When are West Bromwich Albion 2024/2025 Championship fixtures released

Preparations for the 2024/25 season at West Bromwich Albion are underway as Carlos Corberan looks to make a fresh push for promotion to the Premier League.

But it will be a different challenge for Albion this time around, the first club in the Championship without parachute payments for nearly 20 years, meaning wages will have to be cut significantly.

And the season is guaranteed to be very different in many ways. There will be at least 24 West Brom League games televised live thanks to a new deal with Sky Sports. Only the opening weekend games will be allowed to be broadcast on Saturday afternoons, so at least 23 West Brom games are not on Saturday afternoons. There will be games on Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday lunchtimes, as well as selections on Thursday and Monday evenings.

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The campaign will run on the weekend of August 10th until May 3rd. There will be 46 rounds of league matches played across 33 weekends, nine midweek and four bank holidays in the Championship. Leagues One and Two will play 36 weekends and six midweek games. The League Cup and Football League Trophy will continue with the same formats as last season. The Carabao Cup will be launched in mid-August. Meanwhile, the play-off final will take place on the 2025 May bank holiday weekend.

The new fixture list will be announced on Wednesday 26 June at 9am. It will be published live on BirminghamLive.

TV selections for all matches to be played before the end of September will be confirmed by 1 July, within seven days of the fixtures being announced.

The selection of all other fixtures scheduled to be played before the FA Cup third round in January 2024 will be confirmed before the start of the season.

The selection of all matches to be played between the FA Cup third round and the first weekend in March will be confirmed by November 1.

The selection of all matches scheduled after the first weekend in March will be made over a four-week period starting on February 1. Sky uses the example that a match chosen for TV coverage on the first weekend in April will be announced by the first weekend in March. It added: “This is almost six months’ notice given to fans and clubs, a significant increase on the current deal which sees five weeks’ notice given for most of the season. will be able to plan with certainty when making travel and hotel arrangements.”

The summer transfer window officially opened on Friday 14 June and will close on Friday 30 August at 11pm. The winter transfer window will run from 1 January until 23:00 on Monday 3 February 2025.

Key dates for the 2024/25 season championship

• Program launch day – Wednesday, June 26, 2024, 9:00 a.m
• Start date – weekend 10-11 August 2024
• Carabao Cup First Stage – 13-14 August 2024
• Carabao Cup Final – Sunday 16 March 2025
• End of season – Saturday 3 May 2025
• Last play-off weekend – 24-26 May 2025

Who’s in the Championship next season – and very early chances for the title

Leeds 6/1; Burnley 13/2; Luton 10/1; Middlesbrough, Norwich, West Brom 12/1; Sheffield Utd, Coventry 14/1; Sunderland,, Portsmouth, Watford, Derby, Stoke, Hull 20/1; QPR, Sheffield Wednesday 25/1; Swansea, Bristol City, Millwall, Blackburn 28/1; Cardiff, Preston 40/1; Plymouth, Oxford 66/1.

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