The Football Association will consider scrapping replays for earlier rounds of the FA Cup. It is also planning to significantly increase prize money, and “reward the smaller clubs” who do well, once a new television deal kicks in next year.

At the same time the FA wants to “remind broadcasters of the stories” behind some of the ties to avoid the outcry they faced when games such as Sutton United v AFC Wimbledon, in this season’s third round, are not televised instead of the usual bigger clubs.

The FA Cup quarter-finals kick-off on Saturday with two innovations – the ties will be knockout, with no replay, and, as a consequence, teams will be allowed to use a fourth substitute in extra time. Further changes have already been announced for next season with the FA Cup being used to trial Video Assistant Referees – and Andy Ambler, the organisation’s head of professional game relations, said he expected more eventually.

“It’s the tradition of the FA Cup without losing the tradition but with moving forward in a modern world. That’s the balance,” Ambler said in an exclusive interview with The Daily Telegraph.

“The fourth substitute, the no replays in the quarter-finals, the VAR, are enough to be going on with for the next couple of years. There’s no doubt that no replays in the quarter-finals will fuel a debate on fifth round, fourth round, how far do we go with it, and we are prepared for that.