Horspath will open their 2026 challenge in the newly-named Cawston Press Village Cup with an away tie at Cumnor in the first round on Sunday, April 26.
The prize for the winners is a trip to either Horley or Sandford St Martin in round two on May 10 of the competition, which sees London-based soft drinks producer Cawston Press take over as the headline sponsor.
Horspath will be bidding for a fourth successive Oxfordshire title and a fifth in sixth years.
The club completed a hat-trick of county crowns last year with a spectacular 228-run win over Aston Rowant at the Recreation Ground. Viv Narayan smashed 137 and Tom Nichols hammered 109 to take Horspath to a massive 312-5, before Asad Rafiq returned stunning figures of 6-21 to send the visitors crashing to 84 all out.
It took Horspath into the national rounds again where the side's dreams of progressing on the road to Lord's were shattered with an agonizing nine-run home defeat by Gloucestershire champions Painswick in the last 32.
The club's Oxfordshire triumphs in 2023 and 2024, meanwhile, preceded runs to the last 16 where the journey ended on both occasions at Devon & Cornwall champions Grampound Road.
Horspath are among 16 teams in Oxfordshire (Group 19) with last year's area runners-up, Rowant, opening their challenge at 1995 national finalists Tiddington.
There are actually 21 entries from the county this year with the introduction of a new section, Berkshire & South Oxfordshire (Group 21), featuring Challow & Childrey, Goring on Thames, Moreton, Peppard Stoke Row and Uffington.
With a modern-day record of 403 clubs entering, the tournament has been structured with the aim of reducing travelling times for away clubs in the early rounds, along with preliminary fixtures not being required in the majority of regions.
Burley-in-Wharfedale, Harry Brook's boyhood club, are among 26 first-time entrants. The Airedale & Wharfedale outfit, for whom the England white-ball captain played as a teenager, will make their bow in the new Yorkshire (West) group away at Thornton.
Brook, whose family still play for Burley-in-Wharfedale, would only become eligible under tournament rules 25 years after he makes his final first-class appearance.
Foxton Granta, winners for the last two years with former Oxfordshire batsman Richard Kaufman hitting centuries in both finals, have been handed a bye in the first round of the Cambridgeshire & Norfolk group.
OXFORDSHIRE
(Group 19)
1st round (April 26): Tiddington v Aston Rowant, The Baldons v Great and Little Tew, Horley v Sandford St Martin, Cumnor v Horspath, Oxford & Bletchington Nondescripts v Cropredy, Kingston Bagpuize v Shipton under Wychwood, Stanton Harcourt v Oxford Downs, Minster Lovell v Langford.