There will be a mad rush to buy tickets for Oxford United's FA Cup showdown at Dagenham after the Essex club made the fourth qualifying round tie on Saturday week all-ticket.

Some 1,570 tickets are available to U's fans for the game at Victoria Road on October 28, and season ticket holders will, as normal, get first choice of the 362 seats and 1,200 terrace tickets.

United have expressed their disappointment that the glamorous Cup-tie, pitting the top two teams in the Nationwide Conference, has been made all-ticket.

For Oxford supporters it means a special journey to United's stadium to collect their tickets as there is no home game between now and then.

"I can understand why Dagenham have done it for security reasons, but I don't think it was really necessary," said United secretary Mick Brown.

The capacity of the Victoria Road ground is 6,000. So the Daggers have been generous in their allocation to Oxford.

"Personally, I think 1,500 tickets will be sufficient," said Brown. "But there are others in our ticket office who feel we'll sell out."

Brown added: "I understand the police concerns, if we had too many people there who could not obtain tickets on the day, but I would have been surprised if that had happened."

The decison to go all-ticket has left United's staff very little time to get things sorted.

United expect to receive the tickets on Thursday morning, and they will be on sale to United's 3,000 season-ticket holders only, one per season-ticket holder, between Thursday and 5.30pm on Monday.

The ticket office will be open from 10am-5.30pm onThursday, on Friday (9am-5.30pm), Saturday (9-12) and Monday (9-5.30pm).

Any tickets left will then go on open sale on Tuesday, from 9am.

Ticket prices are - seats: £15 adults, £10 concessions; terrace: £12 adults, £7 for over 65s and under 16s.

Meanwhile, the Dagenham & Redbridge manager, John Still, insists the FA Cup tie will have no bearing on the two clubs' battle to win the Nationwide Conference title in order to gain automatic promotion to the Football League.

Still said: "Any home draw is a great draw.

"It'll be a great game. Of course it's tough, but all games are. This has nothing to do with the league.

"When we played them, we just didn't score. We had opportunities but it was a bit of both - they defended well and we didn't score. That game has no relevance on this one."

Still denied the suggestion that knocking Oxford United out of the FA Cup could inflict a significant blow in Daggers' bid to overhaul the Conference leaders.

"It's cup football and when you play in the FA Cup, you look forward to it and our players will enjoy it.

"But we won't go above Oxford if we beat them. It's got nothing to do with the league."