2017-18 FA Youth Cup

The 2017-18 Youth Cup is the 66th campaign of English football's premier cup competition at youth level. Chelsea are the defending champions.

First Round

Football League sides join the competition for the first time at the First Round stage as the 48 teams from League One and League Two join 34 winners from the Third Qualifying Round. Ties are provisionally due to be played by 4 November 2017.

26 October 2017	Doncaster Rovers	4-3	Walsall	Keepmoat Stadium
	Brown '25 og Scattergood '67 Overton '68 Gibbons '83		Fisher '29 K.Flanagan '42 Candlin '56	Referee: Mr D.Jarvis

30 October 2017	Stourbridge	2-3	Port Vale	War Memorial Athletic Ground
	Edmonds-Hill '8 Evans '49	Report	Grimshaw '11 Wakefield '83 Campbell-Gordon '95	Attendance: 353

30 October 2017	Bromley	2-0	Chipstead	Hayes Lane
	Anderson '69 Williams '79	Teamsheet

30 October 2017	Welling United	3-1	Margate	Park View Road
	Raines '41 Milton '47 Grant '49	Teamsheet	Warden '90

30 October 2017	Lewes	4-3	Camberley Town	The Dripping Pan
	Gifford '5 McCarthy '35 Magrath '69, '77	Teamsheet	TBC '62 Liddle '68, '75

31 October 2017	Morecambe	0-4	Wigan Athletic	Globe Arena
		Report	McGuffie '29 Maffeo '41 (pen), '61 (pen) Malumo '82

31 October 2017	Bradford City	0-3	Blackpool	Valley Parade
		Report	Jacobson Watkinson Sumner

31 October 2017	Accrington Stanley	1-0	Rochdale	Wham Stadium
	Hamami '6	Rochdale

31 October 2017	Guiseley	0-0 (AET - 3-4 pens)	Fleetwood Town	Nethermoor

		Penalties
	Buckham Waddington Hogg Squires

31 October 2017	Lincoln City	1-2	Coventry City	Sincil Bank
	Gee '80		Lautaru '8 Johnson '58

31 October 2017	Colchester United	5-4	Cheshunt	Weston Homes Community Stadium
	Jones '41 (pen) Joseph-Forino '45 og Chilvers '57 Ager '68, '70		Smith '1 Bakkali '15 Kensdale '32 og Joseph-Forino '84

31 October 2017	Milton Keynes Dons	1-0	Southend United	StadiumMK
	Bird '37	Report

31 October 2017	Peterborough United	1-2	Cambridge United	ABAX Stadium
	Gurney '62	Report	Bennett '55, '90+2

31 October 2017	Gillingham	1-2	Portsmouth	Priestfield Stadium
	Hlabi '2 (pen)	Report	Mayes '26, '103

31 October 2017	Plymouth Argyle	7-2	Eastleigh	Home Park
	Purrington '9, '12 Ward '14 Jephcott '27 (pen) Coombes '63 og Sangster '78 Garside '89	Report	Bearwish '41 Scorey '53

31 October 2017	Yeovil Town	0-3	Exeter City	Huish Park
			Randall Dean (2 pens)

31 October 2017	Wrexham	2-2 (AET - 5-4 pens)	Salford City	The Racecourse Ground
	Stephens '41 Freeman '49	report	Gorman '54 Hatton '58
		Penalties
	McGregor Thorn McHarrie Sargent Stephens		Hatton Thompson-Edwards Adetiloye Ogunrinde Woodcock

1 November 2017	Tranmere Rovers	0-1	Blackburn Rovers	Prenton Park
			Dolan '62

1 November 2017	Oldham Athletic	0-3	Bury	Boundary Park
			Hulme '25 Hill '27 Harker '51

1 November 2017	Hartlepool United	3-1	Chester	Victoria Park
	Jackson '26 Boyle '59 Simpson '72 (pen)		Noble '31

1 November 2017	Evesham United	3-0*	Shrewsbury Town	The Spiers & Hartwell Jubilee Stadium

1 November 2017	Rotherham United	7-0	Bottesford Town	New York Stadium
	Kayode '5 Carlton '10 McGinley '27 Maguire '57 Lewthwaite '82, '86 Murr '85

