Question on FA Trophy

[olkvam]

Can someone tell me how many qualifycation rounds there are in the FA Trophy please?

Cheers

[Daedalus]

There are four qualifying rounds and four rounds proper before the semi-finals.

Teams from Step 4 enter at the preliminary round stage. Then those from Step 3 (our level) at the first qualifying round. Then those from Step 2 (BSN/BSS) at the third qualifying round. Finally, those from Step 1 (Conference sides) at the first round proper.

It's worth noting that the qualifying rounds are also regionalised.

[Daedalus]

I found this table on Wikipedia, which is quite good, so I've copied it below.

266 teams from steps 1 to 4 of the Non-League pyramid enter the competition.

Round	Date	Matches	Clubs	New entries this round	Prize money
Preliminary Round	8 October 2011	54	266 → 212	108	£2,000
First Round Qualifying	22 October 2011	72	212 → 140	90	£2,200
Second Round Qualifying	5 November 2011	36	140 → 104	none	£3,000
Third Round Qualifying	26 November 2011	40	104 → 64	44	£4,000
First Round	10 December 2011	32	64 → 32	24	£5,000
Second Round	14 January 2012	16	32 → 16	none	£6,000
Third Round	4 February 2012	8	16 → 8	none	£7,000
Quarter Finals	25 February 2012	4	8 → 4	none	£8,000
Semi Finals	10 March and 17 March 2012	2	4 → 2	none	£16,000
Final	7 May 2012	1	2 → 1	none	£50,000 (winners), £25,000 (runners up)

[Daedalus]

Here are the wiki links:

FA Trophy - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fa_trophy

And this season's entry - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%E2%80%9312_FA_Trophy

Finally, here is the FA website link - www.thefa.com/TheFACup/FACompetitions/TheFATrophy - but it's not quite as accessible to find out the details as the Wiki links, actually.