FA Cup draw LIVE: Non-league minnows to discover second-round opponents

There will be 40 teams in the draw for the second round with 20 fixtures to be made ahead of the entry of the Premier League and Championship clubs from the third round onwards.

Three second-half goals did the damage as the League One Foxes, the 2021 winners, eventually saw off the National League North outfit, who are sat 64 places below Leicester in the English pyramid.

Saturday saw a few non-league teams get the better of EFL foes as Kidderminster thrashed Doncaster 3-0, Carlisle battled past Salford City 1-0 and Barrow won 1-0 on their long trip to Gillingham, while seventh-tier Guiseley also upset National League Sutton United 1-0.

Friday night’s matches saw 2021 champions, and former Premier League winners, Leicester City avoid a potential banana skin at sixth-tier Oxford City.

Either one of seventh-tier Plymouth Parkway or Berkhamsted will complete the line-up.

Seventh-tier Wimborne are one of nine non-league teams still fighting in the FA Cup ahead of the second-round draw.

The Dorset part-timers, of the Southern League Premier Division South, stunned League Two strugglers Crawley 2-0 on Sunday to reach the FA Cup second round for the first time in their history.

Stockport survived a scare to beat Cray Wanderers of the Isthmian League Premier Division 3-2, while eighth-tier Stafford Rangers also led EFL opposition 2-0 before Grimsby avoid an embarrassing exit and eventually made it through on penalties.

The television coverage of the final first-round game starts at 6:30pm GMT, with the draw itself expected to begin shortly afterwards around 6.45pm.

Jules Breach will host the draw with the teams being pulled out of the pots by Karen Carney and Joel Ward.

The draw for the second round of the 2026-27 FA Cup takes place around 6.45pm on Monday 9 November, before the clash between non-league clubs Plymouth Parkway and Berkhamsted.

Hello and welcome to live coverage of the FA Cup second-round draw!

The final game of the first round is to be played tonight with the draw ceremony happening right before. We’ll have all the action right here.