Derby County will find out their Round One opponents of the newly-branded Carabao Cup on Friday afternoon - and supporters can watch the draw LIVE on dcfc.co.uk.



The draw for first round of the 2017/18 competition will be streamed live from Bangkok, Thailand, this coming Friday at 1pm (UK time) and it will be shown live right here on dcfc.co.uk.

The stream will appear in a news story which will be published on the website homepage on Friday morning.

Seventy EFL clubs will be in the draw with matches scheduled to take place during the week commencing 7th August.

Sunderland, relegated from the Premier League, will be included in the draw whilst the Sky Bet Championship’s other newcomers Hull City and Middlesbrough will join the competition in Round Two alongside the Premier League clubs that are not competing in Europe.

The draw is also regionalised to minimise travelling time for supporters in the first round with seeding decided by a Club’s finishing position in the EFL.

The first round draw is seeded, based on the final league positions of teams from the 2016/17 season, and has been split regionally into north and south groups, with Gary Rowett’s Rams being one of 17 seeded clubs in the 'north' category.

The seeding for Round One of this season’s Carabao Cup is as follows:

Seeds North:

1 Barnsley

2 Blackburn Rovers

3 Bolton Wanderers

4 Bradford City

5 Burton Albion

6 DERBY COUNTY

7 Fleetwood Town

8 Leeds United

9 Nottingham Forest

10 Preston North End

11 Rochdale

12 Rotherham United

13 Scunthorpe United

14 Sheffield United

15 Sheffield Wednesday

16 Sunderland

17 Wigan Athletic

Non-Seeds North:

18 Accrington Stanley

19 Blackpool

20 Bury

21 Carlisle United

22 Chesterfield

23 Coventry City

24 Crewe Alexandra

25 Doncaster Rovers

26 Grimsby Town

27 Lincoln City

28 Mansfield Town

29 Morecambe

30 Notts County

31 Oldham Athletic

32 Port Vale

33 Shrewsbury Town

34 Walsall

Seeds South:

1 Aston Villa

2 Birmingham City

3 Brentford

4 Bristol City

5 Bristol Rovers

6 Cardiff City

7 Charlton Athletic

8 Fulham

9 Ipswich Town

10 Millwall

11 Milton Keynes Dons

12 Norwich City

13 Oxford United

14 Peterborough United

15 Queens Park Rangers

16 Reading

17 Southend United

18 Wolverhampton Wanderers

Non-Seeds South:

19 AFC Wimbledon

20 Barnet

21 Cambridge United

22 Cheltenham Town

23 Colchester United

24 Crawley Town

25 Exeter City

26 Forest Green Rovers

27 Gillingham

28 Luton Town

29 Newport County

30 Northampton Town

31 Plymouth Argyle

32 Portsmouth

33 Stevenage

34 Swindon Town

35 Wycombe Wanderers

36 Yeovil Town