Carling Cup Draw

Carling Cup Draw Details Revealed

Carling Cup Opponents Decided

The draw for the first round of next season's Carling Cup will take place on Thursday with Swansea one of 32 teams in the southern half of the draw.

The draw has been split into two sections as normal - North and South - with the sides in each section split into a seeded and unseeded section of the draw. The unseeded sides will meet a seeded side in the first round.

UEFA Cup entrants Millwall are handed a bye into the 3rd round along with all other European representatives whilst all Premiership clubs plus Leicester City are handed a bye into the second round.

The details of the teams in the Southern half of the draw are as follows (seedings are worked out on league placings last season)

Seeded Teams	Un-Seeded Teams
1. Ipswich	17. Brentford
2. West Ham	18. Peterborough
3. Reading	19. Rushden
4. Coventry	20. Wycombe
5. Cardiff	21. Torquay
6. Watford	22. Northampton
7. Gillingham	23. Yeovil
8. MK Dons	24. Oxford
9. Plymouth	25. Swansea
10. QPR	26. Boston
11. Brighton	27. Cambridge
12. Bristol City	28. Cheltenham
13. Swindon	29. Bristol Rovers
14. Bournemouth	30. Kidderminster
15. Luton	31. Southend
16. Colchester	32. Leyton Orient

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