Emirates FA Cup third round draw details

Emirates FA Cup third round draw details

Third round draw

Exeter City are ball 61 in the Emirates FA Cup third round draw, live on Monday night.

City emphatically booked a place in the third round for a second year in a row with a commanding 4-0 victory over Wycombe Wanderers at SJP on Saturday.

The draw is live on TNT Sports, with clubs from the Premier League and EFL Championship set to enter the competition.

Pre-match coverage of the final second round tie between Brackley Town and Burton Albion will start at 6.30pm GMT on TNT Sports 1 and discovery+. The draw is scheduled for approximately 6.40pm GMT and will also be streamed live on the TNT Sports YouTube channel.

Darren Fletcher and Ally McCoist will present the coverage, and the draw will be made by Joe Cole and Peter Crouch.

The third round will be played around the weekend of Saturday, January 10 2026.

Third round draw numbers

1. AFC Bournemouth
2. Arsenal
3. Aston Villa
4. Birmingham City
5. Blackburn Rovers
6. Brentford
7. Brighton & Hove Albion 
8. Bristol City 
9. Burnley 
10. Charlton Athletic
11. Chelsea 
12. Coventry City 
13. Crystal Palace
14. Derby County 
15. Everton 
16. Fulham 
17. Hull City
18. Ipswich Town 
19. Leeds United 
20. Leicester City
21. Liverpool 
22. Manchester City 
23. Manchester United
24. Middlesbrough 
25. Millwall 
26. Newcastle United 
27. Norwich City 
28. Nottingham Forest 
29. Oxford United 
30. Portsmouth 
31. Preston North End 
32. Queens Park Rangers 
33. Sheffield United 
34. Sheffield Wednesday 
35. Southampton 
36. Stoke City 
37. Sunderland 
38. Swansea City 
39. Tottenham Hotspur 
40. Watford 
41. West Bromwich Albion 
42. West Ham United 
43. Wolverhampton Wanderers 
44. Wrexham 
45. Slough Town or Macclesfield 
46. Grimsby Town 
47. Shrewsbury Town 
48. Swindon Town 
49. Weston Super Mare 
50. Barnsley 
51. Boreham Wood or Newport County 
52. Milton Keynes Dons
53. Wigan Athletic 
54. Fleetwood Town 
55. Salford City
56. Mansfield Town
57. Cambridge United 
58. Brackley Town or Burton Albion 
59. Blackpool or Carlisle United
60. Gateshead or Walsall
61. Exeter City
62. Cheltenham Town 
63. Doncaster Rovers
64. Port Vale