NMA Cup Qualifying Round 2 Results + Round 1 Draw

Game-week 22 was qualifying round 2 of the NMA cup, with the surviving ‘non-league’ teams aiming to make it to round 1 proper, where they can meet with the ‘league 1’ and ‘league 2’ teams. There were some outstanding performances from these lowly-ranked teams, with several scoring over 130 points and one (ITUSXI) scoring an impressive 168.5 points.

As ever with a random draw, there were some close matches. The closest saw Smokey’s Dogs of War defeat FC Easton by half a point. There were a couple of one-point victories too, but no ties. The unluckiest team of the round was probably Team Ras_Taf who lost to Genesis United despite scoring 137.5.

Here are the results in full:

Well done to the winners, who are now joined in the competition by those ranked 45-92 at the start of the competition, designated as league 1 and 2 teams. There are 80 teams at this stage of the competition; they will fight it out over the next two rounds to be the 20 who will join those ranked 1-44. I see a few recognizable teams in this list, so I hope you’ll want to comment on how you think your draw looks.

Here is the Round 1 draw. I’ve left the league ‘designation’ in so that you can see how much pressure you are under to make it through:

Best of luck to all those teams taking part in Round 1, which will happen in DGW-24 (Burnley, Fulham, Everton & Manchester City), so you may want to look ahead and start preparing your teams for it!

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Are you through - or are you joining at Round 1? Let us know how you feel about your draw and what your hopes are! How will you play DGW-24 knowing the cup is on?

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