SWINDON Town have been handed a trip to non-league Eastleigh in the first round of the FA Cup next month.

Luke Williams’ side will make the trip to Hampshire on the weekend of November 5-6 to take on a team that earned a third-round replay against Bolton Wanderers last season after accounting for League Two Crewe Alexandra and Northern Premier League outfit Stourbridge.

Former Town striker Lee Peacock is currently head of youth and development at Eastleigh while the Spitfires also boast another former County Ground frontman amidst their ranks in the form of Jamie Cureton.

Swindon have failed to progress past the first round of the country’s most famous cup competition for four years.

Last term, they were beaten 3-1 away at Rochdale – tomorrow night's League One antagonists – in Martin Ling’s first game in charge, a result that followed three successive years of exiting at the hands of lower league opposition.

Cheltenham Town emphatically saw off Town 5-0 in November 2014 and in the two seasons before that, they were bested by Macclesfield Town, then of the National League South.

The club’s two greatest FA Cup performances came more than a century ago when they reached the semi-finals in both 1909-10 and 1911-12.