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FA Vase Factfile: Debutant clubs are preparing for battle

FA Vase Factfile provides us with all of the facts and figures ahead of next weekend’s FA Vase first round.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
12 October 2025

By Phil Annets

@favasefactfile
There are 210 clubs involved in the first round ‘proper’ of the Isuzu FA Vase next weekend including 19 clubs involved at this stage of the competition for the very first time.
Among those are seven FA Vase debutants: Crowle Colts, Fulwood Amateurs, Nuneaton Town, Grantham Town, Lymore Gardens and two who face each other – Belstone FC and Halesworth Town – to guarantee at least one debut club will be in the second round.
AFC Aldermaston versus Infinity FC is another tie which guarantees a club competing in the first round for the first time will also make the...

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