West Ham vs Leeds live: Confirmed teams and full FA Cup quarter final line ups
FA Cup quarter-final teams as West Ham host Leeds
West Ham and Leeds United have confirmed their starting teams for their meeting at the London Stadium in the FA Cup quarter-finals on Saturday.
The Hammers last progressed beyond the last eight in 2005/06, losing the final to Liverpool on penalties in Cardiff.
The visitors are in the quarter-finals for the first time since 2002/03, last reaching the semi-finals with a defeat after extra time against Coventry City at Hillsborough in 1986/87.
101GreatGoals.com has the team news and starting line-ups as Leeds host West Ham in the FA Cup.
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West Ham confirmed team vs Leeds United
Defenders Konstantinos Mavropanos (concussion) and Jean-Clair Todibo (calf) are injured for West Ham, who make five changes from their 2-0 defeat at Aston Villa on March 22.
Goalkeeper Alphonse Areola, defenders Kyle Walker-Peters and Max Kilman, defender or midfielder Soungoutou Magassa and winger Adama Traore come in.
Tomas Soucek and Pablo move to the bench. Mavropanos, Mads Hermansen and Aaron Wan-Bissaka started against Villa but are not in the squad, while striker Callum Wilson, who came off the bench last time out, is also not involved.
Winger Crysencio Summerville misses out with a calf problem. Tomas Soucek, Walker-Peters, Taty Castellanos and Soungoutou Magassa are a booking away from an FA Cup suspension.
West Ham United starting XI: Alphonse Areola, Kyle Walker-Peters, Maximilian Kilman, Axel Disasi, El Hadji Malick Diouf, Freddie Potts, Soungoutou Magassa, Mateus Fernandes, Jarrod Bowen, Adama Traore, Valentin Castellanos
West Ham substitutes: Finlay Herrick, Pablo, Keiber Lamadrid, Tomas Soucek, Ollie Scarles, Mohamadou Kante, Airidas Golambeckis, Ezra Mayers, Joshua Ajala
Leeds full line up vs West Ham United
Leeds make three changes from their 0-0 draw at home to Brentford on March 21, bringing in goalkeeper Lucas Perri – the hero of their penalty shootout win at Championship side Birmingham City in the fourth round – alongside midfielder Ao Tanaka and Noah Okafor.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Brenden Aaronson and Karl Darlow move to the bench. Forwards Calvert-Lewin and Okafor had been doubts with hamstring issues.
Left-back Gabriel Gudmundsson was thought to be in contention to return after suspension but has been ruled out by a knock suffered while with Sweden.
Ethan Ampadu, Joe Rodon, Jayden Bogle, Wilfried Gnonto and Brenden Aaronson must avoid cautions to be available for a potential semi-final.
Leeds United starting XI: Lucas Perri, Jayden Bogle, James Justin, Pascal Struijk, Joe Rodon, Jaka Bijol, Ethan Ampadu, Anton Stach, Ao Tanaka, Noah Okafor, Lukas Nmecha
Leeds substitutes: Karl Darlow, Sam Byram, Sebastiaan Bornauw, Sean Longstaff, Ilia Gruev, Brenden Aaronson, Wilfried Gnonto, Joel Piroe, Dominic Calvert-Lewin
Where to watch West Ham v Leeds: TV channel, live online streams
Kick-off on Sunday is at 16:30 BST (11:30 ET / 08:30 PT). Live TV coverage in the UK is on TNT Sports 1, TNT Sports Ultimate and the HBO Max app.
TNT Sports costs £30.99 a month and is available on a vast range of devices including smart TVs and gaming consoles.
West Ham United v Leeds United stats
- These teams have met three times in the FA Cup; the Whites won the first in 1923/24 after a replay, but the Hammers have won the last two, in 1929/30 and 2021/22
- West Ham have been eliminated from eight of their last 10 FA Cup quarter-final ties, with this their first since losing in a replay against Manchester United in 2015/16
- Hammers manager Nuno Espirito Santo has partaken in four previous domestic cup quarter-finals in his managerial career, seeing his sides progress every time: the 2013/14 Taca de Portugal with Rio Ave, the 2018/19 FA Cup with Wolves, the 2022/23 Saudi King Cup with Al-Ittihad and the 2024/25 FA Cup with Nottingham Forest
- Bowen has eight direct goal involvements in his last 11 starts in the FA Cup (7 goals, 1 assist) and eight in his last nine starts against Leeds in all competitions (5 goals, 3 assists), scoring in all three at the London Stadium
- Each of West Ham’s last four home matches have been draws after 90 minutes, winning one of their last six games overall in all competitions after regular time
- Leeds have lost three of their last four away games at West Ham in all competitions (W1), having only lost two of their previous 18 beforehand (W10 D6)
- They have been eliminated from 16 of their last 18 FA Cup ties against Premier League opposition, including each of their last seven in a row since a 2-1 win over Tottenham Hotspur in the 2012/13 fourth round
- In their three quarter-finals since 1986/87, Leeds have lost in 1995/96 to Liverpool, 1997/98 to Wolves and 2002/03 to Sheffield United.
- All seven of Leeds’s goals in this season’s FA Cup have been scored by different players, with only Manchester City (10) and Chelsea (9) having more different scorers (excluding own goals)
- Only in 1964/65 (9) and 1966/67 (8) have Leeds had more different scorers in a single FA Cup campaign