The new EFL Championship season (2025/26) is set to begin in August 2025. The first gameweek of the new EFL Championship season will take place between August 8th and August 10th.
The new EFL Championship season will start with the match between Birmingham City and Ipswich Town on the night of 8th August (Friday). Here, we can see the complete EFL Championship 2025/26 fixtures for August 2025.
EFL Championship 2025/26 Fixtures: August 2025
Gameweek 1
Friday 8th August
- Birmingham City vs Ipswich Town (20:00)
Saturday 9th August
- Charlton Athletic vs Watford (12:30)
- Coventry City vs Hull City (12:30)
- Southampton vs Wrexham (12:30)
- Middlesbrough vs Swansea City (15:00)
- Norwich City vs Millwall (15:00)
- Oxford United vs Portsmouth (15:00)
- Queens Park Rangers vs Preston North End (15:00)
- Stoke City vs Derby County (15:00)
- West Bromwich Albion vs Blackburn Rovers (15:00)
- Sheffield United vs Bristol City (17:30)
Sunday 10th August
- Leicester City vs Sheffield Wednesday (16:30)
Gameweek 2
Saturday 16th August
- Derby County vs Coventry City (12:30)
- Portsmouth vs Norwich City (12:30)
- Wrexham vs West Bromwich Albion (12:30)
- Blackburn Rovers vs Birmingham City (15:00)
- Bristol City vs Charlton Athletic (15:00)
- Millwall vs Middlesbrough (15:00)
- Preston North End vs Leicester City (15:00)
- Sheffield Wednesday vs Stoke City (15:00)
- Swansea City vs Sheffield United (15:00)
- Watford vs Queens Park Rangers (15:00)
Sunday 17th August
- Ipswich Town vs Southampton (12:00)
- Hull City vs Oxford United (15:00)
Gameweek 3
Friday 22nd August
- Derby County vs Bristol City (20:00)
Saturday 23rd August
- Charlton Athletic vs Leicester City (12:30)
- Hull City vs Blackburn Rovers (12:30)
- Swansea City vs Wartford (12:30)
- Birmingham City vs Oxford United (15:00)
- Coventry City vs Queens Park Rangers (15:00)
- Norwich City vs Middlesbrough (15:00)
- Preston North End vs Ipswich Town (15:00)
- Sheffield United vs Millwall (15:00)
- Southampton vs Stoke City (15:00)
- West Bromwich Albion vs Portsmouth (15:00)
- Wrexham vs Sheffield Wednesday (15:00)
Gameweek 4
Friday 29th August
- Leicester City vs Birmingham City (20:00)
Saturday 30th August
- Middlesbrough vs Sheffield United (12:30)
- Queens Park Rangers vs Charlton Athletic (12:30)
- Stoke City vs West Bromwich Albion (12:30)
- Blackburn Rovers vs Norwich City (15:00)
- Bristol City vs Hull City (15:00)
- Ipswich Town vs Derby County (15:00)
- Millwall vs Wrexham (15:00)
- Oxford United vs Coventry City (15:00)
- Portsmouth vs Preston North End (15:00)
- Sheffield Wednesday vs Swansea City (15:00)
- Watford vs Southampton (15:00)
