One win away from the quarter-finals, Rugby's FA Cup run this season is all the more impressive when the club's recent history is taken into account.

During the 2021-22 season, the club - then known as Coventry United and playing in the Championship - was placed into voluntary liquidation.

They were saved by a last-minute takeover deal, but were handed a 10-point deduction days later by the FA for a breach of competition rules.

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The club pulled off a miraculous final-day escape from relegation that season - only to go down the following year.

But it was in the third tier that Coventry United was reborn, with the club renamed as Rugby Borough and relocating to the Warwickshire town.

Since then they have switched to a hybrid model, with both professional and semi-professional players, while Lee Burch has become the club's head coach.

The former Millwall, Yeovil and London Bees boss believes reaching the last eight of the FA Cup would only help Rugby's ambitions to move full-time and boost their pursuit of promotion back to the Championship.

"It really would put us on the map - which is what this FA Cup run is about, alongside the prize money," Burch said.

"We hit over 1,000 tickets within the first 24 hours.

They're coming along to [see] us versus Liverpool."

Despite the excitement, however, Burch said he had to ban the words "FA Cup" and "Liverpool" over the past two weeks as his side continue their bid for promotion.

The cup match is sandwiched between fixtures against Wolves, which they drew 1-1, and Nottingham Forest - the two teams at the top of the Women's National League northern division.

"That magic of the FA Cup that people talk about - which we see sometimes in the men's game, where you see a smaller side take out one of the big guns - I'm not sure we've seen it in recent history," Burch said.

"So if we were able to do that, then that's going to be a big story to tell.

"We're a hard-working, honest, very talented group, and the players deserve this moment to shine and I have massive belief that they will do."