Northampton Town will be taking part in a Northamptonshire derby against Kettering Town in the First Round of the FA Cup.

After the FA Cup draw conducted earlier today (14/10) in Bradford and broadcast on BBC, the Cobblers will host the Poppies at Sixfields on the first weekend of November.

The game will take place between Friday November 1st and Monday November 4th 2024, with the precise date, kick-off time, ticket details and any television coverage to be announced in due course.

The match will be the first competitive meeting between Northampton and Kettering since 1989, when the Cobblers won an FA Cup tie in 1989 away at Kettering.

Kettering currently play in the Southern League Premier Division Central, finishing 15th in the division that serves as level 7 on the English football pyramid.

In this season’s FA Cup, Kettering made it to the First Round of the FA Cup for the first time since 2011. The Poppies’ best runs in the competition came in the 1988/89 and 2008/09 seasons, when they made it all the way to the Fourth Round and were knocked out at that stage by then-top flight sides in Charlton and Fulham respectively.

To reach it, the Poppies made it through four qualifying rounds. They beat Stafford Rangers 2-1 at home, Cleethorpes Town 1-0 at home, St Ives Town 3-0 away from home and then finally booked their place in the FA Cup proper with a 2-1 away win at Farsley Celtic on Saturday.