FA Cup fifth-round draw LIVE: Liverpool, Manchester United, Man City, Chelsea and more discover fate
Holders Manchester City will visit Luton Town in the fifth round of the FA Cup in an all-Premier League clash, while sixth-tier Maidstone United, the lowest-ranked team left in the competition, will travel to either Sheffield Wednesday or Coventry.
The fifth round will be played on or around 28 February, with the final set for May 25 at Wembley.
The draw was delayed until half-time of Liverpool’s home tie against Norwich City after Wolverhampton’s 2-0 win at West Bromwich Albion earlier was interrupted by crowd trouble.
Fifth round:
Blackburn/Wrexham v Newcastle
Chelsea/Aston Villa v Leeds/Plymouth
Bournemouth v Leicester
Liverpool/Norwich City v Watford/Southampton
Bristol City/Nottingham Forest v Newport County/Manchester United
Wolverhampton v Brighton & Hove Albion
Sheffield Wednesday/Coventry v Maidstone United
Luton Town v Manchester City
FA Cup fifth round draw live
Delayed draw after trouble in stands during West Brom v Wolves FA Cup tie
Holders Manchester City will visit Luton, while sixth-tier Maidstone United will travel to either Sheffield Wednesday or Coventry.
Fifth-round draw in full
FA Cup fifth round draw
15:30 , Ben Fleming
So here’s the draw in full. For National League South side Maidstone, it’s a trip to face Sheffield Wednesday or Coventry City. Elsewhere, reigning FA Cup winners Man City face a trip to take on Luton at Kenilworth Road.
Blackburn Rovers or Wrexham vs Newcastle
Chelsea or Aston Villa vs Leeds United or Plymouth Argyle
Bournemouth vs Leicester City
Liverpool or Norwich vs Watford or Southampton
Bristol City or Nottingham Forest vs Newport County or Manchester United
Wolves vs Brighton
Sheffield Wednesday or Coventry City vs Maidstone United
Luton Town vs Manchester City
FA Cup fifth round
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Those fifth-round fixtures will be played on or around 28 February, with the final set for May 25 at Wembley.
Ties to watch
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Blackburn Rovers or Wrexham vs Newcastle
Wrexham play their fourth-round tie against Blackburn on Monday but there could be an intriguing clash against Newcastle if the high-flying League Two side can upset their Championship opposition.
Ties to watch
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Luton Town vs Manchester City
For defending champions Man City, there is a trip to Kenilworth Road to take on Premier League opposition in Luton Town. The two sides met earlier in the season, with City prevailing after a narrow 2-1 victory.
Ties to watch
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Sheffield Wednesday or Coventry City vs Maidstone United
For sixth-tier Maidstone, another Championship opponent awaits. Perhaps their fans would have wanted a Premier League opponent but they have been granted another chance for a memorable away day, regardless.
FA Cup fifth round draw
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Luton Town vs Manchester City
FA Cup fifth round draw
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Sheffield Wednesday or Coventry City vs Maidstone United
FA Cup fifth round draw
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Wolves vs Brighton
FA Cup fifth round draw
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Bristol City or Nottingham Forest vs Newport County or Manchester United
FA Cup fifth round draw
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Liverpool or Norwich vs Watford or Southampton
FA Cup fifth round draw
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Bournemouth vs Leicester City
FA Cup fifth round draw
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Chelsea or Aston Villa vs Leeds United or Plymouth Argyle
FA Cup fifth round draw
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First up is...
Blackburn Rovers or Wrexham v Newcastle
Draw coming up shortly
15:19 , Ben Fleming
The half-time whistle goes at Anfield, with Liverpool still leading 2-1 and the delayed fifth-round draw should be coming up shortly.
FA Cup draw - ball numbers
15:12 , Ben Fleming
A reminder at the ball numbers for today’s draw coming up in the half-time interval between Liverpool vs Norwich:
1 Watford or Southampton
2 Blackburn Rovers or Wrexham
3 AFC Bournemouth
4 Wolverhampton Wanderers
5 Bristol City or Nottingham Forest
6 Leicester City
7 Sheffield Wednesday or Coventry City
8 Chelsea or Aston Villa
9 Maidstone United
10 Liverpool or Norwich City
11 Manchester City
12 Leeds United or Plymouth Argyle
13 Luton Town
14 Newport County or Manchester United
15 Brighton & Hove Albion
16 Newcastle United
FA Cup fifth round draw
14:59 , Ben Fleming
At Anfield, Liverpool are back in front again through Darwin Nunez. The Reds had led through Curtis Jones before Ben Gibson’s header briefly pulled Norwich level.