1 November 2017	Handsworth Parramore	0-2	Crewe Alexandra	Sandy Lane
			Walsh '55 Linton '57

1 November 2017	Barnet	4-0	Wingate & Finchley	The Hive
	Adinna '46, '76 (pen) Syla '50 Aghadiuno '58

1 November 2017	Luton Town	1-2	Stevenage	Kenilworth Road
	Shamalo '90+1		Belgrove '29 Georgiou '49

1 November 2017	Bishop’s Stortford	3-1	Boreham Wood	Woodside Park
	Taylor '27 Mason '107, '118		Ndiaye '35

1 November 2017	Marlow	0-3	AFC Wimbledon	Alfred Davis Memorial Ground
			Burey '20 Evans '23 Ashley '63

2 November 2017	Long Eaton United	0-3	Scunthorpe United	Grange Park
			Allasan '21 (pen), '60 Collins '56

2 November 2017	Chesterfield	3-1	Notts County	Proact Stadium
	Ofoegbu '7 Ebanks '26 og Phillips '45		Howes '80

2 November 2017	Hitchin Town	4-6	Dagenham & Redbridge	Top Field
	Da Silva '3, '51 Hamilton' 37 Moss '68	Teamsheet	Gallagher '2, '78 Florence '18, '54 (pen) Balogun '43, '81

2 November 2017	Buckingham Athletic	2-4	Northampton Town	Stratford Fields
	McIlroy Quay		Gillard (2) Hugges Whaler

2 November 2017	Clanfield 85	2-1	Cambridge City	Radcot Road
	Own Goal Oliver		Own Goal

2 November 2017	Bristol Rovers	1-1 (AET - 3-1 pens)	Forest Green Rovers	Memorial Ground
	Carey		Stevens (pen)
		Penalties
	Bailey Tomlinson Brace Mahew		Stevens Spurrier Trueman Malshankskyj

2 November 2017	Sholing	2-0	Clevedon Town	Universal Stadium
	Ramdin '113, '119

2 November 2017	Gloucester City	1-2	Oxford United	Spiers and Hartwell Jubilee Stadium
	Roach '45		Hopkins '75 James '92

3 November 2017	Dunkirk	0-2	Tamworth	Ron Steel Sports Ground
			Hayden '48 Mpofu '65

3 November 2017	Grimsby Town	0-1	Mansfield Town	Blundell Park
			Jackson '67

4 November 2017	Swindon Town	6-2	Newport County	County Ground
	Pryce '11, '82 Rejek '36, '87 Haines '77 Atik '90		Cook '49 Collins '53

6 November 2017	AFC Totton	0-9	Cheltenham Town	Total Branding Community Stadium
			Lloyd '8, '28, '38, '51, '53, '75 (pen), '83, '86 Hunt '76

8 November 2017	Leyton Orient	5-0	Biggleswade Town	Matchroom Stadium
	Dalby '20, '67 Kyprianou '26 Lopes '43, '69

8 November 2017	Charlton Athletic	4-1	Whitehawk	The Valley
	Doughty '11, '32 Morgan '51 Isiaka		Sismayi '54

13 November 2017	Carlisle United	5-1	Prescot Cables	Brunton Park
	Adewusi '10 Papa '48 Miller '50) Cowburn '73 Lloyd '77		Nash '82

Shrewsbury won the initial fixture 3-0 but were expelled due to fielding an ineligible player

Second Round

There are no new entrants to the competition at this stage as the 42 First Round winners meet. Ties are provisionally due to be played by 18 November 2017.

