After both sides won First Round ties against local rivals, Bradford and Dartford go head-to-head for a place in the Third Round on Sunday.
Dartford's reward for edging the Kent derby 4-3 at Bromley’s Fortress Stadium is a trip to West Yorkshire, and a first appearance in The FA Cup’s Second Round for 30 years.
They were an Alliance Premier League club in the 1984-85 season and started their FA Cup campaign with a 3-1 win at Isthmian League Grays Athletic in the Fourth Qualifying Round.
A 3-0 victory at Metropolitan Police, another Isthmian side, set up a plum Second Round tie against Harry Redknapp’s AFC Bournemouth.
Bradford City v Dartford
FA Cup Second Round Proper
2pm, Sunday 7 December
Valley Parade
Winners receive £27,000 from The FA Prize Fund
A crowd of 3,884 assembled at Darts’ old Watling Street ground and they saw a home side that included present boss Tony Burman take a first-half lead.
Division Three Bournemouth forced a replay in a 1-1 draw and when the teams lined up at Dean Court three days later, they knew that the prize for the victors was a Third Round tie against Manchester United at Old Trafford.
The Cherries won that replay 4-1 but it looked a lot closer than that.
The club have been making Cup headlines since they became the first non-League club to reach the Third Round in successive seasons in the 1930s.
They lost 3-2 at Derby County, then lying second in Division One, after being 2-0 up in 1936 and a year later went out to Darlington at home, the visitors’ Ted Lowery notching the only goal.
Bradford City won the 1911 FA Cup Final at Crystal Palace
The city they travel to on Sunday also has a close link to the famous competition.
The third trophy in The FA Cup’s history, the first with the design that we all recognise now, was made by a Bradford firm called Fattorini & Sons back in 1911.
And its first winners were Bradford City.
The Bantams had never progressed beyond The Cup’s Third Round when they started the 1910-11 competition at New Brompton (now ‘Gillingham’) in the First Round, scraping through with a Dickie Bond effort.
Then they put out Norwich City, Grimsby Town, Burnley and Blackburn Rovers before facing Newcastle United in The Final at Crystal Palace.
After an uneventful, goalless match, the teams replayed at Old Trafford and the attendance of 66,646 was the highest for a midweek match in England.
Bradford City skipper Jimmy Speirs, a Scottish international, scored the winner on 15 minutes with thousands of fans still clamouring to get into the ground.
They lifted that precious trophy made in Bradford but they haven’t won it since.They were quarter-finalists in 1976, going out to eventual winners Southampton 1-0 at Valley Parade, and their Wembley Final appearance in 2013 came in the Football League Cup.
