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The 2024–25 EFL Championship (referred to as the Sky Bet Championship for sponsorship reasons) is the 9th season of the EFL Championship under its current title and the 33rd season under its current league division format.
The English Football League Championship, known simply as the Championship and for sponsorship purposes as Sky Bet Championship, [1] is a professional football league in England and Wales. EFL Championship is the highest division of the English Football League (EFL) and second-highest overall in the English football league system , after the ...
Ipswich Town have participated in the Championship play-offs a joint-record eight times: 1987, 1997–2000 inclusive, 2004, 2005 and 2015, making the final only once in 2000 when they won promotion with a 4–2 victory over Barnsley. Derby County have also qualified for the play-offs eight times, with their only promotion coming following a win ...
The play-offs began in each league with two semi-finals which were played over two legs. The teams who finished in 3rd to 6th place in the Championship and League One and the 4th to 7th-placed teams in League Two competed. The winners of the semi-finals advanced to the finals, with the winners gaining promotion for the following season. [1]
The match was televised live by Sky Sports on both its Football and Main Event channels and was also available for live streaming on Sky Go and NOW. [35] BBC Local Radio stations covered the game for each team: BBC Radio Leeds for Leeds United and BBC Radio Solent for Southampton. [36] [37] Talksport provided the national radio commentary with ...
The 2024–25 season is the 126th season of the English Football League (EFL) and the ninth season under that name after it was renamed from The Football League in 2016. For the 12th season, the league is sponsored by Sky Betting & Gaming and is therefore known as the Sky Bet EFL.
The 2023 EFL Championship play-off final was an association football match which was played on 27 May 2023 at Wembley Stadium, London, to determine the third and final team to gain promotion from the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football, to the Premier League.
As with the end to the previous season, the season was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in games being played behind closed doors.However, on 19 September 2020, two matches in the division, between Norwich City and Preston North End at Carrow Road, and between Middlesbrough and Bournemouth at The Riverside Stadium, were held in front of 1,000 spectators, as part of EFL pilots.