Soccer

EFL Championship

England

Season:: 2025-2026

The Football League Championship (often referred to as the Championship for short, or the Sky Bet Championship for sponsorship reasons) is the second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League. Each year, the top finishing teams in the Championship are promoted to the Premier League, and the lowest finishing teams are relegated. The Football League Championship, which was introduced for the 2004–05 season, was previously known as the Football League First Division (1992–2004), and before that was known as Division Two (1892–1992). The winners of the Championship receive the Football League Championship trophy, the same trophy as the old First Division champions were handed prior to the Premier League's inception in 1992. The Championship is the wealthiest non-top flight football division in the world and the seventh richest division in Europe. The average match attendance for the 2011–12 season was 17,738, which also makes it the most-watched secondary league in the world. In the 2013–14 season, Leicester City were the division champions, Burnley were the runners up. At present (2014–15 season), Ipswich Town hold the longest tenure in the Championship, last being out of the division in the 2001–02 season when they were relegated from the Premier League.

Standings▾

#	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Coventry City	46	28	11	7	97	45	52	95
2	Ipswich Town	46	23	15	8	80	47	33	84
3	Millwall	46	24	11	11	64	49	15	83
4	Southampton	46	22	14	10	82	56	26	80
5	Middlesbrough	46	22	14	10	72	47	25	80
6	Hull City	46	21	10	15	70	66	4	73
7	Wrexham	46	19	14	13	69	65	4	71
8	Derby County	46	20	9	17	67	59	8	69
9	Norwich City	46	19	8	19	63	56	7	65
10	Birmingham City	46	17	13	16	57	56	1	64
11	Swansea City	46	18	10	18	57	59	-2	64
12	Bristol City	46	17	11	18	59	59	0	62
13	Sheffield United	46	18	6	22	66	66	0	60
14	Preston North End	46	15	15	16	55	62	-7	60
15	Queens Park Rangers	46	16	10	20	61	73	-12	58
16	Watford	46	14	15	17	53	65	-12	57
17	Stoke City	46	15	10	21	51	56	-5	55
18	Portsmouth	46	14	13	19	49	64	-15	55
19	Charlton Athletic	46	13	14	19	44	58	-14	53
20	Blackburn Rovers	46	13	13	20	42	56	-14	52
21	West Bromwich Albion	46	13	14	19	48	58	-10	51
22	Oxford United	46	11	14	21	45	59	-14	47
23	Leicester City	46	12	16	18	58	68	-10	46
24	Sheffield Wednesday	46	2	12	32	29	89	-60	0