Hammers to play Birmingham

West Ham United will take on Birmingham City in the last four of the Carling Cup.

The semi-final first leg at the Boleyn Ground will be in the week commencing 10 January 2011, with the second leg at St Andrew's following in the week commencing 24 January 2011. Away goals do not count if the aggregate scores are level at the end of 90 minutes in the second leg. Extra time would then be played and were the score to still be level at the end of that additional 30 minutes, then away goals would come into play.

Arsenal will meet Championship club Ipswich Town in the other semi-final. The final will be played at Wembley on Sunday 27 February.

West Ham have reached the League Cup final twice in their history, losing out on both occasions. West Brom ran out 5-3 aggregate winners in 1965/66, while Liverpool earned a 2-1 replay victory at Villa Park in 1980/81 after the initial game at finished 1-1 at Wembley. Birmingham won the 1963 final with a 3-1 aggregate success against Aston Villa. and were beaten 5-4 on penalties by Liverpool in the 2001 final after a 1-1 draw.

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* Season ticket holders - Friday 3 to Monday 13 December
* Club members - Tuesday 14 to Friday 17 December
* General sale - Saturday 18 December onwards

Supporters that attended the previous Carling Cup home fixtures and wish to receive priority for the semi-final first leg v Birmingham are instructed to submit a postal application - enclosing either match tickets or booking reference number - to be received no later than Tuesday 14 December 2010. Applications should be addressed to Ticket Sales, PO Box 6731, London E13 9RA. Any received will be processed on close Friday 17 December.