Ben Barrett

The FA have confirmed the dates for the FA Cup ahead of the 2026/27 season.

Yeovil Town will once again enter the competition at the Fourth Round Qualifying stage, one step away from the First Round Proper

The Emirates FA Cup
Season 2026-27
Round Dates

Extra Preliminary Round: Saturday 8 August 2026

Preliminary Round: Saturday 22 August 2026

First Round Qualifying: Saturday 5 September 2026

Second Round Qualifying: Saturday 19 September 2026

Third Round Qualifying: Saturday 3 October 2026

Fourth Round Qualifying: Saturday 17 October 2026

First Round Proper: Saturday 7 November 2026

Second Round Proper: Saturday 5 December 2026

Third Round Proper: Saturday 9 January 2027

Fourth Round Proper: Saturday 13 February 2027

Fifth Round Proper: Saturday 6 March 2027

Quarter Final: Saturday 3 April 2027

Semi Final:  Saturday 24 April 2027

Final: Saturday 22 May 2027

The Football Association have confirmed the key dates for the FA Trophy for the 2026/27 season.

The Glovers were quarter finalists in the 25/26 season before losing out to Southport in the last eight.

Yeovil will enter in the third round once more.

The FA Trophy
Season 2026-27
Round Dates

Preliminary Round: Saturday 15 August 2026

First Round Qualifying: Saturday 29 August 2026

Second Round Qualifying: Saturday 12 September 2026

Third Round Qualifying: Saturday 26 September 2026

First Round Proper: Saturday 24 October 2026

Second Round Proper: Saturday 14 November 2026

Third Round Proper: Saturday 12 December 2026

Fourth Round Proper: Saturday 16 January 2027

Fifth Round Proper: Saturday 6 February 2027

Sixth Round Proper: Saturday 6 March 2027

Semi Final: Saturday 3 April 2027

Final: Sunday 16 May 2027

The Football Association have confirmed the dates for the upcoming season’s FA Youth Cup.

Yeovil Town’s Under 19s enter the competition in the Second Qualifying Round in late September.

Last season, the young Glovers fell at the first hurdle, losing 3-1 to Portland United.

The FA Youth Cup
Season 2026-27
Round Dates

Dates are subject to change if directed otherwise by The FA. 

Qualifying Competition – Ties to be played in the week commencing:-  

Extra Preliminary Round: Monday 17 August 2026 

Preliminary Round: Monday 31 August 2026

First Round Qualifying: Monday 14 September 2026

Second Round Qualifying: Monday 28 September 2026

Third Round Qualifying: Monday 12 October 2026

Competition Proper – Ties to be played by the following closing date:-

First Round Proper: Saturday 31 October 2026

Second Round Proper: Saturday 21 November 2026

Third Round Proper: Saturday 12 December 2026 

Fourth Round Proper: Saturday 23 January 2027  

Fifth Round Proper: Saturday 20 February 2027  

Sixth Round Proper: Saturday 13 March 2027

Semi Final: Saturday 10 April 2027  

Final: Saturday 8 May 2027

…and not a table to be seen!

Pre season continues to take shape for the Glovers who will take on Wycombe Wanderers in a behind closed doors friendly on Saturday 25th July.

No kick off time, or venue has been announced, nor has the notion that the winner gets to keep Declan Skura for the season after! But that would be nice!

Yeovil Town will host Bristol Rovers in a pre-season game on Saturday 18th July.

Steve Evans will bring his League Two side to Huish Park for a 2pm kick off.

The Gas came to Huish Park last pre-season winning 2-1 thanks to goals from Luke Thomas and Kofi Shaw, the game was a designated as a Match for Marcus Stewart who represented both clubs.

A third pre-season friendly is in the books, we’re off to newly promoted National League South side Farnham Town.

After being promoted via the play-offs they will play at Step Two of the National League set up.

The game at Memorial Ground will take place on Tuesday 28th July – kicking off at 7:45pm

Yeovil Town Under 19s had a positive first season in the National League U19 alliance system for the first time, finishing third in their league and seeing a number of players make the step into the first team set up at various stages.

The season had a managerial change, Matt Percival leaving in January to explore new opportunities. Jamie Phillip took over the reigns with former Glovers captain Josh Staunton joining the club as Under 19s Operations Lead. 

Finishing their 16 games in Division E, the young Glovers won eight, drew three and lost five; 59 scored with just 31 conceded.

Basingstoke have one game left in their campaign, so long as they don’t beat the Met Police by an eight goal margin or more, the Glovers are set to finish third in the table, 12 points off second and a whopping 16 points off Dorchester’s youth side who were almost perfect throughout their season.

Yeovil were one of the two teams to take points off the league leaders when drawing 0-0 back in October.

George Geraghty ended the season as the division’s second top scorer, his 21 goals just a couple shy of Eastleigh’s Ilya Ihnatenko who racked up 23.

Alec Thomas ended with 12, Ollie Hughes with eight.

Other notable milestones include a brilliant run to the Quarter-finals of the National League Alliance Cup, as well as a number of wins in the County Cup, however they did fall at the first hurdle in the FA Youth Cup.

The Francis Hillier Somerset Men’s Premier Cup gave a large number of Under 19s the chance to represent the Glovers in a first team atmosphere, in the end the Glovers lost 1-0 to Odd Down in the first round, but Blake Watts did break a record becoming the youngest captain of a Yeovil Town Men’s first team fixture.

Watts confirmed this week his time with the Glovers has come to an end after being associated with the club since Under 10s.

Three young Glovers made first team appearances in either the league or FA Trophy too, following in the footsteps of Corey Koerner who was the only academy graduate the season before.

Ollie Hughes, Liam Nardiello and Jaydon Biss all got plenty of time within the group including debuts for all of them at various times.

Hughes and Biss were named in match day squads more than dozen times each, with Nardiello included a couple of times too.

Hughes’ debut against Tamworth on March 3rd made him the fifth youngest Yeovil Town player to represent the Glovers in a league game.

The winger also got international representation with England Colleges receiving his cap just before Christmas.

As for Jaydon Biss, he made two appearances, once against Telford in the FA Trophy before making his league debut alongside Nardiello in the April fixture vs Eastleigh.

News will filter through over the coming days of players who have departed and those who will be with the group again next season.

Good luck to all those departing and here’s to another season of seeing the connection between the Under 19s and first team flourish.

THE GLOVERSCAST WOULD LOVE TO COVER MORE OF THE UNDER 19’S JOURNEY NEXT SEASON.
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