![]() ![]() Its average match attendance for the 2018–19 season was 20,181. The Championship is the wealthiest non-top-flight football division in the world, the ninth-richest division in Europe, and the tenth best-attended division in world football (with the highest per-match attendance of any secondary league). The three lowest-finishing teams in the Championship are relegated to League One. The teams that finish the season in 3rd to 6th place enter a playoff tournament, with the winner also gaining promotion to the Premier League. As in other divisions of professional English football, Welsh clubs can be part of the division, making it a cross-border league.Įach season, the two top-finishing teams in the Championship are automatically promoted to the Premier League. The winning club of the Championship receives the EFL Championship trophy, the same trophy that was awarded to English First Division champions from until 1992. Introduced for the 2004–05 season as the Football League Championship, the division was previously known as the Football League Second Division ( 1892– 1992) and Football League First Division ( 1992– 2004). The English Football League Championship (often referred to as the Championship for short or the Sky Bet Championship for sponsorship purposes) is the highest division of the English Football League (EFL) and second-highest overall in the English football league system, after the Premier League.
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