Key events
Sergej Jakirovic: “It means a lot, we were organised and it was very good for us,” said Hull City’s head coach in an interview with the BBC following his newly promoted side’s fairly emphatic win over Manchester United. “The players stick to a tactical plan. We suffer because we play against Manchester United but we punished the opponent. We are one year together, we had three new guys and all together they looked like a team there and in the end we succeeded.”
Premier League half-times
Everton 1-0 Crystal Palace
Ipswich Town 1-1 Sunderland
Nottingham Forest 0-0 Leeds United
Brentford v Tottenham Hotspur (5.30pm BST)
Championship half-times
Birmingham City 2-2 Bristol City (FT)
Lincoln City 1-3 Portsmouth (FT)
Millwall 3-0 Norwich (FT)
Blackburn 0-1 Middlesbrough
Derby County 1-2 Cardiff City
Preston 0-1 Wolves
QPR 0-0 Bolton Wanderers
Southampton 1-1 Stoke City
Swansea City 0-0 Sheffield United
West Ham 0-1 Charlton Athletic
Wrexham 1-1 Watford
League One: Wes Burns has pulled a goal back for 10-man Leicester, who trail Burton 2-1 at home as the match approaches half-time.
GOAL! Everton 1-0 Crystal Palace (Dewsbury-Hall 42)
Premier League: The top flight’s best known stately home takes advantage of some slack marking to smash a shot into the far corner and open Everton’s account for the season with a fine solo effort.
Championship: Danish beanpole striker Yousef Salech restores Cardiff City’s lead against Derby County at Pride Park, where it’s 2-1 to the side from Wales.
GOAL! Ipswich Town 1-1 Sunderland (Angulo 39)
Premier League: Ecuador international Nilson Angulo equalises for Sunderland with a splendid free-kick that goes in off the underside of the cross-bar.
League One: Apologies to Leicester City fans, whose afternoon got even worse when I accidentally relegated their side to League Two. It’s grim at the King Power but not quite that awful … yet.
League Two One: A penny for the thoughts of Russell Martin, who has just seen his Leicester City side go 2-0 down and lose Oliver Skipp to a red card for serious foul play against Burton Albion in their first home game of the season at the King Power Stadium.
Championship: Ethan Galbraith levels proceedings at St Mary’s, sending a left-footed shot past Southampton goalkeeper Danny Peretz.
Championship: Carlton Morris equalises for Derby County against Cardiff City, while Danny Imray has restored parity for Wrexham against Watford. It’s 1-1 in both games.
GOAL! Ipswich Town 1-0 Sunderland (Da Silva 22)
Premier League: The Tractor Boys take the lead through Emersonn Da Silva, who rolls the ball home after Julio Enciso had rolled it into his path after capitalising on a Luke O’Nien error.
Premier League: Leeds goalkeeper James Trafford repays a chunk of his £45m transfer fee, stretching every sinew to keep out an Igor Jesus header. It’s Nottingham Forest 0-0 Leeds United at the City Ground after 22 minutes.
Championship: Cian Ashford fires into the bottom corner to give Cardiff City the lead against Derby County at Pride Park.
Premier League: Crystal Palace go close against Everton when Adam Wharton plays a wonderful ball over the top to Eddie Nketiah. His sidefooted effort is saved on to the upright by Jordan Pickford.
Championship: Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac are at the Racecourse Ground to see Wrexham host Watford and the Welsh club’s owners will have been unimpressed with the sight of their team going behind to a Luca Kjerrumgaard goal after 14 minutes.
Championship: Middlesbrough are a goal up against Blackburn Rovers after winger Jeremy Sarmiento scored his first goal for the club after 12 minutes.
Championship: It’s Southampton 1-0 Stoke City at St Mary’s, as Kyle Larin nutmegs Viktor Johansson in the visitors’ goal after running on to a weighted pass from Flynn Downes.
Championship: Charlton Athletic have taken the lead against West Ham at the London Stadium courtesy of an overhead kick from Lloyd Jones in the seventh minute. Meanwhile at Deebdale, Wolves are a goal up against Preseton thanks to a fine solo effort from Fer Lopez, who finished into the top corner.
Premier League: Jean-Philippe Mateta has missed an early chance to fire Crystal Palace ahead against Everton, firing over the bar when connecting with a pass from Eddie Nketiah.
