Carabao Cup first-round draw details including date, time, Middlesbrough's ball number and more

Middlesbrough will find out their first cup opponents of the new season next week, with the first-round draw for the Carabao Cup being made next Thursday morning.

The draw will come a little over 24 hours after Boro learn their league schedule for the upcoming campaign. Fixture Release Day is at 9 am on Wednesday morning, and we'll have full coverage of Boro's fixture list right here on Teesside Live. A day later, at 11.30 am on Thursday (June 27) the Carabao Cup draw will be made.

The draw will take place live on Sky Sports News and sees 70 clubs from the Championship and Leagues One and Two in draws regionalised into Northern and Southern sections. From the EFL, Burnley and Luton Town have received byes to round two, as the highest-placed league finishers last term.

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Boro will be hoping for another strong cup run, with last season's competition seeing Michael Carrick's side reach the semi-finals as the last remaining EFL club. They were eventually beaten comfortably by Chelsea at Stamford Bridge after winning the first leg, but used the cup run throughout as a means of helping fringe players top-up game time and develop.

The first round games will take place in the week commencing August 12, which comes in between Boro's first and second games of the new Championship campaign. In this term's first-round draw, Boro will be ball number 22 in the Northern Section of the draw, with the likes of Wrexham, Stoke City and West Brom providing them with their longest potential trips were they to be drawn away.

Last term, until the semi-final first leg, Boro spent their Carabao Cup campaign exclusively on the road. They started with victory over Huddersfield Town and then enjoyed wins over Bolton Wanderers, Bradford City, Exeter City and Port Vale.

All games in the Carabao Cup will now be broadcast live as part of the EFL's new broadcast deal with Sky Sports. They will all be shown on the new Sky Sports+ platform in the UK, and on club platforms for international supporters. If ties are level after 90 minutes they will go straight to a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.

Full Northern Section draw ball numbers

1. Accrington Stanley

2. Barnsley

3. Barrow AFC

4. Blackburn Rovers

5. Blackpool

6. Bolton Wanderers

7. Bradford City

8. Burton Albion

9. Carlisle United

10. Chesterfield

11. Crewe Alexandra

12. Derby County

13. Doncaster Rovers

14. Fleetwood Town

15. Grimsby Town

16. Harrogate Town

17. Huddersfield Town

18. Hull City

19. Leeds United

20. Lincoln City

21. Mansfield Town

22. Middlesbrough

23. Morecambe

24. Notts County

25. Port Vale

26. Preston North End

27. Rotherham United

28. Salford City

29. Sheffield United

30. Sheffield Wednesday

31. Shrewsbury Town

32. Stockport County

33. Stoke City

34. Sunderland AFC

35. Tranmere Rovers

36. West Bromwich Albion

37. Wigan Athletic

38. Wrexham