Championship TV schedule 2025/26: Coverage, TV fixtures and live stream

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The Championship is giving very generously to fans this Christmas, with 48 games between Boxing Day and Monday 5th of January

A reduced offering in the Premier League allows the EFL to take centre stage on Boxing Day – with every single game from all three divisions live on TV.

That's certainly not all. There is a full slate of Championship fixtures on the evening of Monday 29th November, while all 12 matches on New Year's Day and a select few from the following weekend will be on our screens.

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January will offer clubs the chance to add reinforcements but fixtures are still coming thick and fast, so Championship teams cannot afford to lose focus.

Fans won't want to miss a minute and they will barely have to when the season gets going again – with more than 1,000 EFL games available to watch live.

RadioTimes.com brings you the complete Championship TV schedule, including every game you can watch live in the UK.

Championship TV schedule 2025/26

All UK time. Subject to change.

Friday 26th December 2025

Birmingham v Derby (12:30pm) Sky Sports Football
Millwall v Ipswich (1pm) Sky Sports+
Coventry v Swansea (3pm) Sky Sports+
Leicester v Watford (3pm) Sky Sports+
Middlesbrough v Blackburn (3pm) Sky Sports+
Norwich v Charlton (3pm) Sky Sports+
Oxford v Southampton (3pm) Sky Sports+
Portsmouth v QPR (3pm) Sky Sports+
Sheffield Wednesday v Hull (3pm) Sky Sports+
Stoke v Preston (3pm) Sky Sports+
West Brom v Bristol City (3pm) Sky Sports+
Wrexham v Sheffield United (5:30pm) Sky Sports Football

Monday 29th December 2025

Coventry v Ipswich (6pm) Sky Sports Football
Leicester v Derby (7:45pm) Sky Sports+
Sheffield Wednesday v Blackburn (7:45pm) Sky Sports+
Birmingham v Southampton (8:15pm) Sky Sports Football

Thursday 1st January 2026

Blackburn v Wrexham (12:30pm) Sky Sports Football
Bristol City v Portsmouth (3pm) Sky Sports+
Charlton v Coventry (3pm) Sky Sports+
Derby v Middlesbrough (3pm) Sky Sports+
Hull v Stoke (3pm) Sky Sports+
Ipswich v Oxford (3pm) Sky Sports+
Preston v Sheffield Wednesday (3pm) Sky Sports+
QPR v Norwich (3pm) Sky Sports+
Southampton v Millwall (3pm) Sky Sports+
Swansea v West Brom (3pm) Sky Sports+
Watford v Birmingham (3pm) Sky Sports+
Sheffield United v Leicester (5:30pm) Sky Sports Football

Sunday 4th January

Birmingham City v Coventry (12pm) Sky Sports Football
QPR v Sheffield Wednesday (12pm) Sky Sports+
Sheffield Utd v Oxford Utd (12pm) Sky Sports+

Monday 5th January

Leicester v West Brom (8pm) Sky Sports Football

Championship TV rights 2025/26

Sky Sports can be added to any Sky TV package for just £22 per month for all nine sports channels, or you can pick up the complete sports package plus Netflix for £43 per month.

Sky Sports + will feature more than 1,000 EFL games throughout the season and is included as part of Sky Sports packages.

Find out more about the best Sky packages

NOW is essentially Sky Sports without a contract. You can buy a day membership (£14.99) or month membership (£34.99).

NOW can be streamed through a computer or apps found on most smart TVs, phones and consoles. NOW is also available via TNT Sports.

10 EFL games will also be broadcast on ITV across the 2025/26 campaign.

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