For most, Easter means eating an incredible amount of chocolate.
But for fans of the Championship, it also means a jam-packed schedule of football.
Every team in the second tier will play twice during the Easter period, with 12 games on Good Friday and another 12 on Easter Monday.
There are plenty of storylines emerging ahead of the busy schedule too, both at the top and bottom of the table.
Leeds and Burnley are in pole position for promotion to the Premier League, while there are multiple sides eyeing a play-off spot.
Meanwhile, six teams are separated by six points in the relegation battle, with things wide open heading into the climax.
Two of the remaining four matchdays of the season will occur over Easter, meaning so much can change over this long weekend…
Championship Easter fixtures
Leeds are sitting at the top of the Championship, and they could well have secured promotion by Monday evening.
Daniel Farke‘s side are five points clear and will face Oxford and Stoke in their fixtures over Easter.
Wins in both of those games would put them on the brink and could even get the job done, depending on Sheffield United‘s results.
The Blades will hope to beat relegation-threatened Cardiff despite poor recent form, setting up a blockbuster against Burnley.
On Easter Monday, Sheffield United face Scott Parker‘s men and that game could well determine the automatic promotion slots.
In the play-off race, Bristol City, Frank Lampard‘s Coventry, West Brom, Middlesbrough and Millwall are in a battle.
Those teams are separated by four points heading into the Easter schedule and only two places are available.
Coventry face West Brom on Good Friday in a huge clash, while Plymouth could shake things up, playing Middlesbrough and the Sky Blues across the long weekend.
And Plymouth are fighting for their lives at the bottom themselves, sitting three points from safety along with Luton.
Cardiff, Derby, Hull, Portsmouth, Stoke and Oxford all remain threatened by the drop in what is going to be a thrilling finish.
Derby face Luton, live on talkSPORT 2, on Friday before Cardiff take on Oxford on Monday, so things could really be shaken up.
talkSPORT are going to have live coverage of six games across our network over the Easter period.
Along with Derby vs Luton, Coventry vs West Brom will be on talkSPORT 2 on Friday with commentary from Nigel Adderley and former Leicester winger Marc Albrighton.
Massive games for Sheffield United and Leeds will be on talkSPORT as well, later on in the evening on the same day.
Then, on Monday, the monster meeting between the Blades and Burnley is exclusively live on talkSPORT.
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The full Easter Championship schedule can be found below…
Good Friday – Friday, April 18
- Derby vs Luton – 12:30pm – live on talkSPORT 2
- Blackburn vs Millwall – 3pm
- Bristol City vs Sunderland – 3pm
- Coventry vs West Brom – 3pm – live on talkSPORT 2
- Middlesbrough vs Plymouth – 3pm
- Norwich vs Portsmouth – 3pm
- Preston vs QPR – 3pm
- Stoke vs Sheffield Wednesday – 3pm
- Swansea vs Hull – 3pm
- Watford vs Burnley – 3pm
- Sheffield United vs Cardiff – 5:30pm – live on talkSPORT
- Oxford vs Leeds – 8pm – live on talkSPORT
Easter Monday – Monday, April 21
- Cardiff vs Oxford – 3pm
- Hull vs Preston – 3pm
- Leeds vs Stoke – 3pm – live on talkSPORT 2
- Luton vs Bristol City – 3pm
- Millwall vs Norwich – 3pm
- Plymouth vs Coventry – 3pm
- Portsmouth vs Watford – 3pm
- QPR vs Swansea – 3pm
- Sheffield Wednesday vs Middlesbrough – 3pm
- Sunderland vs Blackburn – 3pm
- West Brom vs Derby – 3pm
- Burnley vs Sheffield United – 5:30pm – live on talkSPORT
