{"id":377113,"date":"2025-08-27T08:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/377113\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:07:11","slug":"when-is-carabao-cup-draw-start-time-third-round-ball-numbers-and-tv-channel-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/377113\/","title":{"rendered":"When is Carabao Cup draw? Start time, third round ball numbers and TV channel today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/newsletter_tottenham_embed_desktop.png\" alt=\"Tottenham Hotspurs Football Newsletter\" width=\"158px\" height=\"158px\" class=\"sc-fbFiXs buKFXK\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/carabao-cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carabao Cup<\/a> steps up another gear this week as the remaining Premier League clubs enter the third round.<\/p>\n<p>As the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/manchester-united\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manchester United<\/a>, Fulham and others face second-round ties before securing their place in the third-round hat, those top-flight clubs with European commitments this season got their usual bye into the next round.<\/p>\n<p>That includes holders Newcastle, who beat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/liverpool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool<\/a> in last season\u2019s final to end their 70-year trophy drought.<\/p>\n<p>The two all-Premier League ties in the second round were played on Tuesday with Brentford securing an impressive win over Bournemouth. Meanwhile, Wolves heaped the pressure on Graham Potter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/sport\/football\/graham-potter-west-ham-future-carabao-cup-bowen-b1244576.html\" title=\"Graham Potter at a loss as Carabao Cup exit heaps pressure on West Ham boss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with a comeback win over West Ham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When is the Carabao Cup draw?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Carabao Cup third-round draw will take place tonight, Wednesday, August 27, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>With Sky Sports broadcasting Manchester United\u2019s second-round clash at Grimsby on the same evening, which kicks off at 8pm, the draw will be held after the game. <\/p>\n<p>An estimated start time of 10.15pm has been pencilled in, though that will be delayed if the fixture requires a penalty shootout. There will be no extra time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to watch the Carabao Cup draw<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TV channel: In the UK, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/carabao-cup-draw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carabao Cup draw<\/a> will be broadcast live on Sky Sports Football and Sky Sports News.<\/p>\n<p>Live stream: Subscribers can tune in online via the Sky Go app.<\/p>\n<p>Live blog: Follow the third-round draw in full with Standard Sport\u2019s dedicated blog!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carabao Cup third-round ball numbers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All ball numbers will be confirmed on the morning of Wednesday, August 27.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When is the Carabao Cup third round played?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just like last season, the Carabao Cup third-round fixtures will be spread across two weeks due to Champions League and Europa League clashes.<\/p>\n<p>The first set games will be played across the week commencing September 15, 2025, with the rest across the week commencing September 22, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carabao Cup second-round results<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Norwich 0-3 Southampton<\/li>\n<li>Reading 2-1 AFC Wimbledon<\/li>\n<li>Bournemouth 0-2 Brentford<\/li>\n<li>Millwall 2-1 Coventry<\/li>\n<li>Wolves 3-2 West Ham<\/li>\n<li>Swansea 1-1 Plymouth <strong>(Swansea win 5-3 on pens)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Bromley 1-1 Wycombe <strong>(Wycombe win 5-4 on pens)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Cardiff 3-0 Cheltenham<\/li>\n<li>Cambridge Utd 3-1 Charlton<\/li>\n<li>Burton 0-1 Lincoln<\/li>\n<li>Accrington 0-2 Doncaster<\/li>\n<li>Wigan 1-0 Stockport<\/li>\n<li>Stoke 0-3 Bradford<\/li>\n<li>Burnley 2-1 Derby<\/li>\n<li>Sunderland 1-1 Huddersfield <strong>(Huddersfield win 6-5 on pens)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Birmingham 0-1 Port Vale<\/li>\n<li>Preston 2-3 Wrexham<\/li>\n<li>Barnsley 2-1 Rotherham<\/li>\n<li>Sheffield Wednesday 1-1 Leeds <strong>(Sheffield Wednesday win 3-0 on pens)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Carabao Cup second-round ties<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Everton vs Mansfield<\/li>\n<li>Fulham vs Bristol City<\/li>\n<li>Oxford vs Brighton<\/li>\n<li>Grimsby vs Man Utd<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The remaining second-round ties are being played on Wednesday, August 27.<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-affiliate=\"true\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/go.redirectingat.com\/?id=45843X1573846&amp;articleId=b1244380&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.seatunique.com%2Fsport-tickets%2Ffootball%2Fcarabao-cup-tickets&amp;sref=https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/sport\/football\/when-is-carabao-cup-draw-third-round-start-time-ball-numbers-tv-channel-today-b1244380.html\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Carabao Cup steps up another gear this week as the remaining Premier League clubs enter the third&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,86223,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-377113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-carabao-cup","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115099706641425103","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}