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English League Championship

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Established
2004 (21 years old)

First Recorded Event
1892-09-03

Current Season
2025-2026

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Level Below
English League 1

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Soccer

Location
England

Gender
Male

TV Rights
US - ESPN [2018-2021]

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21 Nov	Preston N	8:00pm	Blackburn
22 Nov	Ipswich T	3:00pm	Wrexham
22 Nov	Charlton	12:30pm	Southampt
22 Nov	Queens Pa	3:00pm	Hull City
22 Nov	Derby Cou	3:00pm	Watford
22 Nov	Leicester	3:00pm	Stoke Cit
22 Nov	Coventry	12:30pm	West Brom
22 Nov	Oxford Un	3:00pm	Middlesbr
22 Nov	Birmingha	3:00pm	Norwich C
22 Nov	Bristol C	12:30pm	Swansea C
Results
08 Nov	Southampt	3 - 1	Sheffield
08 Nov	West Brom	2 - 1	Oxford Un
08 Nov	Swansea C	1 - 4	Ipswich T
08 Nov	Hull City	3 - 2	Portsmout
08 Nov	Middlesbr	2 - 1	Birmingha
08 Nov	Blackburn	1 - 2	Derby Cou
08 Nov	Stoke Cit	0 - 1	Coventry
08 Nov	Wrexham	1 - 0	Charlton
08 Nov	Millwall	1 - 1	Preston N
08 Nov	Norwich C	1 - 2	Leicester

Description

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.

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Teams

Birmingham City	Blackburn Rovers	Bristol City	Charlton Athletic
Coventry City	Derby County	Hull City	Ipswich Town
Leicester City	Middlesbrough	Millwall	Norwich City
Oxford United	Portsmouth	Preston North End	Queens Park Range
Sheffield United	Sheffield Wednesd	Southampton	Stoke City
Swansea City	Watford	West Bromwich Alb	Wrexham

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