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FA CUP FACTFILE: Antsey and Shefford set sights on history

Eighty clubs are competing for the opportunity to face a Step 1 National League side in the next round of the FA Cup.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
25 September 2022

FA CUP

By Phil Annets @FACUPFACTFILE

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EIGHTY clubs are competing for the opportunity to face a Step 1 National League side in the next round of the FA Cup.
Among them are 13 clubs that started their 2022-23 campaign in the extra preliminary round. Seven of those are from Step 5 – the highest number of clubs from that level in this round for five years. And two of them go head-to-head as United Counties League Premier North side Anstey Nomads host Shefford Town & Campton from the Spartan South Midlands League Premier. Neither side have...

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