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1966–67 FA Cup qualifying rounds

football tournament season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ4572565 ↗
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The FA Cup 1966–67 is the 86th season of the world's oldest football knockout competition; The Football Association Challenge Cup, or FA Cup for short. The large number of clubs entering the tournament from lower down the English football league system meant that the competition started with a number of preliminary and qualifying rounds. The 30 victorious teams from the fourth round qualifying progressed to the first round proper.

1st qualifying round

Ties

Replays

2nd replay

2nd qualifying round

Ties

Replays

2nd replay

3rd qualifying round

Ties

Replays

2nd replays

4th qualifying round

The teams that given byes to this round are Crook Town, Wimbledon, Gateshead, Wycombe Wanderers, Yeovil Town, Hereford United, South Shields, Chelmsford City, Bath City, Kettering Town, Weymouth, Romford, Bedford Town, Wigan Athletic, Corby Town, Dartford, South Liverpool, Gravesend & Northfleet, Folkestone, Guildford City, Grantham, Altrincham, Kidderminster Harriers and Wisbech Town.

Ties

Replays

1966–67 FA Cup

See 1966-67 FA Cup for details of the rounds from the first round proper onwards.

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The public source identifies “1966–67 FA Cup qualifying rounds” as football tournament season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around qualifying, rounds and football.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1966—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with qualifying, rounds and football providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4572565. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1966.

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