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Lincoln 1st non-league team in FA Cup last 8 since 1914

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    Lincoln City's Sean Raggett celebrates scoring against Burnley with teammates during the English FA Cup, fifth round soccer match at Turf Moor, Burnley, England, Saturday Feb. 18, 2017. (Martin Rickett/PA via AP) (The Associated Press)

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    Lincoln City's Nathan Arnold, left, and Burnley's Joey Barton, center, battle for the ball during the English FA Cup, fifth round soccer match at Turf Moor, Burnley, England, Saturday Feb. 18, 2017. (Martin Rickett/PA via AP) (The Associated Press)

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    Lincoln City's Sean Raggett , top, scores against Burnley during the English FA Cup, fifth round soccer match at Turf Moor, Burnley, England, Saturday Feb. 18, 2017. (Martin Rickett/PA via AP) (The Associated Press)

BURNLEY, England – Lincoln became the first non-league team to reach the FA Cup quarterfinals in more than a century by beating Premier League side Burnley 1-0 with an 89th-minute goal on Saturday.

Sean Raggett scored the most famous goal in Lincoln's 133-year history, with his close-range header at the far post adjudged to have crossed the line before Burnley goalkeeper Tom Heaton clawed the ball away.

Having already eliminated second-tier League Championship teams Ipswich and Brighton on its remarkable run to the last 16, fifth-tier Lincoln ousted a top-flight club that held runaway Premier League leader Chelsea to a draw only last weekend.

Eighty-one places separate Burnley and Lincoln in English soccer's pyramid but there was no obvious difference between the sides on a chilly day at Turf Moor.

The last non-league team to reach the FA Cup quarterfinals was Queens Park Rangers in 1914.

Lincoln was playing in the last 16 for the first time in 130 years

Another non-league team, Sutton, hosts Arsenal in a fifth-round match on Monday. Premier League sides Manchester City, Chelsea, Leicester and Middlesbrough take on lower-league opposition later Saturday.