Town and AFC Wimbledon Ball 26 in Third Round Draw
Wednesday, 28th Aug 2024 11:35

Town and/or AFC Wimbledon will be ball number 26 in the draw for the third round of the Carabao Cup, which takes place this evening.

The draw for the third round will be live on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Football following the Nottingham Forest-Newcastle United tie.

Prior to that game there will first be a pre-draw involving six clubs in European competition in order not to pair teams playing in the Champions League and the Europa League to avoid fixture congestion.

Carabao Cup Round Three
1 Arsenal
2 Aston Villa
3 Barnsley
4 Barrow
5 Blackpool
6 Bolton Wanderers
7 Brighton & Hove Albion
8 Chelsea
9 Coventry City
10 Crystal Palace
11 Everton
12 Fleetwood Town
13 Fulham
14 Leicester City
15 Leyton Orient
16 Liverpool
17 Manchester City
18 Manchester United
19 Preston North End
20 Queens Park Rangers
21 Sheffield Wednesday
22 Stoke City
23 Tottenham Hotspur
24 Walsall
25 Watford
26 AFC Wimbledon or Ipswich Town
27 Cardiff City or Southampton
28 Colchester United or Brentford
29 Nottingham Forest or Newcastle United
30 Swansea City or Wycombe Wanderers
31 West Ham United or AFC Bournemouth
32 Wolverhampton Wanderers or Burnley

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sixx added 12:25 - Aug 28 "Prior to that game there will first be a pre-draw involving six clubs in European competition in order not to pair teams playing in the Champions League and the Europa League to avoid fixture congestion" How does this avoid fixture congestion. The teams in Europe will still have a 3rd round fixture to play whoever they are playing! Or have I missed something here?
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samsonblue added 12:51 - Aug 28 Surely best way to avoid congestion is to ensure that the 6 teams play each other, making sure that only 3 progress to next round!!!
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samsonblue added 12:51 - Aug 28 Surely best way to avoid congestion is to ensure that the 6 teams play each other, making sure that only 3 progress to next round!!!
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BotesdaleBlue added 15:31 - Aug 28 Say what you like about the FA Cup - at least that competition has a completely unmolested draw, with none of this iniquitous "keeping the best teams apart for as long as we can" business.
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Rozeeboy74 added 16:07 - Aug 28

How to make the most simple of processes as complex as possible, with no benefit.

Draw Conditions

The Round Three draw consists of 32 Clubs – 25 winners from Round Two with the seven Premier League Clubs in UEFA competitions also entering in this round.

The UEFA Conference League, a competition Chelsea FC could be participating in, is due to begin in October and therefore has no impact on the Carabao Cup Round Three draw.

For the main draw, two separate bowls will be utilised:

Bowl 1 - consisting of the six UCL and UEL Clubs
Bowl 2 - consisting of the remaining 26 Clubs

A pre-draw will take place prior to Nottingham Forest’s Round Two fixture against Newcastle United on Wednesday 28 August, live on Sky Sports, to determine the Home/Away positioning of the six Clubs in Bowl 1 for the first six ties of the main draw.

The main draw will be conducted following the conclusion of the game at the City Ground – also live on Sky Sports. The first six ties will be drawn by alternating between one Club from Bowl 1 and one Club from Bowl 2, with the Home/Away positioning of the Club from Bowl 1 already pre-determined in the earlier draw.

Once the six Clubs from Bowl 1 have been drawn, the remaining ten ties will be drawn from Bowl 2 only. From this round of the competition, the draw is no longer split into northern and southern sections.