SKY SPORTS will broadcast Middlesbrough vs Sheffield Utd as the first live Coca-Cola Football League match of the new season.

The match, which kicks-off at 8pm on Friday 7 August, will be the first of up to 80 live Coca-Cola League games to be shown on Sky Sports this season including the Play-Offs and all three Finals from Wembley.

The 2009-10 season is the first of a new three-year agreement with the Football League. In consultation with the Football League, Sky Sports has today announced 11 live matches featuring 18 different clubs over the first two months of the season. Further live matches will be announced as they are confirmed.

Other live fixtures confirmed today include:

AUGUST

7^th Middlesbrough vs Sheffield United

8^th Southampton vs Millwall

9^th Coventry City vs Ipswich Town

15^thNewcastle United vs Reading

22^nd W B A vs Ipswich Town

29^th Peterborough Utd vs Crystal Palace

31^st Newcastle Utd vsLeicester City

SEPTEMBER

5^th Charlton vs Brentford

13^th Cardiff City vs Newcastle Utd

14^thMK Dons vs Norwich City

18^thSheffield Utd vs Sheffield Wednesday

Also in August, Sky Sports will screen two live games from the First Round of the Carling Cup with Darlington v Leeds United on Monday 10 August and Bury v West Bromwich Albion on Tuesday 11 August.

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Meanwhile earlier this week BBC Sport today announced the first four live and exclusive Coca-Cola Championship games to be broadcast during the forthcoming 2009/10 season. The games mark a return of live Championship football for the first time since 1987 and will also be broadcast live at BBC Sport Online.

Live games:

8th August - West Bromwich Albion v Newcastle United - BBC1 5.30pm

26th Sept - Ipswich Town v Newcastle United - 5.30pm (Channel TBC)

24th Oct - Derby County v Queens Park Rangers - BBC2 5.30 pm

1st Nov - Cardiff City v Nottingham Forest - BBC1 2.00 pm.

Further details about the BBC's Football League coverage will be announced shortly.