That’s an uphill battle for the Championship side now.
Maidstone goalkeeper Lucas Covolan eyes Championship move after FA Cup heroics
14:40 , Ben Fleming
Maidstone goalkeeper Lucas Covolan is eyeing a move to the Sky Bet Championship after a “normal day at the office” in the club’s historic 2-1 win at Ipswich.
National League South club Maidstone produced one of the FA Cup’s greatest upsets on Saturday after goals from Lamar Reynolds and Sam Corne in Suffolk.
Covolan also starred at Portman Road as Maidstone lost the shot count 38-2, but had their former Brazil Under-20 goalkeeper to thank following a string of excellent saves.
It helped Maidstone become only the 11th non-league club to reach the fifth round in what was their seventh tie in this season’s competition.
“It’s a normal day at the office isn’t it,” Covolan told BBC One. “I had a great game and I am so happy I could help my team-mates. Here we go, we’re in the hat again and I am so proud of the team.
“Hopefully I can get a move now to the Championship as well!”
Maidstone goalkeeper Lucas Covolan eyes Championship move after FA Cup heroics
FA Cup results so far
14:29 , Ben Fleming
Here’s a reminder of the results so far in the fourth round.
Bournemouth 5-0 Swansea
Bristol City 0-0 Nottingham Forest
Chelsea 0-0 Aston Villa
Sheffield Wednesday 1-1 Coventry
Tottenham 0-1 Manchester City
Ipswich 1-2 Maidstone United
Everton 1-2 Luton Town
Leeds United 1-1 Plymouth Argyle
Leicester 3-0 Birmingham
Sheffield United 2-5 Brighton
Fulham 0-2 Newcastle
West Brom 0-2 Wolves
Fifth-round draw delayed
14:18 , Ben Fleming
The draw was set to take place before Liverpool’s game with Norwich but it will now take place during half-time of that game.
Play suspended after trouble in stands during West Brom v Wolves FA Cup tie
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Play was suspended after trouble broke out in the stands during West Brom’s FA Cup derby against Wolves at The Hawthorns.
The stoppage came shortly after Matheus Cunha had struck to give Wolves a 2-0 lead over their Black Country rivals in the 78th minute.
Police and security needed to rush to a corner of the ground supposedly holding home fans as the disturbance developed, while the players were ushered off the pitch.
Play suspended after trouble in stands during West Brom v Wolves FA Cup tie
Maidstone United pull off stunning Cup win at Ipswich
14:08 , Ben Fleming
Who knows what today will bring but it will be hard to beat the scenes witnessed at Portman Road yesterday as National League South side Maidstone stunned Championship Ipswich to win 2-1 and book their place in the fifth round.
Here’s how it went down:
Maidstone pull off historic FA Cup shock and Brighton win thriller
West Brom vs Wolves set to resume
13:57 , Ben Fleming
It looks as if they are set to resume at the Hawthorns after a 30-minute delay. The paramedics are still attending to fans injured in the clashes so we still could have more time to wait.
We haven’t got confirmation but the fifth-round draw will no doubt be delayed as a result of this.
Crowd trouble at the Hawthorns ground
13:48 , Ben Fleming
The day’s earlier game between Wolves and West Brom has unfortunately been suspended because of fan disorder in the 82nd minute.
Wolves were 2-0 up at the time and it’s currently unclear whether it will be able to continue.
Eddie Howe praises Newcastle’s toughness in hunt for FA Cup silverware
13:35 , Karl Matchett
Eddie Howe hailed his side’s resilience after they beat Fulham 2-0 away from home to send Newcastle to the FA Cup fifth round.
Goals from Sean Longstaff and Dan Burn were enough to send the Magpies through on Saturday, 27 January.
“It was a big result for us, we know we wanted to progress. It’s our last chance of silverware this season,” Howe said.
“I thought we got the major bits right, which was resilience and a really good character and attitude. I thought we improved in the game, and got better in the second half.”
See Howe’s full thoughts here:
Eddie Howe praises Newcastle’s toughness in hunt for silverware
FA Cup draw live - ball numbers
13:25 , Karl Matchett
Ball numbers for today’s draw!
