The English Football Championship (often called the Short Championship or Sky Bet Championship for reasons of sponsorship) is the highest division of the English Football League (EFL) and the second highest total of the English Football League system. after the Premier League. Each year, the best teams in the ranking are promoted to the Premier League and the teams with the worst results are relegated to the first division.
The championship is the world's least-enriched football division and the seventh richest division in Europe. With an average participation in the match for the 2016-2017 season of 20,130, the Championship ranked second after the German Bundesliga as the most viewed secondary league in the world.
Barnsley spent more seasons in the second level of English football than any other team and on January 3, 2011, he became the first club to win 1,000 victories in the second level with a 2-1 home win over Coventry City. Barnsley is also the first club to play 3,000-second division football matches (W1028, D747, L1224). Currently, Ipswich Town has the longest term in the championship, being the last out of the division in the 2001-2002 season when they were relegated to the Premier League.
History
For the history before 2004, see the first division of football after 1993 and the second division of football before this year
In its inaugural 2004-2005 season, the football championship announced a total attendance (including the playoffs) of 9.8 million, the fourth highest participation of a European football division, behind the FA Premier League. (12.88 m). The Spanish La Liga (11.57 m) and the German Bundesliga (10.92 m), but beating Italy (9.77 m) and Ligue 1 (8.17 m). The presence of 24 clubs contributed something to the situation, against 20 clubs in Serie A and Ligue 1 and 18 clubs in the Bundesliga. An important factor in the success of the competition comes from television revenues.
Sunderland won the first championship of the season since the change of score, and Wigan Athletic finished second to win the promotion to the highest level of English football for the first time in its history. They had been chosen for the Football League only twenty-seven years ago; Play in the fourth level as recently as eleven years before your promotion. West Ham United won the first final of the championship playoffs this season after a 1-0 victory over Preston North End at Cardiff Millennium Stadium. In season 2005-06, Reading broke the record of points of the league of a season, finishing 106 points, surpassing the record of Sunderland in 1999.
Sunderland won its second league title in three seasons during the 2006-2007 season. On May 4, 2007, Leeds United became the first team since the rebranding of the division to enter the administration; they were deducted from ten points and relegated accordingly. On May 28, 2007, Derby County won the first playoff final at the new Wembley Stadium, ahead of West Bromwich Albion 1-0 in front of almost 75,000 spectators. West Brom will win the championship the following season.
On September 30, 2009, Coca-Cola announced that it would finalize its sponsorship agreement with the Football League (now the English Football League) at the end of the 2009-2010 season. On March 16, 2010, power was named new sponsor of the Football League and, since the start of the 2010-2011 season until the end of the 2012-2013 season, the league championship is known as the championship. of Npower.
On July 18, 2013, British betting house Sky Bet announced that it signed a five-year contract to sponsor the league.
On May 24, 2014, the championship final between Derby County and Queens Park Rangers saw the biggest crowd of any championship game: 87,348 witnesses of a Bobby Zamora strike at QPR.
For the 2016-17 season, the Football League has changed its name to English Football League. That season, Rotherham United recorded the lowest total points in Championship history, winning only 23 points in 46 games. The league counted with more than 11 million spectators, without counting the playoffs, with more than two million spectators watching only the home games of Newcastle United and Aston Villa; both had been relegated from the Premier League the previous season. This has been included in the largest crowds from second to fourth place in England since the 1958-1959 season.
Structure of the league
The league has 24 teams. During a season, which takes place every year from August to May, each team plays twice against the others in the league, once at home and once outside. Each team participates in 46 games in total. Three points are awarded for a win, one for a draw and zero for a loss. The teams are classified according to the points obtained, then the difference of goals, then the goals scored, then their personal best for the season. In the event that two or more teams finish the season in all aspects, the teams are separated alphabetically, unless it is a promotion, descent or blocking position (see below), when the teams are separated. for an exit game, although this improbable situation never appeared in all the years that the rule existed.
At the end of the season, the two best teams and the winner of the championship playoffs are promoted to the Premier League and the last three teams are relegated to the first. The league soccer championship playoffs constitute an elimination competition for the teams that finish the season in third place in the sixth place, and the winner is promoted to the first division. In tiebreaks, the third classified team plays against the sixth-ranked team and the fourth classified team plays the fifth-ranked team in the two-legged semifinal (local and away). The winners of each semifinal will compete in a single match at Wembley Stadium, with the prize for sale in the Premier League and the Dam Trophy.
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