FA Cup first round draw - time, how to watch and ball numbers

EFL teams join non-leaguers for FA Cup first round draw

Chesterfield will find out their opponents in the first round proper of the FA Cup today.

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They are number 12 in the draw which takes place at around 6.35pm live on TNT Sports 1.

It contains 48 teams from League One and League Two and the other 32 to be made up of non-league sides, some whom still have to play in fourth qualifying round replays.

Already through are seventh-tier Berkhamsted who bumped out ex-Spireite Kieron Dyer’s Southend United in the final qualifying round.

Sholing, from the Southern League Premier South, are another unfamiliar name while the revived AFC Rushden & Diamonds are in the first round proper for the first time in their history.

Ties are around the weekend of November 7.

Winners get £47,750 in prize money.

The Spireites got as far as the second round in each of the last two seasons and in recent years have played the likes of Chelsea, West Brom and Watford in the third round.

FULL LIST OF BALL NUMBERS

1. Accrington Stanley, 2. AFC Wimbledon 3. Barnet 4. Barnsley 5. Blackpool 6. Bradford City 7. Bristol Rovers 8. Bromley 9. Burton Albion 10. Cambridge United 11. Cheltenham Town 12. Chesterfield 13. Colchester United 14. Crawley Town 15. Crewe Alexandra 16. Doncaster Rovers 17. Exeter City 18. Fleetwood Town 19. Gillingham 20. Grimsby Town 21. Huddersfield Town 22. Leicester City 23. Leyton Orient 24. Luton Town 25. Mansfield Town 26. Milton Keynes Dons 27. Newport County 28. Northampton Town 29. Notts County 30. Oldham Athletic 31. Oxford United 32. Peterborough United 33. Plymouth Argyle 34. Port Vale 35. Reading 36. Rochdale 37. Rotherham United 38. Salford City 39. Sheffield Wednesday 40. Shrewsbury Town 41. Stevenage 42. Stockport County 43. Swindon Town 44. Tranmere Rovers 45. Walsall 46. Wigan Athletic 47. Wycombe Wanderers 48. York City

49. Harborough Town 50. Chorley or Worcester City 51. Gateshead or Stafford Rangers 52. FC Halifax Town 53. Guiseley 54. Barrow or Gloucester City 55. Marine 56. Scunthorpe United 57. Macclesfield or Anstey Nomads 58. Altrincham or FC United of Manchester 59. Bury or Harrogate Town 60. Spalding United or Alvechurch 61. AFC Rushden & Diamonds 62. Kidderminster Harriers 63. Carlisle United 64. AFC Fylde 65. Salisbury 66. Sutton United 67. Chesham United or Forest Green Rovers 68. Leatherhead or Yeovil Town 69. Bedford Town or Cray Wanderers 70. Hornchurch 71. Aldershot Town or Tadley Calleva 72. Oxford City 73. Wimborne Town 74. Wealdstone 75. Boreham Wood 76. Eastleigh 77. Berkhamsted 78. Sholing 79. Plymouth Parkway 80. Dover Athletic

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