FA Cup (also known as the Football Association Challenge Cup) 140th edition of Football Tournament.Prince William is the current President of the FA.The Emirates FA Cup for sponsorship purposes. 124 Teams take part in FA. The competition consists of the 92 teams from the Football League system (20 teams from the Premier League and the 72 in total from the EFL Championship, EFL League One and EFL League Two) plus the 32 surviving teams out of 644 teams from the National League System (levels 5–10 of the English football league system) that started the competition in qualifying rounds.

Phase	Round	Draw date	First match date	Ref.
Qualifying rounds	Extra Preliminary Round	18 August 2020	31 August 2020	^[2]
	Preliminary Round	18 August 2020	12 September 2020
	First Round Qualifying	14 September 2020	22 September 2020
	Second Round Qualifying	25 September 2020	3 October 2020
	Third Round Qualifying	5 October 2020	13 October 2020
	Fourth Round Qualifying	15 October 2020	24 October 2020
Main tournament	First Round Proper	26 October 2020	6 November 2020
	Second Round Proper	9 November 2020	28 November 2020
	Third Round Proper	30 November 2020	9 January 2021
	Fourth Round Proper	11 January 2021	23 January 2021
	Fifth Round Proper	11 January 2021	10 February 2021
	Quarter-finals		20 March 2021
	Semi-finals		17 April 2021
	Final		15 May 2021

Fourth Round Proper[edit]

The draw for the Fourth Round Proper was held on 11 January 2021, right before the Fifth Round Proper draw.^[20] The 32 winners from the Third Round Proper will play in 16 ties played over the weekend of 23 January 2021. This round included one team from level 6, Chorley, the lowest ranked and the only non-league team left in the competition.

22 January 2021

Chorley (6)

0–1

Wolverhampton Wanderers (1)

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23 January 2021

Southampton (1)

1–0

Arsenal (1)

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23 January 2021

Barnsley (2)