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Kidderminster Harriers land league opposition in FA Cup first round draw

Kidderminster Harriers will travel to League Two side Blackpool in the FA Cup first round.

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Walsall will host National League side Macclesfield Town at the Banks's Stadium, while Stourbridge's reward for reaching the first round is a trip to National League South side Whitehawk.

Harriers are in the first round for the first time since 2013 after thrashing Weymouth 6-0 in the fourth qualifying round on Saturday.

Their opponents Blackpool were a Premier League club just five years ago but have fallen on hard times and are now 17th in League Two.

The teams last faced each other in the 2000/01 Division 3 season, with Blackpool thrashing Harriers 5-1 at home and 4-1 away.

Gary Hackett's Stourbridge won 3-1 away at Nantwich Town to once again progress to the first round proper of the FA Cup.

They will have been hoping for league opposition at home, but instead travel to face one of the giantkillers of last season's FA Cup, Whitehawk.

The south coast club reached the second round of the competition after beating Lincoln City, before losing 3-2 at home to Dagenham & Redbridge in a replay.

Walsall will be hopeful of progressing to round two after being paired with non-league side Macclesfield.

Their last meeting came in League Two in 2006/07 with Walsall winning 2-0 home and away.

They also played each other in the FA Cup that season with the Silkmen winning 1-0 at the Banks's in a first round replay.

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