League cup draw - tomorrow live on Facebook

http://cup.efl.com/news/article/efl-cup-round-one-draw-to-be-streamed-live-on-facebook-3148466.aspx


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16:38 21st June 2016

by EFL

This season’s EFL Cup will officially get under way on Wednesday 22nd June, when the Round One draw will be broadcast on Facebook Live.

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.

Taking 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 EFL Cup Facebook page, as well as Sky Sports’ Facebook page, skysports.com and the Sky Sports app.

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.”

David Gibbs Digital Director, Sky Sports & Sky News said: “As a close partner of Facebook, we’re pleased to be working with the EFL to bring the EFL Cup draw to the platform.

“We recognise that our audience want to consume our content on lots of different platforms so bringing this to our nine million followers on Facebook as well on our 30 million plus users on our own digital platforms helps bring this to even bigger audience.”

Manchester City are the current holders of the EFL Cup, having beaten Liverpool in last season’s final in February. The 2016/17 EFL Cup Final, the 57th in the competition’s history, will take place at Wembley on Sunday 26th February 2017.

Read more at http://cup.efl.com/news/article/efl-cup-round-one-draw-to-be-streamed-live-on-facebook-3148466.aspx#mDTEbhepcAfqDPw3.99"

 

We could face any of the following teams:
Accrington
Blackpool
Bury
Cambridge U
Carlisle U
Chesterfield
Crewe
Doncaster
Fleetwood
Grimsby
Hartlepool
Mansfield
Morcambe
Northampton
Notts C
Oldham
Shrewsbury

Away tie please. The atmosphere for League Cup 1st round games at Oakwell is terrible

 

Even if we can't face them, we'll still end up with Sc*nthorpe away.

 

would like Accrington or Carlisle away

 

Chesterfield away or blackpool away please

 

It's not the English Football League, it's just The Football League, a privilege we earned by inventing the ****ing game.