The 2016-17 was the 55th season of Sri Lanka FA Cup, the top tier knockout football tournament in Sri Lanka. It was sponsored by Cargills for the 4th consecutive year, and known as Cargills Food City FA Cup. There were 672 clubs participating in 66 leagues around the country. The tournament began on 24 November 2016 with the preliminary round. The defending champions were Army.
Team allocation
The preliminary rounds were conducted at league level on a knockout basis. Accordingly, each league held knockout rounds for its clubs and the champions from each league advanced to the next round. A total of 60 teams advanced and were added to the 31 teams who were among the final 32 team of the Cargills Food City FA Cup 2015. Out of the qualified 60 teams, six received byes and the remaining 54 played a second round on a knockout basis. The qualifying 27 teams went into a draw with the remaining 37 teams. The final 64 teams were drawn to play the third stage. Prior to entering for the tournament, from the total of 91 teams, 29 received the go to the next round based on their performance in the FA cup in 2015. A draw was held to fix the matches for this round.
Teams
Prize Fund
The winners received a cash award of Rs. 700,000.
Preliminary round
In the preliminary round 641 clubs competed in their leagues. Then the winners of each league qualified for the second round. The second round consisted of 61 league winners.
League winners
This 61 league winners qualified for the second round.
61 clubs of league winners contested in this round. The 30 winners advanced to the third round.
Third round
17 March 2017 Uni of Moratuwa 0–7 New Youngs FC 22 March 2017 Java Lane 2–0 Prison SC Municipal Council 0–9 Saunders SC 24 March 2017 Air Force SC 13–0 Reliance SC Liverpool SC 3–4 St.Mary’s SC 27 March 2017 Nawagampura SC 1—3 Crystal Palace FC 28 March 2017 St.Nicholas SC 4–0 Al Hira SC Singing Fish SC 3–0 Jupiters SC Kurinjikumaran SC 1–2 Brilliant SC 30 March 2017 Colombo FC 2–0 SLTB SC 2 April 2017 Olympic SC 0–3 Super Sun SC Navy SC 2-0 Cooray SC Maya SC 0–3 Army SC St.Xavier’s SC 0–3 Matara City Club Pelicans SC 3–0 Philip Gunawardena SC Jet Liners SC 3–0 Solaniya SC 7 April 2017 Old Mazenodians SC 2–3 Civil Security SC Up Country Lions 5–1 Gold Moon SC Old Bens SC 1–2 New Star SC Negombo Youth 9–0 Green Light SC Police SC 9–0 Liberty SC Leo SC 2–0 Thihariya Youth SC Sivanantha SC 0–3 Kirulapone Utd Renown SC 3–0 Young Birds SC 8 April 2017 Serendib SC 1 –1 St.Joseph’s SC Easwaran SC 3–0 Kalutara Park Wimbledon SC 3–0 Hillary SC Kurunduwatta SC 0–1 Comrades SC Young Birds SC 1–0 Solid SC Renown SC 0–3 Blue Star SC Red Star SC 10–1 National SC Date unknown Golden Rise SC 3–0 Highlanders
Fourth round
9 April 2017 Super Sun SC 2–1 Serendib SC Saunders SC 6–1 Up Country Lions SC Blue Star SC 3–0 Leo SC 10 April 2017 Crystal Palace 1–1 New Youngs FC 11 April 2017 Negombo Youth 6–0 Jet Liners SC Easwaran SC 0–20 Army SC 12 April 2017 Brilliant SC 2–1 Red Star SC St.Mary’s SC 12–0 Wimbledon SC St.Nicholas’ SC 0–1 Navy SC 21 April 2017 Civil Security 1–1 Air Force SC 24 April 2017 Golden Rise SC 1–4 Renown SC Kirulapone United 1–5 Java Lane Colombo FC 3–0 Young Birds SC Comrades SC 2–2 Pelican SC 25 April 2017 Police SC 0–0 Singing Fish SC Date unknown Matara City 3–1 New Star SC
