FA Cup third-round draw preview

Monday 08 December 2025 10:35The Emirates FA Cup third-round draw takes place tonight (Monday), as Manchester United await our fate in the famous competition.The ceremony will feature former England internationals Joe Cole and Peter Crouch at around 18:40 GMT and is being shown live on TNT Sports 1 and Discovery+. It will also be streamed on TNT Sports’ YouTube channel and, of course, we’ll carry all of the key details ourselves, as we look forward to a tie around the weekend of 10/11 January 2026.The Premier League and Championship sides are joined by the teams who made it through the earlier stages, with all the second-round ties, bar one, concluded over the weekend. Brackley Town face Burton Albion tonight, starting 30 minutes before Ruben Amorim’s Reds are in top-flight action at Wolverhampton Wanderers. So, we will know our cup opponents before kick-off at Molineux, and the ball to look out for is no.23. One of the lower-league clubs in the hat are Fleetwood Town, who overcame Luton Town on penalties, after Reds loanee Ethan Ennis scored twice in a 2-2 draw. The winger’s second goal was a beautiful trivela strike.BALL NUMBERS 1. 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. 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 — Emirates FA Cup (@EmiratesFACup) December 6, 202533. 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. Macclesfield 46. Grimsby Town 47. Shrewsbury Town 48. Swindon Town 49. Weston-super-Mare 50. Barnsley 51. Boreham Wood  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 60. Walsall 61. Exeter City 62. Cheltenham Town 63. Doncaster Rovers 64. Port ValeRecommended:Monday 08 December 2025 10:35Back to Top