We take a look at the 25/26 FA Cup Semi Final draw with highlights and reaction from the quarter final ties played out.
The quarter final round took place on Saturday the 4th of April and Sunday the 5th of April, and grabbing the national headlines was Southampton, see more on that HERE.
The draw was made live from the London Stadium prior to their quarter final round match between West Ham and Leeds. The draw will be available for fans to watch on TNT Sports 1, HBO Max and on the TNT Sports YouTube channel approximately 15 minutes after full-time.
Presented by Becky Ives, the draw will be made by Ally McCoist. The ball numbers for the semi final draw are listed below…
BALL NUMBERS:
1. Southampton
2. Chelsea
3. Manchester City
4. West Ham and Leeds United
👇 THE FA CUP SEMI FINAL DRAW 👇
The FA Cup semi finals will be played on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th April at Wembley Stadium.
WEST HAM 2-2 LEEDS
Ao Tanaka puts Leeds a goal up at London Stadium 💥
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— Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) April 5, 2026
Dominic Calvert-Lewin sends Alphonse Areola the wrong way from the spot 🎯@LUFC‘s advantage is doubled 🤍
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— Emirates FA Cup (@EmiratesFACup) April 5, 2026
Mateus Fernandes scores from close range and West Ham are back in it 👀
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UNBELIEVABLE 😲
Two stoppage time goals and West Ham find themselves level 🔥
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— Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) April 5, 2026
CHELSEA 7-0 PORT VALE
Chelsea boss Liam Rosenior, as per Sky Sports: “I was very happy with the application and the intensity of the team. Obviously we have outstanding players but the way we chased, the way we tackled, how it gave us the basis to go on and win the game.
“We can still have an outstanding season in terms of winning the FA Cup and qualifying for the Champions League.”
On Palmer being captain: “It’s a natural step for Cole. He shows leadership. You have different types of leadership. He’s so brave and will take the ball on the pitch that’s what reflects what I want in my team.”
Port Vale boss Jon Brady: “We set out some goals to try not to concede in the first 20 minutes. To concede in the first minute was really tough. Three set-pieces as well. Overall, where we’re at and where they’re at it shows the levels. If that’s not inspiring to our players, to me, to our coaching staff to try to strive to be better everyday – can we aspire to be better everyday?
“We’ve created a huge amount of history for the club. To beat Bristol City and then Sunderland, what a week that was for the football club. We’ve created memories for a lifetime for a lot of our fans and to have 6,000 of them here today, we’re hugely appreciative.”
MAN CITY 4-0 LIVERPOOL
City’s Pep Lijnders said: “I have worked with a lot of good strikers. The second goal was insane. Because the way he attacks, the way he flies, the way he still puts the ball to the corner. I love when these old-school strikers cross, wait, commit, chip. I love it.” This was Haaland back to his absolute best.
The striker’s form has dipped for periods this year but he appears to have benefited from a relative break during the international window. With Norway having qualified, he was spared involvement in one of his country’s two friendly matches.
“It is crazy what we are asking. I’m not saying that he carries Norway, but we all know how important a player he is for Norway, with a lot of other good players. What I’m trying to say is that he feels that responsibility.
“He is feeling the responsibility to press, play, come to set, run behind, be in the box available, keep the ball when the opposition defends man to man. There are a lot of things we ask and do that every three days.
“It is clear then that not everything throughout the whole long, long season will go your way, but it shows character again and the mentality that he comes back in this fashion. It’s lovely. Not only lovely, he is a machine to work with.”
Liverpool’s Arne Slot: “I don’t think you have to ask me about the result because that speaks for itself. That’s an unbelievable disappointment. Losing is already a disappointment. Losing 4-0 in the quarter-final of the FA Cup against a team which Liverpool played so many times great games against or fights against and then losing 4-0 is of course a big disappointment.
“The 20 minutes where we conceded four goals were not of our standard.
“I think no one will probably remember it but the first 35 minutes there was a lot to like from my team. It would be nice if we then can score a goal once in a while as well from the chances we create.
“Again, we faced a team that was outperforming their xG by a mile and that’s what happens constantly and we every time are under that.
“But if you want to have a chance of beating PSG you have to do both parts better. If you generate a chance you have to score and you cannot be so easily beaten with the four goals.
