FA Cup Predictions
This Week's Fixtures
Jersey Bulls 
Burgess Hill Town
Redcar Town
v
Darlington 1883
AFC Rushden & Diamonds
v
Peterborough Sports
AFC Telford United
v
Worksop Town
Alvechurch
v
Racing Club Warwick
Anstey Nomads
v
Newcastle Town
Atherton Collieries
v
Prescot Cables
Bedford Town
v
King's Lynn Town
Berkhamsted
v
Hendon
Billericay Town
v
Enfield Town
Bishop's Cleeve
v
Tadley Calleva
Brackley Town
v
AFC Portchester
Bromsgrove Sporting
v
Leek Town
Bury
v
Workington
Buxton
v
Ashton United
Chertsey Town
v
Greenwich Borough
Cirencester Town
v
Farnham Town
Dorchester Town
v
Oxford City
Dover
v
Folkestone Invicta
Dunston UTS
v
Scarborough Athletic
Eastbourne Borough
v
Windsor
United Of Manchester
v
Ossett United
Frome Town
v
Plymouth Parkway
Gorleston
v
Bury Town
Halesowen Town
v
Mickleover Sports
Harborough Town
v
Rushall Olympic
Harleston Town
v
Real Bedford
Heaton Stannington
v
Trafford
Hednesford Town
v
Coventry United
Kingstonian
v
Leatherhead
Leamington
v
Gainsborough Trinity
Lower Breck
v
Chester
Maidenhead
v
Ebbsfleet United
Marine
v
Radcliffe
Merthyr Town
v
Truro City
Morecambe
v
Southport
Redcar Athletic
v
Macclesfield
Redditch United
v
Evesham United
Salisbury
v
Taunton Town
Slimbridge
v
Hungerford Town
Slough Town
v
Chatham Town
Southall
v
Dorking Wanderers
South Shields
v
Witton Albion
Spalding United
v
Hanley Town
Stafford Rangers
v
Hereford
Swindon Supermarine
v
Weymouth
Tiverton Town
v
Sholing
Tonbridge Angels
v
Ramsgate
Uxbridge
v
Farnborough
Waltham Abbey
v
Dagenham & Redbridge
Walton & Hersham
v
Horsham
Rylands
v
Chorley
Woodford Town
v
Mulbarton Wanderers
AFC Totton
v
Gloucester City
Aveley
v
Brentwood Town
Barton Town Old Boys
v
Boldmere St. Michaels
Bradford (Park Avenue)
v
Lancaster City
Cambridge City
v
Buckhurst Hill
Canvey Island
v
Chelmsford City
Chesham United
v
Ware
Cray Wanderers
v
Maidstone Utd
Dartford
v
Hayes & Yeading United
Dulwich Hamlet
v
Welling United
Hebburn Town
v
Guiseley AFC
Hemel Hempstead Town
v
Wingate & Finchley
Hitchin Town
v
Leiston
Kettering Town
v
Quorn
Needham Market
v
Braintree
Pagham
v
Hanworth Villa
Torquay
v
AFC Stoneham
Warrington Town
v
South Liverpool
Weston-super-Mare
v
Wimborne Town
Witham Town
v
St Albans City
Worcester City
v
Stratford Town
Yate Town
v
Chippenham Town
AFC Emley
v
Spennymoor Town
Hampton & Richmond
v
Crowborough Athletic
Thame United
v
Exmouth
Betting the FA Cup in 2026/27
The FA Cup is the only competition we cover where a National League side can host a Premier League club in a match that counts, and that is precisely what makes it interesting to model — and treacherous to bet on instinct. Cup pricing forces the market to compare teams that share no league table, and the folklore around upsets pulls casual money in both directions: some backing every underdog for romance, others backing every favourite as a formality. Neither habit survives contact with the actual probabilities.
The real drivers of cup outcomes are less romantic. Team selection dominates: from the third round onward, Premier League and Championship clubs rotate heavily, and an under-strength eleven away at a committed League One side is a materially different proposition from the same fixture at full strength. Division gaps still matter enormously — the data is clear that two-division gaps are overcome far less often than the montages suggest — but one-division gaps with home advantage for the lower side are genuinely live. And with replays abolished, every tie resolves on the day, pushing extra time and penalties into the reckoning and adding real value to draw-adjacent markets in tight ties.
Our model rates every club in the divisions we track on the same opposition-adjusted scale, so a cross-division cup tie is priced no differently from a league fixture: goal expectancies for this eleven against that one, converted into probabilities for every market. Where it cannot see rotation before team sheets appear, it widens uncertainty on ties where rotation is historically likely — early rounds for top-flight clubs, especially those in European competition.
What to expect from our coverage
Cup rounds are bursts of fixtures rather than a weekly rhythm, so this page fills during round weekends and rests between them. Selections lean toward goals markets and handicap-adjacent value in mismatches, and toward the lower-division side's markets when home advantage and full-strength commitment meet a rotated favourite. Every pick is archived at kickoff, settled at publication odds, and recorded on the model results page.