{"id":597560,"date":"2026-08-27T12:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/597560\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T12:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:06:08","slug":"efl-cup-draw-premier-league-clubs-discover-third-round-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/597560\/","title":{"rendered":"EFL Cup draw: Premier League clubs discover third-round opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EFL Cup draw has been made, with nine teams who qualified for Europe now entering the competition<\/p>\n<p>The EFL Cup third-round draw has conjured up five all-Premier League encounters &#8211; and that number will rise to six if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/clubs\/8\/chelsea\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea<\/a> win their second-round tie against League One team Luton Town on Thursday night and then host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/clubs\/2\/leeds-united\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leeds United<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/clubs\/14\/liverpool\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a> at home to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/clubs\/6\/tottenham-hotspur\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> is the most high-profile tie of the round.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/clubs\/1\/manchester-united\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester United<\/a> have been drawn at home to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/clubs\/36\/brighton-and-hove-albion\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brighton &amp; Hove Albion<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/clubs\/9\/coventry-city\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coventry City<\/a> will face <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/clubs\/7\/aston-villa\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aston Villa<\/a> in a Midlands derby, Premier League champions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/clubs\/3\/arsenal\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a> have an away tie at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/clubs\/40\/ipswich-town\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ipswich Town<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/clubs\/56\/sunderland\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunderland<\/a> will host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/clubs\/88\/hull-city\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hull City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/clubs\/43\/manchester-city\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester City<\/a>, the EFL Cup holders, have been drawn at home to EFL Championship club Norwich City.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here are the 16 fixtures in full, to be played across the two weeks beginning 7 and 14 September:<\/p>\n<p>EFL Cup third-round draw<\/p>\n<p>Crystal Palace v Middlesbrough<br \/>Man Utd v Brighton<br \/>Man City v Norwich City<br \/>Sunderland v Hull City<br \/>Ipswich v Arsenal<br \/>Coventry v Aston Villa<br \/>Bournemouth v Lincoln City<br \/>Liverpool v Spurs<br \/>Chelsea or Luton v Leeds<br \/>Millwall v\u00a0Newcastle<br \/>Fleetwood Town v Sheffield United<br \/>Everton v Wolverhampton Wanderers<br \/>Leyton Orient v Bradford City<br \/>Reading v Brentford<br \/>Peterborough United v Barnsley<br \/>West Ham United v Fulham or AFC Wimbledon<\/p>\n<p>The eight clubs competing in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League were kept apart for scheduling reasons.<\/p>\n<p>UEFA competition fixtures cannot be rearranged, and with the EFL Cup taking place across two weeks in September that also have Champions League and Europa League games scheduled, additional conditions were made to ensure all clubs can fulfil their EFL Cup fixture in one of the two allocated weeks.<\/p>\n<p>A pre-draw was made to determine which of the eight Champions League and Europa League clubs would play home or away, followed by an unseeded drawing of the remaining 24 clubs competing in the third round.<\/p>\n<p>More EFL Cup news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The EFL Cup draw has been made, with nine teams who qualified for Europe now entering the competition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105,4277],"class_list":["post-597560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}