West Ham United will travel to Aston Villa for our Emirates FA Cup third-round tie on Friday 10 January 2025 at 8pm.
The all-Premier League tie has been selected for live television coverage by ITV1 in the UK, with three-times winners West Ham hoping to get past seven-times winners Villa in what promises to be an exciting 90 minutes of knockout football.
With no replays, the tie will be settled on the night, with extra-time and penalties available if the scores are level at the end of 90 and 120 minutes respectively.
Ticket information will be confirmed in due course.
The Hammers are one of 64 clubs who remain in contention to lift the famous trophy next May, with the 20 Premier League sides and 24 EFL Championship teams joining 20 from Leagues One and Two and the non-league ranks in the third round.
There will be just one other all-Premier League tie, with Arsenal hosting holders Manchester United, while the two remaining non-league clubs, Tamworth and Dagenham & Redbridge, will host Tottenham Hotspur and travel to Millwall respectively.
The Irons have faced Villa three times previously in the FA Cup. The first-ever meeting between the two clubs was a second-round tie in February 1913, which Villa won 5-0. The West Midlands club won a fourth-round match 3-0 at Villa Park in January 1977, before West Ham famously triumphed 1-0 in a sixth-round tie at the Boleyn Ground in March 1980 on the way to lifting the trophy.
West Ham have won the prestigious cup competition three times in the Club’s history in total. After triumphs over second-tier Preston North End and Fulham in 1964 and 1975 respectively, the most recent FA Cup win came in 1980, when a Trevor Brooking header memorably saw the Second Division Irons beat top-flight Arsenal 1-0 at Wembley Stadium.
West Ham last reached an FA Cup final in 2006 but lost to Liverpool on penalties after a thrilling 3-3 draw at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.
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