JPT 2013/14: First Round Trophy Details Announced
The Football League have announced the arrangements for the first round of the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy for the 2013/14 season.
The 1st round draw for will be made on Saturday 17th August. It’ll be shown live on Sky Sports’ Soccer AM programme at about 10.30am. Matches will be played week commencing 2nd September.
The rounds are regionalised. 16 teams have been given byes in to round 2. They are:-
| Southern Section | Northern Section | |
| Crawley Town | Carlisle United | |
| Newport County | Morecambe | |
| Oxford United | Preston North End | |
| Swindon Town | Rochdale | |
| Coventry City | Chesterfield | |
| Peterborough United | Mansfield Town | |
| Southend United | Rotherham United | |
| Stevenage | York City |
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The rest of the League 1 and League 2 teams have been split in to 4 regions, as follows:-
| Southern Section – West | Northern Section – West | |
| Bristol City | Accrington Stanley | |
| Bristol Rovers | Bury | |
| Cheltenham Town | Crewe Alexandra | |
| Exeter City | Fleetwood Town | |
| Plymouth Argyle | Oldham Athletic | |
| Portsmouth | Port Vale | |
| Torquay United | Shrewsbury Town | |
| Wycombe Wanderers | Tranmere Rovers | |
| Southern Section – East | Northern Section – East | |
| AFC Wimbledon | Bradford City | |
| Brentford | Burton Albion | |
| Colchester United | Hartlepool United | |
| Dagenham & Redbridge | Notts County | |
| Gillingham | Scunthorpe United | |
| Leyton Orient | Sheffield United | |
| Milton Keynes Dons | Walsall | |
| Northampton Town | Wolverhampton Wanderers |
The draw will be contained within each of those 4 area sections.