Chelsea and Tottenham will tonight learn their opponents for the Carabao Cup second round.

It’s an earlier than usual entry stage for the London rivals thanks to their respective 10th and 17th-place finishes in the Premier League last season, which meant no European football this term.

The nine Premier League teams who are competing across the Champions League, Europa League or Conference League will join in the third round.

The draw for the second round of this season’s Carabao Cup is tonight, Monday August 10, 2026.

The Carabao Cup second-round draw will be broadcast live on Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Football and Sky Sports Ultra HDR.

Live stream: Sky Sports subscribers can also watch it unfold live online via the Sky Go app.

Live blog: You can follow the draw as it happens with live blog.

11 Premier League clubs in total will join the 35 first-round winners in the Carabao Cup second round.

Chelsea and Tottenham are among that number, along with Brentford, Fulham, Newcastle, Everton, Leeds and Nottingham Forest, plus newly-promoted trio Coventry, Ipswich and Hull.

The three teams relegated from the Premier League last season - West Ham, Burnley and Wolves - all enter in the first round.

Holders Manchester City, Arsenal, Manchester United, Aston Villa and Liverpool are all competing in the Champions League this season, while Bournemouth, Sunderland and Crystal Palace are in the Europa League, with Brighton in the Conference League.

Those nine clubs in Europe do not join the Carabao Cup party until the third-round stage next month.

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Ball numbers for the second-round draw will be confirmed after the bulk of the first-round ties have been played this weekend.

The second-round games will be played during the week commencing August 24, returning to a more familiar midweek slot.