Town Ball 15 in Carabao Cup Draw - Ipswich Town News
Town will be ball number 15 in Thursday evening’s Carabao Cup first round draw.
The EFL announces their fixtures at 9am, when the Blues' League One fixtures will be available on TWTD, with the draw for the Carabao Cup made at 7pm the same evening, live from the Morrisons supermarket in Colindale, close to Wembley Stadium where the final will eventually take place, in contrast to previous draws which have taken place in the likes of Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City.
The draw, which is regionalised on a north-south basis and features 70 teams but with seeding having been abandoned last year, will be made by John Barnes and Ray Parlour. It will be live on the Carabao Cup Facebook page, the EFL’s Twitter and on EFL.com. The games will take place in the week starting August 12th.
Last season the Blues were beaten 4-2 on penalties at Exeter City in round one following a 1-1 draw.
Carabao Cup Southern Section
1 AFC Wimbledon
2 Birmingham City
3 Brentford
4 Bristol City
5 Bristol Rovers
6 Cambridge United
7 Charlton Athletic
8 Cheltenham Town
9 Colchester United
10 Coventry City
11 Crawley Town
12 Exeter City
13 Forest Green Rovers
14 Gillingham
15 Ipswich Town
16 Leyton Orient
17 Luton Town
18 Millwall
19 Milton Keynes Dons
20 Newport County
21 Northampton Town
22 Oxford United
23 Peterborough United
24 Plymouth Argyle
25 Portsmouth
26 Queens Park Rangers
27 Reading
28 Southend United
29 Stevenage
30 Swansea City
31 Swindon Town
32 Walsall
33 West Bromwich Albion
34 Wycombe Wanderers
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