English League Championship

The English Football League Championship is the highest division of the English Football League (EFL) and second-highest overall in the English football league system, sitting below the Premier League contested by 24 professional clubs from England and Wales.

In its present form, the Championship traces its legacy to the original Football League Second Division, which became the First Division in 1992 when the top flight of English football was reorganised as the Premier League. The current competition was intended for the 2004–05 season as the Football League Championship as a rebrand of the First Division. The winning club of this division each season receives the EFL Championship trophy, which was the previous trophy awarded to the winners of the English top-flight prior to the launch of the Premier League. As with other divisions of professional English football, Welsh clubs can be part of this division, thus making it a cross-border league.

Each season, the two top-finishing teams in the Championship are automatically promoted to the Premier League. The teams that finish the season in third to sixth place enter a play-off tournament, with the winner also gaining promotion to the Premier League. The three lowest-finishing teams in the Championship are relegated to League One.

The Championship is the wealthiest non-top-flight football division in the world, the ninth-richest division in Europe, and the 12th best-attended division in world football (with the second highest per-match attendance of any secondary league – after the German 2. Bundesliga). Its average match attendance for the 2022–23 season was 18,787.

Cardiff City have spent more seasons in this

#	Club	P	W	D	L	GD	Pts
1	Middlesbrough	12	7	4	1	10	25
2	Swansea City	12	7	2	3	3	23
3	West Ham United	12	6	4	2	17	22
4	Wolverhampton Wanderers	12	6	3	3	4	21
5	West Bromwich Albion	12	6	3	3	3	21
6	Southampton	12	7	3	2	12	20
7	Birmingham City	12	5	5	2	8	20
8	Queens Park Rangers	12	5	5	2	8	20
9	Stoke City	12	6	2	4	2	20
10	Blackburn Rovers	12	5	3	4	3	18
11	Portsmouth	12	5	3	4	1	18
12	Sheffield United	12	4	4	4	1	16
13	Millwall	12	4	3	5	-1	15
14	Bristol City	12	4	3	5	-3	15
15	Lincoln City	12	4	3	5	-7	15
16	Cardiff City	12	3	5	4	2	14
17	Wrexham	12	3	5	4	-3	14
18	Bolton Wanderers	12	4	2	6	-7	14
19	Charlton Athletic	12	3	5	4	-7	14
20	Norwich City	12	4	0	8	-2	12
21	Watford	12	3	2	7	-10	11
22	Burnley	12	1	5	6	-8	8
23	Derby County	12	1	4	7	-11	7
24	Preston North End	12	1	2	9	-15	5

Tables are available for selected soccer competitions and seasons only. No positions are estimated.