1995–96 FA Cup qualifying rounds
The 1995–96 FA Cup Qualifying Rounds opened the 115th season of competition in England for 'The Football Association Challenge Cup' (FA Cup), the world's oldest association football single knockout competition. A total of 575 clubs were accepted for the competition, up 18 from the previous season’s 557. The large number of clubs entering the tournament from lower down (Levels 5 through 8) in the English football pyramid meant that the competition started with five rounds of preliminary (1) and qualifying (4) knockouts for these non-League teams. The 28 winning teams from Fourth  Round Qualifying progressed to the First Round Proper, where League teams tiered at Levels 3 and 4 entered the competition. 4th qualifying round. The teams that given byes to this round are Macclesfield Town, Southport, Kettering Town, Halifax Town, Runcorn, Bath City, Bromsgrove Rovers, Stalybridge Celtic, Slough Town, Yeovil Town, Witton Albion, Sutton United, Crawley Town, Marlow, Nuneaton Borough, Aylesbury United, Hitchin Town, Yeading, Kingstonian and Bashley. 1995-96 FA Cup. See 1995-96 FA Cup for details of the rounds from the First Round Proper onwards.