Middlesbrough v Swansea City live: Kick-off time, TV channel, live stream and score updates

The Championship is back and Swansea City head to Teesside to face Middlesbrough in the season curtain-raiser.

It's a tough start for head coach Luke Williams and his players, with Boro expected to be there or thereabouts come the end of the campaign.

Michael Carrick has built an impressive squad at the Riverside and Swansea will have to be on it from the word go this afternoon to get anything from this encounter.

The first game of the campaign kicks off at 12.30pm and is live on Sky Sports+. It can be found on Channel 410 for Sky Glass Customers and Channel 412 for Sky Q customers. Sky Sports customers can live stream games via the Sky Go app.

We will also keep you up to speed with things below in our live blog.

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