The first round draw for the EFL Cup will take place at 1pm on Wednesday.

This season’s EFL Cup will officially get underway on Wednesday 22 June with the Round One draw being 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 9 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.

Posh are seeded in the southern half of the draw.

SEEDS

North

Barnsley

Blackburn Rovers

Bolton Wanderers

Bradford City

Burton Albion

Derby County

Huddersfield Town

Leeds United

Nottingham Forest

Port Vale

Preston North End

Rochdale

Rotherham United

Scunthorpe United

Sheffield United

Sheffield Wednesday

Wigan Athletic

South

Aston Villa

Birmingham City

Brentford

Brighton & Hove Albion

Bristol City

Cardiff City

Charlton Athletic

Coventry City

Fulham

Gillingham

Ipswich Town

Millwall

Milton Keynes Dons

Peterborough United

Queens Park Rangers

Reading

Walsall

Wolverhampton Wanderers

NON-SEEDS

North

Accrington Stanley

Blackpool

Bury

Cambridge United

Carlisle United

Chesterfield

Crewe Alexandra

Doncaster Rovers

Fleetwood Town

Grimsby Town

Hartlepool United

Mansfield Town

Morecambe

Northampton Town

Notts County

Oldham Athletic

Shrewsbury Town

South

AFC Wimbledon

Barnet

Bristol Rovers

Cheltenham Town

Colchester United

Crawley Town

Exeter City

Leyton Orient

Luton Town

Newport County

Oxford United

Plymouth Argyle

Portsmouth

Southend United

Stevenage

Swindon Town

Wycombe Wanderers

Yeovil Town