The FA have recently produced a list of the 131 applications they have received for this season's competition.
As usual, the Liverpool FA dominate the number of applicants, with a staggering 26 teams!!
This number of Merseyside teams increases to 31, when you include the 5 sides representing the Cheshire FA, as 4 play in the Birkenhead SL with the other from Wallasey!!
The next best represented County FA is Bedfordshire with 11.
Quite a few of my local (West Yorkshire) sides have decided not to enter, including: Bolton Woods, East End Park, Lindley WMC and Towngate (although they thought the deadline was later than August 1st and have approached the FA to see if they will accept them, so they maybe on the list of accepted entries, which is due out next week).
If the final number of teams accepted in exceeds 130, it will be the 6th season running that the competition has topped this figure, which is not bad considering that in the 4 seasons from 2000/01 to 2003/04, the highest number of applicants was just 97.
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