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Blues Ball Number 15 in Carabao Cup Draw - Ipswich Town News

Town will be ball number 15 in Thursday’s draw for the first round of the Carabao Cup, which takes place at 2.30pm following on from the release of the Championship fixtures at 9am.

The draw, will be shown live on Sky Sports, will be unseeded and split on a north-south basis with matches scheduled to take place in the week commencing 7th August.

All 72 EFL clubs will be in the first-round draw with the 12 Premier League sides not in Europe joining in round two and then the other eight top flight teams in round three.

Last season, Town exited at the first round stage having been defeated 1-0 at home by Colchester United.

Having been promoted to the Championship, the Blues won't be involved in this season's Papa Johns Trophy.

Carabao Cup Southern Section
1. AFC Wimbledon
2. Birmingham City
3. Bristol City
4. Bristol Rovers
5. Cambridge United
6. Cardiff City
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. Millwall
18. Milton Keynes Dons
19. Newport County
20. Northampton Town
21. Norwich City
22. Oxford United
23. Peterborough United
24. Plymouth Argyle
25. Portsmouth
26. Queens Park Rangers
27. Reading
28. Southampton
29. Stevenage
30. Sutton United
31. Swansea City
32. Swindon Town
33. Watford
34. Wycombe Wanderers

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