The 2025/26 EFL Championship season gets underway at St Andrew's as League One winners Birmingham City welcome relegated Ipswich Town to Knighthead Park. The hosts enjoyed a memorable campaign last year as they won promotion to the second-tier as champions, finishing on a record-breaking 111 points. Their visitors didn't fare as well last term as they went down from the Premier League at the first time of asking.

8:00pm kick-off, match is on Sky Sports Football.

BIR: Allsop; Osayi-Samuel, Neumann, Klarer (c), Cochrane; Iwata, Paik; Gray, Furuhashi, Anderson; Stansfield.
>Substitutes: Beadle, Laird, Bielik, Cashin, Leonard, Doyle, Gardner-Hickman, Willumsson, Dykes.

IPS: Palmer; Johnson, O'Shea (c), Greaves, Davis; Matusiwa, Taylor; Ogbene, Szmodics, J. Clarke; Hirst.
>Substitutes: Walton, Woolfenden, Kipre, Young, Humphreys, Barbrook, Chaplin, Broadhead, Al-Hamadi.