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Preparations are underway for the 2024/25 season at West Bromwich Albion as Carlos Corberan tries mount another push for promotion to the Premier League.
But it will be a different challenge for Albion this time around, the club’s first in the Championship without parachute payments for almost 20 years, meaning that the wage will has to significantly be reduced.
And the season is guaranteed to be very different in a lot of respects. There will be at least 24 West Brom league matches shown live on television thanks to a new deal with Sky Sports. Only games on the opening weekend will be allowed to broadcast on Saturday afternoons so that means at least 23 West Brom matches not on a Saturday afternoon. There will be games on Friday evenings and Saturday and Sunday lunchtimes as well as selections on Thursday and Monday evenings.
The campaign will run from the weekend of August 10 until May 3. There will be 46 rounds of league matches, held over 33 weekends, nine mid-weeks and four Bank Holidays in the Championship. Leagues One and Two will play on 36 weekends and six mid-weeks. The League Cup and Football League Trophy will continue with the same formats from last season. The Carabao Cup will launch in mid-August. The play-off finals, meanwhile, will take place over the 2025 May Bank Holiday weekend.
The new fixture list will be announced on Wednesday, June 26 at 9am. It will be published live on BirminghamLive.
Television selections for all matches to be played before the end of September will be confirmed by July 1, within seven days of the fixtures being announced.
Selection of all other matches scheduled to be played before the FA Cup third round, in January 2024, will be confirmed before the start of the season.
Selection of all matches to be played between the FA Cup third round and the first weekend of March will be confirmed by November 1.
Selection of all matches scheduled after the first weekend of March will be made on a four-week rolling basis starting from February 1. Sky use the example that a match picked for TV coverage in the first weekend of April will be announced by the first weekend of March. It adds: “This is almost six month’s notice provided to fans and clubs, a significant increase on the current deal, which sees five weeks’ notice given across the majority of the season. By selecting TV picks early and giving much more notice, fans will be able to plan with certainty when making travel and hotel arrangements.”
