2023/24 Season: Key Dates & Information

[davieG]

https://www.lcfc.com/news/3529738/202324-season-key-dates--information?lang=en

 

Leicester City will discover their 2023/24 Sky Bet Championship fixture schedule on Thursday 22 June.

The Foxes return to the second tier next season and, ahead of the new campaign, the English Football League have already confirmed some key arrangements for 2023/24.

Please see below for some key dates and information for next season…

Fixture release day
 

City and the other 23 Championship sides will learn their full schedule of fixtures at 9am on Thursday 22 June. LCFC.com and @LCFC social media channels will be the first place for Foxes supporters to start planning their 2023/24 travels. 

The season's start date
 

The Championship campaign begins on the weekend of Saturday 5 August. 

2023/24 Championship composition
 

Southampton and Leeds United were also relegated from the Premier League, while Plymouth Argyle, Ipswich Town and Sheffield Wednesday earned promotion from Sky Bet League 1. 

A list of all 2023/23 Championship clubs is as follows: Birmingham City, Blackburn Rovers, Bristol City, Cardiff City, Coventry City, Huddersfield Town, Hull City, Ipswich Town, Leeds United, Leicester City, Middlesbrough, Millwall, Norwich City, Plymouth Argyle, Preston North End, Queens Park Rangers, Rotherham United, Sheffield Wednesday, Southampton, Stoke City, Sunderland, Swansea City, Watford, West Bromwich Albion.

Cup competitions
 

Leicester will enter the Carabao Cup at the first-round stage, which is planned to take place on the week commencing Monday 7 August. Round dates are yet to be finalised for the Emirates FA Cup – which City will enter in the third round as per previous seasons. 

Pre-season plans
 

Although there a more dates to be finalised, including domestic pre-season friendlies, it has already been announced that the Club will embark on a tour of Southeast Asia this summer. The Foxes take on Tottenham Hotspur in Bangkok on Sunday 23 July (11am BST kick-off) before tackling Liverpool on Sunday 30 July in Singapore (10am BST kick-off). 

Please stay tuned to LCFC.com and @LCFC social media channels for further updates on the 2023/24 season. 

 

[Happy Fox]

The club has been asleep 😴 

[AKCJ]

Genuinely ****ing outrageous that the club hasn't cancelled this Southeast Asia tour. 5 days before we inevitably go to Plymouth away on a Friday night to lose our season opener.

 

It's in keeping with the "**** it we'll be fine" attitude that's seen us sink to the most embarrassing relegation the Premier League has seen since Derby County's 11 pointer.

 

Get it cancelled, start taking our problems seriously and sack yourselves while you're at it you incompetent, negligent, arrogant arseholes.

[Bourbon Fox]

Whoops

Edited 6 June 2023 by Bourbon Fox

[KrefelderFox666]

Pretty sure we start in the Second Round of the Carabao Cup, not First Round.

[Finnegan]

9 minutes ago, AKCJ said:

Genuinely ****ing outrageous that the club hasn't cancelled this Southeast Asia tour. 5 days before we inevitably go to Plymouth away on a Friday night to lose our season opener.

 

It's in keeping with the "**** it we'll be fine" attitude that's seen us sink to the most embarrassing relegation the Premier League has seen since Derby County's 11 pointer.

 

Get it cancelled, start taking our problems seriously and sack yourselves while you're at it you incompetent, negligent, arrogant arseholes.

 

It's probably worth a decent amount of money, money that we need. 

 

And to make it worse it would probably COST us money to pull out. 

[AjcW]

Maybe Leeds coming down too will save us from the Friday night game. I think they might have a Sunday game too, all we can hope for is that to compensate for being in ****ing Asia the week before!! 

[urban.spaceman]

Need an alternative schedule.

 

June 29th: make final approach for new manager.

July 14th: Announce Pardew.

August 4th: First new signing.

August 7th: Confirm new signing has torn ACL in Seagrave canteen.

Transfer Deadline Day: Nicky Maynard announced, no other new signings.

December 25th 2050: Announce Rudkin's retirement with testimonial against National League rivals Manchester City who had finally been punished by the Premier League.

[AjcW]

1 minute ago, KrefelderFox666 said:

Pretty sure we start in the Second Round of the Carabao Cup, not First Round.

Deffo 1st

 

Prem teams not In Europe 2nd

 

Prem teams in Europe 3rd

[KrefelderFox666]

Just now, AjcW said:

Deffo 1st

 

Prem teams not In Europe 2nd

 

Prem teams in Europe 3rd

Pretty sure only the team who finished 20th in the PL last season joins in Round 1. Not sure if there is something that changes if West Ham win tomorrow night as that would mean 8 byes into Round 3 rather than the usual 7.

[StanSP]

4 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

December 25th 2050: Announce Rudkin's retirement with testimonial against National League rivals Manchester City who had finally been punished by the Premier League.

This will be the best 60th birthday present I could wish for. 

