WHY ARE THE MIDWEEK CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES NOT ON THE SKY SPORTS RED BUTTON?


Extra midweek Championship games will not be available on the Sky Sports red button service this week.
The three games being shown on the main Sky channels will be only ones screened. All other games will be available to stream on the clubs’ iFollow service as part of a season ticket or available to buy for a one-off payment.
Sky’s five-year deal with the EFL usually allows them to show every game in each of the ten midweek round of fixtures across the main Sky Sports channels and red button service.
However, as this season has been allocated more midweek rounds due to it starting later than usual, fixture rounds which would normally have fallen on a weekend but have moved to midweeks to accommodate the tighter schedule are not eligible to be screened by Sky in full.
Here are the rounds likely to be able have the full red button service.
SKY SPORTS CHAMPIONSHIP EXPECTED FULL MIDWEEK ROUNDS ON THE RED BUTTON
December 1 & 2
December 8 & 9
December 15 & 16
February 16 & 17
February 23 & 24
March 2 & 3
March 16 & 17
April 20 & 21
FULL LISTINGS OF CONFIRMED EFL TV GAMES HERE
As well as the three main games listed below, goals from all the games will still be shown as they go in on Sky’s Soccer Special on Sky Sports News while highlights will be available on Quest on Wednesday night at 10.30pm.
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 24
8PM BOURNEMOUTH V NOTTINGHAM FOREST
EFL Sky Sports Football/Main Event
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 25
7.45PM BRISTOL CITY V WATFORD
EFL Sky Sports Football/Main Event
7.45PM SWANSEA V SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY
EFL Sky Sports Arena