“I missed the fighting spirit definitely in the first 10 minutes after half-time and then afterwards it was just a game where both teams accepted it was 4-0.
“But in that 10 to 15 minutes of time I missed [not just] the fighting spirit but just the willingness to win your duel, to be there first, to make it difficult for either a pass or a cross or a finish.
“That is something we definitely have to do better on Wednesday.”
SOUTHAMPTON 2-1 ARSENAL
Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta: “I love my players, what they have done for nine months. I’m not going to criticise them for losing here.
“What they are putting their bodies through, some didn’t have to be here today. I’ll defend them more than ever. If someone has to take responsibility, that’s me.
“We have the most beautiful period ahead of us. Normally you have two or three moments like this in a season, this is the first moment with level of difficulty. Let’s stand up, make ourselves count.”
Southampton’s Tonda Eckert speaking to BBC Sport: “I’m very proud of my players. We had to live off moments. The game always has the chance to shift with substitutions in the second half and I think we reacted well.
“You always need to find a balance. It is not about going direct for the sake of being direct. They prepare for the long balls at one point, so we had to find shorter solutions.
“It will be nice to celebrate a bit but then we open up Wrexham and Championship football tomorrow, and then we are ready to go.”
FA CUP QUARTER FINAL RESULTS:
Chelsea (3) 7-0 (0) Port Vale – 38,375
Manchester City (2) 4-0 (0) Liverpool – 50,754
Southampton (1) 2-1 (0) Arsenal – 31,067
West Ham United (0) 1-2 (1) Leeds United – TBC
FA CUP FIFTH ROUND RESULTS:
Wolverhampton Wanderers (1) 1–3 Liverpool (1)
Mansfield Town (3) 1–2 Arsenal (1)
Wrexham (2) 2–4 (a.e.t.) Chelsea (1)
Newcastle United (1) 1–3 Manchester City (1)
Fulham (1) 0–1 Southampton (2)
Port Vale (3) 1–0 Sunderland (1)
Leeds United (1) 3–0 Norwich City (2)
West Ham United (1) v Brentford (1)
FA CUP FOURTH ROUND RESULTS:
Hull City (2) 0–4 Chelsea (1)
Wrexham (2) 1–0 Ipswich Town (2)
Burton Albion (3) 0–1 (a.e.t.) West Ham United (1)
Burnley (1) 1–2 Mansfield Town (3)
Manchester City (1) 2–0 Salford City (4)
Norwich City (2) 3–1 West Bromwich Albion (2)
Southampton (2) 2–1 (a.e.t.) Leicester City (2)
Aston Villa (1) 1–3 Newcastle United (1)
Liverpool (1) 3–0 Brighton & Hove Albion (1)
Birmingham City (2) 1–1 (a.e.t.) (2–4 p) Leeds United (1)
Grimsby Town (4) 0–1 Wolverhampton Wanderers (1)
Oxford United (2) 0–1 Sunderland (1)
Stoke City (2) 1–2 Fulham (1)
Arsenal (1) 4–0 Wigan Athletic (3)
Macclesfield (6) 0-1 Brentford (1)
Port Vale (3) 1-0 (aet) Bristol City (2)
FA CUP THIRD ROUND RESULTS:
Milton Keynes Dons (4) 1–1 (a.e.t.) (3–4 p) Oxford United (2)
Port Vale (3) 1–0 Fleetwood Town (4)
Preston North End (2) 0–1 Wigan Athletic (3)
Wrexham (2) 3–3 (a.e.t.) (4–3 p) Nottingham Forest (1)
Cheltenham Town (4) 0–2 Leicester City (2)
Everton (1) 1–1 (a.e.t.) (0–3 p) Sunderland (1) Liverpool
Macclesfield (6) 2–1 Crystal Palace (1)
Wolverhampton Wanderers (1) 6–1 Shrewsbury Town (4)
Boreham Wood (5) 0–5 Burton Albion (3)
Burnley (1) 5–1 Millwall (2) Burnley
Doncaster Rovers (3) 2–3 Southampton (2)
Fulham (1) 3–1 Middlesbrough (2)
Ipswich Town (2) 2–1 Blackpool (3)
Manchester City (1) 10–1 Exeter City (3)
Newcastle United (1) 3–3 (a.e.t.) (7–6 p) Bournemouth (1)
