10 non-league clubs to reach FA Cup fifth round after Boreham Wood’s heroics

Boreham Wood will take on Everton next month as only the 10th non-league club to reach the FA Cup fifth round in the post-war era.

Luke Garrard’s side, fifth in the Vanarama National League, caused a major shock by dumping out Championship Bournemouth on Sunday.

Here, the PA news agency looks at the previous teams from outside the top four tiers to reach the last 16.

United, then of the Southern League, won five ties to reach the fifth round in the third season after English football resumed following World War II. Having beaten Chelmsford, Banbury Spencer, Wrexham, Huddersfield and Bradford Park Avenue, they lost 5-0 to the Blackpool team of Stan Mortensen and Stanley Matthews, who went on to reach the final.

The next year saw the Glovers also advance from the fourth qualifying round to the last 16. They saw off Lovell’s Athletic, Romford and Weymouth before wins over Second Division Bury and First Division Sunderland, but defending champions and eventual semi-finalists Manchester United beat them 8-0.

Almost 30 years later, the self-styled “most famous non-league football team” began to write their FA Cup history, starting in the first qualifying round and playing 11 games including a replay against Crook Town. They finally succumbed to Wrexham after controversially being taken to a replay – played in front of over 42,000 at Newcastle’s St James’ Park – and would go on to reach the main draw several more times, including round three in both 2008-09 and 2014-15.

The fifth-tier side saw off Third Division opposition in Lincoln, via a replay, Preston and Bradford and fourth-tier Darlington before – like Boreham Wood this season – being drawn away to Everton in round five. They went down 3-0 to goals from internationals