Premier League: Ipswich Town defender Leif Davis makes an excellent recovery tackle to prevent Brian Brobbey giving Sunderland an early lead at Portman Road. Ipswich have handed club debuts to six different players this afternoon, although Davis is not among them.
Crystal Palace: The club have denied suggestions that Ismaila Sarr has refused to play for them against Everton because he’s trying to force a move to Galatasaray. According to head coach Pierre Sage, the Senegalese winger is absent from today’s matchday squad due to injury. One man who is very much present at Hill Dickinson Stadium is Andy Burnham, dyed-in-the-wool Everton fan and prime minister of the United Kingdom.
Hull City 2-0 Manchester United
Premier League match report: Goals from set-pieces scored by centre-backs Semi Ajayi and Nobel Mendy earned the Tigers the prized scalp of an extremely sluggish Manchester United upon their return to the Premier League. Will Unwin reports from the MKM Stadium …
Championship: Birmingham City have nabbed a late, late equaliser against Bristol City, with Demarai Gray scoring from the spot five minutes into added time after Rob Atkinson handled the ball while challenging for a header. It’s finished 2-2 at St Andrew’s where the Robins aren’t happy!
Championship results
Hull City 2-0 Manchester United
Premier League result: We have our first upset of the season after just two matches and it’s a truly seismic one. Almost everybody’s favourites to go straight back to the Championship with little more than a whimper, Hull City have run out deserved winners against Manchester United in their first match back in the top flight.
Championship: Jhon Solis thinks he’s restored parity for Birmingham City against Bristol City at a corner, but his effort is ruled out because Sam Tickle’s view was being impaired by Marvin Ducksch, who was standing in an offside position. It’s a big let-off for Bristol City.
Championship: Dominic Ballard has just given Bristol City a 2-1 lead over Birmingham City at St Andrew’s, while midfielder Luke Cundle has made it 3-0 for Millwall against Norwich City. It remains Lincoln City 1-3 Portsmouth as they enter the knockings at Sincil Bank.
Premier League: With just six minutes of normal time remaining at the MKM Stadium, Hull City still enjoy a two-goal lead over Manchester United. They’ve been hugely impressive in their first top flight match after a nine-year absence. Tim de Lisle has the latest …
Ipswich Town v Sunderland line-ups
Ipswich Town: Scherpen, O’Shea, Diop, Greaves, Davis; Nunez, Lukic, Fatawu, Maeda, Enciso, Emersonn.
Subs: Walton, Furlong, Kipre, Walle Egeli, McAteer, Akpom, Humphreys, Ouattara, Clarke.
Sunderland: Roefs; Meunier, Ballard, O’Nien, Mandava; Sadiki, Xhaka; Hume, Le Fee, Angulo; Brobbey.
Subs: Ellborg, Talbi, Rigg, Mundle, Alderete, Isidor, Diarra, Mukiele, Ta Bi
Everton v Crystal Palace line-ups
Everton: Pickford, Rohl, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Mykolenko, Armstrong, Hackney, Ndiaye, Dewsbury-Hall, George, Barry.
Subs: Travers, Patterson, Keane, Beto, O’Brien, Dibling, Johnson, Alcaraz, Garner.
Crystal Palace: Henderson, Canvot, Richards, Riad, Munoz, Kamada, Wharton, Mitchell, Nketiah, McNeil, Mateta.
Subs: Benitez, Pino, Tomiyasu, Hughes, Larsen, Sosa, Khalaili, Guessand, Mingueza.
Referee: Paul Tierney (Lancashire)
Nottingham Forest v Leeds United line-ups
Nottingham Forest: Sels, Jair Cunha, Murillo, Milenkovic, Aina, Sangare, McAtee, Williams, Gibbs-White, Ndoye, Igor Jesus.
Subs: John Victor, Diomande, Hudson-Odoi, Dominguez, Wood, Kalimuendo, Schlager, Netz, Abbott.
Leeds United: Trafford, Bijol, Rodon, Muharemovic, Bogle, Stach, Ampadu, Justin, Aaronson, Wilson, Calvert-Lewin.
Subs: Lucas Perri, James, Longstaff, Nmecha, Okafor, Tanaka, Elvedi, Cresswell, Lienou.
Referee: Robert Jones (Merseyside)
Championship: Portsmouth have increased their lead against Lincoln City at Sincil Bank, where Ebou Adams has spanked a long-range effort past George Wickens to make it 3-1 to the visitors.
