Arsenal are the 4/1 favourites on bet365 to win the 2026/27 EFL Cup. Manchester City (6/1) and Liverpool (7/1) make up the top-three likely contenders.

Odds displayed are correct as of Friday 31st July, 2026. Odds are subject to change.

Yes, the new customer offers in this article and on our free bets page can be claimed today. When you sign up via the linked above and place your qualifying bet your free bets will be available on settlement. For some bookmakers this is immediately and others require a certain number of hours before being released.

To get free bets, you need to make a qualifying bet. For most bookmakers, this bet is £10. Once you have placed your qualifying bet, you can get free bets.

The free bets are effectively credit in your account, you won't have to fund the account - after placing the qualifying bet - to use the free bets.

The quantity of free bets you receive from a welcome offer are typically of a significantly higher value than the required qualifying bet.

These betting offers below are amongst the most popular, and all are from trustworthy and easy-to-use bookmakers.

bet365: Bet £10, Get £30 in Free Bets

Sky Bet: Bet £10, Get £50 in Free Bets

Paddy Power: Bet £10, Get £50 in Free Bet Builders

BoyleSports: Bet £10, Get £40 in Free Bets

Betfred: Bet £10, Get £50 in Free Bets

Betfair: Bet £10, Get £50 in Free Bets

You can rely on bet365, Betfair and Paddy Power for regular boosts and existing customer offers. While new customers can jump on enhanced prices around the biggest games.

Betfair is a good bookie to add to your roster for this EFL Cup slate. They regularly provide super boosts on the EFL Cup, while Safe Sub and Match Odds 90 increases the chances of your bet being a winner.

It is easy to navigate, and you can get involved with free-to-play as well, aside from betting on there.

You can build bets and place bets on the EFL Cup directly on Andy's Bet Club, by browsing our EFL Cup betting predictions and tips. Our expert bet builders, match centres, the bet builder stats tool, acca stats and bet pack will all offer simple ways to bet on the EFL Cup on Andy's Bet Club.

If you set up an account via the links in this article, you will then be able to place bets on the EFL Cup as you see fit. The bet365 sign up offer is very flexible, allowing you complete control over how you use £30 in free bets.

Yes, you can use your free bets on an accumulator for this weekend.

Make sure your qualifying bet settles early on, that'll release your free bets sooner, so you should have them in time for an acca on this weekend.

You might want to place a qualifying bet on an event that will settle with plenty of time ahead of kick-off, to increase the chances that your free bets land in your account in time.

The EFL Cup has a wide range of leagues and betting markets available, with plenty of offers on show every weekend.

It is a great time to get into betting on the EFL Cup, because there is a sample of 30+ games worth of data to look into and gain knowledge from before placing a smart wager.

Our industry-leading experts leave no stone unturned in their research, providing the best tips and insight based on hours of digging into the numbers, so you don't have to.

Yes. The free bets themselves aren't withdrawable, but once you place them, any winners from them will be withdrawable.

For example, if you place a £10 free bet on a team to win at evens (1/1 or 2.0), and they do win the game - you'll be returned £10 in withdrawable funds.

Withdrawal times can vary per bookmaker and payment method, but it'll be the same process for withdrawing money that has been won by placing free bets, as it is when placing any other bet.