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.

were so back champbros

My question for Championship knowers:
Is this season where Wrexham’s relentless, Hollywood-money fuelled climbing up the leagues comes to an end?
There’s too much strength in the top half of the championship for them even to hope for the playoffs, right?

>>150142636
No promotion but they'll easily be safe in midtable.

good afternoon sunderchads

Things I would do to Owen. Couldn’t even type it on here. Corrr

>>150142831
Understandable

>Stoke City have re-signed veteran midfielder Steven Nzonzi on a one-year deal.

Jesus kek

Footy is back

Hoping for a few season ending injuries

>anti wrexham schizos still seething
kek get over it boys

>>150142880
I remember all the years he and M’villa were linked to Arsenal

kek KEKE

>>150142636
yes, they'll be 15th or so

>>150142893
>>150142903
>format autist pushing his wrexham gimmick again

>>150142636
wait... is that the heckin deadpool team??

>>150142880
Kek wtf?
I haven’t heard that name in about a decade

>>150142961
>he doubted wrexham
kek give it up mate its over you lost

Rob Mac is going to save soccer

im pretty sure I’m the only Ipswich fan on this message board
Seen a few articles over the past few days tipping us for automatic promotion and honestly there’s no chance of that happening.
Squad took a mental battering last year in the prem and our best young player left for Chelsea for what feels like a fairly low £30 million
also my (heavily pregnant) missus is making me watch this on my iPad upstairs because she wants to watch Wednesday on Netflix
fml

>>150142986
Glad to see you didn't deflect by claiming "meds" for once, format autist. A rare example of you taking responsibility in your empty life.

Wrexham aren't even going to get close to promotion; in fact I'd be shocked if they manage to finish higher than 20th. The signings they've made are consolidation signings at best. An Anon a few weeks ago broke it down comprehensively: https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/149800810/#149803178

Forest getting £5m for Lewis O'Brien is hilarious. If the "Nathan Broadhead for £7.5m" rumour comes true Ipswich will be laughing their arses off as well.

>>150142636
>have spent £13m on transfers
no way they haven't successfully bought a midtable position at this point.

>>150143023
kek, what's this originally from

>>150143023
Wednesday don't play till Sunday silly woman :)

>>150142586 (OP)
>Championship back
Based. Best league in the world.

expecting a birmingham win today

>>150143048
meds

the day formatnonce gets convicted deserves a celebratory sticky

what we drinking tonight bros

who did ipswich replace delap with?

>>150143214
we can hope

>>150143220
Going back to your shite gimmick then and not even attempting a rebuttal of what was posted. Typical sad bastard format autist.

>>150143227
And then there's this equally sad cunt.

>formatautist
>aussie austist
everyones back lads, i'm so happy

>>150142586 (OP)
I didn't realize Brighton was relegated

>>150143245
>tf
>tp

b'ham have one of the best squads in the championship

Now then lads

Another season following the Mighty Tigers

Unfortunately I'm missing the first few home games for some reason

>>150143231
Nobody, yet. Seemed to spend an age trying for Guihu or however it’s spelled from Chelsea, now spending even more of an age trying to sign Akpom.

why so many nips for birmingham

>>150143291
Half of the Championship seems to have one random Japanese lad now

sunderbros.......jack clarke left us
and now he's below us lol

Norwich have signed a load of giant slavs and are going to crush everyone's skulls. No more woke tippy tappy nonsense.

>>150143291
Anri Okita was born there.

>>150143339
No she didn’t you degenerate coomer

>>150143291
Good players for how much they cost, like the old PES Master League days

>>150143339
yeah i know i used to smoke with her by the cathedral

Barry Fry mentioned!!!!

ever notice how the prince of wales supports a team from birmingham and not cardiff or something
bit weird

>>150143369
Remember when he did a wee at every corner flag to undo a gypsy curse

>>150142636
Nah they won't get promoted. Theres 3 many teams with parachute payments after being relegated from the PL. Birmingham I'd say have a huge chance of getting promoted they've bonkers with transfers. Ipswich too are definitely favorites too

Do these teams hate each others enough to give us some proper murder ball?

dude's foot came up higher than my U12s on that throw-in

might get a wrexham shirt just to see if i can annoy football nerds in public

>>150143384
No, because my dad is from Ipswich and my mum is from Birmingham; I am the uniting force behind these two clubs.

