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Capital One Cup Seedings Announced - Ipswich Town News

The seedings for the draw for the first round of the 2014/15 Capital One Cup, which will be made at 10am on Tuesday 17th June, have been announced.

The draw is seeded on the basis of last season’s final league positions and then split between north and south.

First round ties will be played in the week commencing 11th August. Last year, Town lost 2-0 away at Stevenage at the first round stage of the competition.

The 2014/15 Championship fixtures will be announced at 9am on Wednesday 18th June when they will be available on TWTD.

Capital One Cup — First Round Seedings

South — Seeded

1 AFC Bournemouth

2 Birmingham City

3 Brentford

4 Brighton & Hove Albion

5 Bristol City

6 Cardiff City

7 Charlton Athletic

8 Ipswich Town

9 Leyton Orient

10 Millwall

11 Milton Keynes Dons

12 Peterborough United

13 Reading

14 Swindon Town

15 Walsall

16 Watford

17 Wolverhampton Wanderers

18 Yeovil Town

South — Unseeded

19 AFC Wimbledon

20 Cambridge United

21 Cheltenham Town

22 Colchester United

23 Coventry City

24 Crawley Town

25 Dagenham & Redbridge

26 Exeter City

27 Gillingham

28 Luton Town

29 Newport County

30 Northampton Town

31 Oxford United

32 Plymouth Argyle

33 Portsmouth

34 Southend United

35 Stevenage

36 Wycombe Wanderers

North — Seeded

1 Barnsley

2 Blackburn Rovers

3 Blackpool

4 Bolton Wanderers

5 Bradford City

6 Derby County

7 Doncaster Rovers

8 Huddersfield Town

9 Leeds United

10 Middlesbrough

11 Nottingham Forest

12 Port Vale

13 Preston North End

14 Rotherham United

15 Sheffield United

16 Sheffield Wednesday

17 Wigan Athletic

North — Unseeded

18 Accrington Stanley

19 Burton Albion

20 Bury

21 Carlisle United

22 Chesterfield

23 Crewe Alexandra

24 Fleetwood Town

25 Hartlepool United

26 Mansfield Town

27 Morecambe

28 Notts County

29 Oldham Athletic

30 Rochdale

31 Scunthorpe United

32 Shrewsbury Town

33 Tranmere Rovers

34 York City

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