The 41st FA Vase competition reached its Fourth Round Proper stage at the weekend with eleven teams winning to book their place in the last 16.
Two ties finished all square and three fell victim to the weather.
The draw for the Fifth Round Proper was made at Wembley on Monday and the eight ties are scheduled for Saturday 7 February, with the winners each picking up £2,500 from The FA’s prize fund.
The FA Vase
Fifth Round Proper
Saturday 7 February 2015
Winners receive £2,500 from prize fund
Teams playing in the Fifth Round are just three victories away from a magical Wembley Final on 9 May.
The recent record of Northern League clubs in the competition has been outstanding, with five years of unbroken success from 2009 to 2013, and North Shields and Dunston UTS will be amongst the teams to watch this season.
North Shields, who top the League by a point and were winners of the old FA Amateur Cup back in the ‘60s, have been handed a home draw against Phoenix Sports, who made the long trip to Bodmin in Cornwall on Saturday.
And their fellow Southern Counties East League high-fliers Erith & Belvedere travel to Holbeach United of the United Counties League, after their biggest crowd for eight years saw Adam Marsh’s goal and George Kamurasi’s penalty save help them to a home win against Yaxley.
Dunston UTS won The Vase in 2012 and are in the Fifth Round Proper
AFC St Austell, a Cornwall club celebrating their 125th anniversary, will welcome Stanway Rovers from the Eastern Counties League to Poltair Park after winning a thrilling tie at Greenwich Borough that had one spell of three goals in four minutes.
The draw
1 Bradford Town v Highworth Town or Tunbridge Wells
2 AFC St Austell v Stanway Rovers
3 Ascot United v Ashford United or Norwich United
4 Walsall Wood or Shaw Lane Aquaforce v Flackwell Heath
5 Worksop Town or Glossop North End v Dunston UTS
6 Holbeach United v Erith & Belvedere
7 North Shields v Phoenix Sports
8 Chadderton or AFC Mansfield v Tadcaster Albion
