The first sign of the FFA Cup being back in 2016 has come with Northern NSW Football set to hold their first Cup draw of the year on Thursday 21 January.
A total of 81 clubs from the region, including last year's two Round of 32 entrants Edgeworth FC and Broadmeadow Magic, have registered for the third year of the Westfield FFA Cup for the chance of being one of the two entrants from Northern NSW to qualify for the Round of 32.
The draw is scheduled to commence at 12noon (AEDT) and will be conducted by home grown Newcastle Jets duo Jason Hoffman and Ben Kantarovski.
Keep an eye on Northern NSW Football’s official Twitter account @NNSWF and their website for full details.
The process for the draw will take place in five different scenarios. All clubs nominated from Newcastle Football, Macquarie Football, Hunter Valley Football & NNSWF New FM will be placed in the same pot and drawn out one at a time to play each other in the initial round of the competition.
The PlayStation 4 NPL teams who are seeded into the competition in the next round will be drawn from a secondary pot and will play the winners of the first nine fixtures drawn from pot one. The remaining fixtures drawn from pot one will play the winner of the next fixture (example – winner of fixture 10 will play winner of fixture 11). The winner of the last fixture drawn from pot one (fixture 22) will receive a bye in the next round of the competition.
The four remaining Zones (Football Far North Coast, Football Mid North Coast, North Coast Football and Northern Inland Football) will be drawn individually with clubs to play each other within their own zone.
If there are an odd number of registrations a bye will be granted to the remaining team. This process will continue until an individual winner is found in each zone. They will then play the winner from one of the other zones to establish two participants for the qualifying weekend to be held in June.
Westfield FFA Cup 2016 – as Northern NSW Football entrants
Football Far North Coast
1 Ballina SC
2 Bangalow SC
3 Lennox Head FC
4 Lismore Thistles
5 Mullumbimby Brunswick Valley FC
6 Suffolk Park
Football Mid North Coast
7 Port Macquarie FC
8 Taree Wildcats
9 Tuncurry Forster FC
10 Wallis Lake (Great Lakes United FC)
Hunter Valley Football
11 Bolwarra Lorn JSC
12 Kurri Kurri Roosters
13 Muswellbrook FC
14 Tenambit Sharks FC
Macquarie Football
15 Barnsley United
16 Cardiff City FC
17 Charlestown Junior FC
18 Dudley Redhead United Senior FC
19 Edgeworth JSC
20 Garden Suburb FC
21 Morisset United FC
22 Swansea FC
23 Warners Bay FC
24 Westlakes Wildcats
Newcastle Football
25 Beresfield FC
26 Beresfield United Senior SC
27 Dudley Redhead United Juniors
28 Hamilton Azzurri
29 Hunter Simba FC
30 Jesmond FC
31 Kotara South
32 Maryland Fletcher FC
33 Mayfield United JSFC
34 Mayfield United Senior FC
35 Medowie FC
36 Merewether Advance SFC
37 Nelson Bay FC
38 New Lambton FC
39 Newcastle Suns FC
40 Newcastle University Mens FC
41 RAAF Williamtown FC
42 Raymond Terrace SC
43 Stockton Sharks
NNSW Premier Clubs
44 Adamstown Rosebud FC (NPL)
45 Belmont Swansea United FC (New FM)
46 Broadmeadow Magic FC (NPL)
47 Cessnock City Hornets FC (New FM)
48 Charlestown City Blues FC (NPL)
49 Cooks Hill United FC (New FM)
50 Edgeworth FC (NPL)
51 Hamilton Olympic FC (NPL)
52 Kahibah FC (NewFM)
53 Lake Macquarie City FC (New FM)
54 Lambton Jaffas FC (NPL)
55 Maitland FC (NPL)
56 Singleton FC (New FM)
57 South Cardiff FC (New FM)
58 Thornton Redbacks FC (New FM)
59 Toronto Awaba FC (New FM)
60 Valentine FC (NPL)
61 Wallsend FC (New FM)
62 West Wallsend SFC (New FM)
63 Weston Workers FC (NPL)
North Coast Football
64 Boambee Bombers
65 Coffs City United FC
66 Coffs Coast Tigers FC
67 Grafton United FC
68 Maclean FC
69 Nambucca Strikers FC
70 Northern Storm Thunder
71 Orara Valley FC
72 Sawtell Scorpions
73 Urunga Raiders
74 Westlawn Tigers FC
Northern Inland Football
75 Demon Knights FC
76 North Companions FC
77 Norths United FC
78 Oxley Vale Attunga FC
79 South Armidale United FC
80 Tamworth FC
81 The Armidale School