Sheffield Wednesday (2) 0–2 Brentford (1)
Stoke City (2) 1–0 Coventry City (2)
Bristol City (2) 5–1 Watford (2)
Cambridge United (4) 2–3 Birmingham City (2)
Grimsby Town (4) 3–2 Weston-super-Mare (6)
Tottenham Hotspur (1) 1–2 Aston Villa (1)
Charlton Athletic (2) 1–5 Chelsea (1)
Derby County (2) 1–3 Leeds United (1)
Portsmouth (2) 1–4 Arsenal (1)
Hull City (2) 0–0 (a.e.t.) (4–3 p) Blackburn Rovers (2)
Norwich City (2) 5–1 Walsall (4)
Sheffield United (2) 3–4 Mansfield Town (3)
Swansea City (2) 2–2 (a.e.t.) (5–6 p) West Bromwich Albion (2)
West Ham United (1) 2–1 (a.e.t.) Queens Park Rangers (2)
Manchester United (1) 1–2 Brighton & Hove Albion (1)
Liverpool (1) 4-1 Barnsley (3)
Salford City (4) 3-2 Swindon Town (4)
Payments made from The FA’s prize fund
Extra preliminary round winners (223 clubs) £1,125
Extra preliminary round losers (223 clubs) £375
Preliminary round winners (136 clubs) £1,444
Preliminary round losers (136 clubs) £481
First round qualifying winners (112 clubs) £2,250
First round qualifying losers (112 clubs) £750
Second round qualifying winners (80 clubs) £3,375
Second round qualifying losers (80 clubs) £1,125
Third round qualifying winners (40 clubs) £5,625
Third round qualifying losers (40 clubs) £1,875
Fourth round qualifying winners (32 clubs) £9,375
Fourth round qualifying losers (32 clubs) £3,125
First round proper winners (40 clubs) £47,750
First round proper losers (40 clubs) £15,800
Second round proper winners (20 clubs) £79,500
Second round proper losers (20 clubs) £21,200
Third round proper winners (32 clubs) £121,500
Third round proper losers (32 clubs) £26,500
Fourth round proper winners (16 clubs) £127,000
Fifth round proper winners (8 clubs) £238,500
Quarter-final winners (4 clubs) £477,000
Semi-final winners (2 clubs) £1,060,000
Semi-final losers (2 clubs) £530,000
Final runners-up (1 clubs) £1,060,000
Final winners (1 clubs) £2,120,000
DATES:
Extra Preliminary Round – Saturday 2 August 2025
Preliminary Round – Saturday 16 August 2025
First Round Qualifying – Saturday 30 August 2025
Second Round Qualifying – Saturday 13 September 2025
Third Round Qualifying – Saturday 27 September 2025
Fourth Round Qualifying – Saturday 11 October 2025
First Round Proper – Saturday 1 November 2025
Second Round Proper – Saturday 6 December 2025
Third Round Proper – Saturday 10 January 2026
Fourth Round Proper – Saturday 14 February 2026
Fifth Round Proper – Saturday 7 March 2026
Quarter Final – Saturday 4 April 2026
Semi Final – Saturday 25 April 2026
Final – Saturday 16 May 2026
PREVIOUS FA CUP FINALS:
2025: Crystal Palace 1-0 Manchester City
2024: Manchester City 1-2 Manchester United
2023: Manchester City 2-1 Manchester United
2022: Chelsea 0-0 Liverpool (Liverpool win 6-5 after penalty shootout)
2021: Chelsea 0-1 Leicester City
2020: Arsenal 2-1 Chelsea
2019: Manchester City 6-0 Watford
2018: Chelsea 1-0 Manchester United
2017: Arsenal 2-1 Chelsea
2016: Crystal Palace 1-2 Manchester United (AET)
2015: Arsenal 4-0 Aston Villa
2014: Arsenal 3-2 Hull City (AET)
2013: Manchester City 0-1 Wigan Athletic
2012: Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool
2011: Manchester City 1-0 Stoke City
2010: Chelsea 1-0 Portsmouth
2009: Chelsea 2-1 Everton
2008: Cardiff City 0-1 Portsmouth
2007: Chelsea 1-0 Manchester United (AET)
2006: Liverpool 3-3 West Ham United (AET) – Liverpool win 3-1 on penalties