Championship: Norwich City’s afternoon goes from bad to worse as their centre-back Jose Cordoba picks up his second booking of the game and is sent off.
Championship: Millwall have doubled their lead against Norwich, with Tairyk Arconte scoring his second goal of the game from a Jake Cooper knockdown at a set-piece. It’s 2-0 at the Den and hapless Norwich are staring down the barrel of their second league defeat of the season in two games.
Manchester United: The club has agreed a deal worth an initial £65m for Carlos Baleba and the 22-year-old Brighton midfielder will have his medical this weekend, writes Jamie Jackson.
Hull City: Despite leading his side to unlikely promotion, Sergej Jakirovic insists Hull City are not in the Premier League “by accident” and will do everything in their power to prove those who expect them to make a speedy return to the Championship wrong. Ross Heppenstall reports …
Tottenham Hotspur: Roberto De Zerbi has claimed every club “wanted to kill” Tottenham last season and has been reminding his players of that throughout the summer as he also defended their heavy spending in the transfer market. Words: Sam Cunningham …
Newcastle v Liverpool: A hero at St James’ Park until his acrimonious departure last summer, Alexander Isak will face an extremely hostile reception upon his return tomorrow with Liverpool, whose investment in him has yet to yield much in the way of dividends, writes Louise Taylor.
Championship early kick-off half-times
Birmingham City 1-1 Bristol City At St Andrew’s, Scott Twine scrambled home past James Beadle to give Bristol City the lead, only for the hosts to equalise when a Carlos Vicente shot off the post went in off Bristol City goalkeeper Sam Tickle’s back.
Lincoln City 1-2 Portsmouth The Imps are up against it at Sincil Bank, where Portsmouth lead by the odd goal in three. Young Chelsea loanee Ryan Kavuma-McQueen opened the scoring for Pompey and Adrian Segecic doubled their lead with a free-kick that took a slight deflection. The home side have since pulled a goal back thanks to a Reeco Hackett penalty awarded for handball.
Millwall 1-0 Norwich The home side lead courtesy of a Tairyk Arconte tap-in, while Norwich were extremely fortunate not to fall two goals behind when Jake Cooper had an effort ruled out for a very tight offside.
Arsenal 3-0 Coventry City
Premier League match report: Arsenal got their title defence off to a winning start under the Friday night lights of the Emirates Stadium against Premier League newcomers who struggled to lay a glove on their exalted hosts.
Premier League fixtures
Everton v Crystal Palace
Ipswich Town v Sunderland
Nottingham Forest v Leeds United
Brentford v Tottenham Hotspur (5.30pm BST)
Championship
Birmingham City 1-1 Bristol City (L)
Lincoln City 1-2 Portsmouth (L)
Millwall 2-0 Norwich (L)
Blackburn v Middlesbrough
Derby County v Cardiff City
Preston v Wolves
QPR v Bolton Wanderers
Southampton v Stoke City
Swansea City v Sheffield United
West Ham v Charlton Athletic
Wrexham v Watford
Saturday clockwatch
Hello everybody and welcome to the first clockwatch of the new season! It’s been just over a month since Spain lifted the World Cup in New Jersey and this weekend marks the return of the Premier League. There wasn’t a hydration break or all-singing, all dancing half-time extravaganza in sight as Arsenal and Coventry City got the ball rolling at the Emirates Stadium last night. The reigning champions strolled to victory over a newly-promoted Sky Blues side who could not have been handed a tougher assignment for their first top flight game in 25 years.
The MKM Stadium is the venue for the first of today’s top flight games, with Hull City beginning their latest stint in the Premier League with a match against Manchester United. Hull are currently making a total mockery of their status as white-hot favourites to be relegated, having roared out of the traps and taken a thoroughly deserved two-goal half-time lead through Semi Ajayi and Nobel Mendy. Can they close out the win ahead of a trio of three o’clock kick-offs featuring Everton v Crystal Palace, Ipswich Town v Sunderland and Nottingham Forest v Leeds United?
At 5.30pm (BST), Brentford will host big-spending Tottenham Hotspur at the Gtech Community Stadium to close out today’s top tier action and following the conclusion of Clockwatch, we’ll have live updates updates on the Guardian website. As is customary, we’ll bring you news of all the goals as they go in, while flagging up any major talking points or controversies in the top flight and beyond.