FA Cup third round draw details as Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United ball numbers confirmed

The draw for the third round of the FA Cup will take place on Monday evening.

Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United will discover who they will be facing in the third round of the FA Cup when the draw is made on Monday evening.

The draw, which will be shown live on TNT Sports 1 and discovery+, is scheduled to take place at approximately 6.40pm. It is taking place ahead of the final second round tie between Brackley Town and Burton Albion.

The draw, which will be made by former England duo Joe Cole and Peter Crouch, will feature all 20 Premier League and all 24 Championship clubs, with the teams from both divisions entering the competition at this stage.

This season’s edition of the competition will mark Wednesday boss Henrik Pedersen’s first experience of the FA Cup as a manager, after experiencing at as former Owls boss Danny Röhl’s assistant in each of the last two campaigns.

Meanwhile, United’s third round tie will mark manager Chris Wilder’s 17th game in charge of the Blades in the competition. He will be hoping to lead them beyond the third round this season after overseeing a 1-0 home defeat to Cardiff City at the first hurdle last term.

United and Wednesday have been allocated balls 33 and 34 respectively ahead the draw, which will also be screened live on TNT Sports’ YouTube channel and could be pitted up against any of the other 62 teams. Ties are scheduled to be played over the second weekend in January.

FA Cup third round draw ball numbers:

1 AFC Bournemouth

2 Arsenal

3 Aston Villa

4 Birmingham City

5 Blackburn Rovers

6 Brentford

7 Brighton & Hove Albion

8 Bristol City

9 Burnley

10 Charlton Athletic

11 Chelsea

12 Coventry City

13 Crystal Palace

14 Derby County

15 Everton

16 Fulham

17 Hull City

18 Ipswich Town

19 Leeds United

20 Leicester City

21 Liverpool

22 Manchester City

23 Manchester United

24 Middlesbrough

25 Millwall

26 Newcastle United

27 Norwich City

28 Nottingham Forest

29 Oxford United

30 Portsmouth

31 Preston North End

32 Queens Park Rangers

33 Sheffield United

34 Sheffield Wednesday

35 Southampton

36 Stoke City

37 Sunderland

38 Swansea City

39 Tottenham Hotspur

40 Watford

41 West Bromwich Albion

42 West Ham United

43 Wolverhampton Wanderers

44 Wrexham

45 Macclesfield

46 Grimsby Town

47 Shrewsbury Town

48 Swindon Town

49 Weston Super Mare

50 Barnsley

51 Boreham Wood

52 MK Dons

53 Wigan Athletic

54 Fleetwood Town

55 Salford City

56 Mansfield Town

57 Cambridge United

58 Brackley Town or Burton Albion

59 Blackpool

60 Walsall

61 Exeter City

62 Cheltenham Town

63 Doncaster Rovers

64 Port Vale

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