Town’s FA Cup fourth round tie against Coventry City at the Coventry City Building Society Arena has been confirmed for Saturday 8th February with a 3pm kick-off.

The Blues were paired with the Sky Blues in Sunday’s draw after their 3-0 defeat of Bristol Rovers, while the Midlands side, now led by Frank Lampard, had defeated fellow Championship club Sheffield Wednesday 4-3 on penalties after a 1-1 draw on home turf the previous day.

The tie sees Town return to the scene of celebrations in April when a 2-1 victory all but secured promotion back to the Premier League after a hiatus of 22 years.

Kieffer Moore gave the Blues the lead in the first half, Haji Wright levelled for Coventry after the break but Cameron Burgess netted the winner with 21 minutes left on the clock to set-up memorable post-match celebrations in front of a packed away end, Town requiring just a point from their final home game against already relegated Huddersfield to confirm second spot.

“I think it's a nice draw,” manager Kieran McKenna said earlier in the week. “It's a stadium that we have good memories of, so it would be nice to go back there. Nice pitch, nice stadium, good memories.

“It's going to be a competitive cup tie. They had a fantastic run last year [controversially losing to Manchester United in the semi-finals], but they are not going as well in the league as they probably wanted to be this year, so I'm sure they're going to be desperate to put another really good cup run together. 

“It's not on our focus now, but once we get to that week, we'll make sure that we prepare the game really seriously and try and get through to the next round.”

Ticketing details will be released by the club in due course.

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Robert_Garrett added 17:18 - Jan 17 assume that is Saturday 8th February?
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muhrensleftfoot added 18:19 - Jan 17 Outrageous. 3pm on a Saturday? Crazy time to be playing football
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flykickingbybgunn added 18:33 - Jan 17 Surely 8.15 on a Sunday evening would have been better. No thought some people.
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Dissboyitfc added 15:35 - Jan 18 not sure i would call it nice stadium, only one catering hut( that may have changed) around the entire ground doing hog roast that was it! and a really boring character less stadium as modern ones can be. Winnable tie, would be nice to progress, its important fringe players get minutes!
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