FA Cup third round winners: Who is in the fourth round draw?

The third round of the FA Cup kicked off this week five months after the initial preliminary qualifying stage of the competition.

Jay Malshanskyj of the wonderfully named eighth-tier outfit Bishop's Cleeve scored the tournament's first goal at 19:48 on 4 August 2023, just 66 seconds into the first game of this season's FA Cup. The campaign has been swollen with excitement and intrigue ever since, with teams from England's top two tiers adding to the spectacle in the always highly anticipated third round.

Bishop's Cleeve had their fast start cut short in September but 64 teams still remained to duke out an entertaining slate of fixtures this week. Here are the sides that are in the hat for the fourth-round draw.

What teams are through to the 2023/24 FA Cup fourth round?

Each team to have won their FA Cup third-round tie and advanced to the fourth round of the competition is listed below:

Tottenham Hotspur, Fulham, Ipswich Town, Coventry City, Maidstone United, Leicester City, Newcastle United, Blackburn Rovers, Sheffield United, Plymouth Argyle, Bournemouth, Southampton, Brighton & Hove Albion, Watford, Chelsea, Aston Villa, Sheffield Wednesday, Swansea City, Manchester City, Leeds United, Wrexham, West Bromwich Albion, Liverpool.

Much to the disdain of some Premier League managers, replays are still used at this stage of the cup for teams that cannot be separated after the first encounter. Brentford boss Thomas Frank was particularly perturbed by the format structure, lamenting: "The FA or whoever is in charge of this need to take some more clever decisions."

The following matches were drawn and subjected to a fate Frank implied was worse than defeat, a replay in mid-January at the opposite stadiums:

FA Cup 2023/24 third round results

After Thursday's painfully forgettable goalless draw between Crystal Palace and Everton to limply open the third round, Tottenham Hotspur and Fulham advanced against Burnley and Rotherham United respectively in Friday night ties that weren't much livelier.

The pulse of the round mercifully quickened on Saturday afternoon. Sunderland boss Michael Beale described the Wear-Tyne lunchtime derby as "the tie of the round", boasting: "The whole nation's looking forward to it." Beale's Black Cats were comfortably beaten 3-0 by Newcastle United, suffering their first derby defeat since 2011.

However, the story of day was stolen by sixth-tier Maidstone United. The lowest-ranked club in the third round defeated League One's Stevenage courtesy of Sam Corne's first-half penalty.

Sunday's action saw Manchester City trounce Huddersfield Town as Kevin De Bruyne returned to action, while Liverpool put Mohamed Salah's absence aside to win 2-0 at the Emirates Stadium as Arsenal exited the tournament early.

FA Cup 2023/24 third remaining fixtures

Manchester United's trip to Wigan Athletic has been saved for the final fixture of the third round before the replays later in the month.

The Latics have lost their last four matches against United by an aggregate score of 0-14. The last Wigan player to find United's net was current manager Shaun Maloney in 2012.

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