Capital One Cup seedings announced

The Football Leauge have announced the seedings for the draw of the first round of the Capital One Cup.

The draw for the first round of the Football League Cup will be made at 10am next Tuesday, 17th June.

The seedings are based on final league positions and regional location of teams (split between north and south of the country).

First round ties will be played in the week commencing 11th August, with dates subject to change for television/radio broadcasts.

Ipswich are seeded as number 8, while Colchester and Southend are unseeded, as 22 and 34 respectively.


Capital One Cup – First Round Seedings

South – Seeded
1 AFC Bournemouth
2 Birmingham City
3 Brentford
4 Brighton & Hove Albion
5 Bristol City
6 Cardiff City
7 Charlton Athletic
8 Ipswich Town
9 Leyton Orient
10 Millwall
11 Milton Keynes Dons
12 Peterborough United
13 Reading
14 Swindon Town
15 Walsall
16 Watford
17 Wolverhampton Wanderers
18 Yeovil Town

South – Unseeded
19 AFC Wimbledon
20 Cambridge United
21 Cheltenham Town
22 Colchester United
23 Coventry City
24 Crawley Town
25 Dagenham & Redbridge
26 Exeter City
27 Gillingham
28 Luton Town
29 Newport County
30 Northampton Town
31 Oxford United
32 Plymouth Argyle
33 Portsmouth
34 Southend United
35 Stevenage
36 Wycombe Wanderers

North – Seeded
1 Barnsley
2 Blackburn Rovers
3 Blackpool
4 Bolton Wanderers
5 Bradford City
6 Derby County
7 Doncaster Rovers
8 Huddersfield Town
9 Leeds United
10 Middlesbrough
11 Nottingham Forest
12 Port Vale
13 Preston North End
14 Rotherham United
15 Sheffield United
16 Sheffield Wednesday
17 Wigan Athletic

North – Unseeded
18 Accrington Stanley
19 Burton Albion
20 Bury
21 Carlisle United
22 Chesterfield
23 Crewe Alexandra
24 Fleetwood Town
25 Hartlepool United
26 Mansfield Town
27 Morecambe
28 Notts County
29 Oldham Athletic
30 Rochdale
31 Scunthorpe United
32 Shrewsbury Town
33 Tranmere Rovers
34 York City