FA WPL teams prepare to make their bow in The FA Cup

Saturday 10 Jan 2015
The FA Women's Cup Second Round takes place on Sunday

The FA Women’s Cup takes centre stage on Sunday as The FA WPL teams enter the competition.

The competition has reached the Second Round Proper stage and the 21 ties take place on Sunday afternoon.

Leaders of Northern Division One, Liverpool Marshalls Feds travel to Blackburn Rovers, who sit fourth in the Northern Division.

Two Northern Division sides – Bradford City and Huddersfield Town – meet in a West Yorkshire derby. 

Huddersfield’s Debbie Hastings bagged a brace when the pair first met earlier in the season, as Huddersfield prevailed to take the points from the league match.

FA Women's Cup

  • Founded: 1970
  • Most times winners: Arsenal (13)
  • Current holders: Arsenal
  • First winners: Southampton (1971)

Hastings scored again late on in the pair’s most recent meeting in October, but goals either side of half time from Anne Wethe and Jodie Redgrave proved too much to overcome and Bradford came away with the spoils.

Coventry City - who lead the Northern Division - will host Leeds, who sit third in the same division.

Meanwhile Leicester City WFC, second in Midlands Division One, will host the scoring machine that is Sheffield Ladies.

Another clash between two Northern Division sides is a repeat of a league fixture played at the end of October, between Nottingham Forest and Preston North End, placed eleventh and seventh respectively.

In that fixture Forest won narrowly 2-1.

Another all Northern Division tie sees Sporting Club Albion host fifth placed Stoke City. 

In the League fixtures Sporting have walked away as victors both home and away and Stoke will be determined to turn the tides.

Elsewhere, Derby County travel to Oswestry to face West Midlands Regional Division side The New Saints, while Wolverhampton Wanderers host Newcastle United. 

The Southern Division section has also drawn up a number of intriguing ties. 

Arsenal duo Kelly Smith (left) and Steph Houghton lift the 2013 FA Women

With 13 titles Arsenal Ladies are the most successful team in FA Women's Cup history

Leaders Brighton & Hove Albion host fifth-placed West Ham United. 

Ninth-placed Queens Park Rangers head south to London & South East Regional Division side Eastbourne Town.

South West Division One outfit Exeter City host Lewes of the Southern Division.

Forest Green Rovers welcome Keynsham Town, while Gillingham host Portsmouth Ladies in what will be the pair’s first meeting of the season.

This will be their first meeting this season after poor weather forced their previously scheduled meeting to be postponed.

Another all-Southern Division clash will take place when sixth-placed Tottenham Hotspur welcome Copsewood Coventry, who sit eleventh.

Full fixtures listed below.

FA Women's Cup Second Round Proper

Sunday 11 January
All fixture kick-off at 1pm unless otherwise stated

The New Saints LFC v Derby County LFC (12.30pm)
Morecambe LFC v Sheffield United Community LFC
Nottingham Forest LFC v Preston North End WFC
Radcliffe Olympic LFC v Hull City LFC
Sporting Club Albion LFC v Stoke City LFC
Blackburn Rovers LFC v Liverpool Marshalls Feds LFC
Chorley LFC v FC Reedswood Ladies
Bradford City LFC v Huddersfield Town LFC
Leicester City WFC v Sheffield Ladies
Forest Green Rovers LFC v Keynsham Town LFC
Gillingham LFC v Portsmouth Ladies
Lowestoft Town LFC v Luton Town LFC
Crystal Palace LFC v Ipswich Town LFC
Eastbourne Town LFC v Queens Park Rangers LFC
Plymouth Argyle LFC v C&K Basildon LFC
Tottenham Hotspur LFC v Copsewood Coventry LFC
Exeter City LFC v Lewes LFC (1.15pm)
Coventry City LFC v Leeds LFC (2pm)
Wolverhampton Wanderers LFC v Newcastle United LFC (2pm)
Charlton Athletic LFC v Cardiff City LFC (2pm)
Brighton & Hove Albion LFC v West Ham United LFC (2pm)

By FA Staff