Wolves scored twice inside the ultimate eight minutes to earn their first win of the 2025/26 season and beat West Ham at residence within the EFL Cup in one among two all-Premier League ties on the primary evening of the second spherical.
Brentford claimed consecutive victories, following up their residence defeat of Aston Villa within the high flight on Saturday by profitable at Bournemouth.
WOW.
Two targets in two minutes for Jørgen Strand Larsen! 🤯 pic.twitter.com/UEaOd4vWwf
— Sky Sports activities Soccer (@SkyFootball) August 26, 2025
Leeds United and Sunderland went out and League Two aspect Cambridge United contributed one of many shocks, profitable 3-1 in opposition to Championship guests Charlton Athletic.
101GreatGoals.com has the most recent outcomes and scores from the 2025/26 EFL Cup second spherical, together with particulars of when the third spherical draw is.
Wolves vs West Ham: Aid for hosts
No West Ham fan will want reminding that their league season has began with a 3-0 defeat at Sunderland and 5-1 thrashing at residence by Chelsea, and their issues continued when Rodrigo Gomes fired within the rebound within the forty third minute to offer Wolves the lead at Molineux after Hwang Hee-chan’s penalty hit a submit.
Two headers turned the scoreline round inside 18 minutes of the restart, Tomas Soucek assembly Kyle Walker-Peters’ cross and Lucas Paqueta pouncing from Jarrod Bowen’s supply.
Strand Larsen EQUALISES for Wolves! 🐺 pic.twitter.com/Stu9OJeIZb
— Sky Sports activities Soccer (@SkyFootball) August 26, 2025
A diving header from Lucas Paqueta to get on the top of a superb cross from Jarrod Bowen and West Ham have turned it round at Molineux! 💥 pic.twitter.com/n9m8BsRvUQ
— Sky Sports activities Soccer (@SkyFootball) August 26, 2025
With West Ham closing in on a consequence to scale back the strain on supervisor Graham Potter, Jorgen Strand Larsen – the topic of a £50 million bid from Newcastle on Monday – struck from contained in the field within the 82nd minute and headed in Jackson Tchatchoua’s cross two minutes later to make the consequence 3-2.
Wolves have misplaced 4-0 at residence to Manchester Metropolis and 1-0 at Bournemouth within the league.
Full-time scenes on the Molineux… pic.twitter.com/zfpi3lEYUO
— Sky Sports activities Soccer (@SkyFootball) August 26, 2025
Bournemouth vs Brentford: Bees by means of
Brentford have scored 4 targets with out reply since conceding three in the course of the first half of their 3-1 defeat at Nottingham Forest on the opening day.
The unmarked Fabio Carvalho struck their opener within the thirty fourth minute at Bournemouth after the Cherries did not cope with Kristoffer Ajer’s header, and substitute Igor Thiago scored his second purpose in three video games to complete off a counter-attack 31 minutes later for the ahead’s second purpose in three video games.
Ajer’s late clearance off the road maintained Brentford’s clear sheet as Keith Andrews received his first cup tie as a supervisor 2-0.
EFL Cup outcomes: Leeds, Sunderland shocks
Leeds and Sunderland grew to become the primary Premier League golf equipment to exit in opposition to groups from decrease divisions on this season’s competitors.
“QUITE INCREDIBLE”
Sheffield Wednesday captain Jamal Lowe nets his first purpose of the 2025/26 Carabao Cup marketing campaign 🤩 pic.twitter.com/Wz1QdlUDx3
— Sky Sports activities Soccer (@SkyFootball) August 26, 2025
10 minutes to go and Jayden Bogle finds the again of the web! ⚡️ pic.twitter.com/mWnwbiTCF6
— Sky Sports activities Soccer (@SkyFootball) August 26, 2025
Karl Darlow’s second-half personal purpose put beleaguered Championship hosts Sheffield Wednesday in entrance in opposition to the Whites, who equalised by means of Jayden Bogle however went out 3-0 within the shootout at Hillsborough, the place residence followers stayed away in protest on the membership’s homeowners.
Chelsea loanee Leo Castledine’s volley gave League One group Huddersfield City a ninth-minute benefit on the Stadium of Gentle, the place one other Blues participant, Marc Guiu, equalised for Sunderland six minutes from time earlier than The Terriers prevailed 6-5 in a shootout.
What a VOLLEY from Chelsea loanee Leo Castledine for Huddersfield in opposition to Sunderland! 😱 pic.twitter.com/nR1stIC5GX
— Sky Sports activities Soccer (@SkyFootball) August 26, 2025
Burnley, who joined their league rivals in making wholesale modifications, scored a 91st-minute winner by means of Oliver Sonne’s strike to win 2-1 at residence to second-tier Derby County.
