1890–91 FA Cup qualifying rounds

This was the third season where the FA Cup, or the Football Association Challenge Cup, used a series of qualifying rounds in order to determine qualifiers for the actual Cup competition itself and the first season that a preliminary round was used.

1890–91 FA Cup qualifying rounds

Tournament details
Country	England Ireland Wales
← 1889–90 1891–92 →

See 1890–91 FA Cup for details of the rounds from the first round onwards.

Preliminary round

Home team (tier)	Score	Away team (tier)
Saturday 27 September 1890
Crusaders	5–0	Rochester

First qualifying round

Home team (tier) Score Away team (tier) Saturday 4 October 1890 93rd Highland Regiment 7–0 Luton Town Ardwick 12–0 Liverpool Stanley Bishop Auckland 3–0 Rendel Boston 2–2[1] Eckington Works Carlisle 1–6 Bootle Chatham 1–2 Crusaders Chesham 1–2 Watford Rovers Chester St Oswalds 0–6 Chester City Ramblers W–W[2] Crystal Palace School of Engineering Clifton 1–7 Wednesbury Old Athletic Cliftonville 4–3 Macclesfield Town Clinton 3–7 Jardines Darlington St Augustine's 3–2 Barnard Castle Athletic Darlington West End 3–2 Darlington St Hilda's Derby Junction 0–1 Sheffield United Derby Midland 2–3 Loughborough Ecclesfield 8–2 Grimsby Town Elswick Rangers 2–5 Newcastle West End Folkestone 2–1 Old Wykehamists Gainsborough Trinity 1–3 Lincoln City Gateshead N.E.R. 2–8[3] Sunderland Albion Gorton Villa 4–1 Denton Gravesend 4–1 Old Harrovians Hunts County 3–1 Norwich CEYMS Hurworth 0–14 Stockton Ipswich Town 2–0 Reading Kidderminster 4–1 Bath City Langley Green Victoria 5–0 Kettering Town Leicester Fosse 0–4 Burton Wanderers Long Eaton Rangers W–W[4] Heeley Matlock Town W–W[5] Leys Recreation

Home team (tier) Score Away team (tier) Middlesbrough 11–0 Scarborough Millwall Athletic 2–3 Ilford Morpeth Harriers 0–2 Whitburn Nantwich 5–4 Linfield Athletic Newark 4–0 Notts Olympic Newton Heath 2–0 Higher Walton Northwich Victoria 3–2 Chirk Old Brightonians 3–4 Old Carthusians Old Etonians 4–1 Swifts Old St Mark's 2–3 London Caledonians Oldbury Town 3–1 Wellington St George's Over Wanderers 2–3 Druids Port Clarence 4–1 Whitby Rhosllanerchrugog W–W[6] Shrewsbury Town Rotherham Swifts 5–2 Attercliffe Rotherham Town 13–0 Sheffield Shankhouse 5–4[7] Birtley Small Heath 8–0 Hednesford Town Southwick 6–0 Bishop Auckland Church Institute Staveley 19–0 Walkley Swindon Town 9–0 Maidenhead Warmley 0–12 Walsall Town Swifts Warwick County 1–3 Burslem Port Vale Windsor Phoenix Athletic 6–1 Schorne College Witton 1–4 Heywood Central Wolverton 0–4 Marlow Workington W–W[8] Clitheroe Replays Saturday 18 October 1890 Shankhouse 5–1 Birtley

Second qualifying round

Home team (tier) Score Away team (tier) Saturday 25 October 1890 93rd Highland Regiment 3–2 Watford Rovers Belper Town 4–2 Leeds Albion Bishop Auckland 1–2 Newcastle East End Bootle 1–0 Newton Heath Burslem Port Vale 2–3 Walsall Town Swifts Burton Swifts 2–1[9] Sheffield United Chester 2–0 Northwich Victoria City Ramblers 0–8 Old Carthusians Cliftonville W–W[10] Rhosllanerchrugog Crusaders 6–1 Folkestone Darlington W–W[11] Darlington West End Darlington St Augustine's 1–4 Middlesbrough Doncaster Rovers 4–5 Kilnhurst Ecclesfield W–W[12] Grantham Rovers Heywood Central 9–0 Gorton Villa Ilford 2–0 Gravesend Kidderminster 4–0 Oldbury Town Langley Green Victoria 2–1[13] Great Bridge Unity Halliwell W–W[14] Ardwick Leek 2–0 Druids Lincoln City 9–0 Boston London Caledonians 6–3 Old Etonians

Home team (tier) Score Away team (tier) Long Eaton Rangers 7–3 Heanor Town Loughborough 8–1 Burton Wanderers Mansfield Town 0–4 Staveley Matlock Town 1–0 Derby St Luke Newark (Disqualified) 3–1 Beeston Newcastle West End 8–1 Southwick Thorpe 0–4 Ipswich Town Owlerton 1–4 Rotherham Town Rotherham Swifts 3–4 Jardines Shankhouse 2–0 Ashington South Bank 7–2 Port Clarence South Shore 10–0 Workington Stockton 1–2 Middlesbrough Ironopolis Sunderland Albion W–W[15] Whitburn Swindon Town 2–0 Marlow Windsor Phoenix Athletic 1–2 Hunts County Wrexham 2–3 Nantwich Wednesbury Old Athletic 0–2 Small Heath (disqualified) Replays Saturday 11 November 1890 Great Bridge Unity 4–2 Langley Green Victoria

Third qualifying round

Home team (tier) Score Away team (tier) Saturday 15 November 1890 93rd Highland Regiment 6–0 Swindon Town Belper Town 2–6 Loughborough Great Bridge Unity 1–0[16] Kidderminster Halliwell 4–3 Bootle Heywood Central 5–0 South Shore Ilford 0–7 Crusaders Ipswich Town 5–2 Hunts County Leek 1–2 Cliftonville Lincoln City 3–0 Ecclesfield London Caledonians 2–0 Old Carthusians

Home team (tier) Score Away team (tier) Long Eaton Rangers 4–1 Jardines Middlesbrough 2–0[17] Darlington Middlesbrough Ironopolis 6–1 South Bank Nantwich 4–5 Chester Newcastle East End 5–0 Shankhouse Newcastle West End 0–3 Sunderland Albion Rotherham Town 6–1 Beeston Sheffield United 3–0 Matlock Town Staveley 6–2 Kilnhurst Walsall Town Swifts 5–3 Wednesbury Old Athletic F.C.

Fourth qualifying round

Home team (tier) Score Away team (tier) Saturday 12 December 1890 Chester W–W[18] Cliftonville Crusaders 4–2 London Caledonians Halliwell 2–1 Heywood Central Ipswich Town 1–4 93rd Highland Regiment Kidderminster 3–0 Walsall Town Swifts Lincoln City 4–1 Staveley Long Eaton Rangers 2–1 Rotherham Town

Home team (tier) Score Away team (tier) Middlesbrough Ironopolis 6–0[19] Darlington Newcastle East End 2–2 Sunderland Albion Sheffield United 6–1 Loughborough Replays Saturday 20 December 1890 Middlesbrough Ironopolis 3–0 Darlington Newcastle East End 0–2 Sunderland Albion