Nothing wrong with that

Kyogo had a glowdown. He had a nice lushious hair when he played in Celtic

why's that called back

wtf ref

foul for what

Ref's blowing everything

dont you have var

we are BACK BABY

>EFL refereeing

Fucks sake another season of this shit

football is BACK
feels good to post with you lads again

>>150143452
dont think you can get away with it

>>150143482
I'm a wrong thread posting retard I admit it

Are we dark horses bros? We went on some run at the end of the season and have improved our squad

Proper bit of brexit ball this. Mint.

No-one wants to see scenes like this, no place for it in the modern game.

>>150143523
it's fucking great

getting tasty

>>150143537
hate that they have to say this shite, every fucker watching wants to see

Why is this so edgy
Is there some Birmingham-Ipswich rivalry I don't know about

I would have buried loads of these chances.

>>150143592
They rivals in the league

I don't like the way Birmingham insist their nickname is "blues" instead of "the blues"

>>150143592
Birmingham fans feel like they're bigger and better than Ipswich and are offended that Ipswich see themselves as superior. Something along those lines anyway it seems hi

>>150143613
TOM BRADY'S BIRMINGUM BLUES

>>150143592
all routed in Mercian politics and interference in Anglian crop production during the Saxon period. Also Brummies think tractors are for fags.

>>150143627
Hence the "Who the fucking hell are you?" chants.

This ref might not make it out for 2nd half

why is mckenna playing clarke narrow?

Ipswich played against Liverpool in their first game of the season last year, losing 0-2.

>>150143350
>>150143359
apologise

>>150143691
Don't let his full, stylish hair fool you, he is a fraud.

>>150143724
this but about tom brady

is this pretty much the same Brum side that bossed League 1?

>>150143741
4 new signings in the starting lineup they said earlier

The advertising board in the match says "Visit Birmingham, Birmingham Alabama". Very interesting

>>150143722
HOLY

>>150143756
weird, alabama doesn't have money for that
nor any reason to visit

stansfield is a league one player

fuck me this is grim

>>150143773
it's not Birmingham, England so there's that I guess

Why do they burn ham in Alabama?

>>150143802
they freebase it, has decimated the lower income areas

What part of England are you from?

>>150143802
lots of wild boars, they're invasive

>>150143802
Because the pigs are Mobile

>>150143820
newcastle

>>150143820
depends on the hotel they put me in

LADS
said i'd be early but i'm fucking late. had to nip down the asda you see.
who's looking the better side?

>>150143841
neither

>>150143839
same. hoping to be with my brother and his six kids though. Been a long ride in the back of a van.

Does Brady call them BirmingHAAAAM? Never bothered watching him talk about them desu

>>150143841
Neither can finish

>>150143820
Cuckfield

>>150143820
برادفورد

>all of my last seasons streaming sites are dead or only showing Spanish coverage
Where the fuck are you guys watching this?

This thread.

By the way 7x hot and spicy chicken wings reduced to 10p a box at asda. There were 4 boxes but I only took 2 because I'm a credit to my local community. Me and the cat working our way through them now.

>Fooking Yanks are ruining footbaw innit

>>150144016
freestreams-live

/efl/ bros report in I want to see who's represented
Blades here

https://youtu.be/tMDFv5m18Pw?si=sbH1CMxCdGEnq0bY

i miss him brumbros

kino

gol

LISA

That. Was a goal.

