Championship: Leeds 1-1 Burnley & Cardiff 1-1 Fulham

Summary

FT: Cardiff 1-1 Fulham
Noone equalises for Cardiff after Smith opener
FT: Leeds 1-1 Burnley
Antenucci for Leeds, Vokes for Burnley

Live Reporting

Nathan Middleton and Jay Freeman

The player's view - Luke Murphypublished at 12:05 British Summer Time 8 August 2015
Injured Leeds midfielder Luke Murphy on Sky Sports: "I think since the manager has come in, he's made sure we've got it drilled into our head that we've got a top-six mentality.
"We all know the fans want the club back in the Premier League. Since Uwe has come in with his organisational skills, I've never seen anything like it."
Team newspublished at 12:01 British Summer Time 8 August 2015
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Burnley hand debuts to striker Jelle Vossen and right-back Tendayi Darikwa. It's a familiar looking starting line-up with six players who started the final Premier League game, a 1-0 win at Aston Villa, in the Clarets starting XI. Tom Heaton captains the side.
KICK-OFFpublished at 12:01 British Summer Time 8 August 2015
We're off at the Cardiff City Stadium! The first Saturday of the new Football League season is under way.
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After signing just four days ago from Brentford, Stuart Dallas starts for Leeds. Summer arrivals Sol Bamba, Tom Adeyemi and Chris Wood also start make their first starts for the Whites.
England regain the Ashespublished at 11:57 British Summer Time 8 August 2015
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If you're just joining us, it would be remiss of us to not keep you informed of sporting events elsewhere and England have regained the Ashes at Trent Bridge, winning by an innings and 78 runs.
It was nice of the England boys to wrap it up just in time for the new season, wasn't it?
The opening daypublished at 11:52 British Summer Time 8 August 2015
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The return of football means statisticians everywhere can also get to work. Here's some opening day ones for you...
Despite their terrible start in the league this time last year, Fulham have lost just once in their last six league openers.
When playing at home to open the campaign, Cardiff have won five of their last nine matches. Now go impress your mates.
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After losing seven of their first eight games in the Championship last season, Fulham fans will be hoping to get out of the blocks a little quicker this time around. Five summer signings - Andy Lonergan, Ben Pringle, Tom Cairney, Jazz Richards and Jamie O'Hara - start for the visitors.
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None of Cardiff City's summer signings will start today's game versus Fulham with Sammy Ameobi and Stuart O'Keefe all starting on the bench. Joe Mason, who has been strongly linked with Championship rivals Wolves over the summer, starts up front with Alex Revell, while veteran Peter Whittingham leads the Bluebirds' midfield.
Here we go...published at 11:45 British Summer Time 8 August 2015
After Brighton kicked off the Football League season last night by beating Nottingham Forest, welcome to our Championship coverage of Cardiff v Fulham (12:00 BST) and Leeds against Burnley (12:30 BST).
We'll keep you updated with events in Cardiff before focusing on an intriguing game at Elland Road.
The grass is freshly cut, the teams are doing their final preparations and sun is out in Wales and Yorkshire. Football is back.