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The FA cup doesn’t just begin when the Premier League teams enter in the 3rd Round proper. It began last month with the First Qualification Round.
In the truest traditions of the grassroots tournament, we are following a side from the outset and hope to stay with them and be at their games, or those of the side who eliminate them, all the way to Wembley.
This site already sponsors the manager of Carlisle City, James Nichols. So in the interests of geographical balance, we selected a club at the other end of the nation, Portsmouth’s own Moneyfields FC. Our assistant editor Conor Smith claims to have played against their reserves for Netley which may have influenced our choice.
The decision was cemented by their opposition Aylesbury United. The Ducks are a club with an FA Cup pedigree, who currently play their home games in Chesham, agonisingly far from their own Buckinghamshire home town, but agonisingly close to Wembley which is where this story ends next May.
So we started our series, “Moneyfields to Wembley” with their visit to Aylesbury United, the Ducks, now playing their home games at the Meadows, home of Chesham United.
The Moneys progressed which brings us to the next round where they host London’s oldest club Cray Wanderers.
The draw for the 2nd Qualification Round of the 2020/21 FA Cup has been made.
Our selected side Moneyfields FC snagged a home tie against a team of some note Cray Wanderers FC, known as the Chocolates.
Moneyfields are a Portsmouth based side who play in the Southern League Division One South, whose odd season so far includes more FA Cup than league wins. Moneyfields went to Chesham and beat Aylesbury United on penalties after a remarkable second half which saw the home side awarded three penalties in nine minutes.
They beat Camberley before Aylesbury United (on penalties) in the FA Cup on a night where keeper Jake Hallett kept out six of the ten penalties he faces.
League form has not been so good. A 2-1 loss at Cinderford was followed by a 0-2 home loss to Melksham Town, with two goals gifted to their visitors from Wiltshire inside one nightmare minute.
Having lost the first goal, they surrendered the ball from their own kick off and watched in disbelief as Melksham’s Jack Ball, from all of 40 yards, lobbed the ball over their hero from Aylesbury Hallett into the net.
Ball incidentally scored twice against the Moneys in a league fixture a year ago which Moneyfields won 6-4.
Only Mangotsfield United and Barnstaple Town are propping the Moneys up from the foot of the table.
Cray Wanderers however have made a flying start to the season. They’ve played four and won them all, scoring 14 goals.
The Wanderers beat Fisher FC 3-1 in the First Qualification round.
They roll into Hampshire on the back of two recent 3-1 away wins at East Thurrock United and Folkestone Invicta, following the home cup win over Fisher by the same score.
Joe Taylor, Charlie Allen (below) and Rhys Murrell-Williamson scored against Invicta and that goal took Taylor to five for the season, over a third of Cray’s 14 goals.
Charlie Allen scores Wanderers’ second against Folkestone
Photo: Cray Wanderers FC
They play in the Isthmian League Premier Division. Sadly they no longer play their home games in St Mary Cray, a historic market town and ancient parish in Kent, but now in the London Borough of Bromley.
Their current home is Hayes Lane five miles away, the home ground of National League side Bromley FC and is also used by Crystal Palace women.
The club claim to be the oldest in London, emerging from lunchtime kick-abouts between St. Mary Cray villagers and labourers constructing a railway viaduct across the Cray Valley in north-west Kent. This is thought to be around 1860.
They are not to be confused with Cray Valley Paper Mills of the Isthmian League South East Division who are also in the FA Cup, drawn away at Harrow Borough.
Preview: Five miles from Wembley, Cray Valley Paper Mills aim for best FA Cup run ever
Prost International will be covering that game too, as well as the tie between Concord Rangers and Potters Bar.
More on the Second Qualifying Round Draw
43 clubs from Step 6 joined the 117 winners from the First Qualifying round. The FA published the full 2nd Round Draw as a pdf.
The games are set to be played in the first week of October. The draw contained two teams from Step 6, Risborough Rangers and Saltash United.
Saltash were drawn at home to Hampshire side Sholing while Risborough must travel to Chichester City.
The draw contains some absorbing ties and this is a list of our favourites, selected for a variety of reasons:
Darlington v Prescot Cables
Hashtag United v Braintree
Corinthian Casuals v Dulwich Hamlet
Runcorn Linnets v Marine
Hyde United v Fylde
Bury Town v Waltham Abbey
Kettering Town v Chelmsford city
Walthamstow v Hornchurch
Warrington Rylands v York City
Hayes and Yeading v Bognor Regis
Harrow Borough v Cray Valley Paper Mills
Chichester City v Risborough Rangers
Folkestone Invicta v Chatham
Moneyfields v Cray Wanderers
Met Police v Waltham Casuals
Saltash United v Sholing
Gosport Borough v Hereford
Ilkeston Town v Hanley Town
The clubs who have reached this stage for the first time in their history have had mixed fortunes.
Two of them, Ilkeston Town and Hanley Town face each other.
Sheppey United are at home to Welling United. Longridge Town travel to Stalybbridge Celtic.
Warrington Rylands host York City in one of the draw’s plum ties.
