The English Football League (EFL) will announce next season's Championship fixture list on June 26 at 12 p.m. BST (7 a.m. ET).
The League One and League Two fixtures will be announced on the same day with the second-tier season set to get underway on the weekend of Aug. 8-10.
The Championship is set for one of it's most high-profile seasons in years as big spending U.S owned Wrexham and Birmingham City target a swift ascent to the Premier League, while top division mainstays Southampton and Leicester City drop down from the top flight.
Under minority owner Tom Brady, Birmingham broke the League One transfer record three different times in the summer window last year. While Wrexham have made no secret of their Premier League ambitions under Hollywood owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney.
Dubbed "The Hollywood derby," the Wrexham vs. Birmingham fixtures will be ones to look out for while the relegated Premier League teams will form part of two of the most fiercely contested rivalries in the country with the South Coast derby -- Southampton vs. Portsmouth -- and the East Anglian derby of Norwich vs Ipswich both making a return.
Charlton Athletic make up the promoted sides while Leeds, Burnley and Sunderland were the three teams promoted to the Premier League last season.
Keep an eye out for these teams when the fixtures are released on Thursday
Promotion hopefuls
Sheffield United were unlucky to miss out on automatic promotion with 90 points last season and were in control for large parts of their playoff final defeat to Sunderland -- after parting company with Chris Wilder and bringing in the young Rubén Sellés they will hope to hit the ground running in another promotion push next season.
When Frank Lampard took over at Coventry City in November last year, they were 17th and two points above the relegation places. He oversaw the Midlands club's rise to a fifth-placed finish where it took a 120th minute winner from Sunderland's Dan Ballard to keep them from a playoff final at Wembley. Lampard's Coventry project is one to keep an eye out for.
Millwall missed out on a playoff spot by just two points last season and boss Alex Neil -- who signed a new contract at The Den in June -- has targeted a promotion push next season, as one of London's oldest football clubs look for a return to England's top flight after over 30 years away.
Relegation candidates
Hull City survived the drop on goal difference on the final day of last season but still controversially decided to sack Sellés after less than six months in charge. The Yorkshire club have reported losses in excess of £60 million (80.4m) in the last few years and will hope for significantly better performances next year to ensure this figure doesn't rise.
Sheffield Wednesday are another club going through financial difficulties and were hit by a three window transfer ban by the EFL in June after failing to pay staff wages on time. With no player incomings this summer or in January and highly sought after manager Danny Röhl set to leave the club, Wednesday are in danger of falling back down to League One after a season where they were in the mix for a playoff spot.
The smallest club in the league -- financially and figuratively -- Oxford United finished last season with breathing room between the relegation places, shutting down pre-season predictions of a quick return to League One. However in a league that has added the likes of Birmingham City, Wrexham, Southampton and Leicester City, Gary Rowett's side will be heavily up against it to repeat their heroics of last season.