9 November 2017	Accrington Stanley	2-3	Coventry City	Crown Ground
	Mills '48 Watson '85		Crowther '7, '26, '76

10 November 2017	Portsmouth	3-1	Lewes	Fratton Park
	Flint '6 Lethbridge '67 Mayes '68		Headland '46	Attendance: 474

13 November 2017	Colchester United	5-0	Bishop's Stortford	Weston Homes Community Stadium
	Ager (2) Jones (2) Keys

14 November 2017	Cambridge United	0-1	Scunthorpe United	Abbey Stadium
			Shaw og

14 November 2017	Chesterfield	2-1	Port Vale	Proact Stadium
	Willock Rawson		Ryder '79

14 November 2017	Doncaster Rovers	0-2	Blackpool	Keepmoat Stadium
			Roache Jacobson

14 November 2017	Plymouth Argyle	3-2	AFC Wimbledon	Home Park
	Ward Purrington Lolos		Burey Assal

14 November 2017	Tamworth	1-2	Fleetwood Town	The Lamb Ground
	Pegg '56		Collings '80 Bishop '105

14 November 2017	Swindon Town	1-0	Northampton Town	County Ground
	Pryce

14 November 2017	Barnet	1-3	Milton Keynes Dons	The Hive
	Adinna '11 (pen)		Hope '18 Asonganyi '58, '81

14 November 2017	Exeter City	1-2	Charlton Athletic	St James Park
	Randall '72		Doughty '8 Willis '9

15 November 2017	Blackburn Rovers	3-1	Wrexham	Ewood Park
7.00pm	Barratt '36 Lynch '41 Butterworth '90+2	Report	Stephens '8	Attendance: 338 Referee: Mr M.Reeves

15 November 2017	Rotherham United	0-1	Mansfield Town	AESSEAL New York Stadium
			Gooden '54

15 November 2017	Oxford United	3-1	Bristol Rovers	Kassam Stadium
	James '36 Carr '62 Stevens '90	Oxford United	Spruce '8 (pen)	Attendance: 344

16 November 2017	Cheltenham Town	2-0	Welling United	LCI Rail Stadium
	Dawes '106 Hailwood '118

16 November 2017	Dagenham & Redbridge	7-1	Clanfield 85	Victoria Road
	Turvey '36 Florence '45+1, '53, '77, '85 Gallagher '61 Balogun '71		Cato '82 (pen)	Attendance: 150

16 November 2017	Bromley	1-4	Stevenage	Hayes Lane
	Enver '33		Wilmot '61 Georgiou '73, '88 Krasniqi '85	Attendance: 262

17 November 2017	Wigan Athletic	1-3	Bury	Lancashire FA
	Malumo		Shotton Da Silva Hulme (pen)

21 November 2017	Evesham	0-4	Crewe Alexandra	The Spiers & Hartwell Jubilee Stadium
			Walsh Griffiths Lynch C.Johnson

22 November 2017	Leyton Orient	5-0	Sholing	Matchroom Stadium
	Clayden '37 Dalby '62 Sotiriou '79 Phillips '84, '90+1

28 November 2017	Carlisle United	0-2	Hartlepool United	Brunton Park
			Simpson '85 Pritchard '90	Attendance: 167

Third Round

The 20 Premier League teams join the 24 sides from the Championship in entering the competition at this stage, alongside the sides to have progressed from Round 2. Third round ties are provisionally due to be played by 16 December 2017.

27 November 2017	Burnley	1-0	Leeds United	Turf Moor
7.00pm	Cropper '84

5 December 2017	Portsmouth	1-2	Leicester City	Fratton Park
7.00pm	Smith '32 (pen)		Edwards-John '47, '99	Attendance: 603

5 December 2017	West Bromwich Albion	4-0	Leyton Orient	The Hawthorns
7.00pm	Clayton-Phillips (2) Tulloch (2)

5 December 2017	Bristol City	1-2	Birmingham City	Ashton Gate
7.00pm	Semenyo '74		Anderson '5 Okoro '32

7 December 2017	Brighton & Hove Albion	0-5	Newcastle United	AMEX Stadium
			Watts '10, '80 (pen), '85 (pen) Cass '65 Russell '90

