York City v AFC Wimbledon
The FA Cup with Budweiser
First Round Proper
3pm, Saturday 3 November 2012
Bootham Crescent, York City FC
Winning clubs receive £18,000 from The FA's prize fund
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By Henry Willis

York City face an FA Cup First Round Proper date with destiny against AFC Wimbledon on Saturday, but manager Gary Mills is already setting his sights further than that.

The League Two rivals bring a wealth of FA Cup history to the tie as both clubs can relate to each team's respective rises and falls in domestic football.

York, who slipped out of the Football League in 2004 after 75 years, are back in the fourth tier having won the Conference Play-Off last season when they also lifted The FA Trophy at Wembley.

Their return has gone well so far as York sit tenth in League Two.

It's time to focus on The Cup, though, and Mills is already hoping for a place in the Third Round Proper when the Premier League's big-boys come calling.

He told TheFA.Com: "It's important for us. Like most clubs, we're aiming for a plum tie in the Third Round and to get a Premier League team.

"It's always nice to be drawn at home. We've been playing well, we'd like to continue that.

"Wimbledon have picked up [in the league] and they'll be expecting a result, too."

The Wombles have been struggling in League Two and are 21st, just two points above the relegation zone but their phoenix club status has seen them linked to FA Cup winners' honours after the demise of the original Wimbledon FC, who won the competition with 'The Crazy Gang' in 1988 but dissolved in 2004 to become MK Dons.

York's most famous FA Cup outing saw them defeat Arsenal 1-0 in the Fourth Round in 1985 and they have enjoyed occasional Cup success since.

Wimbledon's longest cup run as a phoenix club saw them lose to Stevenage in the Second Round in November 2010.