What time is Carabao Cup draw? Ball numbers and TV channel for second round

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Chelsea and Tottenham will tonight learn their opponents for the Carabao Cup second round.

It’s an earlier than usual entry stage for the London rivals thanks to their respective 10th and 17th-place finishes in the Premier League last season, which meant no European football this term.

The nine Premier League teams who are competing across the Champions League, Europa League or Conference League will join in the third round.

When is the Carabao Cup draw?

The draw for the second round of this season’s Carabao Cup is tonight, Monday August 10, 2026.

It will take place during the build-up to the Devon derby clash between Plymouth and Exeter at Home Park, with a start time of approximately 7.20pm BST.

The draw will be hosted by Sky Sports presenter David Prutton and conducted by pundits Jobi McAnuff and Jamie Mackie.

Eyes on the prize: The Carabao Cup trophy currently belongs to Manchester City

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How to watch the Carabao Cup draw

TV channel: The Carabao Cup second-round draw will be broadcast live on Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Football and Sky Sports Ultra HDR.

Live stream: Sky Sports subscribers can also watch it unfold live online via the Sky Go app.

Live blog: You can follow the draw as it happens with Standard Sport’s live blog.

Which clubs are in the Carabao Cup second round?

11 Premier League clubs in total will join the 35 first-round winners in the Carabao Cup second round.

Chelsea and Tottenham are among that number, along with Brentford, Fulham, Newcastle, Everton, Leeds and Nottingham Forest, plus newly-promoted trio Coventry, Ipswich and Hull.

The three teams relegated from the Premier League last season - West Ham, Burnley and Wolves - all enter in the first round.

Holders Manchester City, Arsenal, Manchester United, Aston Villa and Liverpool are all competing in the Champions League this season, while Bournemouth, Sunderland and Crystal Palace are in the Europa League, with Brighton in the Conference League.

Those nine clubs in Europe do not join the Carabao Cup party until the third-round stage next month.

It is worth noting that the Carabao Cup remains regionalised through the first and second rounds, before opening up thereafter.

Carabao Cup first round fixtures and results

Northern Section

Middlesbrough 1-0 Wrexham

Wolves 3-0 Port Vale

Barnsley 1-1 Wigan (6-5 pens)

Stockport 1-1 Doncaster (4-5 pens)

Sheffield Wednesday 1-0 Bolton

Fleetwood 1-0 Chesterfield

Crewe 2-1 Accrington Stanley

Stoke 2-0 Oldham

Burnley 1-1 Notts County (4-3 pens)

Derby 1-2 Lincoln

Bradford 2-0 Rochdale

Burton 1-2 Blackburn

Salford 1-1 Shrewsbury (3-4 pens)

Grimsby 1-3 Blackpool

Preston 1-1 Huddersfield (4-3 pens)

Rotherham 1-4 West Brom

Mansfield 0-3 Sheffield United

Southern Section

Bristol City 0-1 Walsall

Wycombe 1-2 Stevenage

Cambridge 2-1 Barnet

QPR 1-1 Millwall (0-2 pens)

Gillingham 0-3 Luton

Cardiff 3-2 Swindon

Bristol Rovers 0-1 Peterborough

Watford 1-0 Crawley

Norwich 4-1 MK Dons

Leyton Orient 2-0 Oxford

Bromley 1-1 Reading (4-5 pens)

Swansea 0-1 Birmingham

West Ham 3-1 Portsmouth

AFC Wimbledon 1-1 Newport (5-4 pens)

Leicester 1-0 Northampton

Cheltenham 1-3 Charlton

Colchester 0-2 Southampton

Plymouth vs Exeter

Carabao Cup draw ball numbers

Ball numbers for the second-round draw will be confirmed after the bulk of the first-round ties have been played this weekend.

When will second-round ties be played?

The second-round games will be played during the week commencing August 24, returning to a more familiar midweek slot.

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