Tricky EFL start for Swans who begin on Teesside once more

Swansea City Football Club will start their 2025/26 EFL Championship campaign with a second successive opening day trip to Middlesbrough on August 9 at the Riverside Stadium.

Richard Bond
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Last season’s losing play-off finalists, Sheffield United, will then be first up at the Swansea.com Stadium a week later as Alan Sheehan’s side face a tricky opening pair of fixtures.

New Watford manager Paulo Pezzolano’s side then travel to south Wales the following weekend, before August concludes with a trip to Yorkshire to face Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough.

Without the eagerly anticipated south Wales derby on the calendar this season due to Cardiff City’s relegation to League One, eyes turn to the all-Welsh ties between the Swans and Wrexham. The Red Dragons making the trip south for a festive cracker in Swansea on December 20, with the Swans travelling to the STōK Racecourse ground on March 14th.

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Festivities continue with the traditional Boxing Day fixture seeing the Swans face a short trip to the Midlands to take on Frank Lampard’s Coventry City, before a further away day at Oxford United on December 28 concludes the year. A busy period of four games in 12 days concludes in SA1 with a New Year’s Day cracker, West Bromwich Albion the visitors taking the short trip from the West Country.

The Swans run-in is mixed with two of last season’s relegated Premier League sides, Leicester City (a) and Southampton (h), on the agenda in the final five games in April

Trips to London to face Queens Park Rangers and East Anglia to face off with Norwich conclude the month before the campaign rounds off on Saturday May 2 with a lunchtime home game against Charlton Athletic.

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To purchase tickets and to see the full Set of fixtures for Swansea City for the 25/26 season click here.

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