Two clubs in their first FA Cups drew interesting ties. Hashtag United host Braintree, while Newark visit Mickleover.
West London side Bedfont Sports host Carshalton in a battle between two clubs who hosted a number of games in the 2018 CONIFA World Cup.
It’s the first appearance for Saltash in 29 years and the first in 24 years for Melksham, who avenged a previous elimination at the hands of Highworth Town. Wiltshire side Melksham visit Wimborne Town in Dorset.
The Cornishmen from Saltash provided one of the bigger shocks when the Step 6 side beat Cirencester from Step 4 3-1.
For us though, it is Moneyfields v Cray Wanderers that catches the eye, as it is the next game in our Moneyfields to Wembley series which will follow the Portsea club all the way to Wembley, and follow anyone who beats them.
Full 1st Qualification Round Results (from the FA website)
Wednesday 23 September 2020
23 Worcester City FC 2 – 3 Stafford Rangers FC
52 Grays Athletic FC 3 – 1 Potton United FC
79 Sutton Common Rovers FC 1 – 3 Metropolitan Police FC
84 Wingate & Finchley FC 1 – 4 Folkestone Invicta FC
86 Cray Wanderers FC 3 – 1 Fisher FC
92 Cray Valley (PM) FC 3 – 1 Burgess Hill Town FC
98 Tavistock AFC 2 – 2 Gosport Borough FC
Gosport Borough FC won 5-3 on penalties
103 Kidlington FC 1 – 1 Salisbury FC
Kidlington FC won 4-2 on penalties
107 Larkhall Athletic FC 3 – 2 Bitton FC
108 Tiverton Town FC 2 – 0 Bideford AFC
112 Highworth Town FC 1 – 1 Melksham Town FC
Melksham Town FC won 5-4 on penalties
Tuesday 22 September 2020
71 Hartley Wintney FC 5 – 0 Erith & Belvedere FC
83 Crawley Down Gatwick FC 1 – 2 Hendon FC
88 East Grinstead Town FC 3 – 3 Worthing FC
East Grinstead Town FC won 4-3 on penalties
102 Cowes Sports FC 0 – 5 Weston Super Mare FC
1 Sunderland RCA FC 0 – 4 Prescot Cables FC
2 Lancaster City FC 0 – 0 Runcorn Town FC
Lancaster City FC won 4-3 on penalties
3 Warrington Town FC 0 – 0 South Shields FC
South Shields FC won 6-5 on penalties
4 Marske United FC 1 – 0 Trafford FC
5 Mossley AFC 2 – 1 Ramsbottom United FC
6 West Allotment Celtic FC 1 – 5 Hyde United FC
8 West Auckland Town FC 0 – 0 Runcorn Linnets FC
Runcorn Linnets FC won 3-2 on penalties
9 Whitley Bay FC 3 – 2 Witton Albion FC
10 Radcliffe FC 5 – 3 Workington AFC
11 Scarborough Athletic FC 0 – 2 Ashton United FC
12 Frickley Athletic FC 0 – 1 Marine FC
13 Whitby Town FC 1 – 1 Warrington Rylands FC
Warrington Rylands FC won 4-3 on penalties
14 City of Liverpool FC 0 – 3 Morpeth Town FC
15 Atherton Colleries FC W – O Bamber Bridge FC
walkover for Atherton Collieries – Bamber Bridge withdrawn
16 Longridge Town FC 2 – 0 Charnock Richard FC
17 Stalybridge Celtic FC 3 – 0 Bishop Auckland FC
18 Consett FC 1 – 0 Stockton Town FC
19 FC United Of Manchester 6 – 2 Pontefract Collieries FC
20 Tadcaster Albion FC 7 – 2 Litherland Remyca FC
21 Hednesford Town FC 3 – 2 Long Eaton United FC
22 Tamworth FC 3 – 3 Stourbridge FC
Tamworth FC won 5-4 on penalties
24 Quorn FC 0 – 2 Matlock Town FC
25 Leek Town FC 1 – 2 Mickleover FC
26 Grantham Town FC 2 – 2 Rushall Olympic FC
Grantham Town FC won 3-1 on penalties
27 Nuneaton Borough FC 2 – 1 Loughborough Dynamo FC
28 Westfields FC 1 – 3 Worksop Town FC
29 West Bridgford FC 0 – 1 Halesowen Town FC
30 Coventry Sphinx FC 0 – 2 Ilkeston Town FC
31 Banbury United FC 1 – 0 Carlton Town FC
32 Chasetown FC 2 – 1 Basford United FC
33 Tividale FC 2 – 4 Nantwich Town FC
34 Barwell FC 3 – 1 Bedworth United FC
35 AFC Mansfield 3 – 0 Gainsborough Trinity FC
36 Coalville Town FC 2 – 0 Sheffield FC
37 Buxton FC 7 – 0 Belper Town FC
