the first round on the morning of Wednesday 16th June 2010 at around 9.30am.

The round will take place in the week commencing August 9th, just a couple of days after the start of the new season.

The First Round draw will include 70 Football League clubs including Portsmouth who have just dropped out of the Premiership. The other two relegated teams, Burnley and Hull City, will join the competition the Second Round.

The draw will be both seeded and regionalised. With Hereford United finishing 16th in the 2009-10 League Two table, they will be unseeded, and so will play either a Championship side, or a team from the top half of League One in the First Round.

A 1957-58 Italian league winner’s medal, awarded to Welsh international footballer John Charles, wholater played for Hereford United, is to be sold at Bonhams, Chester as part of its sale of Sporting Memorabilia on 16 June. It is expected to fetch £8,000 – 10,000.

Charles, who was one of the first British professional players to be signed for an overseas team, joined Italian club Juventus F.C. in 1957 for a then record transfer fee of £65,000. In his five years at Juventus he scored 93 goals in 155 matches, and he was voted the best-ever foreign player to play for Juventus by the club’s fans.

The sale also features Geoff Hurst’s spare shirt (estimate £6,000 – 8,000) from the 1966 World Cup final, in which he scored three of the four goals in England’s 4-2 win over West Germany at the old Wembley,