Carabao Cup TV schedule 2025/26: 3rd round TV fixtures and live stream
Your complete guide to watching the Carabao Cup in 2025/26, featuring a full TV schedule of games coming up.
The 2025/26 Carabao Cup has already thrown up some fantastic ties with football heavyweights up against lower-league underdogs surely relishing a Grimsby-esque upset.
The Mariners' reward for dispatching Manchester United is a tie against Sheffield Wednesday. Elsewhere this week, Crystal Palace host rivals Millwall at Selhurst Park and Swansea take on Nottingham Forest.
Defending champions Newcastle are back in the hunt as they welcome minnows Bradford City up the road to Tyneside, but they must wait for the second half of the third-round matches.
This is where the fun really begins, as the top teams from the Premier League join the three EFL divisions on what could be the path to Wembley and the final next March.
Fans can rejoice in the fact that every game from the preliminaries and round one of the Carabao Cup to the showpiece final itself will be available live as part of the Sky Sports deal that will bring more than 1,000 matches to our screens in 2025/26.
RadioTimes.com brings you the complete Carabao Cup TV schedule, including every game you can watch live in the UK.
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Carabao Cup TV schedule 2025/26
All UK time. Subject to change.
Third round
Tuesday 16th September
- Sheffield Wednesday v Grimsby Town (7:45pm) Sky Sports+
- Brentford v Aston Villa (7:45pm) Sky Sports Football / Main Event
- Crystal Palace v Millwall (8pm) Sky Sports+
Wednesday 17th September
- Swansea City v Nottingham Forest (8pm) Sky Sports+
Tuesday 23rd September
- Burnley v Cardiff City (7:45pm) Sky Sports+
- Wrexham v Reading (7:45pm) Sky Sports+
- Wigan Athletic v Wycombe Wanderers (7:45pm) Sky Sports+
- Barnsley v Brighton & Hove Albion (7:45pm) Sky Sports+
- Fulham v Cambridge United (7:45pm) Sky Sports+
- Lincoln City v Chelsea (7:45pm) Sky Sports+
- Wolves v Everton (7:45pm) Sky Sports+
- Liverpool v Southampton (8pm) Sky Sports Football / Main Event / ITV1 / ITVX
Wednesday 24th September
- Huddersfield Town v Manchester City (7:45pm) Sky Sports+
- Newcastle United v Bradford City (7:45pm) Sky Sports+
- Tottenham Hotspur v Doncaster Rovers (7:45pm) Sky Sports+
- Port Vale v Arsenal (8pm) Sky Sports Football / Main Event
Carabao Cup TV rights 2025/26
Sky Sports can be added to any Sky TV package for just £22 per month for all nine sports channels, or you can pick up the complete sports package plus Netflix for £43 per month.
Sky Sports + will feature more than 1,000 EFL games, including the Carabao Cup, throughout the season and is included as part of Sky Sports packages.
NOW is essentially Sky Sports without a contract. You can buy a day membership (£14.99) or month membership (£34.99).
NOW can be streamed through a computer or apps found on most smart TVs, phones and consoles. NOW is also available via TNT Sports.
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