List of non-League clubs in the Fifth Round of the FA Cup since 1945

Since the end of the Second World War in 1945, nine non-League football clubs – that is, clubs outside the divisions of The Football League and, since 1992, the Premier League – have reached the Fifth Round of the FA Cup, to become one of the last 16 clubs in the competition. To date, only Lincoln City has subsequently reached the next round, the "quarter-finals" (formerly called the Sixth Round). The last non-League team to reach the quarter-finals (then the Fourth Round) was Queen Park Rangers of the Southern Football League in 1914, when the Southern League ran parallel to the Football League as opposed to being a feeder to it (with the National League in between) as it is today.

The most recent example of a non-league team beating top-flight opposition in the FA Cup was Lincoln City's Fifth Round victory away at Burnley in 2017.^[1] The last time a non-league side beat top-flight opposition at home in the FA Cup was Sutton United's Third Round victory over Coventry City in 1989.

In 2017, two non-League teams made it to the Fifth Round of the competition, Lincoln City and Sutton United. This was the first time two non-League teams had made it this far in the same season since the establishment of the Football League in 1888.^[2] Lincoln City subsequently became the first non-League team in 103 years and the first since World War I to make the quarter finals, but lost 5–0 to Arsenal.^[3]

Results

1947–48 – Colchester United – Southern League
Round	Date	Against	At	Score
4th qualifying	Saturday 15 November 1947	Chelmsford City	Away	3–1^[4]
1st	Saturday 29 November 1947	Banbury Spencer	Home	2–1^[4]
2nd	Saturday 13 December 1947	Wrexham	Home	1–0^[4]
3rd	Saturday 10 January 1948	Huddersfield Town	Home	1–0^[4]
4th	Saturday 24 January 1948	Bradford Park Avenue	Home	3–2^[4]
5th	Saturday 7 February 1948	Blackpool	Away	0–5^[4]
1948–49 – Yeovil Town – Southern League
Round	Date	Against	At	Score
4th qualifying	Saturday 13 November 1948	Lovell's Athletic	Away	3–2^[5]
1st	Saturday 27 November 1948	Romford	Home	4–0^[5]
2nd	Saturday 11 December 1948	Weymouth	Away	4–0^[5]
3rd	Saturday 8 January 1949	Bury	Home	3–1^[5]
4th	Saturday 29 January 1949	Sunderland	Home	2–1^[5]
5th	Saturday 12 February 1949	Manchester United	Away	0–8^[5]
1977–78 – Blyth Spartans – Northern League
Round	Date	Against	At	Score
1st qualifying	Saturday 17 September 1977	Shildon	Away	3–0^[6]
2nd qualifying	Saturday 8 October 1977	Crook Town	Away	1–1^[6]
2nd qualifying (replay)	Wednesday 12 October 1977	Crook Town	Home	3–0^[6]
3rd qualifying	Saturday 22 October 1977	Consett	Away	4–1^[6]
4th qualifying	Saturday 5 November 1977	Bishop Auckland	Away	1–0^[6]
1st	Saturday 26 November 1977	Burscough	Home	1–0^[6]
2nd	Saturday 17 December 1977	Chesterfield	Home	1–0^[6]
3rd	Saturday 7 January 1978	Enfield	Home	1–0^[6]
4th	Monday 6 February 1978	Stoke City	Away	3–2^[6]
5th	Saturday 18 February 1978	Wrexham	Away	1–1^[6]
