Leicester vs Sheffield Wednesday

Leicester City are unbeaten across their last three league games against Sheffield Wednesday (W2 D1), last enjoying a longer undefeated run against the Owls between August 1967 and October 1981 (six games).

Sheffield Wednesday have lost three of their last four away league games against Leicester City (W1), conceding 2+ goals in each defeat.

Leicester are unbeaten across their last six opening games of a league campaign (W3 D3), since a 2-1 loss to Manchester United at Old Trafford to start the 2018-19 season.

This is the fourth time in the 21st century that Sheffield Wednesday are starting a Championship season against a side relegated from the Premier League the previous campaign – they lost 2-1 against both QPR (2013-14) and Southampton (2023-24) but beat Aston Villa 1-0 (2016-17).

This will be the 69th time that Leicester will start a league campaign with a home match, with only Everton having more opening matches on home soil across England's top four tiers (72).