Town have been drawn alongside Gillingham and Colchester in their Papa John’s Trophy group.

The Blues will discover which category one academy side will join them in Southern Group A when the draw takes place live on Sky Sports at 4.30pm on Thursday afternoon.

The fourth team in the group will one of Arsenal, Aston Villa, Brighton & Hove Albion, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur or West Ham United.

Having played Gillingham at home in the competition last season, Town will face the Gills away this time around meaning the Colchester match and the game against the U21 side will be at Portman Road.

The U's squad contains plenty of ex-Blues players with former skipper Luke Chambers, Cole Skuse, Freddie Sears and Alan Judge having joined Tommy Smith, Tom Eastman and Dean Gerken at the JobServe Community Stadium with Frank Nouble also having moved back to North Essex this summer.

Town, the U's and Gills were previously in the same EFL Trophy group in 2019/20.

Town will learn their Carabao Cup opponents at 3.40pm tomorrow with the League One fixtures released at 9am.

Photo: EFL

buzbyblue added 15:42 - Jun 23 Fat boy slim & Ipswich Rejects nice!
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Michael101 added 15:54 - Jun 23 Odds on we would draw Colchester in some cop or other,,there be a few players with a point to prove.
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90z added 15:57 - Jun 23 I wonder if these cup matches have different rules still.. Like so many senior players have to participate. And so many youth players have to have played so many minutes for the first team?
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Steve_ITFC_Sweden added 16:01 - Jun 23 Inevitable, I suppose.
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Bluearmy71 added 16:02 - Jun 23 It will be nice to give all those recently released players a proper good bye, if the crowds are let in of course, I'd love to give Chambo, Skuse & Freddy the thanks they deserve for their service to us!!
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BlueBlood90 added 16:07 - Jun 23 It'll make a nice change playing Colchester's Over 35s compared to a Premier League U23s.
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Edmundo added 16:42 - Jun 23 Crowds will be in barring somekind of massive change: Passports approved by Boris today.
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istanblue added 17:17 - Jun 23 Ipswich v Ipswich B
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SheptonMalletBlue added 17:21 - Jun 23 Perhaps we could all pump our fists at the fist pumper!!!
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custard added 18:55 - Jun 23 Oh great - the delights of Steve Evans again 🙄
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Juggsy added 19:06 - Jun 23 Imagine the bantz if they beat us 😂
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