Follow live coverage as Stoke City face Sheffield Wednesday in the Championship today. An increasingly competitive second tier in English football remains an intense and exciting competition, with the prize of a place in the Premier League on offer at the end of the season.

Stoke have returned home after a key win at Cardiff last Saturday to play in front of a packed house in a match that has the potential to going a long way to securing their status in the Championship. A ticket offer and hope emerging under Mark Robins has combined to inspire the biggest crowd here since the Premier League days in 2018.

The 2024-25 campaign was largely an improved one for Sheffield Wednesday, who sat in the playoff race on 45 points from 32 games in mid-February, but they have dropped out of the bottom half in disappointing fashion since, adding just eight more points to that tally in 10 further attempts.