Grays Athletic are seeking to be the first side to win The FA Trophy in three successive seasons.
Grays handed tough tie
Monday, 27 November 2006.
The FA Carlsberg Trophy
First Round ProperSaturday 16 December 2006
Winning Clubs receive £4,000
FA Trophy holders Grays Athletic were handed a tough away tie in today's First Round Proper draw made at Soho Square.
Winners in the 2005 Final against Hucknall Town at Villa Park and the 2006 Final against Woking at Upton Park, the Essex Club must travel to Weymouth, one of this season's Conference high-flyers who are always strong at home. The sides actually meet in the Conference at Wessex Stadium this weekend.
No club has won The Trophy three years running.
Last season's runners-up Woking also face a potentially difficult tie at Salisbury City. The FA Cup heroes from Wiltshire take on Nottingham Forest in BBC's live tie on Sunday and will relish staging another big game in a different competition.
Oxford United, Jim Smith's Conference table-toppers, go to the winners of Banbury United or Lewes, who are due to play their postponed Third Round Qualifying tie tomorrow night. Dagenham & Redbridge, only two points behind, entertain Crawley Town in an all-Conference clash.
Gateshead, in the bottom half of the UniBond Premier, shocked Conference North leaders Workington with a 4-2 win at Borough Park on Saturday. Their reward is a home match with Nigel Clough's Burton Albion.
The First Round Proper ties are scheduled for 16 December, with the winners picking up £4,000 each.
The draw in full:
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1 |
Rushden & Diamonds |
v |
Scarborough |
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2 |
Kettering Town |
v |
Stafford Rangers |
|
3 |
Gainsborough Trinity or |
v |
Hinckley United |
|
|
Stalybridge Celtic |
|
|
|
4 |
Altrincham |
v |
Tamworth |
|
5 |
Gateshead |
v |
Burton Albion |
|
6 |
Halifax Town |
v |
Chasetown or Hyde United |
|
7 |
Harrogate Town |
v |
Leigh RMI |
|
8 |
Kidderminster Harriers |
v |
Vauxhall Motors or Worksop Town |
|
9 |
Southport |
v |
Droylsden |
|
10 |
Morecambe |
v |
York City |
|
11 |
Northwich Victoria |
v |
Farsley Celtic |
|
12 |
Woodley Sports |
v |
Witton Albion |
|
13 |
Bradford (PA) or Nuneaton Borough |
v |
Redditch United |
|
14 |
Hucknall Town or Barrow |
v |
Blyth Spartans or Worcester City |
|
15 |
Salisbury City |
v |
Woking |
|
16 |
Dagenham & Redbridge |
v |
Crawley Town |
|
17 |
Bishop's Stortford |
v |
St Albans City |
|
18 |
Welling United |
v |
Basingstoke Town |
|
19 |
Mangotsfield United |
v |
Windsor & Eton or Kings Lynn |
|
20 |
Weymouth |
v |
Grays Athletic |
|
21 |
Havant & Waterlooville or Team Bath |
v |
Gravesend & Northfleet |
|
22 |
Fisher Athletic |
v |
Gloucester City or Eastbourne Borough |
|
23 |
Braintree Town |
v |
Ashford Town (Middx) |
|
24 |
Forest Green Rovers |
v |
Cray Wanderers or Yeading |
|
25 |
Farnborough Town or |
v |
Bath City or Tooting & Mitcham United |
|
|
Maidenhead United |
|
|
|
26 |
Aldershot Town |
v |
AFC Wimbledon or Eastleigh |
|
27 |
Stevenage Borough |
v |
Merthyr Tydfil |
|
28 |
Newport County |
v |
AFC Sudbury |
|
29 |
Exeter City |
v |
Heybridge Swifts |
|
30 |
Weston Super Mare |
v |
Hemel Hempstead Town or Evesham United |
|
31 |
Banbury United or Lewes |
v |
Oxford United |
|
32 |
Northwood or Histon |
v |
Cambridge United |