Town and Coventry Ball 48 in Tonight's FA Cup Draw
Monday, 2nd Dec 2019 11:56

Town and Coventry City will be ball number 48 in this evening FA Cup round three draw, the Blues and Sky Blues having drawn 1-1 at St Andrew’s yesterday.

The replay is expected to be played at Portman Road on Tuesday 10th December with confirmation likely at some point today.

The draw for round three takes place at the Etihad Stadium at 7pm live on BBC Two and the iPlayer when former Arsenal captain Tony Adams and ex-Manchester City defender Micah Richards will be pulling the balls from the bowl.

The third round sees Premier League and Championship clubs enter the competition and manager Paul Lambert is hoping the Blues are paired with a top name.

"If we’re fortunate to get through we might just get one of the big ones, which I think would be great for everybody concerned, the fans, the players, the whole club,” he said following yesterday's match.

Third round ties will take place over the weekend of January 4th. Town’s scheduled league game for that day is already set to be postponed as Fleetwood, who were due to visit Portman Road that afternoon, are through to round three.

The last time Town weren't involved in round three of the FA Cup, which they won for the only time in 1978, was in the 1955/56 season when they were defeated 3-1 away by Peterborough United at the first-round stage.

FA Cup Third Round Draw
1 AFC Bournemouth 
2 Arsenal 
3 Aston Villa 
4 Barnsley 
5 Birmingham City
 6 Blackburn Rovers 
7 Brentford 
8 Brighton & Hove Albion 
9 Bristol City 
10 Burnley 
11 Cardiff City
 12 Charlton Athletic 
13 Chelsea 
14 Crystal Palace
 15 Derby County 
16 Everton 
17 Fulham 
18 Huddersfield Town
 19 Hull City 
20 Leeds United 
21 Leicester City 
22 Liverpool 
23 Luton Town
24 Manchester City 
25 Manchester United 
26 Middlesbrough 
27 Millwall 
28 Newcastle United 
29 Norwich City 
30 Nottingham Forest 
31 Preston North End 
32 Queens Park Rangers 
33 Reading 
34 Sheffield United 
35 Sheffield Wednesday 
36 Southampton 
37 Stoke City 
38 Swansea City
 39 Tottenham Hotspur 
40 Watford 
41 West Bromwich Albion 
42 West Ham United 
43 Wigan Athletic 
44 Wolverhampton Wanderers 
45 Blackpool 
46 Portsmouth
47 Shrewsbury Town
48 Coventry City or Ipswich Town 
49 AFC Fylde
 50 Tranmere Rovers 
51 Oxford United 
52 Exeter City or Hartlepool United
 53 Eastleigh or Crewe Alexandra 
54 Forest Green Rovers or Carlisle United
55 Solihull Moors or Rotherham United
56 Gillingham
57 Rochdale or Boston United
58 Peterborough United 
59 Burton Albion 
60 Newport County 
61 Fleetwood Town 
62 Port Vale 
63 Northampton Town 
64 Bristol Rovers or Plymouth Argyle

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HARRY10 added 16:56 - Dec 2 A top club at home for the fans, or a top one away for the balance sheet, and a bit of money for the squad to push for automatic promotion. Not Exeter City or Hartlepool United away as it's too ruddy far. What's the betting we get Fleetwood ? (all assuming we beat Coventry)
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