FA Cup draw LIVE: First qualifying round draw as non-league teams discover opponents

The FA Cup has reached the third stage of qualifying, with 334 non-league teams having already exited the competition. And we're only in mid-August!

For many non-league sides, the FA Cup started before their league campaigns, with the extra preliminary round and the preliminary round now at an end - bar replays this midweek.

Now we have reached the first qualifying round stage, with the draw to be released this afternoon. Eighty-eight new teams from step seven of the football pyramid join the 136 winners of the preliminary round stage in this afternoon's draw.

That means we have 112 ties to power through and you can follow live updates of the draw right here with football.london's dedicated live blog of one of the early stages of the world's greatest domestic cup competition.