50,000 season tickets sold have caught the attention of Sky Sports and has led to several schedule changes to accommodate the network's interest in airing West Ham matches.
The club's first season back in the Championship is shaping up to be a heavily televised one. The club have confirmed six further fixture changes across October and December, after Sky Sports selected another batch of games from Nuno Espirito Santo's promotion-chasing squad for live broadcast.
The month opens with a Friday night visit from QPR to the London Stadium on 9 October, kicking off at 8pm. Five days later, West Ham head to Lincoln City's ProAmpac Stadium, with that fixture also shifted to an 8pm start on the Wednesday.
December brings the heaviest run of changes. West Ham travel to Bramall Lane to face Sheffield United on Friday 4 December (8pm), before Middlesbrough visit the London Stadium four days later on Tuesday 8 December, also at 8pm. The trip to Birmingham City at St Andrew's has been moved to a lunchtime slot on Saturday 19 December (12.30pm), and West Ham's last game of the calendar year comes at Southampton's St Mary's Stadium on Tuesday 29 December, kicking off later than usual at 8.15pm. The Boxing Day fixture against Norwich City, meanwhile, stays put at 3pm on Saturday 26 December — simply confirmed for broadcast rather than moved.
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Building on an Already Busy Autumn
These additions come on top of fixtures already locked in for live coverage earlier in the season. West Ham's opening-day reunion with fellow relegated side Burnley at Turf Moor (Sunday 16 August, 4pm), was an early pick for Sky Sports Main Event, alongside trips to Bolton Wanderers (Tuesday 8 September, 8pm) and Millwall (Saturday 19 September, 12.30pm), with the Millwall derby also getting a further airing on ITV1 and ITVX. The visit of Wrexham to the London Stadium (Friday 11 September, 8pm) rounds out that group, though both the Bolton and Wrexham fixtures could still be shifted again if either club is involved in the Carabao Cup third round that same week.
Sky Sports+ has its own slice of the schedule too, carrying West Ham's Carabao Cup first-round tie against Portsmouth (Saturday 8 August, 3pm) and the home league meeting with Wolverhampton Wanderers (Tuesday 1 September, 7.45pm). Fans planning further ahead should also note that the reverse fixture with Millwall at the London Stadium has been given a firm date of Sunday 21 February 2027, kicking off at midday.
With a pre-season send-off against Bundesliga side 1. FC Magdeburg still to come, Nuno's side head into a first Championship campaign in 14 years already guaranteed a heavy TV presence — a reminder of just how much of a draw West Ham remain outside the Premier League.
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