Carabao Cup and Trophy Draws Take Shape

The new season is almost upon us and Thursday will see the fixtures released for Sky Bet League 1 at 9am

Who will United face on the opening day? Find out first through our official channels and sync your calendar automatically HERE

That will be followed by the draw for the EFL Trophy and then the Carabao Cup and those draws are already taking shape.

Firstly in the EFL Trophy, to be drawn at 11.30am, the U’s will be in Group F along with Northampton Town and MK Dons plus one of the invited Under 21 sides.

The U’s are guaranteed two home games in the group stage with the invited sides playing all games away.

The invited sides in the Southern Section are:

Arsenal, Aston Villa, Brighton & Hove Albion, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Fulham, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United.

Then in the Carabao Cup, to be drawn at 2.30pm, United are in the Southern side of the draw and will be ball 22

The Southern Section numbers are:

1 AFC Wimbledon
2 Birmingham City
3 Bristol City
4 Bristol Rovers
5 Cambridge United
6 Cardiff City
7 Charlton Athletic
8 Cheltenham Town
9 Colchester United
10 Coventry City
11 Crawley Town
12 Exeter City
13 Forest Green Rovers
14 Gillingham
15 Ipswich Town
16 Leyton Orient
17 Millwall
18 MK Dons
19 Newport County
20 Northampton Town
21 Norwich City
22 Oxford United
23 Peterborough United
24 Plymouth Argyle
25 Portsmouth
26 QPR
27 Reading
28 Southampton
29 Stevenage
30 Sutton United
31 Swansea City
32 Swindon Town
33 Watford
34 Wycombe Wanderers