The EFL Thread (and other general news)

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With the curtain coming down on the three Football League tiers, the EFL have released figures showing that more than 18million fans walked through the turnstiles...


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For news items, etc for the EFL which don't really need their own thread. General League stuff rather than Villa-specific or stuff not really appropriate for the "Other Clubs" thread.
 
At the EFL's Summer Conference on Friday, they made a commitment to invest an additional &pound;3.5million into youth development for Football League clubs over the next two seasons.


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The EFL held it's annual summer conference on Friday and here's a round up of the topics discussed on the day.


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The EFL Futures scheme has now given a &pound;750,000 boost to those Football League clubs who introduced young English players into their starting line up in the season of 2016/17.


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The Football League have released the key dates for the coming 2017/18 season, and the all important fixtures will be released on Wednesday June 21 at 9am.


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The Football League confirmed yesterday that a new three year deal with Talksport and the BBC had been signed to increase radio broadcast coverage from next season.


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It's time for the latest Team of the Season concoction, and this is based on statistics.


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The draw for the first round of the EFL Cup, in which Villa are rather embarrassingly involved, will take place on Friday.

In Thailand. Obviously.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40249237
 
The first round draw for this year's EFL Cup will take place on Friday June 16.


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With the announcement of the EFL Cup first round draw this coming Friday, the all important ball numbers have been decided.


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North – Seeds

1. Barnsley
2. Blackburn Rovers
3. Bolton Wanderers
4. Bradford City
5. Burton Albion
6. Derby County
7. Fleetwood Town
8. Leeds United
9. Nottingham Forest
10. Preston North End
11. Rochdale
12. Rotherham United
13. Sc**thorpe United
14. Sheffield United
15. Sheffield Wednesday
16. Sunderland
17. Wigan Athletic

North – Non-Seeds

18. Accrington Stanley
19. Blackpool
20. Bury
21. Carlisle United
22. Chesterfield
23. Coventry City
24. Crewe Alexandra
25. Doncaster Rovers
26. Grimsby Town
27. Lincoln City
28. Mansfield Town
29. Morecambe
30. Notts County
31. Oldham Athletic
32. Port Vale
33. Shrewsbury Town
34. Walsall

South – Seeds

1. Aston Villa
2. Birmingham City
3. Brentford
4. Bristol City
5. Bristol Rovers
6. Cardiff City
7. Charlton Athletic
8. Fulham
9. Ipswich Town
10. Millwall
11. Milton Keynes Dons
12. Norwich City
13. Oxford United
14. Peterborough United
15. Queens Park Rangers
16. Reading
17. Southend United
18. Wolverhampton Wanderers

South – Non-Seeds

19. AFC Wimbledon
20. Barnet
21. Cambridge United
22. Cheltenham Town
23. Colchester United
24. Crawley Town
25. Exeter City
26. Forest Green Rovers
27. Gillingham
28. Luton Town
29. Newport County
30. Northampton Town
31. Plymouth Argyle
32. Portsmouth
33. Stevenage
34. Swindon Town
35. Wycombe Wanderers
36. Yeovil Town

Full Article: https://www.efl.com/news/2017/june/draw-round-one-ties-to-be-drawn-on-friday-16th-june/
 
With clubs confirming their retained and released lists to the EFL by the deadline, a few well known names are now free agents, as are potential stars for the future.


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By this time next week everybody will know the layout of the coming 2017/18 Football League campaign and who visits who and in what order regardless of whether your life is...


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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40253157

Premiership today..............

 
The iconic and fondly remembered Mitre Delta makes a return to football league action for the coming 2017/18 campaign.


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Cool, I used to love those old balls. We were good when we used to play with them back then.

Really hard to talk about balls without making it sound sexual innit?

 
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