1 Watford or Southampton
2 Blackburn Rovers or Wrexham
3 AFC Bournemouth
4 West Bromwich Albion or Wolverhampton Wanderers
5 Bristol City or Nottingham Forest
6 Leicester City
7 Sheffield Wednesday or Coventry City
8 Chelsea or Aston Villa
9 Maidstone United
10 Liverpool or Norwich City
11 Manchester City
12 Leeds United or Plymouth Argyle
13 Luton Town
14 Newport County or Manchester United
15 Brighton & Hove Albion
16 Newcastle United
All you need to know ahead of Newport vs Man United
13:15 , Karl Matchett
Newport County have earned a glamour FA Cup draw with Manchester United their fourth round visitors.
The Welsh club came through a replay with Eastleigh to progress to this stage and will hope to cause a shock as Erik ten Hag’s side visit Rodney Parade.
The League Two team do have a strange habit of giving Premier League clubs a fright, drawing with Tottenham in 2018 and threatening something similar against Manchester City a year later.
Can they produce a famous result as Manchester United come to town?
Is Newport v Man Utd on TV? Channel, start time and how to watch FA Cup online today
What time is the FA Cup fifth-round draw? How to watch on TV and online today
13:05 , Karl Matchett
We’re approaching FA Cup fifth-round draw time so here’s all the details you need!
The fifth round is likely to see plenty of lower ranked clubs involved, after the fourth-round draw paired 10 Premier League clubs together in five all-top-flight ties.
Chelsea v Aston Villa, Tottenham v Manchester City, Everton v Luton, Sheffield United v Brighton and Fulham v Newcastle were pulled out of the hat to ensure five big names fall at their second hurdle.
The lowest ranked side left in this year’s FA Cup, sixth-tier Maidstone United, beat Championship high-flyers Ipswich Town, while Newport were handed the game of their lives against Manchester United.
Here is everything you need to know about the FA Cup fifth-round draw, and get all the latest betting offers here.
What time is the FA Cup fifth-round draw? How to watch on TV and online today
FA Cup fourth-round fixtures today: Every game, TV channel and start time
12:55 , Karl Matchett
The FA Cup continues this weekend with the fourth round of the 2023-24 competition, and a host of ties will be shown live on TV.
Bournemouth and Swansea kicked off the action on Thursday night at the Vitality Stadium. Four intriguing fixtures followed on Friday night, including Bristol City v Nottingham Forest and Chelsea v Aston Villa, but the pick of the bunch was Tottenham Hotspur’s meeting with Manchester City, which Pep Guardiola’s side edged.
The lowest ranked side left in this year’s FA Cup, sixth-tier Maidstone United, beat Ipswich Town on Saturday, before three all-Premier League ties including Fulham’s defeat by Newcastle United.
Sunday will see Liverpool take on Norwich City (ITV 1) before Newport play the game of their lives against Manchester United (BBC One). Blackburn Rovers v Wrexham rounds off the ties on Monday night (BBC Wales).
FA Cup fourth-round fixtures today: Every game, TV channel and start time
Meet Farnham Town, the club with a perfect record, their own documentary and ‘the Surrey Zidane’
12:45 , Karl Matchett
We’ve seen non-league heroics in the FA Cup this weekend - how about some that have been going all season long?! A brilliant feature here from Lawrence Ostlere:
Last weekend, PSV Eindhoven finally stopped winning. They had held a perfect record with 17 wins from 17 league games this season, until Sunday’s 1-1 draw with Utrecht brought their run to an end. “It is incredibly impressive that we have come this far,” said their proud manager, Peter Bosz.
PSV were the last perfect team in Europe’s top leagues, but there is one club who have outdone them. In the ninth tier of English football, at the top of the Combined Counties Premier Division South, sit part-time Farnham Town with an immaculate record that this week went one step further than the Eredivisie leaders: 18 games played, 18 games won.
Farnham’s performances have been as dominant as they sound, with 71 goals scored and only 10 conceded. Excitement is growing in the Surrey market town, where attendances have been rising each week and have started to tip over 1,000 – numbers which wouldn’t be out of place at some League Two grounds and which are unheard of in the ninth tier.
P 18, W 18: Meet Farnham Town, the club with a perfect winning record
Man Utd in ‘no position to underestimate any team’ heading into Newport cup tie
12:35 , Karl Matchett
Erik ten Hag says Manchester United are not in a position to underestimate any opponent as his stumbling side look to keep their hopes of silverware alive in Sunday’s FA Cup clash at Newport.
This has been a challenging second season in the hotseat for the Dutchman, whose side languish eighth in the Premier League and were eliminated from European competition before Christmas.
