The FFA Cup is all about giant killing. Victorian NPL clubs like Hume and Bentleigh Greens have made the semi-finals, while Green Gully last season embarrassed A-League club Central Coast Mariners when they dumped them out last August.

But it's a moot point whether any of their giant-slaying exploits were, in terms of the gulf between them and their opponents, greater than that achieved by Knox City at the weekend, when they eliminated high-flying NPL club Pascoe Vale 1-0.

Players from Knox City celebrate a goal against Pascoe Vale in the FFA Cup. Credit:TheSportingWALL

The club from Melbourne's outer east now finds itself in Tuesday's draw for the fifth preliminary round of the nationwide cup competition after beating a team playing four divisions above its level in a tense and competitive game on their Egan Lee Reserve ground.

Three more wins, and the minnows from Victoria's State League Three can hope and dream about securing a tie against an A-League club – perhaps mighty Melbourne Victory, moneybags Melbourne City or Premiership Plate certainties Sydney FC – in the round of 32, when the big teams from the national competition enter the cup draw to meet up with the lower-level teams that have battled their way through to face them.