Brentford FC Futsal Club will be Ball 28 in the Soccer AM Futsal Cup First Round Draw.

For the first round, the draw will be conducted on a North/South regional basis.

There will be 24 teams in each draw and six groups of four teams will be drawn based on each club’s current league position.

Brentford are currently fifth in so will be in the third ranked group of seeds.

Match dates for the first round are January 27, February 3 and February 10.

The matches will take place at The Birmingham International Futsal Arena and each group will be allocated one of these dates as their match day.

The format, on a round-robin basis, will see the winner and runner-up progressing to the Second round where from then on in the competition, highlights are shown on Sky Sports Saturday morning cult programme SoccerAM.

Teams that finish third and fourth in their respective group will take part in a Plate Competition.

Last year’s overall winners Grimbsy Town will once again be one of the favourites.

BFC Futsal Club Head Coach Luis Melville said: "We were aiming to try and be in the second seeding position but now the draw will be a bit tougher.

"However, the format of the matches will give us a chance and we can merge our whole squad which gives us greater depth.

"I know all the boys and myself included are looking forward to it as they all followed the competition last year and would love to get through to the televised part of the tournament."

The draw will be announced today, Thursday January 8, at 3.30pm.