Welcome to football.london's live blog covering the Carabao Cup first-round draw and the Papa John's Trophy round one draw.
It is at this stage where EFL clubs dream of making it all the way to Wembley in order to battle it out for the first domestic trophy on offer in the English football calendar.
Tottenham Hotspur made it to the final in last season's Carabao Cup competition, but having sacked Jose Mourinho in the days building up to it, they were then beaten 1-0 by Pep Guardiola's Manchester City.
City have now won the competition an impressive four years in a row.
The first-round stage of the competition will see 70 teams enter the draw, from the Championship, League One and League Two. The draw will be split into north and south sections.
We will then follow that with the draw for this season's Papa John's Trophy, which will see the under-21s of Arsenal, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Tottenham and West Ham involved.
You can follow all the updates in our blog below.
And that's that
Both Carabao Cup and Papa John's Trophy draws are completed for the first round.
You can recap everything below.
Thanks for following.
Group stages - Southern section
Group A
Colchester
Gillingham
Ipswich
West Ham
Group B
AFC Wimbledon
Portsmouth
Sutton
Crystal Palace
Group C
MK Dons
Burton
Wycombe
Aston Villa
Group D
Forest Green
Northampton
Walsall
Brighton
Group E
Exeter
Bristol Rovers
Cheltenham
Chelsea
Group F
Swindon
Newport
Plymouth
Arsenal
Group G
Crawley
Charlton
Leyton Orient
Southampton
Group H
Oxford
Cambridge
Stevenage
Tottenham
Group stages - Northern section
Confirmed U21 teams
Are as follows:
- Arsenal
- Aston Villa
- Brighton
- Chelsea
- Crystal Palace
- Everton
- Leeds
- Leicester
- Liverpool
- Manchester City
- Manchester United
- Newcastle
- Southampton
- Tottenham
- West Ham
- Wolves
How it works
Details of the Papa John's Trophy on the EFL website are as follows:
The 16 Invited U21 teams will be placed into their respective Northern and Southern section Groups, with the 48 EFL Clubs placed into pre-determined Groups prior to the draw. Consideration has been given to ensure travel time is minimised and recovery time is maximised for players.
In addition, if there is a situation where two teams meet in the Group Stages for a second successive season, then the Club who was at home in 2020/21 will play away in 2021/22. All EFL Clubs will play two of their three matches at home in the Group Stages.
And now to the Papa John's Trophy
Up next, in around 20 minutes (4.30pm), is the Papa John's Trophy first-round draw.
We will also have that for you here, with Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham youngsters involved.
Done and dusted
So that is the Carabao Cup draw complete for both north and south sections, which you can recap fully below.
The ties will be played the week commencing August 9.
Southern section
Cambridge v Swindon
Exeter v Wycombe
Crawley v Gillingham
Burton v Oxford
Coventry City v Northampton
Ipswich v Newport
Forest Green Rovers v Bristol City
Reading v Swansea
Cardiff v Sutton United
Bournemouth v MK Dons
Bristol Rovers v Cheltenham
Peterborough v Plymouth
Leyton Orient v QPR
Stevenage v Luton
Millwall v Portsmouth
Birmingham v Colchester
Charlton v AFC Wimbledon
Northern Section
Sheff Wed v Huddersfield
Derby v Salford
Hartlepool v Crewe
Shrewsbury v Lincoln
Mansfield v Preston
Port Vale v Sunderland
Sheff Utd v Carlisle
Blackpool v Middlesbrough
Harrogate v Rochdale
Stoke v Fleetwood
Walsall v Doncaster
Oldham v Tranmere
Rotherham v Accrington
Barrow v Scunthorpe
Hull v Wigan
Bolton v Barnsley
Nottingham Forest v Bradford
Blackburn v Morecambe
Former players doing the draw
Andy Cole and Danny Mills drawing the names this afternoon.
Not long now
About to get underway for the first-round draw of this season's Carabao Cup.
It's a debut in the competition for Sutton United.
The ball numbers
The draw will be divided into Northern and Southern sections this afternoon.
Here are the all-important ball numbers.
Northern section
1 Accrington Stanley
2 Barnsley
3 Barrow
4 Blackburn Rovers
5 Blackpool
6 Bolton Wanderers
7 Bradford City
8 Carlisle United
9 Crewe Alexandra
10 Derby County
11 Doncaster Rovers
12 Fleetwood Town
13 Harrogate Town
14 Hartlepool United
15 Huddersfield Town
16 Hull City
17 Lincoln City
18 Mansfield Town
19 Middlesbrough
20 Morecambe
21 Nottingham Forest
22 Oldham Athletic
23 Port Vale
24 Preston North End
25 Rochdale
26 Rotherham United
27 Salford City
28 Scunthorpe United
29 Sheffield United
30 Sheffield Wednesday
31 Shrewsbury Town
32 Stoke City
33 Sunderland AFC
34 Tranmere Rovers
35 Walsall
36 Wigan Athletic
Southern section
1 AFC Bournemouth
2 AFC Wimbledon
3 Birmingham City
4 Bristol City
5 Bristol Rovers
6 Burton Albion
7 Cambridge United
8 Cardiff City
9 Charlton Athletic
10 Cheltenham Town
11 Colchester United
12 Coventry City
13 Crawley Town
14 Exeter City
15 Forest Green Rovers
16 Gillingham
17 Ipswich Town
18 Leyton Orient
19 Luton Town
20 Millwall
21 Milton Keynes Dons
22 Newport County
23 Northampton Town
24 Oxford United
25 Peterborough United
26 Plymouth Argyle
27 Portsmouth
28 Queens Park Rangers
29 Reading
30 Stevenage
31 Sutton United
32 Swansea City
33 Swindon Town
34 Wycombe Wanderers
What time is the draw?
We are expecting the draw to take place at 3.40pm - roughly 15 minutes from now.
Welcome
Afternoon all.
Welcome along to our Carabao Cup live blog.
We will have the draw for the first round right here.
