Arsenal women draw Aston Villa in FA Cup | OneFootball

Arsenal will host Aston Villa on the weekend of 17 and 18 January as they enter the Women’s FA Cup.

The tie is expected to be played at Meadow Park, in line with Arsenal’s early season announcement confirming that women’s domestic cup fixtures, including the Adobe Women’s FA Cup and the FA Women’s Subway League Cup, will be staged at the Mangata Pay UK Stadium.

Prize money at this stage of the competition stands at £54,000 for the winning clubs, with £10,000 awarded to the losing teams.

The full Women’s FA Cup draw is as follows:

1 Charlton Athletic v Swindon Town2 AFC Bournemouth v Manchester City3 Ipswich Town v Sheffield United4 Oxford United v Middlesbrough5 Chatham Town v York City6 Arsenal v Aston Villa7 Manchester United v Burnley8 Southampton v Bristol City9 London Bees v Liverpool10 Tottenham Hotspur v Leicester City11 Brighton & Hove Albion v Nottingham Forest12 Chelsea v Crystal Palace13 Newcastle United v West Ham United14 Sunderland v London City Lionesses15 West Bromwich Albion v Everton16 Hull City v Birmingham City

There are two ties between WSL sides, Arsenal v Aston Villa and Tottenham v Leicester.

Manchester City, Manchester United and Chelsea have all been handed favourable draws.

West Ham may face a potential banana skin against an ambitious Newcastle side, while London City Lionesses face a similarly testing trip to Sunderland.

One tier four club is guaranteed a place in round five, with Chatham Town set to face York City.

The opening block of the year will be extremely demanding for Arsenal. Between 10 January and 22 February, the club will compete across five competitions, the FIFA Women’s Champions Cup, UEFA Women’s Champions League, Barclays WSL, Adobe Women’s FA Cup and the Subway Cup.

Across that period, Arsenal are expected to play between seven and 11 matches in total. Reinforcements during the January transfer window would therefore be timely.