{"id":12582,"date":"2026-04-09T21:17:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=12582"},"modified":"2026-04-09T21:17:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:17:21","slug":"bbc-to-show-man-city-southampton-fa-cup-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=12582","title":{"rendered":"BBC to show Man City-Southampton FA Cup semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The BBC will broadcast the FA Cup semi-final between Manchester City and Southampton on Saturday 25 April. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The last-four tie, held at Wembley Stadium, will kick-off at 17:15 BST and be shown live on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The second semi-final between Chelsea and Leeds United has a scheduled kick-off of 15:00 BST on Sunday 26 April. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Full radio coverage of both matches will be available on BBC Radio 5 Live and local BBC radio stations, with additional coverage, including live text commentary and clips, on the BBC Sport website. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Seven-time champions Man City beat Liverpool 4-0 to reach a record-extending eighth consecutive FA Cup semi-final. They last lifted the trophy in 2022-23. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Southampton, who are eyeing a first FA Cup final since 2003, beat Arsenal 2-1 and are the only non-Premier League team left in the competition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leeds reached the semi-finals for the first time in 39 years after beating West Ham on penalties while Chelsea thrashed League One side Port Vale 7-0. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC will broadcast the FA Cup semi-final between Manchester City and Southampton on Saturday 25 April. The last-four tie, held at Wembley Stadium, will kick-off at 17:15 BST and be shown live on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. The second semi-final between Chelsea and Leeds United has a scheduled kick-off of 15:00 BST on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}