United’s Carabao Cup defence is also long since over, meaning the FA Cup takes on extra significance as their only potential route to a trophy in a disappointing campaign.
Man Utd in ‘no position to underestimate any team’ heading into Newport cup tie
Man City break the Spurs curse late on
12:25 , Karl Matchett
Finally, the curse was lifted. Manchester City are a magnificent team, the rightful champions of Europe and the world, but on this rectangular patch of ground in north London they have been a mixture of unfortunate, underwhelming and comically inept. Before tonight they had played five games at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and lost them all, never even scoring a goal despite accumulating an xG of about 375. For 88 minutes here history rhymed, until Nathan Ake’s bundled late winner, a game won in the most un-Cityish of ways.
Pep Guardiola had been getting increasingly irate, so much so that he was booked for sarcastically applauding referee Paul Tierney during the second half of this FA Cup tie. He would have recognised some similar traits of games that had gone before here, in which City created chance after chance but could not alter the scoreboard. An early goal was chalked off by the barest of margins; Julian Alvarez, Bernardo Silva, Kevin De Bruyne and Jeremy Doku all missed prime chances.
But where Guardiola had come against stubborn defensive units in the past, deliberately designed to annoy him by Jose Mourinho, Nuno Espirito Santo and Antonio Conte, this Ange Postecoglou team was never going to play that way. Tottenham tried to play their way, but they never managed to gain control and ultimately their open gameplan failed, albeit at the very last, at a corner, when so much hard work had been done. City won 1-0 and the defending champions will be in the hat for the fifth round.
Lawrence Ostlere from the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium:
Manchester City finally lift the curse to knock Tottenham out the FA Cup
Chelsea and Aston Villa set for FA Cup replay
12:15 , Karl Matchett
Two Premier League teams who will face a replay to be in the fifth round are Chelsea and Aston Villa - here’s chief football writer Miguel Delaney and his assessment from the Stamford Bridge stalemate.
Chelsea and Aston Villa set for FA Cup replay after goalless stalemate
Everton out as Luton progress in FA Cup
12:05 , Karl Matchett
Even an injury-time winner was not the most dramatic event in Merseyside football in the last couple of days but there is a shared sense of gloom. While Liverpool mourn Jurgen Klopp’s planned departure, Everton’s disappointment stems from different reasons. As they were ejected from the FA Cup, Luton Town’s supporters chorused about going to Wembley; after last season’s play-off final, they have fond memories of the national stadium.
Yet if Everton claimed they merited a free kick when the Hatters took the lead and could point out that Cauley Woodrow’s decider came 14 seconds into the 96th minute – only five had been signalled – neither grievance had much weight. Luton had more cohesion and chances, more dynamism and drive. Perhaps they had more in reserve, too, with two substitutes, Luke Berry and Woodrow, playing pivotal parts in the decider.
If Sean Dyche’s sides tend to be set-piece specialists, they were beaten at their own game. Both Luton goals came from corners, just as they had prospered from dead-ball situations when achieving their maiden Premier League win at Goodison in September.
Sean Dyche shows his old weakness as Everton beaten at their own game
Maidstone United pull off stunning Cup win at Ipswich
11:49 , Lawrence Ostlere
A reminder of some of yesterday’s action, as Maidstone United pulled off one of the greatest FA Cup upsets of recent times. Goals from Lamar Reynolds and Sam Corne sealed a 2-1 win over Championship promotion chasers Ipswich Town at Portman Road.
Maidstone pull off historic FA Cup shock and Brighton win thriller
When is the FA Cup fifth-round draw? Date, start time and how to watch on TV and online
Friday 26 January 2024 17:06 , Jack Rathborn
The FA Cup fifth-round draw will take place this weekend following the latest batch of ties in the 2023-24 competition.
The fifth round is likely to see plenty of lower ranked clubs involved, after the fourth-round draw paired 10 Premier League clubs together in five all-top-flight ties.
Here is everything you need to know about the FA Cup fifth-round draw, and get all the latest betting offers here.
When is the FA Cup fifth-round draw? Date, start time and how to watch on TV
FA Cup fifth round draw
Friday 26 January 2024 17:06 , Jack Rathborn
Welcome to Independent Sport’s live coverage of the FA Cup fifth round draw.
It promises to be a fascinating round with plenty of sides outside the Premier League poised to feature after 10 teams from the top tier were paired together in the fourth round.
Follow for all the ties drawn out of the hat ahead of Liverpool v Norwich at Anfield and the immediate reaction as a trip to Wembley draws ever closer.
