Roundup of the second weekend of 2025-26 Sky Bet Championship season.
Million Manhoef’s brace plus Divin Mubama’s header saw Stoke move top of the table with a 3-0 victory at Sheffield Wednesday, which saw the Owls slip to second bottom.
Middlesbrough climbed to second with a 3-0 win at Millwall through second-half goals from Hayden Hackney, Alfie Jones and Delano Burgzorg.
Isaac Price’s brace plus Jed Wallace’s effort saw Ryan Mason’s West Bromwich Albion clinch a 3-2 victory at Wrexham to go third, despite Lewis O’Brien and Sam Smith’s consolatory goals for the hosts who played their first home game in the second tier since May 1982.
Bristol City slipped to fourth with a goalless draw at home to Charlton.
Late goals from Ephron Mason-Clark and Victor Torp saw Coventry snatch a 5-3 victory at third-bottom Derby to sit fifth, having twice led through Bobby Thomas and Haji Wright which were cancelled out by Callum Elder and Carlton Morris before Ebou Adams put the Rams ahead until Brandon Thomas-Asante equalised.
Birmingham City rounded out the top six with a late comeback 2-1 win at Blackburn through goals from Jay Stansfield and Lyndon Dykes, after Todd Cantwell had put Rovers into a 50th-minute lead.
Elsewhere, Sheffield United’s disastrous start to the season continued with a 1-0 defeat at Swansea to slip to rock-bottom as Ronald netted a 66th-minute winner.
Jack Robinson’s header rescued Southampton a 1-1 draw at Ipswich after Taylor Harwood-Bellis’ own-goal put the Tractor Boys ahead in the battle of the two relegated teams from last season.
Jeremy Monga became the Championship’s youngest goalscorer at 16 years and 37 days old as he equalised for Leicester in an eventual 2-1 loss at Preston, with Alfie Devine having put the hosts ahead before Milutin Osmajic netted a 85th-minute winner.
Oli McBurnie struck a 93rd-minute winner as Hull edged Oxford United in a 3-2 thriller on Humberside, having twice led through Joe Gelhardt and Matt Crooks only to be pegged back by Will Lankshear and Cameron Brannagan respectively.
Luca Kjerrumgaard’s first-half brace saw Watford beat QPR 2-1 at Vicarage Road despite Kieran Morgan’s strike for the Hoops, amidst a late red card for the Hornets’ Imran Louza following a foul on Jonathan Varane.
Early goals from Harry Darling and Josh Sargent saw Norwich win 2-1 away at Portsmouth, despite Adrian Segcic’s late strike for the South Coast hosts.
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