LIVE TV COVERAGE FOR BETFRED CUP DRAW TOMORROW EVENING

LIVE TV COVERAGE FOR BETFRED CUP DRAW TOMORROW EVENING

26th July 2016

The SPFL have today confirmed that the First Round Group Stage draw for the 2016 Betfred Cup will be conducted live on BT Sport from 7.30pm this Friday, 27 May.

The special one-off programme by the competition’s exclusive live broadcaster BT Sport will be shown live on BT Sport Europe immediately after the channel’s live UEFA Champions League Final Preview programme.

The Betfred Cup First Round Group Stage draw will be presented by BT Sport’s Derek Rae with the 40 participating teams drawn by pundits Chris Sutton and Michael Stewart.

The First Round Group Stage of the Betfred Cup features 40 teams: All 38 SPFL clubs not involved in UEFA qualifiers as well as Highland League champions Cove Rangers and new Lowland League entrants East Stirlingshire. (Edinburgh City, Lowland League champions, make their competition debut as the newest member of the SPFL).

Teams will be drawn into eight groups of five teams, on a seeded basis. Fixtures and TV selections will then be announced w/c 30 May.

In each group teams will play each other once in a round-robin format on each of 16, 20, 23, 27 and 30 July (subject to live broadcast selections). In the First Round Group Stage there are three points for a win and one point for a draw, with drawn matches in the Group Stage going straight to a penalty shoot-out and the winner of the penalty shoot-out being awarded a bonus point.

Eight First Round Group Stage winners and the four best runners-up progress to the second round, joined by the SPFL’s four UEFA qualifying clubs (Celtic, Aberdeen, Heart of Midlothian and Hibernian). The competition concludes with the Betfred Cup Final at Hampden Park on Sunday, 27 November.

Betfred chief executive John Haddock added: “We are very excited about the new format and delighted BT Sport are showing the draw live on Friday night.”

REGIONALISED DRAW

  • Three pots for each regional section - top seeds, second seeds and unseeded clubs.
  • A group will be made up of one top seed, one second seed and three unseeded clubs.

Top seeds - North 1 St Johnstone 2 Ross County 3 Inverness Caledonian Thistle 4 Dundee

Second seeds - North 9 Dundee United 10 Falkirk 11 Raith Rovers 12 Dumbarton

Unseeded clubs - North 17 Dunfermline Athletic 18 Alloa Athletic 19 Peterhead 20 Brechin City 21 East Fife 22 Cowdenbeath 23 Forfar Athletic 24 Elgin City 25 Stirling Albion 26 Montrose 27 Arbroath 28 Cove Rangers

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