A Football League Championship (typically known as A Championship for even short or a Coca-Cola Football League Championship for sponsorship reasons) is the greatest section of The Football League and second-greatest section overall in the English football league system after the FA Premier League.

Structure
There are Two dozen teams in the Football League Championship. To both 1 team plays each more twice (when home, it used to be that away) & is awarded trey points for the win, one for the draw & zero for the loss. From either these points the league table is constructed. At a prevent of both year a top deuce teams, together by owning a winner of a play-offs between the teams which finished within 3rd-6th position, come promoted to the FA Premier League and are replaced per troika teams that finished at a bottom of that league. Likewise a terzetto teams which finished at a bottom of the Football League Championship come relegated to Football League One & are replaced per teams which finished First, Second, and won a 3rd-6th place play-off in this section.

Final League position is determined, therein sequentially, by points found, goal difference, goals scored, the mini-league of the effects between ii or even supplementary teams ranked using the last leash criteria & eventually a series of a single or thomas more match matches.

History

A Football League Championship was introduced for the 2004-2005 season. It replaced a Football League First Division.

Inside 2004-05, the Football League Championship got the sum attendence of Niner.8 million, which was a 4th greatest aggregate attendence for a European football section, behind the FA Premier League (Twelve.88m), Spain's Primera división (11.57m) & Germany's Bundesliga (10.92m), but pulsating Italy's Serie A (9.77m) & France's Ligue 1 (8.17m).[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/4748403.stm][http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-1712938,00.html][http://www.thefa.com/TheFA/NewsFromTheFA/Postings/2005/08/Features_ChampionshipSuccess.htm]; The Championship has Xxiv clubs within comparison Twenty clubs in each Serie A & Ligue One.

Football League Championship clubs, 2005-06

Note: At a prevent of survive year, Sunderl& and Wigan Athetic automatically gained promotion to the FA Premier League while West Ham United won promotion via the playoffs. Gillingham, Nottingham Outdoors, & Rotherham United were relegated to Football League One

Winners of the Football League Championship

For promptly information, teams around bold come champions that likewise owned a league's top scorer in a year it won the title. For preceding winners at this level from either 1993 to 2004, watch Football League First Division.
For past winners at this level as much as 1992, look at Football League Second Division.