Non-League Paper

Give winners a big cup reward

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
28 June 2026

PRIOR to the demise of the old FA Amateur Cup in 1974, each year’s Wembley winners were automatically handed a place in the first round proper of the following season’s FA Cup competition.
Would it not be a nice gesture if the winners of the FA Trophy, and possibly the FA Vase as well, were handed a similar reward?
DAVE BASSETT Crosby

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