By Nathan Jackson
November 27 2010

Fans of Lincoln City and Hereford United will be keeping a keen eye on ball number 59 when the draw is made for the third round on Sunday evening. The teams will replay on Tuesday 10th and both will know the prize that will await.

Lincoln City have many potential local derbies available in the third round. Doncaster Rovers are number 15th, Nottingham Forest are 29, Scunthorpe are 34 and Sheffield United are 35, however, most people will be hoping for a big draw against one of the four Champions League teams. Arsenal are ball 1, Chelsea are 11, Manchester United are 24 and Tottenham are 39.

The third round consists of the 20 Premier teams and the 24 Championship sides. They will be joined by the six League One sides that have qualified, five teams from League Two and two non-League teams, as well as the winners of seven re-arranged or replayed second round ties, including Lincoln vs Hereford.

Lincoln will be hoping to guarantee their place in the third round for the second year running, last year being drawn at Bolton, whom are ball 7 in the draw. However, there is no guarantee that a third round game will come against a big club. Out of all of the teams in the draw (including those yet to confirm places, City are currently above six of them. Last season's draw saw City enter the last six teams waiting for the draw, included were Bolton, Manchester United and Leeds, as well as Accrington Stanley and Barnet.

The draw will take place on Sunday evening at 6pm.

1 Arsenal

2 Aston Villa

3 Barnsley

4 Birmingham City

5 Blackburn

6 Blackpool

7 Bolton

8 Bristol City

9 Burnley

10 Cardiff

11 Chelsea

12 Coventry

13 Crystal Palace

14 Derby County

15 Doncaster Rovers

16 Everton

17 Fulham

18 Hull

19 Ipswich

20 Leeds

21 Leicester

22 Liverpool

23 Manchester City

24 Manchester United

25 Middlesbrough

26 Millwall

27 Newcastle

28 Norwich

29 Nottingham Forest

30 Portsmouth

31 Preston

32 QPR

33 Reading

34 Scunthorpe United

35 Sheffield United

36 Stoke City

37 Sunderland

38 Swansea

39 Tottenham Hotspur

40 Watford

41 West Brom

42 West Ham

43 Wigan

44 Wolverhampton Wanderers

45 Sheffield Wednesday

46 Burton

47 Huddersfield

48 Stevenage

49 Hartlepool or Yeovil

50 Peterborough

51 Notts County or Bournemouth

52 Droylsden or Leyton Orient

53 Crawley or Swindon

54 Brighton or FC United of Manchester

55 Southampton

56 Torquay

57 Charlton or Luton

58 Colchester

59 Hereford or Lincoln

60 Port Vale

61 Wycombe

62 Carlisle

63 Dover

64 York

Ball 59 for City and Hereford

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