The Round 1 Draw for the Capital One Cup will be released on Monday 17th June 2013.
The Round 1 Draw for the Capital One Cup will be released on Monday 17th June 2013.
The draw, which will be both seeded based on last season’s league tables, and also regionalised, will consist of 70 Football League clubs. The two highest placed relegated clubs from the Premier League will be seeded though to Round 2 (Reading) and Round 3 (Wigan Athletic).
Round 1 – 70 Clubs
Round 2 – 50 clubs (35 Winners, 1 Championship, 14 Premier League non-European clubs).
Round 3 – 32 clubs (25 Winners, 1 Championship & 6 Premier League European clubs).
Town entered the cup competition for the first time last season but Championship Nottingham Forest took the first round tie at Highbury.