Birmingham City’s fixtures ahead of the 2022/23 Championship season were released today.
The Blues head to Luton Town on the opening day before taking on last season’s losing play-off finalists Huddersfield Town at St Andrew’s.
Those two Championship fixtures will have a Carabao Cup round one match-up sandwiched in between them too with the opponents to be revealed later on today.
Those three games, along with the rest of the year’s calendar are about the only guaranteed thing surrounding Birmingham at this moment in time.
With the ownership situation not sorted, a threadbare squad at Wast Hills and no manager in sight, things aren’t looking too rosy.
One thing that can hopefully cheers fans up between now and then is planning a few away days.
Blues always travel in huge numbers, better than most in the league and arguably the league above and regardless of how good or bad the team on the pitch are, that won’t change.
So, for those hardy fans planning to travel up and down the country to watch the club for the next 10 months again, BirminghamWorld have picked out nine key away days you’ll want to have pencilled in the diary.
If you missed the full fixture release earlier today, you can check it out here.
Those two Championship fixtures will have a Carabao Cup round one match-up sandwiched in between them too with the opponents to be revealed later on today.
5. Stoke City - 5th November
Not one that everyone will be looking for but the clash away at Stoke City will be the last away day for a month due to the World Cup break.
6. Burnley - 26th December
This year’s Boxing Day game will take place at recently relegated Burnley. It will be an incredibly difficult fixture straight after Christmas but everyone loves the festive away game. Photo: Catherine Ivill
7. Bristol City - 14th January
The first away day of 2023 comes in the shape of Nigel Pearson’s Bristol City. Like Blues, they are a team expected to be down the wrong end of the table and this could prove to be a huge game Photo: Marc Atkins
8. Sunderland - 15th April
After four years in League One, Sunderland are back in the Championship and will be a good away day to mark in the calendars. Blues fans will fill that away end out. Photo: National World