2005: Arsenal 0-0 Manchester United (AET) – Arsenal win 5-4 on penalties
2004: Manchester United 3-0 Millwall
2003: Arsenal 1-0 Southampton
2002: Arsenal 2-0 Chelsea
2001: Arsenal 1-2 Liverpool
2000: Chelsea 1-0 Aston Villa
1999: Manchester United 2-0 Newcastle United
1998: Arsenal 2-0 Newcastle United
1997: Chelsea 2-0 Middlesbrough
1996: Manchester United 1-0 Liverpool
1995: Everton 1-0 Manchester United
1994: Manchester United 4-0 Chelsea
1993: Arsenal 1-1 Sheffield Wednesday (AET)
Replay: Arsenal 2-1 Sheffield Wednesday (AET)
1992: Liverpool 2-0 Sunderland
1991: Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Nottingham Forest (AET)
1990: Manchester United 3-3 Crystal Palace (AET)
Replay: Manchester United 1-0 Crystal Palace
1989: Everton 2-3 Liverpool
1989: Liverpool 3-2 Everton (AET)
1988: Wimbledon 1-0 Liverpool
1987: Coventry City 3-2 Tottenham Hotspur (AET)
1986: Liverpool 3-1 Everton
1985: Manchester United 1-0 Everton (AET)
1984: Everton 2-0 Watford
1983: Manchester United 2-2 Brighton and Hove Albion (AET)
Replay: Manchester United 4-0Brighton and Hove Albion
1982: Tottenham Hotspur 1-1 Queens Park Rangers (AET)
Replay: Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Queens Park Rangers
1981: Tottenham Hotspur 1-1 Manchester City (AET)
Replay: Tottenham Hotspur 3-2 Manchester City
1980: West Ham United 1-0 Arsenal
1979: Arsenal 3-2 Manchester United
1978: Ipswich Town 1-0 Arsenal
1977: Manchester United 2-1 Liverpool
1976: Southampton 1-0 Manchester United
1975: West Ham United 2-0 Fulham
1974: Liverpool 3-0 Newcastle United
1973: Sunderland 1-0 Leeds United
1972: Leeds United 1-0 Arsenal
1971: Arsenal 2-1 Liverpool (AET)
1970: Chelsea 2-2 Leeds United (AET)
Replay: Chelsea 2-0 Leeds United
1969: Manchester City 1-0 Leicester City
1968: West Bromwich Albion 1-0 Everton (AET)
1967: Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Chelsea
1966: Everton 3-2 Sheffield Wednesday
1965: Liverpool 2-1 Leeds United (AET)
1964: West Ham United 3-2 Preston North End
1963: Manchester United 3-1 Leicester City
1962: Tottenham Hotspur 3-1 Burnley
1961: Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 Leicester City
1960: Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-0 Blackburn Rovers
1959: Nottingham Forest 2-1 Luton Town
1958: Bolton Wanderers 2-0 Manchester United
1957: Aston Villa 2-1 Manchester United
1956: Manchester City 3-1 Birmingham City
1955: Newcastle United 3-1 Manchester City
1954: West Bromwich Albion 3-2 Preston North End
1953: Blackpool 4-3 Bolton Wanderers
1952: Newcastle United 1-0 Arsenal
1951: Newcastle United 2-0 Blackpool
1950: Arsenal 2-0 Liverpool
1946 – 1949 (Competition cancelled between 1940 and 1945 due to the Second World War)
1949: Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-1 Leicester City
1948: Manchester United 4-2 Blackpool
1947: Charlton Athletic 1-0 Burnley (AET)
1946: Derby County 4-1 Charlton Athletic (AET)
1939: Portsmouth 4-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers
1938: Preston North End 1-0 Huddersfield Town (AET)
1937: Sunderland 3-1 Preston North End
1936: Arsenal 1-0 Sheffield United
1935: Sheffield Wednesday 4-2 West Bromwich Albion
1934: Manchester City 2-1 Portsmouth
1933: Everton 3-0 Manchester City
1932: Newcastle United 2-1 Arsenal
1931: West Bromwich Albion 2-1 Birmingham City
1930: Arsenal 2-0 Huddersfield Town
1929: Bolton Wanderers 2-0 Portsmouth
1928: Blackburn Rovers 3-1 Huddersfield Town