5th (replay)	Monday 27 February 1978	Wrexham	Home	1–2^[6]
1984–85 – Telford United – Alliance Premier League
Round	Date	Against	At	Score
1st	Saturday 17 November 1984	Lincoln City	Away	1–1^[7]
1st (replay)	Tuesday 20 November 1984	Lincoln City	Home	2–1^[7]
2nd	Saturday 8 December 1984	Preston North End	Away	4–1^[7]
3rd	Saturday 5 January 1985	Bradford City	Home	2–1^[7]
4th	Tuesday 29 January 1985	Darlington	Away	1–1^[7]
4th (replay)	Monday 4 February 1985	Darlington	Home	3–0^[7]
5th	Saturday 16 February 1985	Everton	Away	0–3^[7]
1993–94 – Kidderminster Harriers – Football Conference
Round	Date	Against	At	Score
4th qualifying	Saturday 23 October 1993	Chesham United	Away	4–1^[8]
1st	Saturday 13 November 1993	Kettering Town	Home	3–0^[8]
2nd	Saturday 4 December 1993	Woking	Home	1–0^[8]
3rd	Saturday 8 January 1994	Birmingham City	Away	2–1^[8]
4th	Saturday 29 January 1994	Preston North End	Home	1–0^[8]
5th	Saturday 19 February 1994	West Ham United	Home	0–1^[8]
2010–11 – Crawley Town – Conference National
Round	Date	Against	At	Score
4th qualifying	Saturday 23 October 2010	Newport County	Away	1–0^[9]
1st	Saturday 6 November 2010	Guiseley	Away	5–0^[9]
2nd	Friday 26 November 2010	Swindon Town	Home	1–1^[10]
2nd (replay)	Tuesday 7 December 2010	Swindon Town	Away	3–2^[11]
3rd	Monday 10 January 2011	Derby County	Home	2–1^[12]
4th	Saturday 29 January 2011	Torquay United	Away	1–0^[13]
5th	Saturday 19 February 2011	Manchester United	Away	0–1^[14]
2012–13 – Luton Town – Conference National
Round	Date	Against	At	Score
4th qualifying	Saturday 20 October 2012	Cambridge United	Away	2–0^[15]
1st	Saturday 3 November 2012	Nuneaton Town	Home	1–1^[15]
1st (replay)	Tuesday 13 November 2012	Nuneaton Town	Away	2–0^[15]
2nd	Saturday 1 December 2012	Dorchester Town	Home	2–1^[16]
3rd	Saturday 5 January 2013	Wolverhampton Wanderers	Home	1–0^[17]
4th	Saturday 26 January 2013	Norwich City	Away	1–0^[18]
5th	Saturday 16 February 2013	Millwall	Home	0–3^[19]
2016–17 – Lincoln City – National League
Round	Date	Against	At	Score
4th qualifying	Saturday 15 October 2016	Guiseley	Home	0–0^[20]
4th qualifying (replay)	Tuesday 18 October 2016	Guiseley	Away	2–1^[20]
1st	Saturday 5 November 2016	Altrincham	Home	2–1^[21]
2nd	Monday 5 December 2016	Oldham Athletic	Home	3–2^[22]
3rd	Saturday 7 January 2017	Ipswich Town	Away	2–2^[23]
3rd (replay)	Tuesday 17 January 2017	Ipswich Town	Home	1–0^[24]
4th	Saturday 28 January 2017	Brighton & Hove Albion	Home	3–1^[25]
5th	Saturday 18 February 2017	Burnley	Away	1–0^[1]
Quarter-finals	Saturday 11 March 2017	Arsenal	Away	0–5^[3]
2016–17 – Sutton United – National League
Round	Date	Against	At	Score
4th qualifying	Saturday 15 October 2016	Forest Green Rovers	Home	2–1^[26]
1st	Saturday 5 November 2016	Dartford	Away	6–3^[27]
2nd	Saturday 3 December 2016	Cheltenham Town	Home	2–1^[28]
3rd	Saturday 7 January 2017	AFC Wimbledon	Home	0–0^[29]
3rd (replay)	Tuesday 17 January 2017	AFC Wimbledon	Away	3–1^[30]
4th	Sunday 29 January 2017	Leeds United	Home	1–0^[31]
5th	Monday 20 February 2017	Arsenal	Home	0–2^[32]

