[4] In the third round Spennymoor played fellow Northern Football League team, Billingham Synthonia winning 2–0.
[13] In the fourth round, Tunbridge Wells were drawn against the FA Vase holders, Dunston UTS.
[15] In the fifth round, they were drawn away to Larkhall Athletic, where they won 4–3 aet[16] In the quarter-finals, they played Hadleigh United.
[18] This made Tunbridge Wells the second Kent League team to reach the FA Vase final in its history.
[19] After a meeting at Wembley Stadium the week after the semi-finals, where both teams met with The Football Association to decide the choice of dressing rooms and the kit selections,[20] tickets for the final were released on sale on 2 April 2013, with Tunbridge Wells selling over 2,600 tickets within the first 24 hours[21] comparing with an average home crowd of 138.