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Carabao Cup first round: wins for West Ham, Burnley and Millwall – as it happened
â½ West Ham come from behind to see off Pompeyâ½ Kyle Walker seals shootout win for Burnleyâ½ Millwall keeper Lukas Jensen saves all four QPR spot-kicks
⦠and with that, our work here is done. John Brewin was at the London Stadium, and his report on West Hamâs comeback victory over Portsmouth is here. Thereâs also a round-up of the other matches for your edification. Thanks for reading this Clockwatch!
AFC Wimbledon 1-1 Newport (AFC Wimbledon win 5-4 on pens)
Barnsley 1-1 Wigan (Barnsley win 6-5 on pens)
Bradford 2-0 Rochdale
Bristol Rovers 0-1 Peterborough
Bromley 1-1 Reading (Reading win 5-4 on pens)
Burnley 1-1 Notts County (Burnley win 4-3 on pens)
Burton 1-2 Blackburn
Cambridge 2-1 Barnet
Cardiff 3-2 Swindon
Crewe 2-1 Accrington
Derby 1-2 Lincoln
Fleetwood 1-0 Chesterfield
Gillingham 0-3 Luton
Grimsby 1-3 Blackpool
Leicester 1-0 Northampton
Leyton Orient 2-0 Oxford
Norwich 4-1 MK Dons
Preston 1-1 Huddersfield (Preston win 4-3 on pens)
QPR 1-1 Millwall (Millwall win 2-0 on pens)
Salford 1-1 Shrewsbury (Shrewsbury win 4-3 on pens)
Sheff Wed 1-0 Bolton
Stockport 1-1 Doncaster (Doncaster win 5-4 on pens)
Stoke 2-0 Oldham
Swansea 0-1 Birmingham
Watford 1-0 Crawley
West Ham 3-1 Portsmouth
When is Carabao Cup draw? Start time, ball numbers and TV channel for second round
Chelsea and Tottenham await their opponents as they both prepare to enter the Carabao Cup at the second-round stage.
Respective 10th and 17th-place finishes in the Premier League last season mean no European football at all this term and the London rivals are therefore entering English football's secondary club competition a round earlier than they would usually be accustomed to.
The rest of the Premier League clubs also come in at this stage, bar the nine who are competing across the Champions League, Europa League or Conference League during the forthcoming campaign.
There is a rather different look to the start of the Carabao Cup this year, with the first round getting under way before the start of the new EFL campaign and being held predominantly over the course of a weekend rather than in the usual midweek slot.
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Following a two-game preliminary round, the Carabao Cup 2026/27 kicks off in earnest this long weekend, with a blockbuster tie between Middlesbrough and Wrexham – which is free-to-air on ITVX in the UK – headlining a 35-game slate of first-round fixtures.
A 95th-minute gut-punch denied Boro promotion to the Premier League, and Kim Hellberg has since had to part ways with Everton-bound star man Hayden Hackney. The Red Dragons, meanwhile, have had a quiet summer by their standards after narrowly missing out on a place in the playoffs. They meet on Friday evening.
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