Cardiff City’s ball number for Carabao Cup first round draw confirmed
Cardiff City already know which number they will be for the Carabao Cup first round draw. the Bluebirds haven’t enjoyed much success in cup competitions over recent years, but fans will have memories for a lifetime from the League Cup campaign in 2011/12 and the FA Cup run in 2007/08.
The Bluebirds haven’t placed as much importance on the cup competitions in recent times, but Erol Bulut will want to see his side perform well across the board next season, and there are, of course financial rewards to doing well in the cups.
The Carabao Cup is part of that, and as preparations for next season ramp up, the EFL have confirmed when the draw for the first round will take place. A statement read: “The Round One draw of the Carabao Cup will take place live on Sky Sports News on Thursday 27 June at 11:30am. Sky Sports News presenter Dharmesh Sheth will host the draw that sees 70 Clubs across the Sky Bet Championship, Sky Bet League One and Sky Bet League Two divisions enter at this stage.
Embed from Getty Images“Burnley, Luton Town and the 13 Premier League Clubs not participating in European competitions will enter the competition in Round Two, with the remaining seven Clubs joining the competition in Round Three. The Carabao Cup remains regionalised in the early rounds with the draw split into a southern and northern section until Round Three.”
With that in mind, we are the Carabao Cup first round draw numbers in full, with Cardiff in the Southern section for the first two rounds, providing they make it through the first:
Southern Section
1. AFC Wimbledon
2. Birmingham City
3. Bristol City
4. Bristol Rovers
5. Bromley
6. Cambridge United
7. Cardiff City
8. Charlton Athletic
9. Cheltenham Town
10. Colchester United
11. Coventry City
12. Crawley Town
13. Exeter City
14. Gillingham
15. Leyton Orient
16. Millwall
17. Milton Keynes Dons
18. Newport County
19. Northampton Town
20. Norwich City
21. Oxford United
22. Peterborough United
23. Plymouth Argyle
24. Portsmouth
25. Queens Park Rangers
26. Reading
27. Stevenage
28. Swansea City
29. Swindon Town
30. Walsall
31. Watford
32. Wycombe Wanderers
Northern Section
1. Accrington Stanley
2. Barnsley
3. Barrow AFC
4. Blackburn Rovers
5. Blackpool
6. Bolton Wanderers
7. Bradford City
8. Burton Albion
9. Carlisle United
10. Chesterfield
11. Crewe Alexandra
12. Derby County
13. Doncaster Rovers
14. Fleetwood Town
15. Grimsby Town
16. Harrogate Town
17. Huddersfield Town
18. Hull City
19. Leeds United
20. Lincoln City
21. Mansfield Town
22. Middlesbrough
23. Morecambe
24. Notts County
25. Port Vale
26. Preston North End
27. Rotherham United
28. Salford City
29. Sheffield United
31. Shrewsbury Town
32. Stockport County
33. Stoke City
34. Sunderland AFC
35. Tranmere Rovers
36. West Bromwich Albion
37. Wigan Athletic
38. Wrexham