7 December 2017	Mansfield Town	2-2 (AET - 5-6 pens)	Crystal Palace	One Call Stadium
	Walker '44 Dumbleton '115	Report	Hungbo '15 Ossai '105	Referee: Mr R. Cattell
		Penalties
	Jackson Bircumshaw Dumbleton Ward Jones Walker Gooden		Kirby Robertson Boateng Daly TBC Baptiste Mitchell

8 December 2017	Everton	1-2	Ipswich Town	Goodison Park
	Adedoyin '66		Marshall '50 El Mizouni '65

8 December 2017	AFC Bournemouth	3-0	Hull City	Vitality Stadium
	Thacker '10 og Anthony '75 Scrimshaw '90

9 December 2017	Swindon Town	1-3	Nottingham Forest	County Ground
	Atik '53		Harbottle '39 Appiah '55 McCormick '79	Attendance: 178

11 December 2017	Fleetwood Town	1-5	Stevenage	Highbury
	Blackburn '80		Georgiou (pen) '36, '71, '90 Krasniqi '65 Smyth '87

12 December 2017	Queens Park Rangers	1-3	Charlton Athletic	Loftus Road
	Ribeiro '29		Carey '23 Morgan (pen) '70 Doughty '90+3

12 December 2017	Tottenham Hotspur	5-0	Preston North End	Tottenham Training Centre
	Maghoma '19 Richards '39, '64, '84 Patterson '52

12 December 2017	Norwich City	4-1	Barnsley	Carrow Road
	Idah '58, '63, '68 Spyrou '60		Wolfe '28

12 December 2017	Sheffield United	2-0	Burton Albion	Bramall Lane
	Doherty '50, '62

12 December 2017	Milton Keynes Dons	1-0	Cardiff City	Stadium MK
	Hope '87

13 December 2017	Blackburn Rovers	2-1	Stoke City	Ewood Park
	Evans '41, '44		Campbell '51

13 December 2018	Cheltenham Town	1-2	Bury	LCI Rail Stadium
	Brennan '64		Harker '11 Styles '70

13 December 2017	Derby County	2-2 (AET - 3-1 pens)	Manchester United	Pride Park
	Dixon '3 Bogle '21		Chong '13 Barlow '58
		Penalties
	TBC Wise Bogle Knight		O'Connor Tanner Baars Garner

13 December 2017	Aston Villa	2-1	Coventry City	Villa Park
	Odutayo '10, '66		Crowther '1

13 December 2017	Arsenal	2-1	Sheffield Wednesday	Meadow Park
	Amaechi (2)		Shaw '86

13 December 2017	Hartlepool United	1-5	Liverpool	Victoria Park
	Owen '6		Millar '2, '8, '72 McAuley '37 Jones '76

14 December 2017	Colchester United	2-0	Crewe Alexandra	Weston Homes Community Stadium
	Sims '37 Chilvers '85

14 December 2017	Middlesbrough	2-0	Bolton Wanderers	Riverside Stadium
	Walker '24 O'Neill '71			Attendance: 254

14 December 2017	Southampton	4-1	Wolverhampton Wanderers	St Mary's
	Hamblin '45 Obafemi '72, '76, '90+3 (pen)		Carr '23

14 December 2017	Plymouth Argyle	0-0 (AET - 6-5 pens)	Manchester City	Home Park
				Attendance: 1842
		Penalties
	Law Jephcott Lolos Sangster Randall Downing Peck		Matondo Francis Smith Nmecha Dele-Bashiru Anderson Poveda

14 December 2017	Reading	2-1	Millwall	Madejski Stadium
	Loader '21 Faniyan '39		Alexander '45+1

15 December 2017	Huddersfield Town	1-1 (AET - 3-4 pens)	Fulham	John Smith's Stadium
	Obiero '78		Kelly '1
		Penalties
	High Obiero Tear Dyson Daly Eli		Felix Sessegnon York De Havilland Francois Ashby-Hammond

15 December 2017	Chelsea	4-0	Scunthorpe United	The EBB Stadium
7.05pm	Hudson-Odoi '9, '78 McEachran '81 Anjorin '87			Referee: Mr L. Dyson

15 December 2017	West Ham United	0-1	Blackpool	Chigwell Construction Stadium
			Jaaskelainen

15 December 2017	Swansea City	2-0	Chesterfield	Landore
	O.Cooper Wynter-Coles

21 December 2017	Oxford United	0-3	Dagenham & Redbridge	Court Place Farm
			Hirst '29 Florence '47, '75

7 January 2018	Watford	1-0	Sunderland	Vicarage Road
	Gordon '36

Fourth Round

The 32 winners from round three advance to this round, with ties provisionally due to be played by 20 January 2018.

