FA Cup 2025/2026

[Super_horns]

FA cup first round ties on TV:

 

Friday 31 October

Luton Town v Forest Green Rovers - 7.30pm GMT, TNT Sports 1 and discovery+

 

Saturday 1 November

 

Chelmsford City v Braintree Town - 12pm GMT, TNT Sports 1, 3 and discovery+
Brackley Town v Notts County - 5.30pm GMT, BBC Two, BBC iPlayer, TNT Sports 3 and discovery+ 

 

Sunday 2 November

 

South Shields v Shrewsbury Town - 12pm GMT, TNT Sports 1 and discovery+

Eastleigh v Walsall - 2.15pm GMT, BBC Two, BBC Sport, TNT Sports 2 and discovery+

Port Vale v Maldon & Tiptree - 3pm GMT, TNT Sports 1 and discovery+

Gainsborough Trinity v Accrington Stanley - 5.15pm GMT, TNT Sports 1, 2 and discovery+

 

Monday 3 November

 

Tamworth v Leyton Orient - 7.30pm GMT, TNT Sports 1 and discovery+

 

The traditional non league v league side matches plus TNT gone with the two high profile managers angle and a local Derby .

Edited 17 October 2025 by Super_horns

[SouthStandUpperTier]

Incredible comeback by FGR away to Luton. 3-0 down. Now 3-3.

[Super_horns]

7 minutes ago, SouthStandUpperTier said:

Incredible comeback by FGR away to Luton. 3-0 down. Now 3-3.

 Come on the Vegans !

[SouthStandUpperTier]

1 minute ago, Super_horns said:

 Come on the Vegans !

Luton just scored in injury time. 4-3.

[Arkie Bennett]

I think I noticed Robbie Savage is there.

[Super_horns]

2 minutes ago, SouthStandUpperTier said:

Luton just scored in injury time. 4-3.

Jammy lot !

[spacemunky]

Brackley were the better side, against our "A" squad in that first half.

[spacemunky]

Love the fireworks! Nicely done Brackley supporters 

 

Edit: Wasn't in the stadium, but just behind it. Someone spent a lot of money for that.

 

 

Edited 1 November 2025 by spacemunky

[spacemunky]

Holy crap, was not expecting a fireworks display like this. It's been going for most of the second half. 

 

Not sure what the significance of it is, but hats off to Brackley 

[davieG]

Penalty 

[davieG]

2-2

[spacemunky]

10 minutes ago, davieG said:

2-2

From basically their only chance of the 2nd half 

[spacemunky]

How about Carlisle? Down 0-2 at Reading and came back to win 3-2.

 

Regan Linney came on as a second half sub for Carlisle and scored a hat-trick(all in added time) for the win!

[davieG]

11 minutes ago, spacemunky said:

From basically their only chance of the 2nd half 

Header against the crossbar to down on the line was close

[spacemunky]

2 minutes ago, davieG said:

Header against the crossbar to down on the line was close

Right, there was that one! The fireworks really threw me off 

 

 

Edited 1 November 2025 by spacemunky

[spacemunky]

8 minutes ago, spacemunky said:

How about Carlisle? Down 0-2 at Reading and came back to win 3-2.

 

Regan Linney came on as a second half sub for Carlisle and scored a hat-trick(all in added time) for the win!

Was actually 2 of the Carlise goals in added time and the 3rd was scored in extra time.

 

Still, pretty impressive!

[spacemunky]

To penalties we go 

[spacemunky]

And...that's how that went 

 

Congrats to Brackley. Well played.

[Arriba Los Zorros]

Sorry @spacemunky but Brackley being my local team, I'm absolutely delighted!!!

[spacemunky]

31 minutes ago, Arriba Los Zorros said:

Sorry @spacemunky but Brackley being my local team, I'm absolutely delighted!!!

Well deserved. Congrats 

[FoxesFan#1]

49 minutes ago, Arriba Los Zorros said:

Sorry @spacemunky but Brackley being my local team, I'm absolutely delighted!!!

Loved it tonight at Brackley, I go to most of the home games and the lads worked so hard for that tonight.  An absolute pleasure to be part of this club.

 

Great fireworks display but for me the biggest support was the person in the tree (at the cricket ground) behind the away end giving extra support with his phone torch when Notts took the pens!

[Super_horns]

The FA cup really is up and running with its usual shocks , drama and crazy goals .

[Voll Blau]

Think I prefer the first round to the third these days.

 

There's so much lower league football on TV these days that's there's often no mystery to any of the participants - plus the TV games are frequently awful picks. With the first round, you still get to enjoy players you've never heard of causing upsets.

[purpleronnie]

10 minutes ago, Voll Blau said:

Think I prefer the first round to the third these days.

 

There's so much lower league football on TV these days that's there's often no mystery to any of the participants - plus the TV games are frequently awful picks. With the first round, you still get to enjoy players you've never heard of causing upsets.

Plus at least in the 1st round you don't have Villa v Fulham on TV.

[davieG]

Probably already been asked but why have the FA put this mostly on TNT when the only football fan subscribers are going to be PL team followers in Europe?