Had a chance now to re-look at the dates after the recent postponements.
When I originally picked the dates for fixtures, I tried to avoid midweek rounds of games, the Christmas & New Year period and any clashes with FA Cup weekends. In the past, for midweek rounds of games, the official site usually makes it a double week, but with the midweek round of games played at the end of August, it was treated as a separate round. I have looked on the official site and they appear to have midweek rounds etc as separate gameweeks. So based on that, I have been able to use these type of rounds after all. The competition now kicks off this coming weekend so check your team and use your transfers wisely (bearing in mind you will get points deducted for any over your free transfers)!
Full revised list of dates is below:
Round 1 – 1st October
Round 2* – 8th October
Round 3 – 15th October
Round 4 – 18th October (midweek)
Round 5* – 22nd October
Round 6 – 29th October
Round 7 – 5th November
Round 8- 12th November
Round 9* – 26th December (Boxing Day/midweek)
Round 10 – 31st December
Round 11 – 2nd January (New Year/midweek)
Round 12* – 14th January
Round 13 – 21st January
Round 14 – 4th February
* no games for the groups with only 6 teams
Knockout games:
Round of 16 – 18th February (replay 4th March)
Quarter Finals – 1st April (replay 8th April)
Semi Finals – 25th April (midweek) (replay 29th April)
Final – 13th May (replay 20th May)
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