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Carabao Cup · 2026/27

Brighton & Hove Albion Carabao Cup fixtures and results 2026/27

Albion's League Cup story includes a last-eight run during the season they won promotion to the top flight. Follow today's cup campaign above, then explore that earlier journey below.

UK kick-off times · GMT / BSTUpdated twice daily · Last fixture check: 14 Nov 2026, 18:00 GMT
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Brighton & Hove Albion: cup campaign

Premier League · Eliminated

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Manchester City 2–2 Brighton & Hove Albion. After penalties. Manchester City win 4–3 on penalties. Manchester City go through. Brighton & Hove Albion are out of this season’s Carabao Cup.

Brighton & Hove Albion fixtures, results and UK TV

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Albion's route to the 1978/79 quarter-finals

Brighton beat Millwall 1–0 at home, won 3–1 away to Burnley and edged Peterborough United 1–0 to reach the League Cup quarter-finals in 1978/79. Three different opponents, and two narrow home wins around a more comfortable away result, took Albion into a tie with Nottingham Forest.

The run ended with a 3–1 defeat away to Forest. This sequence is a useful starting point for supporters looking beyond recent Carabao Cup seasons: it sets out the opponents in order rather than reducing the whole campaign to its final result. Brighton's progress through the earlier rounds remains part of that story even though the last-eight match went against them.

A December quarter-final in a promotion season

The Forest match took place on 13 December 1978. Brighton's victory over Peterborough had been on 7 November, so the quarter-final followed more than a month later. A historical list headed '1979' can include both dates because it covers the season ending in 1979, rather than just the calendar year.

Albion were a Division Two club during this cup run and finished the league season as runners-up, winning promotion. That gives the quarter-final its particular context: it came during a successful league campaign before the club moved into the top division. The later 1983 final belongs to the FA Cup, not this competition. A search for Brighton cup history can bring up both, but they describe different achievements.

Finding the Brighton cup match you mean

For a current match, start with the featured fixture or latest result at the top of this page. The list below it is limited to the Carabao Cup, so Brighton's league matches will not be mixed into your selection. Open the individual tie for the score, ground and confirmed viewing information.

For the 1978 run, use the dated archive links below. A report about Forest away in December 1978 cannot confirm the venue or broadcast arrangements of a newly drawn tie, even if the clubs meet again. Keeping the opponent, date and round together makes the two much easier to distinguish.

Brighton League Cup questions

Who ended Brighton's 1978/79 League Cup run?

Nottingham Forest beat Albion 3–1 in the quarter-final on 13 December 1978. Brighton had eliminated Millwall, Burnley and Peterborough United on the way to that match.

Was Brighton's 1983 final in the League Cup?

No. The 1982/83 runners-up entry in Albion's history is for the FA Cup. It should not be added to their League Cup record or used to describe the earlier Forest quarter-final.

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