References

^ ^a ^b "Burnley 0–1 Lincoln City – BBC Sport". BBC Online. 18 February 2017. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
^ "FA Cup fifth-round draw: Lincoln and Sutton to discover last-16 ties – BBC Sport". BBC Online. 29 January 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
^ ^a ^b "Arsenal 5–0 Lincoln City – BBC Sport". BBC Online. 11 March 2017. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Colchester United". fchd.info. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f White, Jim (2 January 2015). "When Yeovil first played Manchester United in the FA Cup, 80,000 fans watched at Maine Road". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Sproat, Ken (April 2005). "Blyth Spartans 1977–78". When Saturday Comes. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Telford United". fchd.info. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Kidderminster Harriers". fchd.info. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
^ ^a ^b "Crawley Town". fchd.info. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
^ "Crawley 1 – 1 Swindon". BBC Sport. 26 November 2010. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
^ "Swindon 2 – 3 Crawley". BBC Sport. 7 December 2010. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
^ Chowdhury, Saj (10 January 2011). "Crawley Town 2 – 1 Derby". BBC Sport. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
^ Bevan, Chris (29 January 2011). "Torquay 0 – 1 Crawley Town". BBC Sport. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
^ McNulty, Phil (19 February 2011). "Man Utd 1 – 0 Crawley Town". BBC Sport. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Luton Town". fchd.info. Archived from the original on 29 May 2008. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
^ "Luton 2–1 Dorchester". BBC Sport. 1 December 2012. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
^ "Luton 1–0 Wolves". BBC Sport. 5 January 2013. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
^ "Norwich 0–1 Luton". BBC Sport. 26 January 2013. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
^ Osborne, Chris (16 February 2013). "BBC Sport at Kenilworth Road". BBC Sport. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
^ ^a ^b Whiley, Mark (18 October 2016). "Guiseley 1 Lincoln City 2 recap: The Imps' FA Cup replay victory as it happened". Lincolnshire Live. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
^ "Lincoln City 2–1 Altrincham – BBC Sport". BBC Online. 5 November 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
^ "Lincoln City 3–2 Oldham Athletic – BBC Sport". BBC Online. 5 December 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
^ "Ipswich Town 2–2 Lincoln City – BBC Sport". BBC Online. 7 January 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
^ "Lincoln City 1–0 Ipswich Town – BBC Sport". BBC Online. 17 January 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
^ "Lincoln City 3–1 Brighton & Hove Albion – BBC Sport". BBC Online. 28 January 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
^ Palmer, Jon (15 October 2016). "Former Robin helps Sutton United shock Forest Green in FA Cup". Gloucestershire Live. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
^ "Dartford 3–6 Sutton United – BBC Sport". BBC Online. 5 November 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
^ "Sutton United 2–1 Cheltenham Town – BBC Sport". BBC Online. 3 December 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
^ "Sutton United 0–0 AFC Wimbledon – BBC Sport". BBC Online. 7 January 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
^ "AFC Wimbledon 1–3 Sutton United – BBC Sport". BBC Online. 17 January 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
^ "Sutton United 1–0 Leeds United – BBC Sport". BBC Online. 29 January 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
^ "Sutton United 0–2 Arsenal – BBC Sport". BBC Online. 20 February 2017. Retrieved 20 February 2017.

External links

Past results (official archive), The FA Cup
Non-league best, The FA Cup, 28 November 2008
"The five non-league teams to reach FA Cup fifth round before Crawley", Louise Taylor, The Guardian, 18 February 2011
The FA Cup, Project Fifth Round, David Barber, TheFA.com, 29 January 2011
Motson's FA Cup Odyssey, John Motson, Robson, 2005, ISBN 1-86105-903-5, p. 36

[burnleylincoln-1] "Burnley 0–1 Lincoln City – BBC Sport". BBC Online. 18 February 2017. Retrieved 3 September 2017.

[2] "FA Cup fifth-round draw: Lincoln and Sutton to discover last-16 ties – BBC Sport". BBC Online. 29 January 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2017.

