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The 1945–46 FA Cup was the 65th 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 25 victorious teams from the fourth round qualifying progressed to the first round proper.
The teams that han been exempted until the fourth qualifying round are: Ilford, Lovells Athletic, Shorts Sports, Chelmsford City, Cheltenham Town, Dulwich Hamlet, Gillingham, Guildford City, Leytonstone, Lancaster City, Gainsborough Trinity, Scarborough, North Shields, Shrewsbury Town, Stalybridge Celtic, Runcorn, Walthamstow Avenue, Clapton, Wellington Town, Kidderminster Harriers, Willington, Colchester United, Marine and Workington.
Extra preliminary round
Ties
Tie | Home team | Score | Away team |
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1 | Aylesbury United | 5–0 | Chesham United |
2 | Banbury Spencer | 8–1 | Headington United |
3 | Pressed Steel | 1–0 | Morris Motors |
4 | Uxbridge | 11–1 | Lyons Club |
Preliminary round
Ties
Tie | Home team | Score | Away team |
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1 | Apsley | 4–7 | King's Langley |
2 | Aylesbury United | 5–0 | Osberton Radiator |
3 | Banstead Mental Hospital | 0–2 | Metropolitan Police |
4 | Chippenham Town | 9–0 | Devizes Town |
5 | East Grinstead | 2–2 | Horsham |
6 | Edgware Town | 1–4 | Barnet |
7 | Epsom | 1–8 | Woking |
8 | Harrow Town | 8–0 | Berkhamsted Town |
9 | Hayes | 4–1 | Maidenhead United |
10 | Hertford Town | 3–6 | Enfield |
11 | Hoddesdon Town | 0–0 | Bishop's Stortford |
12 | Hounslow Town | 4–4 | Slough United |
13 | Marlow | 3–4 | Yiewsley |
14 | Newbury Town | 0–8 | Banbury Spencer |
15 | Ossett Town | 1–3 | Thorne Colliery |
16 | Oxford City | 4–0 | Uxbridge |
17 | Pinner | 1–2 | Wealdstone |
18 | Purton | 0–6 | Swindon G W R Corinthians |
19 | Shildon | 7–1 | Usworth Colliery |
20 | St Albans City | 4–3 | Finchley |
21 | Tufnell Park | 11–1 | Welwyn Garden City |
22 | Windsor & Eton | 11–1 | Pressed Steel |
23 | Wycombe Wanderers | 0–2 | Southall |
24 | Sutton United | 6–0 | Guildford |
25 | Tooting & Mitcham United | 5–2 | Kingstonian |
26 | Thornycrofts | 1–3 | Totton |
Replays
Tie | Home team | Score | Away team |
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5 | Horsham | 1–0 | East Grinstead |
11 | Bishop's Stortford | 4–1 | Hoddesdon Town |
12 | Slough United | 3–1 | Hounslow Town |
1st qualifying round
Ties
Replays
Tie | Home team | Score | Away team |
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7 | Bedford Town | 0–4 | Bedford Avenue |
9 | Firbeck Main Colliery | 3–4 | Brodsworth Main Colliery |
13 | Thorne Colliery | 1–6 | East Bierley |
17 | Gravesend United | 2–1 | Erith & Belvedere |
18 | Romford | 4–3 | Eton Manor |
24 | Frickley Colliery | 7–0 | Guiseley |
27 | Southall | 2–1 | Hayes |
28 | Nuneaton Borough | 5–2 | Hednesford Town |
35 | Grays Athletic | 0–3 | Leyton |
40 | Haywards Heath | 5–0 | Newhaven |
51 | Wealdstone | 3–0 | St Albans City |
56 | Barnet | 3–1 | Tufnell Park |
61 | Lloyds (Sittingbourne) | 4–0 | Woolwich Polytechnic |
63 | Slough United | 2–2 | Yiewsley |
2nd replay
Tie | Home team | Score | Away team |
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63 | Slough United | 2–0 | Yiewsley |
2nd qualifying round
Ties
Replays
Tie | Home team | Score | Away team |
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1 | Consett | 3–0 | Ashington |
11 | Skelmersdale United | 2–3 | Darwen |
13 | Wealdstone | 6–1 | Harrow Town |
26 | Lloyds (Sittingbourne) | 3–1 | Ramsgate Athletic |
36 | Newburn | 1–2 | Throckley |
3rd qualifying round
Ties
Replays
Tie | Home team | Score | Away team |
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17 | Witton Albion | 3–1 | Rhyl |
24 | Sutton United | 5–1 | Tooting & Mitcham United |
4th qualifying round
Ties
Tie | Home team | Score | Away team |
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1 | Barnet | 5–2 | Ilford |
2 | Barry Town | 1–5 | Lovells Athletic |
3 | Bromley | 2–0 | Shorts Sports |
4 | Chelmsford City | 9–0 | Leiston |
5 | Cheltenham Town | 1–1 | Peasedown Miners Welfare |
6 | Consett | 2–3 | Stockton |
7 | Dulwich Hamlet | 1–2 | Romford |
8 | Gillingham | 3–9 | Sutton United |
9 | Guildford City | 1–2 | Newport I O W |
10 | Grantham | 6–1 | Bedford Avenue |
11 | Kettering Town | 2–1 | Coalville Town |
12 | Leytonstone | 3–3 | Slough United |
13 | Netherfield | 2–0 | Lancaster City |
14 | Rawmarsh Welfare | 1–3 | Gainsborough Trinity |
15 | Scarborough | 2–4 | North Shields |
16 | Scunthorpe & Lindsey United | 1–2 | Yorkshire Amateur |
17 | Shrewsbury Town | 6–2 | Bourneville Athletic |
18 | Stalybridge Celtic | 3–0 | Runcorn |
19 | Trowbridge Town | 6–0 | Haywards Heath |
20 | Walthamstow Avenue | 4–0 | Clapton |
21 | Wellington Town | 5–2 | Kidderminster Harriers |
22 | Willington | 3–2 | Shildon |
23 | Wisbech Town | 5–0 | Colchester United |
24 | Witton Albion | 2–3 | Marine |
25 | Workington | 1–2 | Chorley |
Replays
Tie | Home team | Score | Away team |
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5 | Peasedown Miners Welfare | 0–1 | Cheltenham Town |
12 | Slough United | 3–1 | Leytonstone |
1945–46 FA Cup
See 1945–46 FA Cup for details of the rounds from the first round proper onwards.