[CosbehFox]

20 minutes ago, AjcW said:

Maybe Leeds coming down too will save us from the Friday night game. I think they might have a Sunday game too, all we can hope for is that to compensate for being in ****ing Asia the week before!! 

They will. Will take one of the Super Sunday slots whilst the other slot goes to Community Shield. 

[urban.spaceman]

21 minutes ago, StanSP said:

This will be the best 60th birthday present I could wish for. 

Happy ****ing birthday

[STEVIE B]

47 minutes ago, AKCJ said:

Genuinely ****ing outrageous that the club hasn't cancelled this Southeast Asia tour. 5 days before we inevitably go to Plymouth away on a Friday night to lose our season opener.

 

It's in keeping with the "**** it we'll be fine" attitude that's seen us sink to the most embarrassing relegation the Premier League has seen since Derby County's 11 pointer.

 

Get it cancelled, start taking our problems seriously and sack yourselves while you're at it you incompetent, negligent, arrogant arseholes.

££££££££££££££££££££££

[Dan]

44 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

It's probably worth a decent amount of money, money that we need. 

 

And to make it worse it would probably COST us money to pull out. 

If the last year has taught me anything it's that we'll probably get 1 point from our first 3 games off the back of this, all against sides who eventually end up in the bottom half, and we'll miss out on either the autos / play-offs by about 2/3 points then not go up as a result, meaning we probably cost ourselves in the long run.

 

It's extremely typical of the short-sightedness of this club nowadays.

[Dan]

43 minutes ago, KrefelderFox666 said:

Pretty sure only the team who finished 20th in the PL last season joins in Round 1. Not sure if there is something that changes if West Ham win tomorrow night as that would mean 8 byes into Round 3 rather than the usual 7.

Was looking at this the other day - I think it would mean a preliminary round between Wrexham and Notts County, and then Leeds end up in round one rather than two. Can't really see how we enter at round one - could be wrong though.

[David Hankey]

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[David Hankey]

1 hour ago, Happy Fox said:

The club has been asleep 😴 

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[KrefelderFox666]

1 minute ago, Dan LCFC said:

Was looking at this the other day - I think it would mean a preliminary round between Wrexham and Notts County, and then Leeds end up in round one rather than two. Can't really see how we enter at round one - could be wrong though.

Basically worked it out like this.

 

If West Ham win the UECL (therefore qualifying for EL 2023/24)

Final – 2

Semi – 4

QF – 8

Round 4 – 16

Round 3 – 32 (8 PL, 24 winners from R2)

Round 2 – 48 (12 PL, 36 winners from R1)

Round 1 – 72 (All Champ, L1 and L2)

 

If West Ham lose UECL final (this is the normal procedure in a season):

Final – 2

Semi – 4

QF – 8

Round 4 – 16

Round 3 – 32 (7 PL, 25 winners from R2)

Round 2 – 50 (13 PL, 2 Champ which would be us and Leeds, 35 winners from R1)

Round 1 – 70 (22 Champ inc Southampton, All L1 and All L2)

[Finnegan]

5 minutes ago, Dan LCFC said:

If the last year has taught me anything it's that we'll probably get 1 point from our first 3 games off the back of this, all against sides who eventually end up in the bottom half, and we'll miss out on either the autos / play-offs by about 2/3 points then not go up as a result, meaning we probably cost ourselves in the long run.

 

It's extremely typical of the short-sightedness of this club nowadays.

 

I'm not saying it's a particularly good idea, logistically it's a terrible one. I don't like any international tours if I'm honest. I think friendlies should be against competitive local clubs for myriad reasons. 

 

But I can understand why this tour will go ahead and people acting like we should (or even could) just drop it are probably being a bit naive and slightly juvenile. 

 

You have to assume there's significant contractual obligations and we almost certainly can't just walk away at short notice without having to compensate someone. 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Asia Tour is a King Power ego massage and nothing else. 

[Finnegan]

2 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Asia Tour is a King Power ego massage and nothing else. 

 

It's revenue, it's growing the brand. That sort of stuff makes people's skin crawl when you say it but then the same people are moaning two minutes later that the owners aren't injecting money or panicking that Top doesn't have the capital to sustain the club anymore. 

 

You can't have it both ways. 

[Bob666]

5 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Asia Tour is a King Power ego massage and nothing else. 

Hopefully we'll all get a "happy ending" 

[AKCJ]

2 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

It's revenue, it's growing the brand. That sort of stuff makes people's skin crawl when you say it but then the same people are moaning two minutes later that the owners aren't injecting money or panicking that Top doesn't have the capital to sustain the club anymore. 

 

You can't have it both ways. 

If we're in the Premier League then, IMO, they should go.

 

But we're not and we have an important League game less than a week after the Liverpool game.

 

I don't have a problem with it if we're sending the kids out there and we're playing a competitive fixture in England the week before the season opener with the first team.

[mozartfox]

When are qualifying group stages for the Bass Shield ?