[arsenallincoln-3] "Arsenal 5–0 Lincoln City – BBC Sport". BBC Online. 11 March 2017. Retrieved 3 September 2017.

[colu-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Colchester United". fchd.info. Retrieved 18 February 2017.

[yeovil-5] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f White, Jim (2 January 2015). "When Yeovil first played Manchester United in the FA Cup, 80,000 fans watched at Maine Road". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 18 February 2017.

[wsc-6] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Sproat, Ken (April 2005). "Blyth Spartans 1977–78". When Saturday Comes. Retrieved 18 February 2017.

[telford-7] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Telford United". fchd.info. Retrieved 18 February 2017.

[kh-8] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Kidderminster Harriers". fchd.info. Retrieved 18 February 2017.

[craw-9] "Crawley Town". fchd.info. Retrieved 18 February 2017.

[10] "Crawley 1 – 1 Swindon". BBC Sport. 26 November 2010. Retrieved 18 February 2017.

[11] "Swindon 2 – 3 Crawley". BBC Sport. 7 December 2010. Retrieved 18 February 2017.

[12] Chowdhury, Saj (10 January 2011). "Crawley Town 2 – 1 Derby". BBC Sport. Retrieved 18 February 2017.

[13] Bevan, Chris (29 January 2011). "Torquay 0 – 1 Crawley Town". BBC Sport. Retrieved 18 February 2017.

[14] McNulty, Phil (19 February 2011). "Man Utd 1 – 0 Crawley Town". BBC Sport. Retrieved 18 February 2017.

[luton-15] "Luton Town". fchd.info. Archived from the original on 29 May 2008. Retrieved 18 February 2017.

[16] "Luton 2–1 Dorchester". BBC Sport. 1 December 2012. Retrieved 18 February 2017.

[17] "Luton 1–0 Wolves". BBC Sport. 5 January 2013. Retrieved 18 February 2017.

[18] "Norwich 0–1 Luton". BBC Sport. 26 January 2013. Retrieved 18 February 2017.

[19] Osborne, Chris (16 February 2013). "BBC Sport at Kenilworth Road". BBC Sport. Retrieved 18 February 2017.

[imps-20] Whiley, Mark (18 October 2016). "Guiseley 1 Lincoln City 2 recap: The Imps' FA Cup replay victory as it happened". Lincolnshire Live. Retrieved 18 February 2017.

[21] "Lincoln City 2–1 Altrincham – BBC Sport". BBC Online. 5 November 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2017.

[22] "Lincoln City 3–2 Oldham Athletic – BBC Sport". BBC Online. 5 December 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2017.

[23] "Ipswich Town 2–2 Lincoln City – BBC Sport". BBC Online. 7 January 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2017.

[24] "Lincoln City 1–0 Ipswich Town – BBC Sport". BBC Online. 17 January 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2017.

[25] "Lincoln City 3–1 Brighton & Hove Albion – BBC Sport". BBC Online. 28 January 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2017.

[26] Palmer, Jon (15 October 2016). "Former Robin helps Sutton United shock Forest Green in FA Cup". Gloucestershire Live. Retrieved 18 February 2017.

[27] "Dartford 3–6 Sutton United – BBC Sport". BBC Online. 5 November 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2017.

[28] "Sutton United 2–1 Cheltenham Town – BBC Sport". BBC Online. 3 December 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2017.

[29] "Sutton United 0–0 AFC Wimbledon – BBC Sport". BBC Online. 7 January 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2017.

[30] "AFC Wimbledon 1–3 Sutton United – BBC Sport". BBC Online. 17 January 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2017.

[31] "Sutton United 1–0 Leeds United – BBC Sport". BBC Online. 29 January 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2017.

[32] "Sutton United 0–2 Arsenal – BBC Sport". BBC Online. 20 February 2017. Retrieved 20 February 2017.

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