The Shaymen, now known as FC Halifax Town, are playing one division below the Rebels in the UniBond League's first division north after the original club was liquidated last season.
The new Shaymen have not had the best start to life in the lower reaches of the non-league pyramid, having won one of five league games, but had a 4-0 win at Ryton in the last round on Saturday.
Curzon Ashton, who pulled off a minor giant-killing act by beating Leigh Genesis, have been rewarded with a trip to play Stocksbridge Park Steels, flying high in the UniBond first division south.
Draw (selected): Nantwich or FC United v FC Halifax Town; Kendal v Mossley; Stocksbridge PS v Curzon Ashton; Droylsden v Bradford Park Avenue; Whitley Bay v Hyde United; Prescot Cables v Salford City; Gateshead v Witton Albion; Stalybridge v Farsley Celtic Tweet
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FC United v Halifax sounds almost as unlikely as FC United v Boston when you consider that Boston were in the football league playing Bury at Gigg lane when our newly founded club kicked off for in the NWCFL Div 2. At the time clubs like Halifax and Boston looked way above us. But now we're in the same division or above them both. It looks like my prediction of three years ago when I said FC United would be playing in the football league within 10 years is looking more likely all the time. So much for those who predicted this thing of ours would be over by Xmas 2005. Meanwhile, over at M16, the only things to go up include the size of glazers debt and the cost to match-going fans of paying off that debt as I and others also predicted. Viva la Revolution, come on FC.