1927: Cardiff City 1-0 Arsenal
1926: Bolton Wanderers 1-0 Manchester City
1925: Sheffield United 1-0 Cardiff City
1924: Newcastle United 2-0 Aston Villa
1923: Bolton Wanderers 2-0 West Ham United
1922: Huddersfield Town 1-0 Preston North End
1921: Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers
1920: Aston Villa 1-0 Huddersfield Town (AET)
1910 – 1915 (Competition cancelled until 1920 due to the First World War)1915: Sheffield United 3-0 Chelsea
1914: Burnley 1-0 Liverpool
1913: Aston Villa 1-0 Sunderland
1912: Barnsley 0-0 West Bromwich Albion
Replay: Barnsley 1-0 West Bromwich Albion
1911: Bradford City 0-0 Newcastle United
Replay: Bradford City 1-0 Newcastle United
1910: Newcastle United 1-1 Barnsley
Replay: Newcastle United 2-0 Barnsley
1909: Manchester United 1-0 Bristol City
1908: Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-1 Newcastle United
1907: Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 Everton
1906: Everton 1-0 Newcastle United
1905: Aston Villa 2-0 Newcastle United
1904: Manchester City 1-0 Bolton Wanderers
1903: Bury 6-0 Derby County
1902: Sheffield United 1-1 Southampton
Replay: Sheffield United 2-1 Southampton
1901: Tottenham Hotspur 2-2 Sheffield United
Replay: Tottenham Hotspur 3-1 Sheffield United
1900: Bury 4-0 Southampton
1899: Sheffield United 4-1 Derby County
1898: Nottingham Forest 3-1 Derby County
1897: Aston Villa 3-2 Everton
1896: Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers
1895: Aston Villa 1-0 West Bromwich Albion
1894: Notts County 4-1 Bolton Wanderers
1893: Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0 Everton
1892: West Bromwich Albion 3-0 Aston Villa
1891: Blackburn Rovers 3-1 Notts County
1890: Blackburn Rovers 6-1 Sheffield Wednesday
1889: Preston North End 3-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers
1888: West Bromwich Albion 2-1 Preston North End
1887: Aston Villa 2-0 West Bromwich Albion
1886: Blackburn Rovers 0-0 West Bromwich Albion
Replay: Blackburn Rovers 2-0 West Bromwich Albion
1885: Blackburn Rovers 2-0 Queens Park, Glasgow
1884: Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Queens Park, Glasgow
1883: Blackburn Olympic 2-1 Old Etonians (AET)
1882: Old Etonians 1-0 Blackburn Rovers
1881: Old Carthusians 3-0 Old Etonians
1880: Clapham Rovers 1-0 Oxford University
1879: Old Etonians 1-0 Clapham Rovers
1878: Wanderers 3-1 Royal Engineers*
1877: Wanderers 2-1 Oxford University (AET)
1876: Wanderers 1-1 Old Etonians (AET)
Replay: Wanderers 3-0 Old Etonians
1875: Royal Engineers 1-1 Old Etonians (AET)
Replay: Royal Engineers 2-0 Old Etonians
1874: Oxford University 2-0 Royal Engineers
1873: Wanderers 2-0 Oxford University
1872: Wanderers 1-0 Royal Engineers
* The Cup won outright but restored to the Association
Teams with most titles
Arsenal – 14
Manchester United – 13
Tottenham Hotspur – 9
Liverpool – 8
Aston Villa – 7
Chelsea – 7
Manchester City – 7
Blackburn Rovers – 6
Newcastle United – 6
Wanderers – 5
West Bromwich Albion – 5
Everton – 5
In total, 44 different clubs have won the competition through its history. Manchester United did become the first club claiming ten titles after winning in 1999.
Teams with most finals
Manchester United – 22
Arsenal – 21
Chelsea – 16
Liverpool – 16
Newcastle United – 14
Manchester City – 14
Everton – 13
Aston Villa – 11
West Bromwich Albion – 10
Arsenal did become the first club to reach 20 finals in 2017.
