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Our group will consist of Bristol Rovers & Reading. The other U21 team will be drawn on Thursday.
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It’s Chelsea.
Any dates knocking about for these yet? Or at least which is the home and away of Reading and Rovers?
2026/27 Round Dates
The round dates for the EFL Trophy have been confirmed as the following:
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Group Stage: From early September
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Round of 32: w/c 7 December
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Round of 16: w/c 11 January
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Quarter Finals: w/c 15 February
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Semi Finals: w/c 8 March
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Final: Sunday 11 April
Tuesday 18th. August, you are away at the SCL KO 7pm. I hope you don’t mind if I don’t wish you good luck on this occassion.
Still persisting with these silly 7pm kick off times
It’ll go past the U21 players’ bedtime if they did change it
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Yeah these are absolutely scandalous kick off times. Please can someone explain why they are at 7pm?
I notice an increasing number of National League sides dropping out of their version of this competition. I wish we’d do the same.
I’ve always thought it was to encourage younger supporters to come along.
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But it doesn’t. My lad is 8 and won’t be going as he still won’t be able to get to bed at a reasonable time. And I won’t be going as I can’t get there in time!
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Apologies if this was covered elsewhere.
With Bristol R beating Reading on pens last night, we finished top of the group and into the knockout stages of the Jersey Mike thingy trophy.
Not sure if it’s a good thing or not with fixture backlog but hey ho.
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Always good to progress in a competition, no matter how absurd the competition is! More opportunities for the kids and fringe players too.
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We will face one of the following in the Rd of 32
Leicester City
Gillingham
Palace U21
Arsenal U21
Brentford U21
Exeter City or Oxford United
Luton or Peterborough
The Oxford and Luton games are being played on the 24th and 17th November.
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Definitely good to still be involved, we have plenty of fringe players who need game time.
Think we were guaranteed top spot even before last nights game, as neither Reading or Bristol Rovers could catch us.
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Gillingham at home would be the draw for me. Be good to see some old boys back
Please. Show some respect and refer to this as the Jersey Mikes Trophy
So when is the actual draw? I can’t sleep, I can’t eat (aside from Jersey Mikes) and I am in a cold sweat over the excitement of it all.
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Remember when it was still the LDV Vans they’d do it with oversized playing cards on Soccer AM. If anything that’s too dignified for the current state of the competition!
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