English League Championship

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Name
English League Championship

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Established
2004 (20 years old)

First Recorded Event
1892-09-03

Current Season
2024-2025

Level Below
English League 1

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Soccer

Location
England

Gender
Male

TV Rights
US - ESPN [2018-2021]

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26 Dec	Blackburn	-	Sunderland	3:00pm
26 Dec	Bristol City	-	Luton	3:00pm
26 Dec	Coventry	-	Plymouth	3:00pm
26 Dec	Derby	-	West Brom	5:30pm
26 Dec	Middlesbroug	-	Sheffield We	3:00pm
26 Dec	Norwich	-	Millwall	3:00pm
26 Dec	Oxford Utd	-	Cardiff	3:00pm
26 Dec	Preston	-	Hull	3:00pm
26 Dec	Sheffield Un	-	Burnley	3:00pm
26 Dec	Stoke	-	Leeds	8:00pm
Results
22 Dec	West Brom	2 - 0	Bristol City
21 Dec	Sunderland	2 - 1	Norwich
21 Dec	Sheffield We	2 - 0	Stoke
21 Dec	QPR	2 - 1	Preston
21 Dec	Portsmouth	4 - 1	Coventry
21 Dec	Plymouth	3 - 3	Middlesbroug
21 Dec	Millwall	1 - 0	Blackburn
21 Dec	Leeds	4 - 0	Oxford Utd
21 Dec	Hull	2 - 1	Swansea
21 Dec	Cardiff	0 - 2	Sheffield Un

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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

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Teams

Blackburn	Bristol City	Burnley	Cardiff
Coventry	Derby	Hull	Leeds
Luton	Middlesbrough	Millwall	Norwich
Oxford Utd	Plymouth	Portsmouth	Preston
QPR	Sheffield United	Sheffield Weds	Stoke
Sunderland	Swansea	Watford	West Brom