5 January 2018	Burnley	0-1	Plymouth Argyle	Turf Moor
			Craske '90+2

11 January 2018	Stevenage	1-2	Middlesbrough	Lamex Stadium
	Georgiou '27		Wearne '4, '21

12 January 2018	Norwich City	4-2 (AET)	Derby County	Carrow Road
	Fleming Kamal (pen) Odusina '96 Spyrou '110		Whittaker '6 Bogle

16 January 2018	Colchester United	2-0	Milton Keynes Dons	Weston Homes Community Stadium
	Cornish '4 Jones '59

16 January 2018	Birmingham City	1-0	Sheffield United	St Andrew's
	Clarke '65

16 January 2018	Nottingham Forest	1-1 (AET - 5-4 pens)	Leicester City	City Ground
	Johnson '62		Thandi '54
		Penalties
	Johnson Mighten Preston Stewart Ram Smith		Tee Edwards-John Shade Thomas Ughelumba Leshabela

16 January 2018	AFC Bournemouth	0-3	Tottenham Hotspur	Vitality Stadium
			Griffiths '44, '84 Clarke '90

16 January 2018	Blackpool	1-1 (AET - 4-2 pens)	Southampton	Bloomfield Road
	Sinclair-Smith '51		Klarer '18
		Penalties
	Roache Jaaskelainen O'Brien Sumner Jacobson		Smallbone Vokins Afolabi Obafemi

16 January 2018	Ipswich Town	2-1	Dagenham & Redbridge	Portman Road
	Lankester (2)		Bonds

16 January 2018	Charlton Athletic	3-4 (AET)	Reading	Park View Road
	Morgan '16 (pen) Nwosu '55 Willis '63		Holsgrove '45+2, '90+4 Faniyan '67 Loader '98

17 January 2018	Chelsea	7-0	West Brom	The EBB Stadium
	Guehi '9 Hudson-Odoi '33, '52 Redan '35, '49 Anjorin '59 Taylor-Crossdale '90+2			Referee: Mr D.Spain

17 January 2018	Blackburn Rovers	2-0	Watford	Ewood Park
	Wright '15 (pen) Butterworth '45			Attendance: 278

17 January 2018	Swansea City	0-2	Fulham	Landore
			Santos '20, '42

19 January 2018	Crystal Palace	2-3 (AET)	Newcastle United	Selhurst Park
	Kirby (pen) '12 Ossai '85		Wilson '36 McEntee '90+2 Watts '97

20 January 2017	Liverpool	2-3 (AET)	Arsenal	Anfield
	Jones '41, '49		Burton '16 Saka '85 John-Jules '98

22 January 2018	Bury	1-0	Aston Villa	Gigg Lane
	Hulme '55			Referee: Mr B.Speedie

Fifth Round

Ties are provisionally due to be played by 10 February 2018.

30 January 2018	Ipswich Town	0-2	Blackpool	Portman Road
			Roache '8 Watkinson '26

2 February 2018	Middlesbrough	2-3	Arsenal	Heritage Park
	O'Neill '43 Hood '45+1		Smith-Rowe '10 John-Jules '20 Ballard '48

6 February 2018	Colchester United	1-4*	Reading	Weston Homes Community Stadium
	Anderson '26		Loader '37, '45, '77 Nolan '75

6 February 2018	Blackburn Rovers	5-1	Nottingham Forest	Ewood Park
	Vale '18, '27, '73 Carter '35 Connell '85		Johnson '21	Attendance: 480

