Port Vale’s opponents in the final eight of the 2026 FA Cup are Premier League giants Chelsea.
Vale are playing in the final eight of the cup for the first time since the famous Iron Curtain season of 1953-54. They will travel to Stamford Bridge hoping to make it to the final four.
The Valiants last played Chelsea way back in 1929 with it ending in a 1-0 win for the Vale. The two sides have only met fourteen times with Vale winning three, Chelsea winning seven and four draws. They have never met in the FA Cup before.
An image from a rare Vale encounter at Chelsea
Quarter-final draw in full
Southampton v Arsenal
Chelsea v Port Vale
Man City v Liverpool
West Ham / Brentford v Leeds Utd
The match is scheduled to be played around the weekend of Saturday 4 April with the final date and time likely to be subject to TV coverage considerations.
Chelsea v Port Vale dedicated section
We have a dedicated section containing all our latest features and a link to the forum section for this eagerly anticipated game.
I suppose that means the Cardiff and Rotherham matches around the Easter holiday weekend will have to be rescheduled.
would have liked a home draw,the pitch would have done us a favour,but an expensive day trip to stamford bridge,will be an experience to the thousands who will be there no matter what the result
Doesn’t get any harder than an away tie to the current Club World Cup holders.
That will be the one all the dinosaurs like myself would have wanted. Like a lot of the Vale fans who have spent their lives travelling the length and breadth of England, the only one no one had never seen the Vale play at, was CHELSEA. Not many clubs supporters can say they’ve seen their team play away at every one of the 91 football league clubs in England. I know some people sitting out there will say, we’ve not been to the new Arsenal or the new Tottenham or Leicester etc, which is correct but we have played there. But no one has ever been to CHELSEA! We might loose 10-0 but at last we can tick it off! Vale fans have been very lucky in some strange way, travelling through the leagues and having those amazing cup runs under John Rudge which enabled us to go to places we would never normally have been to. The very very old ones like myself, can boast visiting the Bradford Park Avenues etc, then all the way up to the Harrogate’s and Bromley’s. We have had a couple who came in and went out when we were in the dizzy heights of Division 2 or League one or the Championship whichever way you like to refer to it, but those we managed to tick off with cup games or friendly’s. I can only think of Maidstone who escaped us. You are cocking my life up Vale with all these away night matches BUT at last CHELSEA away !!
I believe they are trying to bring the Cardiff game forward two days to the Wednesday night.