{"id":876387,"date":"2026-04-06T19:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/876387\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:00:07","slug":"chelsea-leeds-and-man-city-discover-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/876387\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea, Leeds and Man City discover opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See who has been pitted against each other in the last-four stage of the competition<\/p>\n<p>The draw for the FA Cup semi-finals has been made, with three Premier League clubs discovering who they will play.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/clubs\/8\/chelsea\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chelsea<\/a> will take on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/clubs\/2\/leeds-united\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds United<\/a>, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/clubs\/43\/manchester-city\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manchester City<\/a> face Championship side Southampton. Both matches will be played at Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>FA Cup semi-final draw<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chelsea<\/strong> v <strong>Leeds<\/strong><br \/><strong>Man City <\/strong>v Southampton<\/p>\n<p>*PL teams in <strong>bold<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The semi-final ties will be played on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 April. There will be no replay if a match ends in a draw after 90 minutes. All ties will go to extra-time and a penalty shootout if required.<\/p>\n<p>These ties are on the same weekend as Matchweek 34 in the Premier League. As a result, the Premier League matches between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/clubs\/90\/burnley\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Burnley<\/a> and Man City, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/clubs\/36\/brighton-and-hove-albion\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brighton &amp; Hove Albion<\/a> and Chelsea and between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/clubs\/91\/bournemouth\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AFC Bournemouth<\/a> and Leeds will be postponed and will move to a date between Tuesday 21 and Thursday 23 April.<\/p>\n<p>The new dates and kick-off times will be confirmed early in the week commencing 6 April.<\/p>\n<p>The FA Cup final will be held on Saturday 16 May, which coincides with Matchweek 37 of the Premier League, which takes place on Sunday 17 May.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>FA Cup round dates<\/p>\n<p><strong>Semi-finals<\/strong>: Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 April<br \/><strong>Final<\/strong>: Saturday 16 May<\/p>\n<p>The FA Cup winners will qualify automatically for the UEFA Europa League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"See who has been pitted against each other in the last-four stage of the competition The draw for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,661,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-876387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-text","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116359307353324914","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}