38 Daventry Town FC 0 – 2 Evesham United FC
39 AFC Rushden & Diamonds 0 – 5 Newark FC
40 Shifnal Town FC 0 – 2 Alvechurch FC
41 Bromsgrove Sporting FC 1 – 2 Stratford Town FC
42 Hanley Town FC 3 – 2 Redditch United FC
43 Ely City FC 1 – 2 Biggleswade FC
44 Haverhill Rovers FC 0 – 3 Maldon & Tiptree FC
45 Walthamstow FC 0 – 0 St Margaretsbury FC
Walthamstow FC won 4-3 on penalties
46 Bury Town FC 2 – 1 Brightlingsea Regent FC
47 Dereham Town FC 0 – 2 Canvey Island FC
48 Kings Langley FC 1 – 1 FC Clacton
Kings Langley FC won 4-2 on penalties
49 Stamford AFC 4 – 0 AFC Sudbury
51 Bowers & Pitsea FC 0 – 3 Hornchurch FC
53 Long Melford FC 1 – 3 Cheshunt FC
55 Leiston FC 5 – 1 Biggleswade Town FC
56 Cambridge City FC 1 – 1 Stowmarket Town FC
Cambridge City FC won 4-2 on penalties
58 Peterborough Sports FC 2 – 2 Enfield Town FC
Peterborough Sports FC won 5-4 on penalties
59 Potters Bar Town FC 1 – 0 East Thurrock United FC
60 Harlow Town FC 0 – 1 Waltham Abbey FC
61 Royston Town FC 2 – 0 Wroxham FC
62 Leighton Town FC 4 – 0 Mildenhall Town FC
63 Welwyn Garden City FC 1 – 1 Bishop’s Stortford FC
Bishop’s Stortford FC won 4-3 on penalties
64 Coggeshall Town FC 0 – 1 Stansted FC
65 Barking FC 6 – 1 Dunstable Town FC
66 Brantham Athletic FC 1 – 0 St Ives Town FC
68 Burnham FC 1 – 0 Northwood FC
69 Horsham FC 2 – 1 Kingstonian FC
70 Corinthian FC 3 – 1 Sevenoaks Town FC
72 Whyteleafe FC 2 – 0 Binfield FC
73 Chipstead FC 1 – 1 Deal Town FC
Chipstead FC won 4-2 on penalties
74 Staines Town FC 1 – 2 Walton Casuals FC
75 Frimley Green FC 1 – 1 Marlow FC
Marlow FC won 4-1 on penalties
76 Little Common FC 0 – 3 Corinthian Casuals FC
77 Haringey Borough FC 5 – 1 Tunbridge Wells FC
78 Haywards Heath Town FC 0 – 1 Hanwell Town FC
80 Cobham FC 1 – 3 Risborough Rangers FC
81 Ashford United FC 1 – 4 Bracknell Town FC
82 Bedfont Sports FC 3 – 1 Lewes FC
85 Hastings United FC 0 – 0 Chesham United FC
Hastings United FC won 6-5 on penalties
87 Steyning Town FC 0 – 5 Sheppey United FC
89 South Park FC 2 – 2 Bognor Regis Town FC
Bognor Regis Town FC won 4-2 on penalties
90 Merstham FC 2 – 2 AFC Dunstable
AFC Dunstable won 7-6 on penalties
91 Chertsey Town FC 0 – 0 Leatherhead FC
Chertsey Town FC won 5-4 on penalties
94 Chatham Town FC 3 – 2 Southall FC
95 Chalfont St Peter FC 2 – 3 Farnborough FC
96 Margate FC 1 – 2 Hayes & Yeading United FC
99 Fairford Town FC 1 – 2 Sholing FC
100 Cinderford Town FC 2 – 2 Royal Wootton Bassett Town FC
Royal Wootton Bassett Town FC won 6-5 on penalties
101 Chichester City FC 3 – 1 Cribbs FC
104 Aylesbury United FC 2 – 2 Moneyfields FC
Moneyfields FC won 4-3 on penalties
105 Taunton Town FC 5 – 0 Wantage Town FC
106 Winchester City FC 3 – 2 Clevedon Town FC
109 Tadley Calleva FC 0 – 1 Truro City FC
110 Barnstaple Town FC 2 – 3 Wimborne Town FC
111 Yate Town FC 1 – 2 Bristol Manor Farm FC
113 Merthyr Town FC W – O Poole Town FC
walkover for Poole Town – Merthyr Town withdrawn
114 Frome Town FC 4 – 1 AFC Stoneham
115 Christchurch FC 2 – 1 Dorchester Town FC
116 Swindon Supermarine FC 3 – 0 Shepton Mallet FC
117 Saltash United FC 3 – 1 Cirencester Town FC
7 Skelmersdale United FC 2 – 1 Bootle FC
57 Lowestoft Town FC 2 – 3 Aveley FC
Monday 21 September 2020
50 Hitchin Town FC 3 – 0 Needham Market FC
54 Hashtag United FC 1 – 1 Soham Town Rangers FC
Hashtag won 4-2 on penalties
67 New Salamis FC 1 – 2 Brentwood Town FC
93 Beaconsfield Town FC 0 – 2 Harrow Borough FC
97 Carshalton Athletic FC 5 – 0 Faversham Town FC
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