Image source, Swansea City FCSwansea City's new home shirt features touches from the shirt the team wore during the 1996-97 season.
That season under player-manager Jan Molby, the former Liverpool, Ajax and Denmark midfielder, Swansea reached the Third Division play-off final, losing to Northampton.
This season's kit features a similar checkered motif to the one from 29 years ago and features prominently on the collar and trim.
Image source, huwAlan Sheehan's team began their pre-season campaign with a comfortable 5-0 against National League North side Kidderminster Harriers.
In a behind-closed-doors game, Gonçalo Franco scored twice while Ronald, Eom Ji-Sung and new signing Zeidane Inoussa were also on target.
Image source, Getty ImagesSwansea City academy product Ben Lloyd is likely to leave the club on loan in 2025-26.
Attacking midfielder Lloyd made his senior debut as a late substitute in the win over Queens Park Rangers last December and also came off the bench as Swansea drew with Oxford United on the final day of last season.
The Swansea hierarchy believe the 20-year-old now needs to head out on loan in order to play regular football in the English Football League.
It is still to be decided where Lloyd will go, though he has had a spell training at Cheltenham Town during pre-season and has also spent time at another unnamed club.
Swansea hope local lad Lloyd, who has long been regarded as one of their brighter prospects, will develop as a player during a loan stint elsewhere.
Fellow academy products Cameron Congreve and Joel Cotterill are both back training with Alan Sheehan's squad, who head to Spain for a pre-season training camp next week, after playing regular senior football while out on loan in 2024-25.
Image source, Huw Evans Picture AgencySwansea City's EFL Cup first-round tie against Crawley Town will be played on Tuesday, 12 August (19:00 BST).
Crawley's visit will be Swansea's first home game of 2025-26, with Alan Sheehan's team travelling to Middlesbrough three days earlier for their opening Championship fixture of the new season.
Swansea's first home league game is against Sheffield United on Saturday, 16 August.
Image source, Huw Evans AgencySwansea City will begin their 2025-26 Championship campaign in front of the television cameras when they host Middlesbrough on Saturday, 9 August.
Despite being selected to be shown on Sky Sports+, that fixture remains a 15:00 BST kick-off.
However, three further league games selected for tv coverage will all now start earlier at 12:30 BST - the home fixtures against Watford on Saturday, 23 August and Millwall on Saturday, 27 September, plus the game at Birmingham City on Saturday, 20 September.
Further earlier kick-off alterations are the Severnside derby games against Bristol City at Ashton Gate on Saturday, 22 November and at the Swansea.com Stadium on Saturday, 21 February.
Both fixtures have been moved to 12:30 GMT starts following safety requests from both clubs.
Image source, Getty ImagesFormer Swansea City midfielder Darren Pratley, the scorer of one of the most memorable goals in the club's history, has announced his retirement at the age of 40.
Pratley made 199 appearances and scored 31 goals during five years at Swansea, helping the club win the League One title in 2007-08 and then promotion to the Premier League in 2010-11.
Brendan Rodgers' Swansea side climbed into the top flight via the Championship play-offs.
Pratley's finest moment in the Swansea shirt came in the semi-final second leg against Nottingham Forest, when he scored from the halfway line to put an end Forest's hopes and ensure Rodgers' men were going to Wembley.
With his contract up, Pratley opted to leave Swansea for Bolton that summer and went on to play for Wanderers for seven years.
A Fulham product who had loan spells at Brentford before moving to Wales, Pratley moved to Charlton after leaving Bolton in 2018 and has spent the last four years of his career at Leyton Orient.
Pratley, who made more than 700 senior appearances, will now take up a coaching role with Orient's under-21 side.
"I have enjoyed a great playing career – I would love to live it all over again – but having spoken with my family I believe that now is the right time to start the next stage of my career," Pratley told the Orient website.
Image source, Swansea City AFCMelker Widell and Zeidane Inoussa were among the players who reported to Swansea City's training base on Monday as Alan Sheehan's squad began preparations for the new Championship season.
Swedish duo Widell (below) and Inoussa (above) were joined at Fairwood, Swansea's training ground, by fellow new recruits Ricardo Santos and Bobby Wales.
