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English League Championship

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Established
2004 (22 years old)

First Recorded Event
1892-09-03

Current Season
2025-2026

Current Round


Level Above
English Premier League

Level Below
English League 1

Sport
Soccer

Location
England

Gender
Male

TV Rights
US - ESPN [2018-2021]

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22 May	Southampt	11:00pm	Hull City
Results
12 May	Southampt	2 - 1	Middlesbr
11 May	Millwall	0 - 2	Hull City
09 May	Middlesbr	0 - 0	Southampt
08 May	Hull City	0 - 0	Millwall
02 May	Preston N	1 - 3	Southampt
02 May	Portsmout	1 - 1	Birmingha
02 May	Swansea C	3 - 1	Charlton
02 May	Bristol C	2 - 0	Stoke Cit
02 May	Wrexham	2 - 2	Middlesbr
02 May	Millwall	2 - 0	Oxford Un

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.


Seasons

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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Last 5 winners
Coventry City (2025-2026)
Leeds (2024-2025)
Leicester (2023-2024)
Burnley (2022-2023)
Fulham (2021-2022)

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