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Town to Learn Capital One Cup Opponents - Ipswich Town News

Town will learn their Capital One Cup first round opponents on Monday morning at 9.30am.

The draw is seeded based on the final league positions during the 2012/13 season and split on a north-south basis. The two highest-placed sides dropping down from the Premier League receive byes through to round two in the case of Reading and round three for Wigan.

Town will play one of the unseeded southern sides home or away in a one-off tie the week commencing 5th August.

The 2013/14 league fixtures are released on Wednesday at 9am when as usual they will be available on TWTD.

Seeds - South

1. AFC Bournemouth

2. Birmingham City

3. Brentford

4. Brighton and Hove Albion

5. Bristol City

6. Charlton Athletic

7. Crawley Town

8. Ipswich Town

9. Leicester City

10. Leyton Orient

11. Millwall

12. Milton Keynes Dons

13. Peterborough United

14. Queens Park Rangers

15. Swindon Town

16. Watford

17. Yeovil Town

Non-Seeds - South

18. AFC Wimbledon

19. Bristol Rovers

20. Cheltenham Town

21. Colchester United

22. Coventry City

23. Dagenham and Redbridge

24. Exeter City

25. Gillingham

26. Newport County

27. Northampton Town

28. Oxford United

29. Plymouth Argyle

30. Portsmouth

31. Southend United

32. Stevenage

33. Torquay United

34. Wycombe Wanderers

Seeds - North

1. Barnsley

2. Blackburn Rovers

3. Blackpool

4. Bolton Wanderers

5. Burnley

6. Crewe Alexandra

7. Derby County

8. Doncaster Rovers

9. Huddersfield Town

10. Leeds United

11. Middlesbrough

12. Nottingham Forest

13. Notts County

14. Sheffield United

15. Sheffield Wednesday

16. Tranmere Rovers

17. Walsall

18. Wolverhampton Wanderers

Non-Seeds - North

19. Accrington Stanley

20. Bradford City

21. Burton Albion

22. Bury

23. Carlisle United

24. Chesterfield

25. Fleetwood Town

26. Hartlepool United

27. Mansfield Town

28. Morecambe

29. Oldham Athletic

30. Port Vale

31. Preston North End

32. Rochdale

33. Rotherham United

34. Scunthorpe United

35. Shrewsbury Town

36. York City

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