But centre-back Cameron Burgess, who joined from Ipswich Town earlier this month, has been given extra time off because he has been in international action with Australia over the summer.
Burgess is set to arrive at Swansea at the end of the week alongside Wales trio Ollie Cooper, Liam Cullen and captain Ben Cabango, who are also returning to club duty a little late because of international commitments.
As well as the new signings, there are some familiar faces who are back with the Swansea squad after loan spells away last season.
Among those is striker Jerry Yates, who spent the last campaign at Derby County, as well as the likes of goalkeeper Andy Fisher and attacking midfielders Cameron Congreve and Joel Cotterill.
Swansea begin the new second-tier season with a trip to Middlesbrough on Saturday, 3 August.
Their first official pre-season friendly will be against League One Stevenage in Spain on Saturday, 19 July.
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Image source, Getty ImagesSwansea City will host League Two Crawley Town in the first round of the EFL Cup, with the tie to be played in the week beginning 11 August.
The two clubs have met only once before, when Garry Monk scored a last-minute goal to give the then Premier League Swans a League Cup victory at Crawley in September 2012.
Five months later, Swansea thumped Bradford City at Wembley to win the EFL Cup - the only major trophy in the club's history.
Alan Sheehan's side will hope for another triumph over Crawley in what will be their opening home game of 2025-26, with Swansea heading to Middlesbrough for their first Championship fixture of the new campaign on Saturday, 9 August.
Crawley will play in the fourth tier next season having been relegated from League One in 2024-25.
Image source, Getty ImagesSwansea City will start the 2025-26 Championship season away to Middlesbrough on Saturday, 9 August.
It will be the second successive season which Swansea have opened up with a trip to Riverside, with last year's long trip north ending in a 1-0 defeat.
The first home league match for Alan Sheehan's side in 2025-26 will take place on Saturday, 16 August against Sheffield United, who missed out on promotion in the play-offs last season.
The Swans will host Welsh rivals Wrexham on Saturday, 20 December in what will be the first league match between the two clubs in 22 years, while the return fixture in north Wales will take place on Saturday, 14 March, 2026.
Swansea fans will be on the road over the Christmas period with a trip to Coventry City on 26 December and then a game at Oxford United three days later.
The Swans will end the league campaign on Saturday, 2 May at home to Charlton Athletic, who are managed by Welshman Nathan Jones.
Follow this link for Swansea City's full 2025-26 fixture list.
*Dates and kick-off times will be subject to change.
Your club will soon discover their schedule for the upcoming EFL season. As soon as Thursday, in fact.
Want to know who your side will face on opening day? The EFL fixtures will be announced at 12:00 BST - but that's not all.
The day will be rounded off by the first round of Carabao Cup being drawn at 16:30 BST.
So check back on 26 June to see who your team faces first, last and everything in between.
Image source, Getty ImagesMartin Paterson's spell at Swansea City did not last as long as he would have liked, but Michael Duff's former assistant has just landed his second managerial role since leaving Wales.
Paterson, 38, moved to Wales to work alongside Duff in the summer of 2023 having previously been on his staff at Barnsley.
But the ex-Northern Ireland striker left Swansea alongside Duff less than six months later.
He resurfaced later that season as boss at Burton Albion, helping them remain in League One, and has now agreed to take over at League Two Notts County.
Image source, Getty ImagesSwansea City goalkeeper Kit Margetson will spend the 2025-26 season on loan at Cymru Premier club Connah's Quay Nomads.
Margetson, who turns 19 next month, was on the fringes of Swansea's senior squad at the end of last season.
The Wales youth international signed his first professional deal at Swansea in the summer of 2024.
He is the son of Swansea and Wales goalkeeping coach Martyn Margetson.
Andy Fisher and Nathan Broome are both due back at Swansea this summer after loan spells away, adding to the club's keeper options alongside first-choice Lawrence Vigouroux.
"I know that Kit turned down a number of other opportunities to come and play for ourselves and as club we are grateful for Swansea City, especially director of football Richard Montague and Martyn Margetson, for facilitating the move," said Nomads boss John Disney.
"Hopefully the club can utilise this to help form a close relationship moving forwards."
