Bentleight Greens, Green Gully, Hume City and Melbourne Knights will find out their Westfield FFA Cup Round of 32 opponents on Thursday, with the draw to be broadcast live.
The 22 member federation clubs have been now been confirmed, and will all have a change to face any Hyundai A-League team following an amendment to the seedings in 2016.
This year’s Westfield FFA Cup Round of 32 draw will see the Hyundai A-League clubs placed into one pot (Pot A) and the member federation clubs placed into another pot (Pot B).
The balls will be pulled out of the pots in the respective order to firstly determine the three (3) all Hyundai A-League club matches and nine (9) all member federation club matches before the intriguing four (4) member federation club v Hyundai A-League club matches.
Along with Green Gully, other first-time participants in the Round of 32 include Bonnyrigg White Eagles (NSW), Canberra Olympic (ACT), Cockburn City (WA), Devonport Strikers (TAS), Floreat Athena (WA), Lambton Jaffas (Northern NSW), Marconi Stallions (NSW), Redlands United (QLD), Rovers Darwin FC (NT) and Surfers Paradise Apollo (QLD).
Westfield FFA CUP 2016 Draw Process
The 16 matches in the Round of 32 will be held over three weeks with four matches per night across four match nights beginning in the last week of July.
FOX SPORTS will broadcast the draw at 3pm on Thurday June 30, and will also show 11 matches live (one match per match night) while providing coverage and updates as well as live streaming of all non-broadcast matches.
Details regarding the FOX SPORTS broadcast and streaming will be announced closer to the start of the Round of 32.
Qualified clubs and numbering for the draw
Pot A (10 Hyundai A-League clubs)
1. Adelaide United, 2. Brisbane Roar FC, 3. Central Coast Mariners, 4. Melbourne City FC, 5. Melbourne Victory, 6. Newcastle Jets, 7. Perth Glory, 8. Sydney FC, 9. Wellington Phoenix, 10. Western Sydney Wanderers FC
Pot B (22 member federation clubs)
11. Bentleigh Greens, 12. Blacktown City, 13. Bonnyrigg White Eagles, 14. Brisbane Strikers, 15. Canberra Olympic, 16. Cockburn City, 17. Devonport Strikers, 18. Edgeworth Eagles, 19. FNQ Heat, 20. Floreat Athena, 21. Green Gully, 22. Hume City, 23. Lambton Jaffas, 24. Manly United, 25. Marconi Stallions, 26. Melbourne Knights, 27. MetroStars, 28. Redlands United, 29. Rovers Darwin FC, 30. Surfers Paradise Apollo, 31. Sydney United 58 FC, 32. Wollongong Wolves
Draw process (Two pots – Pot A & Pot B)
Pot A: 6 balls drawn out one at a time from Pot A (home then away) for the three (3) Hyundai A-League v Hyundai A-League matches.
Pot B: 18 balls drawn out one at a time from Pot B (home then away) for the nine (9) Member Federation v Member Federation matches.
Pot B & A: Remaining balls drawn out one at a time (home from Pot B & then away from Pot A) for the four (4) Member Federation v Hyundai A-League matches.