Follow live coverage as Burnley face Swansea City in the Championship today. An increasingly competitive second tier in English football remains an intense and exciting competition, with the prize of a place in the Premier League on offer at the end of the season.

Leeds United now have two weeks without a game – but nine men have already been ruled out of the return to Championship action at Swansea City for which two more are doubts.Daniel Farke’s Whites signed off for the November international break with Saturday’s 2-0 win at home to QPR which briefly sent Leeds back into the division’s second automatic promotion spot before being leapfrogged again by Sheffield United the following day.

Relegation from the top flight last term means Luton, Burnley and Sheffield United are all back in the second tier this term and will be expected to push for play-off spots again at least, but so too will Norwich City,