Sheffield Wednesday’s first league home game of the season is set-up to be a cracker.

Sheffield Wednesday supporters will be hoping news around their home clash with Bradford City is a sign of things to come.

The club released a ticket update confirming over 30,000 seats had been sold for what will be the first hosting of the league campaign and that home fans will be seated in the West Stand lower - always a sign of a big game atmosphere at S6. The match is expected to be a capacity sell-out, with 1,500 further tickets having been made available to Wednesdayites in that part of the ground.

It comes amid record season ticket sales of over 24,000 as optimism rises around the club since its proactive takeover by US consortium Arise Capital Partners. The top-out prices of tickets for the clash prompted a level of controversy online, with a small number of those going out at £46 before discussions with the Supporters Trust led to an admission that the new Owls hierarchy would review their Category A match pricing policy.

The reaction to that top-line figure doesn’t appear to have dissuaded Wednesday fans from a bumper attendance. West Stand Lower tickets have been put on sale at £35.50. Bradford travel in good numbers and are expected to sell out the away end.

Wednesday’s record in front of a sold-out Hillsborough is impressive. The most recent occasion that saw home fans in the Lower was last season’s final day win over West Brom that saw Arise welcomed as the club’s new ownership.

The turn-out for the Bradford clash is made more impressive in that it will be televised and played on a Thursday night - having been rescheduled from its original Saturday kick-off. Owls supporters will hope for many more bumper attendances as the campaign continues.