{"id":54030,"date":"2025-06-26T12:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T12:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/?p=54030"},"modified":"2025-06-26T12:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T12:04:19","slug":"efl-championship-fixtures-southampton-host-wrexham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/efl-championship-fixtures-southampton-host-wrexham\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton And Wrexham Face Off As Opening EFL Championship Fixtures Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The EFL Championship fixtures have thrown up some juicy opening encounters as Southampton host Wrexham in week one.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fixture worthy of their Hollywood owners for Wrexham on their return to England&#8217;s second-tier football.<\/p>\n<p>The newly promoted Welsh outfit travel to former Premier League side Southampton on Saturday, 9 August, in the opening round of fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>The Saints finished bottom last season as they succumbed to a second relegation in three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Wrexham, meanwhile, achieved their third straight promotion under the ownership of acting stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Ipswich Town kick off the new season as they visit Birmingham City on Friday, 8 August.<\/p>\n<p>Like Southampton and Wrexham, there were two divisions between these sides last season.<\/p>\n<p>But with Ipswich relegated from the Premier League and Birmingham promoted from League One as champions, it should make for an intriguing matchup.<\/p>\n<p>The final side relegated last season, Leicester City, round out the opening weekend&#8217;s fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>The Foxes host Sheffield United on Sunday, 10 August, in the final match of week one.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The big day is here! \ud83e\udd29\ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n<p>The 2025\/26 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EFL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EFL<\/a> fixture list will be announced at 12pm today! \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>Drop your opening fixture predictions for your club below \u2b07\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EFLFixtureReleaseDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EFLFixtureReleaseDay<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zqogRONY0e\">pic.twitter.com\/zqogRONY0e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; 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Now at SportsCasting, James provides expert analysis and detailed research features, as well as covering breaking news stories.","sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/x.com\/JChittickjourno"],"url":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/author\/jameschittick\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54030"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54075,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54030\/revisions\/54075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}