{"id":42371,"date":"2025-12-09T02:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T02:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/fa-cup-third-round-draw-macclesfield-v-crystal-palace-tottenham-v-aston-villa\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T02:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T02:19:12","slug":"fa-cup-third-round-draw-macclesfield-v-crystal-palace-tottenham-v-aston-villa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/fa-cup-third-round-draw-macclesfield-v-crystal-palace-tottenham-v-aston-villa\/","title":{"rendered":"FA Cup third-round draw: Macclesfield v Crystal Palace, Tottenham v Aston Villa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Sixth-tier club Macclesfield will host holders Crystal Palace in the third round of the FA Cup.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are four all-Premier League ties, including Tottenham hosting Aston Villa, Sunderland travelling to Everton, Newcastle welcoming Bournemouth to St James&#8217; Park, and Manchester United at home to Brighton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fellow sixth-tier side<b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> <\/b>Weston-super-Mare, who have reached this stage of the competition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c4gezvdqzydo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">for the first time in their 138-year history<\/a>, travel to League Two Grimsby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Premier League leaders Arsenal visit Portsmouth, while Manchester City host League One Exeter City and Liverpool are at home to third-tier Barnsley. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the other ties involving top-flight clubs, there are two London derbies as Chelsea travel to Charlton and West Ham host Queens Park Rangers, while Fulham play Middlesbrough and Leeds take on Derby County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">National League club Boreham Wood, the only other non-league side left in the draw, will take on Burton Albion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/cy8jnvj7y3dt\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">who beat Brackley on Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All matches will be played around the weekend commencing Saturday, 10 January 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Unlike in previous years, there are no replays if matches end as a draw. All ties will go to extra time and, if necessary, a penalty shootout.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c8xdr8l129go?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixth-tier club Macclesfield will host holders Crystal Palace in the third round of the FA Cup. There are four all-Premier League ties, including Tottenham hosting Aston Villa, Sunderland travelling to Everton, Newcastle welcoming Bournemouth to St James&#8217; Park, and Manchester United at home to Brighton. Fellow sixth-tier side Weston-super-Mare, who have reached this stage of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[5811,8271,805,167,12890,7374,8062,4669,8362],"class_list":["post-42371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","tag-aston","tag-crystal","tag-cup","tag-draw","tag-macclesfield","tag-palace","tag-thirdround","tag-tottenham","tag-villa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42373,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42371\/revisions\/42373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}