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Town Women to Face Manchester City If They Beat Cherries - Ipswich Town News

Ipswich Town Women will travel to face Women’s Super League Manchester City in the Adobe Women’s FA Cup fourth round if they beat AFC Bournemouth in their rearranged third round tie.

The Blues and Cherries were due to meet yesterday but the game succumbed to the weather.

If Town win the rescheduled game, which will be played this coming Sunday at the Martello Ground, Felixstowe, then they will travel to take on City, currently second in the WSL, for the second time in six years, having been beaten 10-0 away in a fifth round tie in February 2020, widely viewed as the biggest game in the women’s club’s history.

The fourth round tie will take place over the weekend of 11th and 12th January.

Adobe Women's FA Cup Fourth Round
1 London Bees v Rugby Borough
2 Leicester City v Stoke City
3 West Ham United v Liverpool
4 Arsenal v Bristol City
5 Chelsea v Charlton Athletic
6 Exeter City v Sunderland
7 Cheltenham Town v Wolverhampton Wanderers
8 Brighton & Hove Albion v Durham
9 Newcastle United v Nottingham Forest or Burnley
10 Kidderminster Harriers or Blackburn Rovers v Portsmouth
11 Manchester City v Ipswich Town or AFC Bournemouth
12 Aston Villa v Oxford United or Bristol Rovers
13 Everton v Tottenham Hotspur
14 Manchester United v West Bromwich Albion
15 Crystal Palace v Sheffield United
16 Fulham v London City Lionesses

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