{"id":131299,"date":"2025-05-25T18:28:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T18:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/131299\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T18:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T18:28:15","slug":"birmingham-city-key-dates-fixture-release-day-and-pre-season-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/131299\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham City key dates: Fixture release day and pre-season plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham City will begin the 2025\/26 season back in the Championship<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0_JS365339209.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Davies, manager of Birmingham City\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Chris Davies, manager of Birmingham City<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Charlton Athletic&#8217;s victory over Leyton Orient in the League One play-off final on Saturday has confirmed next season&#8217;s Championship line-up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/birmingham-city-fc\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Birmingham CityLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham City<\/a> cruised to the League One title with a record-breaking 111 points to return to the Championship at the first attempt. Wrexham finished runners-up and, as mentioned above, Charlton have been promoted via the play-offs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Leicester City, Ipswich Town and Southampton, all of whom were promoted from the Championship a year ago, have come straight back down from the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Blues and their Championship rivals will receive their fixture lists on Thursday, June 26 \u2013 a day after Chris Davies&#8217; squad are due to report to the Elite Performance and Innovation Centre for the start of pre-season testing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Players usually have two days of testing with Davies expected to take his first sessions week commencing Monday, June 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Blues will have six weeks to prepare for the start of the Championship season on the weekend of August 9 and 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">They will play their first pre-season friendly out in Portugal at the end of their week-long training camp, which begins on July 7, before returning home for domestic friendlies with <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/solihull\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Solihull<\/a> Moors, Northampton and Port Vale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Here is Blues&#8217; schedule as things stand&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"UnorderedList_unordered-list__gzblI\">\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 ENBBt\">Pre-season begins &#8211; Wednesday 25 June<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 ENBBt\">Championship fixtures released &#8211; Thursday 26 June (12pm)<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 ENBBt\">Pre-season camp in Portugal &#8211; Monday 7 July \u2013 Sunday 13 July<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 ENBBt\">The Arthur Cup: Solihull Moors v Blues &#8211; Wednesday 16 July (7pm), Damson Park<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 ENBBt\">Northampton Town v Blues, Saturday 26 July (3pm), Sixfields Stadium<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 ENBBt\">Port Vale v Blues \u2013 Saturday 26 July (1pm), Vale Park<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 ENBBt\">Championship opening day \u2013 August 8-10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1746598463_556_0_BIRMINGHAM-CITY-PROMOTION-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  \/>Birmingham City Champions 2024\/25 <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">RECORD-BREAKING Birmingham City are back in the Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Chris Davies&#8217; side passed the 100-point mark on their way to taking the League One title this season.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1746598463_180_0_BIRMINGHAM-CITY-PROMOTION-1.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">And this Birmingham Mail <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/shop.regionalnewspapers.co.uk\/birmingham-city-champions-4559-p.asp?utm_source=Birmingham+City+Promotion-Birminghamlive&amp;utm_medium=Birmingham+City+Promotion-Birminghamlive-Factbox&amp;utm_campaign=Birmingham+City+Promotion&amp;utm_id=Birmingham+City+Promotion\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">promotion special<\/a> charts the brilliant Blues&#8217; path to glory, with match-by-match analysis, reaction, comment, brilliant celebration pictures and a Champions poster in the middle pages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/shop.regionalnewspapers.co.uk\/birmingham-city-champions-4559-p.asp?utm_source=Birmingham+City+Promotion-Birminghamlive&amp;utm_medium=Birmingham+City+Promotion-Birminghamlive-Factbox&amp;utm_campaign=Birmingham+City+Promotion&amp;utm_id=Birmingham+City+Promotion\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Buy now<\/a> and have it delivered directly to your door. Alternatively you can purchase in most supermarkets, high street retailers and independent newsagents in Birmingham<strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\"> <\/strong>from May 9, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham City will begin the 2025\/26 season back in the ChampionshipChris Davies, manager of Birmingham City Charlton Athletic&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,1205,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-131299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-city-fc","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114569891384255230","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}