Wrexham's Championship fixtures: Full 2025-26 schedule and key dates

New York Times

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Wrexham will head to newly-relegated Southampton on the opening weekend of the new Championship season.
The two clubs were four divisions apart as recently as the 2022-23 season but will meet as second-tier peers at St Mary's on Saturday, August 9, kick-off 12.30pm (7.30am ET), in front of the live Sky Sports cameras in the UK.
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West Bromwich Albion, one of nine former Premier League clubs faced by Phil Parkinson's men in the opening ten fixtures, are the first visitors to the SToK Cae Ras a week later. It will be the first league meeting between the two clubs, though they have gone head-to-head previously in the FA Cup (1930) and short-lived Watney Cup (1971).
Tom Brady's Birmingham City, who kick off the entire Championship campaign with a home clash against Ipswich Town on Friday, August 8, are due to visit Wrexham on October 10 with the St Andrew's return on April 11.
Cardiff City's relegation to League One means Wrexham and Swansea City will battle it out to be Wales' top club in 2025-26. A pre-Christmas cracker will see Parkinson's side travel to Swansea on December 20 with the return set for March 14.
A more recent rivalry will be revisited on Boxing Day when Sheffield United visit the Racecourse Ground to bring back memories of the clubs' controversial FA Cup clashes in 2023, while a trip to Blackburn Rovers awaits on New Year's Day.
Easter will see Wrexham head to West Brom on Good Friday (April 3) before Southampton make the long trek north to Wales on Monday, April 6.
The season will finish on May 2 with a home clash against Middlesbrough, another side Wrexham have never faced in league competition.
As for the other two clubs relegated from the Premier League last May, Wrexham head to Leicester City on Tuesday, September 30 and then Ipswich on Saturday, November 22.
Fans who follow Parkinson's side on the road face a long midweek trip to Portsmouth on Wednesday, November 5. Other midweek away assignments include Hull City (December 10) and Oxford United (April 21).
All fixtures are subject to change for TV or other reasons.
If ever there was a fixture list to whet the appetite of Wrexham supporters then this is it.
An opening weekend trip to Southampton's St Mary's, a stadium the club has never previously visited, brings home just what back-to-back-to-back promotions has made possible.
As does tackling the likes of West Bromwich Albion, Leicester City, Derby County and Norwich City before the end of September. All were sampling the high life among the Premier League elite as Wrexham spent 15 years seemingly marooned in non-League.
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Those famous old names also underline just what a big challenge Wrexham will face in their first season at this level since 1981-82.
Some weeks leap from the page. Take facing newly-relegated Ipswich and the sides who finished sixth and seventh in the Championship last season (Bristol City and Blackburn Rovers) inside eight days late in November.
Likewise, a run-in that starts with an Easter double-header against West Brom and Southampton, followed by a trip to Birmingham City.
Not that anyone is surprised by the size of the challenge. This is, after all, a division where Wrexham — highest ever final position of 15th in the old Second Division — are up against 23 other teams who have all played in the top flight at one time or another.
What a time to be alive for all Wrexham fans.
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