This week sees the Carabao Cup – or the English Football League Cup – reach its quarter final phase, with Liverpool, Arsenal, and Manchester United all in action across December 18 and December 19. You can watch Carabao Cup live streams all over the planet, and FourFourTwo’s handy guide is here to help you tune into the 2024/25 action wherever you are in the world.
• UK: Sky Sports
• US: Paramount+
• Australia: BeIN Sports
• Watch from anywhere: Try NordVPN 100% risk free
UK viewers can tune into games via Sky Sports, while fans in the US and Australia can watch Carabao Cup live streams on Paramount+ and BeIN Sports, respectively. Don’t worry if you’re going to be overseas for any of the Carabao Cup rounds, however, because you can use a VPN to watch your usual service as if you were back home. Find out more below.
The quarter-finals kick-off on Wednesday, December 18, and it’s an all Premier League affair. Arsenal and Crystal Palace face each other in a London derby, Brentford travel to Newcastle Utd, and Southampton welcome Premier League leaders Liverpool to St Mary’s. We’ll have to wait until Thursday, December 19 for the most intriguing tie, however, when new Manchester Utd boss Ruben Amorim takes his side to Tottenham Hotspur.
Read on to find out how to watch Carabao Cup live streams from anywhere.
Carabao Cup quarter-final fixtures and channels
Wednesday, December 18
Thursday, December 19
► Arsenal vs Crystal Palace FREE live stream
Use a VPN to watch from anywhere
If you’re overseas when the Carabao Cup quarter finals take place, annoyingly your usual on-demand services won’t work. That’s because your IP address tells the broadcaster you’re in another country, and you’ll subsequently be blocked from tuning in – not ideal if you’ve already paid up for a subscription service you’re not able to use.
Thankfully there is another option that doesn’t involve resorting to one of those illegal feeds on Reddit. All you need is a VPN (Virtual Private Network), a handy piece of software which can make it look like your device is still back at home.
Assuming it complies with your broadcaster’s T&Cs, you can use a VPN to create a private connection between your device and choice and the internet, meaning the streamer can’t work out where you are and won't automatically block the service you've paid for. All the info going between is also entirely encrypted – and that's a result.
There are plenty of good-value options out there, but FourFourTwo’s brainy office mates TechRadar are big fans of NordVPN:
Watch Carabao Cup live streams in the UK
As they do with the EFL, Sky Sports have exclusive rights to air Carabao Cup live streams in across the 2024/25 season.
Sky Sports packages start at £22 per month, and – if contracts aren’t your thing – you can take out a Now Sports subscription. A day membership costs £14.99, while you can get a month of Now Sports action for £29.99.
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Watch Carabao Cup live streams in the US
Paramount+ have the rights to show Carabao Cup live streams in the US. The Paramount+ Essential package costs $7.99 per month or $59.99 per year, while Paramount+ with Showtime (which allows you to stream over 40,000 movies and TV episodes without ads) costs $12.99 per month or $119.99 per year. Carabao Cup soccer is available with both deals, and you can also watch EFL matches on the platform.
Watch Carabao Cup live streams in Australia
In Australia? You can watch live streams of every Carabao Cup match on BeIN Sports. A subscription will cost you $14.99 per month or $149.99 per year, which works out at 12 months for the price of 10. You can also get a week's free trial on both options.
Other Carabao Cup live streams around the world
English sides are popular all over the world so it's no surprise you can watch Carabao Cup live streams all over the planet. Here are a few providers in select locations:
Africa
Carabao Cup coverage in Africa is mostly shared between BeIN Sports and SuperSport.
BeIN Sports have the rights in Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia.
SuperSport have the rights in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, St Helena and Ascension, Sudan, Swaziland, United Republic of Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Canada
DAZN has the rights to Carabao Cup live streams in Canada.
Hong Kong
Viewers in Hong Kong can tune into Carabao Cup action on TVB.
New Zealand
BeIN Sports should be your destination to watch the Carabao Cup 2024/25 in New Zealand.
South Africa
Carabao Cup fans in South Africa can watch all the action via subscription service SuperSport.
