Manchester United tie in prospect for Burnley FC Women if they can progress in Vitality Women’s FA Cup

Following the Authorities’s current roadmap announcement, which is able to see the secure return of grassroots soccer from March twenty ninth, the FA have introduced the 2020-21 Vitality Ladies’s FA Cup will recommence on the finish of this month.

With restrictions attributable to be lifted, the FA have rescheduled the primary 4 rounds of the competitors – with one tie nonetheless to be performed within the first spherical correct and 17 within the second-round correct, earlier than the third and fourth rounds may be performed.

Burnley FC Ladies will face league rivals AFC Fylde Ladies within the second spherical, at residence at Padiham FC’s Arbories Memorial Sports activities Floor, on Sunday, April 4th.

And the winner will face Sunderland AFC Women or Sheffield FC Ladies within the third spherical correct, with the prospect of Manchester United Ladies at residence within the fourth spherical.

Burnley FC Ladies Supervisor, Matt Bee stated: “It is constructive information that the Ladies’s FA Cup will probably be resuming, and we are able to return to play.

“We have had some profitable runs within the competitors beforehand and in what has been a wierd season it could be good to give attention to making an attempt to realize one other one.

“It is going to clearly be a problem given the quantity of preparation time we may have, nonetheless I am proud of the work now we have put in place to maintain the gamers engaged and sharp throughout lockdown.

“Finally, now we have to assault the sport in the identical means that I at all times count on from the gamers and present the proper mentality.”