Everton v Sunderland in FA Cup 3rd Round | OneFootball

Everton have been drawn to play Sunderland at home in the 3rd Round of the FA Cup draw held this evening. 

Peter Crouch and Joe Cole conducted the draw before kick-off of the second round's final match between Brackley Town and Burton Albion.

Ties will be played over the weekend of Saturday, 10 January 2026.

The draw was broadcast live on TNT Sports 1. It will also be streamed live on the Discovery+ app.

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Gerry Quinn 2 Posted 08/12/2025 at 18:55:24

Coulda been worse, I suppose.

The Red Shite were just before us too!!!

Gerry Quinn 3 Posted 08/12/2025 at 18:55:47

Home draw - good...

John Keating 4 Posted 08/12/2025 at 19:00:05

I remember in 1966 we were drawn at home against Sunderland in the 3rd Round. If memory serves me right, Liverpool were drawn also at home that same day

They played before we kicked off I think and got beat.We beat Sunderland and went on to win the thing!!

Fingers crossed history repeats itself...

Paul Hewitt 6 Posted 08/12/2025 at 19:21:06

Liverpool would have been an easier draw.

Billy Shears 7 Posted 08/12/2025 at 19:25:51

It would be lovely to play Barnsley in the 4th Round, eh Paul!?

Ian Wilkins 8 Posted 08/12/2025 at 19:29:13

You can only hope for a home draw, then it's very much in your hands.

Liverpool will be the TV-changed game time, everybody will be anticipating a shock… a Liverpool win!

Pete Jeffries 9 Posted 08/12/2025 at 19:32:47

John

Sorry but shouldn't mention the time they knocked us out 15 Feb 1964.

We lost 3-1 at Roker Park.

We were the reigning champions and it was a big shock, more particularly since I was at Anfield watching a reserves game and it came over on their tannoy at full time to great cheers from the Kop!

Once again sorry but its still a bad memory !

Bill Hawker 10 Posted 08/12/2025 at 19:50:21

Our match and Spurs - Aston Villa along with the Newcastle - Bournemouth match look to be the toughest draws at first glance.

John Williams 11 Posted 08/12/2025 at 20:05:29

Pete 9,

I remember that game very well, drove up with my father and brother.

Arrived early and went down onto the beach, which was not far from Roker Park. Very poor result, drove home straight after the game, well sort of, stopped at Barnard Castle for a couple drinks, still had nt recovered from the result, arrived home very late.

I had forgotten about that game, till it was brought up here.

We could have had a much kinder draw. Sunderland's bubble could burst over the 12 days of Christmas. Let's hope that we get the Etihad Sunderland in the third round.

Looking ahead, there will be a few Premier League teams getting knocked out and perhaps we get a nice path to the final.

Dave Abrahams 13 Posted 08/12/2025 at 20:38:43

Pete (9),

Yes, a poor game for us on a snowy pitch. I think Jimmy Gabriel got our goal, playing as a centre-forward that day and that Roker Roar was in full blast urging their team on.

This game is at home so that should make a big difference.

John (4) It was the other way round —- we played first and Liverpool played Chelsea later that day. Not sure but I think it was 4-3 for Chelsea with Bobby Tambling(?) getting the winner.

Me and my mate stayed behind a bit after our game waiting to see the Kopites walking away from Anfield and innocently asking them the score and forgetting to hide our big grins when they told us — a bit daft but I was only 23 at the time!

Raymond Fox 15 Posted 08/12/2025 at 21:22:09

There are 4 all Premier League matches and we are one of them! I would have preferred a nice easy one instead of Sunderland, they are adecent side.

We will be favourites with a home draw though.

16 Posted 08/12/2025 at 21:51:47

Kieran #14

I know Moyes is very rarely upbeat but surely even you are not suggesting this was him talking us about getting into Europe:

"I'm too old now to say we just want to avoid relegation, but I'm not daft enough to say Europe is possible."