The Carabao Cup third round draw has taken place on Wednesday night.
In total, 34 clubs went into the hat.
This was due to two second round ties still to be played on Thursday night.
Ahead of Wednesday’s matches, eight balls were drawn out of the hat, these were the eight clubs involved in the Champions League and Europa League this season – Arsenal, Man City, Man U, Villa, Liverpool, Bournemouth, Palace and Sunderland.
These eight clubs/balls pulled out and none of them could face each other, that (first) draw simply deciding whether those eight clubs would be playing home or away, against whoever they wre drawn against later (after the Wednesday night matches).
The EFL explaining: ‘As a result of the expanded European competition calendar and the fixture clashes it presents, additional conditions will be required for the draw. Round Three fixtures will take place across two weeks (week beginning 7 and 14 September), with fixtures in the UEFA Champions League (week beginning 7 September) and UEFA Europa League (week beginning 14 September) also scheduled during this period. As UEFA competition fixtures cannot be rescheduled, and to enable the Carabao Cup to proceed within its agreed schedule without disrupting other League or domestic cup fixtures, the additional conditions will ensure that the eight Clubs participating in the Champions League or Europa League cannot meet each other in Round Three of the Carabao Cup. This will mean that the teams drawn in each tie will be able to fulfil the fixture in one of the allocated weeks. No draw conditions will be required for the Round Four draw.’
So when it came to the main/final part of the Carabao Cup third round draw tonight, the first eight balls drawn out were paired with the eight clubs competing in the two main European competitions.
This is the full Carabao Cup third round draw:
Crystal Palace v Middlesbrough
Manchester United v Brighton
Manchester City v Norwich
Sunderland v Hull City
Ipswich Town v Arsenal
Coventry v Aston Villa
Bournemouth v Lincoln
Liverpool v Tottenham
Chelsea or Luton v Leeds
Millwall v Newcastle
Fleetwood Town v Sheffield United
Everton v Wolves
Leyton Orient v Bradford City
Reading v Brentford
Peterborough United v Barnsley
West Ham v Fulham or AFC Wimbledon
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