Full listing of EFL Cup second spherical outcomes
Burton Albion 0-1 Lincoln Metropolis
Accrington Stanley 0-2 Doncaster Rovers
Wigan Athletic 1-0 Stockport County
Stoke Metropolis 0-3 Bradford Metropolis
Burnley 2-1 Derby
Sunderland 1-1 (5-6p) Huddersfield City
Birmingham Metropolis 0-1 Port Vale
Preston North Finish 2-3 Wrexham
Did he imply this? 🤔
Ryan Hardie, WOW! 😮 pic.twitter.com/jYyZYvTdCP
— Sky Sports activities Soccer (@SkyFootball) August 26, 2025
Barnsley 2-1 Rotherham United
Sheffield Wednesday 1-1 (3-0p) Leeds United
“When you noticed the line-ups beforehand, you’d’ve NEVER thought it was attainable.”
Sheffield Wednesday are by means of to the following spherical of the Carabao Cup! 🏆 pic.twitter.com/oBClsAoqhR
— Sky Sports activities Soccer (@SkyFootball) August 26, 2025
Studying 2-1 Wimbledon
Cambridge United 3-1 Charlton Athletic
Wolves 3-2 West Ham
Norwich Metropolis 0-3 Southampton
“There’s NO stopping that!!”
Kuryu Matsuki scores a shocking purpose for Southampton 🤯 pic.twitter.com/Anm3KrjGZM
— Sky Sports activities Soccer (@SkyFootball) August 26, 2025
Bournemouth 0-2 Brentford
Millwall 2-1 Coventry Metropolis
Swansea Metropolis 1-1 (5-3p) Plymouth Argyle
“The keeper might do completely NOTHING!”
In off the crossbar 😍 pic.twitter.com/HT5js6vq6i
— Sky Sports activities Soccer (@SkyFootball) August 26, 2025
Bromley 1-1 (4-5p) Wycombe Wanderers
Cardiff Metropolis 3-0 Cheltenham City
EFL Cup second spherical fixtures
All matches begin at 19:45 BST / 14:45 ET / 11:45 PT except said in any other case.
Wednesday, August 27
Everton vs Mansfield City
Grimsby City vs Manchester United (20:00)
Fulham vs Bristol Metropolis
Oxford United vs Brighton & Hove Albion
When is the EFL Cup third spherical draw 2025/26?
The draw will happen in the course of the build-up to Grimsby City’s home tie against Manchester United on Wednesday, August 27.
Ball numbers will probably be printed on this web page on the day of the draw.
What time is the EFL Cup third spherical draw?
The draw will happen throughout Sky Sports activities’ build-up protection to the sport, which begins at 19:00 BST (14:00 ET / 11:00 PT).
Kick-off within the contest between the League Two membership and the 20-time English champions is an hour later.
EFL Cup third spherical draw TV channel
Sky Sports activities are protecting the match and broadcasting the draw beforehand on Sky Sports activities Major Occasion and Sky Sports activities Soccer.
EFL Cup third spherical draw dwell stream
The draw will probably be out there to dwell stream on an enormous number of gadgets by way of the Sky GO app.
Through Now TV, Sky Sports activities prices £14.99 for a day membership, £28 a month for a 12-month membership or £34.99 a month with no contract.
EFL Cup dates 2025/26: When are the Carabao Cup spherical dates?
Spherical one began in the course of the second week of the EFL season. A brand new preliminary spherical additionally began in late July between the 2 golf equipment promoted from the Nationwide League final season and the groups who completed twenty first and twenty second in League Two.
There will probably be break up weeks in spherical three for golf equipment within the Champions League and Europa League.
EFL Cup preliminary spherical
Week commencing August 4, 2025
EFL Cup spherical one
August 11, 2025
EFL Cup spherical two
August 25, 2025
EFL Cup spherical three
September 15 and 22, 2025
EFL Cup spherical 4
October 27, 2025
EFL Cup spherical 5
December 15, 2025
EFL Cup semi-final first leg
January 12, 2026
EFL Cup semi-final second leg
February 2, 2026
EFL Cup ultimate
Sunday, March 22, 2026
Do the EFL Cup winners qualify for Europe?
The EFL Cup winners obtain a spot within the play-off stage of the UEFA Convention League except they qualify by means of one other route for European competitors.
Newcastle had been an instance of the rule in motion in 2024/25, as a substitute qualifying for the Champions League by means of their league place.
That meant their Convention League play-off place went to the next-highest ranked group who had not certified for European competitors by way of their league place.
Do EFL Cup ties go to further time, replays and penalties?
Ought to they end degree after 90 minutes, EFL Cup ties go straight to penalties till the semi-finals, which happen over two legs.
If the scoreline is degree after the second leg, further time and – if needed – penalties are used to separate groups.
The ultimate is a one-off match at Wembley Stadium, with further time and penalties used if required.
Liverpool beat Chelsea 11-10 on penalties within the 2021/22 ultimate and edged the identical fixture after further time in 2023/24 by means of Virgil van Dijk’s 118th-minute winner.
Newcastle beat Liverpool 2-1 within the 2024/25 ultimate to win their first home trophy since 1955.
