{"id":671,"date":"2026-03-09T19:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T19:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=671"},"modified":"2026-03-09T19:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T19:32:19","slug":"fa-cup-quarter-final-draw-man-city-face-liverpool-chelsea-vs-port-vale-and-arsenal-take-on-southampton-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"FA Cup quarter-final draw: Man City face Liverpool, Chelsea vs Port Vale and Arsenal take on Southampton | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-testid=\"article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>Manchester City have been drawn against Liverpool in the FA Cup quarter-final, while Chelsea will host League One side Port Vale. <\/p>\n<p>City&#8217;s Premier League title rivals Arsenal take on Championship side Southampton after knocking out League One&#8217;s Mansfield in the fifth round with Leeds United facing the winner of West Ham and Brentford&#8217;s tie on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The FA Cup quarter-final ties will be played on the weekend of April 4\/5.<\/p>\n<p><em>More to follow&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>FA Cup quarter-final draw in full<\/h3>\n<p><em>Ties to take place across the weekend of April 4\/5<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Southampton vs Arsenal <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Chelsea vs Port Vale<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Man City vs Liverpool<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>West Ham or Brentford vs Leeds<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key dates for the 2025\/26 FA Cup<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Quarter-finals:<\/strong> Saturday April 4 2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Semi-finals:<\/strong> Saturday April 25 2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final: <\/strong>Saturday May 16 2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City have been drawn against Liverpool in the FA Cup quarter-final, while Chelsea will host League One side Port Vale. City&#8217;s Premier League title rivals Arsenal take on Championship &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}