Draw for domestic cup competition to be streamed live
The English Football League Cup draw will be streamed live on Facebook at 1.00 pm tomorrow.
In a first for British football, the EFL (English Football League) has joined forces with Sky Sports to live stream the EFL Cup Round One draw as a Facebook Live event, providing millions of fans at home and abroad the chance to watch the draw unfold wherever they may be.
Facebook page, skysports.com and the Sky Sports app.Sky Sports Facebook page, as well as the EFL CupTaking place at 1pm on Wednesday, fans eager to see where the road to Wembley begins for their club can watch the stream on the official
Round One of the re-named cup competition includes 70 of the 72 EFL clubs this season, with the draw being seeded as well as regionalised on a north/south basis. Seedings are based on club finishing positions in the league last season.
The draw will be broadcast live from Sky Sports’ studios, with the event hosted by Tom White. Former Manchester United, Queens Park Rangers and England player Ray Wilkins will be tasked with making the draw. The activity marks the first time a major football cup draw has been streamed as a Facebook Live event.
Commenting on the new EFL Cup Round One draw format, Drew Barrand, Marketing Director of the EFL, said: “Facebook Live hadn’t even been launched when we did last year’s Round One draw, so this really is a great opportunity for us to do something different to ensure as many fans as possible can engage with our competitions.
“The Round One draw is not usually broadcast and traditionally just announced as a list but with our Facebook network of official EFL and club pages having a combined audience of over 15 million fans it is a natural platform for us provide content like this.”
AFC Wimbledon are unseeded once again, meaning that the Dons will play one of the southern seeded teams from the South.
SEEDS (North)
Barnsley
Blackburn Rovers
Bolton Wanderers
Bradford City
Burton Albion
Derby County
Huddersfield Town
Leeds United
Nottingham Forest
Port Vale
Preston North End
Rochdale
Rotherham United
Scunthorpe United
Sheffield United
Sheffield Wednesday
Wigan Athletic
SEEDS (South)
Aston Villa
Birmingham City
Brentford
Brighton & Hove Albion
Bristol City
Cardiff City
Charlton Athletic
Coventry City
Fulham
Gillingham
Ipswich Town
Millwall
Milton Keynes
Peterborough United
Queens Park Rangers
Reading
Walsall
Wolverhampton Wanderers
NON-SEEDS (North)
Accrington Stanley
Blackpool
Bury
Cambridge United
Carlisle United
Chesterfield
Crewe Alexandra
Doncaster Rovers
Fleetwood Town
Grimsby Town
Hartlepool United
Mansfield Town
Morecambe
Northampton Town
Notts County
Oldham Athletic
Shrewsbury Town
NON-SEEDS (South)
AFC Wimbledon
Barnet
Bristol Rovers
Cheltenham Town
Colchester United
Crawley Town
Exeter City
Leyton Orient
Luton Town
Newport County
Oxford United
Plymouth Argyle
Portsmouth
Southend United
Stevenage
Swindon Town
Wycombe Wanderers
Yeovil Town