EFL Championship
EFL Championship | |
Full name | Sky Bet Championship |
Association | The Football Association |
First edition | 2004/05 |
hierarchy | 2nd league |
Teams | 24 teams |
master | Leeds United (1st title) |
Record champions |
Sunderland FC Reading FC Newcastle United Wolverhampton Wanderers (2 wins each) |
Current season | 2019/20 |
Website | efl.com |
↑ Premier League (I) ↓ EFL League One (III)
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The EFL Championship (until 2016 Football League Championship , other names: The Championship or Sky Bet Championship (official sponsor name)) has been the second highest division in English football after the Premier League since the 2004/05 season . It replaced the First Division . It is the top division within the English Football League .
With over 11 million viewers in the 2017/18 season, which was 20,489 viewers per game, the league is one of the most popular football leagues in the world.
structure
In the EFL Championship, 24 teams play in a simple round with a return leg. Every win is rewarded with three points and every draw with one point. At the end of a season, the two highest-ranked clubs in the final table are promoted directly to the Premier League. In addition, a third promoted player is determined who has completed the playing time between third and sixth position and wins two play-off rounds. In the play-offs, the third against the sixth placed and the fourth against the fifth placed in a return game, whereby the weaker team has home rights in the first game. The away goals rule does not apply . The two winners then play the third promoted team in a final at Wembley Stadium (2005 and 2006 because of the new Wembley building in Cardiff's Millennium Stadium ). The three promoted players will be replaced by the three relegated members from the Premier League, who have occupied the last three places in the final table in their league. Similarly, the last three teams in the EFL Championship are relegated to the third division, EFL League One , and are replaced by three promoted teams from this league according to the same principle. The position within the league is determined according to the following criteria: points scored, goal difference , goals scored, mini-table of two or more teams taking into account the aforementioned criteria, play-off game (s).
Teams in the 2019/20 season
Winner of the EFL Championship
Relegated to the EFL Championship
This table shows the three relegated teams from the EFL Championship in each season. The number of points achieved is shown in brackets.
Audience numbers
This table shows the attendance figures for the EFL Championship in each season.
season | Number of spectators | Number of games | Cut per game |
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2004/05 | 9,614,170 | 552 | 17,417 |
2005/06 | 9,719,263 | 552 | 17.607 |
2006/07 | 10,034,853 | 552 | 18,179 |
2007/08 | 9,398,767 | 552 | 17,027 |
2008/09 | 9,874,176 | 552 | 17,888 |
2009/10 | 9,907,882 | 552 | 17,949 |
2010/11 | 9,587,436 | 552 | 17,369 |
2011/12 | 9,791,717 | 552 | 17,739 |
2012/13 | 9,656,126 | 552 | 17,493 |
2013/14 | 9,166,004 | 552 | 16.605 |
2014/15 | 9,839,335 | 551 | 17,857 |
2015/16 | 9,705,635 | 552 | 17,583 |
2016/17 | 11,105,922 | 552 | 20,119 |
2017/18 | 11,309,726 | 552 | 20,489 |
2018/19 | 11.113.037 | 552 | 20,132 |
2019/20 | 8,251,897 | 552 | 18,585 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Championship 2017/2018 - spectators. Retrieved January 26, 2019 .
- ↑ EFL Official Website - Rules & Regulations. Retrieved May 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Abortion and evaluation as 0-0 by Blackpool against Huddersfield Town. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .