MANSFIELD Town have been drawn away to Harrogate Railway in the Second Round of the FA Cup.
The tie - against the lowest ranked club left in the competition - to be played on the weekend including Saturday 1st December, is the reward for Saturday's
3-0 win over Lewes.
Harrogate, currently 13th in the Unibond North, defeated Droylsden 2-0 in the First Round - and qualified for the FA Cup proper by defeating neighbours Harrogate Town, from a higher league, in a fierce local derby.
Stags boss Billy Dearden said on Sunday evening: "We won't be over confident. But if we prepare right and get the attitude right there is no reason why we can't get the right result. This gives us a great chance of going through."
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They play in the fourth tier of the non-league pyramid below League football - Conference, Conference North and South, Unibond Premier and then Unibond First Division North - and are currently 83 places below the Stags.
It is a tricky tie for the Stags and a real potential 'banana skin' at the tiny Station View ground, which has a slope, in Starbeck - and is likely to be a possible tie for live TV coverage.
Station View, which has just over 100 fans on average for 'ordinary' league matches, has a 3,500 capacity. The Stags will probably be given an allocation of around 700-800 tickets.
Ironically local side Glapwell could have been the Stags opponents - for Glapwell were knocked out of the FA Cup this season by Corby, who lost to Droylsden who were then in turn beaten at Harrogate on Saturday.
In 2002 Railway also reached the Second Round and faced Bristol City in the biggest game in the club's history in front of the TV cameras.
At that time they were the lowest ranked team to reach the Second Round for almost 30 years, but bowed out 3-1 to the Robins who were then near the top of Division I.
Three huge temporary stands were erected to increase the capacity of the ground for the tie which eventually attracted a sell-out crowd of 3,500.
The 2002 cup run helped Railway improve the ground. The club has also since won promotion from the Premier Division of the Northern Counties East League. It now plays in the First Division North of the Unibond League - the highest level in its history.
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