>Shitswich

kyogo is pretty good

Kyogo's going to wreck the championship

FUCK YOUR PARACHUTE PAYMENTS (...against the billionaire underdogs...)
what has football become bros :(

Hmmm I'm smelling back to back relegations for Ipswich

>its a team unexpectedly wins promotion, battles bravely but goes down and is total dogshit the season after episode
sunderland next year
birmingham in 2 years

who the fuck is this team
never heard of them

love a bit of tractor banter me

I CANT READ I CANT WRITE BUT THAT DONT REALLY MANNER. CUZ IM A BLOODY IPSWICH FAN AND I CAN DRIVE A TRACTOR

what is this stupid brum sponsor

>>150144140
HH for hulk hogan (rip)

mental that neither of teams were in the Championship last season
they're both the most championship-y teams in England

>>150144128
ipswich didn't spend any money though
sunderland are spending a fuckton

Rooting for Birmingham because their kit reminds me of the Portsmouth glory days

>>150144155
Give Preston their due respect please

>>150144159
Ipswich spent £130m

>young
>is old

>>150144177
whoops, i was thinking of luton

>Ashley Young
Is actually well old

For me it’s the mighty tigers of hull city

>>150144209
>>150144219
when should one change their name from young to old?

>>150144232
When your old obviously

It's 9:30pm on 2025 and sky are still playing fake crowd noises so viewers don't hear the word bastard

embarrassing

>>150144270
based alfie jinxing it

does feel like proper football like when i was a lad going to matches 20 years ago watching championship

>>150144016
soccer-100(dot)net

>>150144270
How the fuck do you make a 30 minute video about Ipswich?
The government need to arrest these autists

>>150144376
alfie talks so fucking slow
like watch on 1.5 speed for him to sound normal

Birmingham are a proper scummy lot aren't they

>>150144376
Wow someone talking about a football club for longer than my 10 secound TikToks. Must be an autist

For me, its Ipswich Town's Benjamin Bloom.

>>150144401
in this case he is correct

>>150144376
>long intro
>talk slowly with long pauses
>reiterate every point several times
>3 minute ad read in the middle
>Outro begging for likes, subscriptions and comments

Every youtube video over 10 mins long

K I N O

BENULDY

Penalty!

fucking REFBALL

That onions face as he hand balled it kek

JUST

never a penalty

hahahaha fuck birmingham lol

>premier league rejects need refball to draw against league ones

>>150144128
Sunderland is staying mark my words

Fuck Ed Sheeran tbqh

>dykes

this is why you need var boys

There probably should be a finer grained set of options for fouls inside the area. That handball is not worth 76% of a goal.

ok now the championship is back

>>150144522
But more goals, more fun.
Or so the business men tell us.

>>150144522
just move the pk spot further back

>That handball is not worth 76% of a goal.

>>150144516
var would've given that anyway

Head loss from Birmingham

>>150144536
is that 190

>>150144532
even if you subscribed to that idea how can you count penalties the same level of entertainment?

Fuck Birmingham but to be honest quite hard done by either the handbal and disallowed goal

>>150144129
bunch of browns from bradford who play in the 10th tier

for some reason the championship table on google had derby u23s in it kek

>>150144535
But some fouls clearly do deserve 76% of a goal, or even more tbqh. Suarez handball on the goal line for example.

>>150144536
I look like that and do that

loved the 1 lad getting involved

>>150144571
Lifetime stadium ban for that. What a mong.

>>150144571
>getting banned on the first day of the season

scummy club with scummy fans birmingham

>>150144600
this is them on their best behaviour

>>150144571
went down like a sack of shite the second the security guard clattered him

>>150144571
Incredible security job by that paki

Charlton Watford
Coventry Hull
Southampton Wrexham
See you at lunch time /efl/

I want to sex Michelle Owen

>>150144155
that's not Bristol City

>>150144650
Watford by 1
Coventry by 3
Southampton by 1

>>150143657
good post

For me it's Preston DESS