7 February 2018	Plymouth Argyle	1-3	Fulham	Home Park
	Lolos '23		Santos '69 Carvalho '103 Harris '112

7 February 2018	Norwich City	4-3	Newcastle United	Carrow Road
	Spyrou '45, '101 Odusina '71 Fleming '81		Watts '25 Sorensen '40 Wilson '90+3

13 February 2018	Tottenham	0-2	Chelsea	Lamex Stadium
			Sterling '14 Guehi '49

16 February 2018	Bury	1-3	Birmingham City	Gigg Lane
	Styles '57		Bailey '25 Brown '35 McLean '81

Reading were ejected from the competition on February 14th 2017 after it was discovered that they had featured an ineligible player in their win over Colchester.

Sixth Round

Ties are provisionally due to be played by 3 March 2018.

Fulham v Chelsea

27 February 2018

Fulham	0-6	Chelsea
		Mundle-Smith '51 og Hudson-Odoi '56 Taylor-Crossdale '68, '78, '87 (pen) Sterling '76

Craven Cottage

Norwich City v Birmingham City

27 February 2018

Norwich City	1-3	Birmingham City
Spyrou '90		Anderson '52 Clarke '55 Andrews '80

Carrow Road

Blackburn Rovers v Blackpool

6 March 2018

Blackburn Rovers	2-3	Blackpool
Carter '62 Vale '73		Sinclair-Smith '55 Dunne '87 Roache '90+2

Ewood Park

Colchester United v Arsenal

6 March 2018

Colchester United	1-5	Arsenal
Jones '48 (pen)		Smith-Rowe '41, '52 Saka '55 Balogun '66 Amaechi '74

Weston Homes Community Stadium

Semi Finals

Ties are provisionally due to be played by 3 March 2018.

Blackpool v Arsenal

20 March 2018

Blackpool	2-2	Arsenal
Sumner '44 Jacobson '74		John-Jules '31 Amaechi '64

Bloomfield Road
Attendance: 894

Arsenal v Blackpool

16 April 2018

Arsenal	5-0 (7-2 on agg)	Blackpool
Balogun '18 Ballard '20 Burton '23 Smith-Rowe (pen) '34 Smith '90

Emirates Stadium

Birmingham City v Chelsea

4 April 2018

Birmingham City	0-3	Chelsea
		Uwakwe '15 Hudson-Odoi '33 Brown '76

St Andrew's

Chelsea v Birmingham City

10 April 2018

Chelsea	4-0 (7-0 on agg)	Birmingham City
Hudson-Odoi '31, '41 Brown '38 Uwakwe '63

Stamford Bridge

Final

Chelsea v Arsenal

27 April 2018
7.45pm

Chelsea	3-1	Arsenal
Redan '67, '86 Guehi '78		Amaechi '36

Stamford Bridge
Attendance: 4,878

Arsenal v Chelsea

30 April 2018
7.45pm

Arsenal	0-4 br> (1-7 on agg)	Chelsea
		Gilmour '11 Hudson-Odoi '57, '78 Anjorin '67

Emirates Stadium
Attendance: 3,877

Top Goalscorers

(First Round Proper onwards)
(Final Statistics)

Player	Club	Goals
Callum Hudson-Odoi	Chelsea	10
Dylan Florence	Dagenham & Redbridge	8
George Lloyd	Cheltenham Town	8
Andronicos Georgiou	Stevenage	7
Xavier Amaechi	Arsenal	5
Callum Jones	Colchester United	5
Anthony Spyrou	Norwich City	5
Kelland Watts	Newcastle United	5
Dean Ager	Colchester United	4
Alfie Doughty	Charlton Athletic	4
Daishawn Redan	Chelsea	4
Emile Smith-Rowe	Arsenal	4
Martell Taylor-Crossdale	Chelsea	4
Jack Vale	Blackburn Rovers	4

2017-18 FA Youth Cup

Contents

First Round

Second Round

Third Round

Fourth Round

Fifth Round

Sixth Round

Semi Finals

Final

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