The draw for Round One of the Carling Cup will be announced on
www.football-league.co.uk at 12.00pm on Wednesday June 21st
The first round draw involves all 72 Football League clubs, with clubs split on a North/South basis and seeded on the basis of last season's league positions. Seeded clubs will be drawn against unseeded clubs.
NORTHERN SECTION - SEEDED TEAMS
1 Sunderland
2 Preston
3 Leeds
4 Wolves
5 Stoke
6 Leicester
7 Burnley
8 Hull
9 Sheffield Wednesday
10 Derby
11 Barnsley
12 Crewe
13 Huddersfield
14 Nottm Forest
15 Doncaster
16 Oldham
17 Bradford
18 Scunthorpe
UNSEEDED TEAMS
19 Port Vale
20 Chesterfield
21 Tranmere
22 Blackpool
23 Rotherham
24 Carlisle
25 Hartlepool
26 Grimsby
27 Lincoln
28 Darlington
29 Wrexham
30 Rochdale
31 Chester
32 MANSFIELD
33 Macclesfield
34 Bury
35 Stockport
36 Accrington Stanley
SOUTHERN SECTION - SEEDED TEAMS
1 Birmingham
2 West Brom
3 Crystal Palace
4 Coventry
5 Norwich
6 Luton
7 Cardiff
8 Southampton
9 Plymouth
10 Ipswich
11 QPR
12 Southend
13 Colchester
14 Millwall
15 Brighton
16 Brentford
17 Swansea
18 Bristol City
UNSEEDED TEAMS
19 Gillingham
20 Yeovil
21 Bournemouth
22 Northampton
23 Leyton Orient
24 Cheltenham
25 Milton Keynes Dons
26 Swindon
27 Walsall
28 Wycombe
29 Peterborough
30 Shrewsbury
31 Boston
32 Bristol Rovers
33 Barnet
34 Torquay
35 Notts County
36 Hereford
Round Two of the competiton will see the following Premiership teams enter: Aston Villa, Bolton, Charlton, Everton, Fulham, Man City, Middlesbrough, Portsmouth, Reading, Sheffield United, Watford and Wigan.
Round Three will see the eight Pemiership teams involved in Europe enter: Arsenal, Blackburn, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man United, Newcastle [Intertoto Cup], Tottenham, West Ham.
The draw will be made behind closed-doors at the Football League HQ.