2025/26 Championship accumulator & predictions

• The top two expected to cancel each other out

• Boro and Birmingham to play out a hard-fought draw

• A huge battle at the bottom to go Southampton's way

Looking ahead to the next round of matches, Coral shares its weekly Championship accumulator and predictions, with Ipswich tipped to extend their unbeaten run.

The Tractor Boys remain among the Championship favourites despite currently sitting in mid-table, but two wins from three suggest they're starting to turn a corner, with only three points separating them from the top six.

The next round of Championship fixtures is fast approaching, so we've put together this football acca to take you through our four standout Championship predictions - featuring the league leaders Coventry, an in-form Birmingham City, and a struggling Sheffield Wednesday.

Back-to-back 4-0 wins - the most recent coming over promotion-chasing Millwall - have got Birmingham fans dreaming of a return to the Premier League, and they face another huge test when they visit Middlesbrough on Saturday.

Boro have spent the majority of the season in the top two, but have dropped into third following a winless run of three games, and we think their struggles will continue here. Rob Edwards' side are still firmly among the favourites for promotion, but they'll need to be at their best here to stop a confident, clinical Birmingham side with real promotion aspirations of their own. We're predicting a draw at the Riverside, with two strong sides playing out a cracker.

Coventry, the Championship favourites, bounced straight back to winning ways in midweek after a surprising defeat to Wrexham last weekend, but Frank Lampard's side face arguably their toughest test of the season so far on Saturday, with a trip to high-flying Stoke City.

Stoke have won four of their last five, scoring eight in their last two, and haven't lost a game at the bet365 Stadium since the end of August. Coventry have set the standard in the Championship this far, with a healthy lead meaning they'll stay top whatever happens this weekend - but we can see these two cancelling each other out.

Coventry have the best attack in the league by a mile, while Stoke are the only team to concede fewer than 10 goals, so as an unstoppable force meets an immovable object, we're predicting a draw.

Despite floating around mid-table for much of the season so far, Ipswich remain strong contenders to win the 2025/26 Championship title - and we think they'll prove their credentials with a win away at Swansea on Saturday.

Swansea haven't strung two wins together in the Championship, and have only won one of their last six league games, with this run including home losses to Leicester and QPR. Ipswich come to Wales in decent form, with seven points from their last three games, and we're backing them to get the job done reasonably comfortably here - despite some pretty public unrest in the camp.

Wrapping up our 2025/26 Championship accumulator and predictions, we're heading to the bottom of the table as struggling Southampton welcome rock-bottom Sheffield Wednesday to St. Mary's - whose survival hopes already look remarkably slim following a hefty 12-point deduction in October.

Southampton finally won again in midweek, ending a run of five without a win, and we're tipping them to follow it up with their first home victory since the opening day. Sheffield Wednesday are fighting valiantly, drawing their last two and slowly chipping away at the huge gap between themselves and the rest of the league, but facing a former Premier League side should be a step too far. Coral predicts a home win here - but Southampton will certainly be made to work for it.

That rounds up our weekly 2025/26 Championship accumulator & predictions. You can bet on each of these matches individually, or group them together in a football acca, as seen below.

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All odds and markets are correct as of the date of publication.