusthall, in which they fell behind to a Charlie Clover early opener. Punjab turned it round with goals from Cruis Nyadzayo and Hudson Scudder and now take their place in Monday afternoons next round draw.
There they will be joined by three SCEFL sides that had 3-1 home wins.
Corinthian beat Camberley Town, Lordswood saw off Shoreham and Larkfield & New Hythe continued their fine start to the campaign with a victory over Lingfield.
On Sunday Faversham Town visited Littlehampton Town and despite going behind early on they pulled of a stunning victory! With less than 5 minutes to play, Faversham were 2-1 down, but late finishes from Samuel Hasler and Fran Collin saw the Lilywhites were through.
Full FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round Draw
Full FA Cup Preliminary Round Draw
Extra Preliminary Round
Larkfield & New Hythe 2-1 Kennington
Punjab United 2-0 Snodland Town
Badshot Lea 1-0 Stansfeld
Sevenoaks Town 2-1 Whitstable Town
Fisher 2-5 Redhill
Tunbridge Wells 1-3 Farnham Town
Holmesdale 0-1 Crawley Down Gatwick
Lordswood 1-0 Erith & Belvedere
Bexhill United 0-1 Faversham Town
Camberley Town 2-1 Lydd Town
Sheerwater 1-1 Rusthall
Lingfield 1-0 Hollands & Blair
Corinthian 2-0 AFC Whyteleafe
Sutton Athletic 1-2 Sandhurst Town
Glebe 0-2 East Grinstead Town
Met Police 1-3 VCD Athletic
Crowborough Athletic 1-1 Bearsted
Six SCEFL teams were FA Cup winners today with a further 2 sides living to fight another day and facing replays.
Of the winners Corinthian look to have pulled off the result of the day by beating highly-rated AFC Whyteleafe at the Farm while VCD Athletic were impressive when winning 3-1 at Met Police.
In the all-SCEFL games, Punjab United made it past Snodland Town and Larkfield & New Hythe edged past Kennington plus a late Jake Embery goal saw Lordswood win 1-0 against Erith & Belvedere.
It was also 1-0 to Faversham Town at Bexhill putting our league leaders through where they may still be joined by Bearsted and Rusthall who face midweek home replays.
Extra Preliminary Round Replays
Bearsted 1-2 Crowborough Athletic
Rusthall 4-1 Sheerwater
A Steadman Callender hat-trick helped Rusthall to a comfortable Replay win over Sheerwater. Things didn’t go Bearsted’s way though as they lost out to Crowborough after extra time.
FA Cup Dates
Extra Preliminary Round – Saturday 3 August 2024
Preliminary Round – Saturday 17 August 2024
First Round Qualifying – Saturday 31 August 2024
Second Round Qualifying – Saturday 14 September 2024
Third Round Qualifying – Saturday 28 September 2024
Fourth Round Qualifying – Saturday 12 October 2024
First Round Proper – Saturday 2 November 2024
Second Round Proper – Saturday 30 November 2024
Third Round Proper – Saturday 11 January 2025
Fourth Round Proper – Saturday 8 February 2025
Fifth Round Proper – Saturday 1 March 2025
Quarter Final – Saturday 29 March 2025
Semi Final – Saturday 26 April 2025
Final – Saturday 17 May 2025
FA Cup Prize Fund
Extra Preliminary Round winners (208) – £1,125
Extra Preliminary Round losers (208) – £375
Preliminary Round winners (136) – £1,444
Preliminary Round losers (136) – £481
First Round Qualifying winners (112) – £2,250
First Round Qualifying losers (112) – £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
First Round Proper (40) TBC
Second Round Proper (20) TBC
Third Round Proper (32) TBC
Fourth Round Proper (16) TBC
Fifth Round Proper (8) TBC
Quarter Final (4) TBC
Semi Final losers (2) TBC
Semi Final winners (2) TBC
Final runners-up (1) TBC
Final winners (1) TBC