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While fans were treated to some great drama on the pitch, what about the impact for clubs off it?
Mansfield's game against Premier League leaders Arsenal was played in front of a packed stadium and picked to be shown live on BBC One, bringing in some welcome funds for the League One club.
However, the Stags could have made more than 10 times what they earned from that home game if it was instead played at Emirates Stadium.
"After stripping out VAT and estimated matchday costs of around £20,000, Mansfield's gate receipts from their home tie against Arsenal at The One Call Stadium were likely in the region of £160,000," football finance expert Kieran Maguire told BBC Sport.
"The FA takes 10% for its central pool, with the remainder split evenly between the two clubs, meaning both sides would have walked away with somewhere between £70,000 and £75,000.
"Had the match been switched to the Emirates, the financial picture would have looked very different.
"A sold-out Arsenal crowd at reduced cup prices, an average yield of around £35 per ticket (which is conservative, given the overall average at the Emirates was £84 in 2023-24), would have generated total receipts of approximately £2.1m.
"Even after accounting for Arsenal's significantly higher hosting costs and giving the FA its share, each club could reasonably have expected to pocket around £800,000 to £900,000.
"To put that in context for Mansfield, the average full-season matchday revenue for a bottom-half League One club in 2023-24 was around £3m. A single game at the Emirates would have been between a quarter and a third of that."
It is one of the reasons many English Football League clubs were so annoyed when replays were scrapped, with CEO Trevor Birch arguing: "This is another traditional revenue stream lost for EFL clubs at a time when the financial gap between the biggest clubs and those further down the pyramid is widening."
