英格蘭足球冠軍聯賽
The Football League Championship (often referred to as The Championship for short or the Coca-Cola Football League Championship for sponsorship reasons) is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the FA Premier League.
結構
There are 24 teams in the Football League Championship. Each team plays each other twice (once at home, once away) and is awarded three points for a win, one for a draw and zero for a loss. From these points a league table is constructed. At the end of each season the top two teams, together with the winner of the play-offs between the teams which finished in 3rd-6th position, are promoted to the FA Premier League and are replaced by the three teams that finished at the bottom of that league. Similarly the three teams which finished at the bottom of the Football League Championship are relegated to Football League One and are replaced by the teams which finished 1st, 2nd, and won the 3rd-6th place play-off in that division.
Final League position is determined, in this order, by points obtained, goal difference, goals scored, a mini-league of the results between two or more teams ranked using the previous three criteria and finally a series of one or more play off matches.
歷史
The Football League Championship was introduced for the 2004-2005 season. It replaced the Football League First Division.
In 2004-05, the Football League Championship had a total attendence of 9.8 million, which was the fourth highest total attendence for a European football division, behind the FA Premier League (12.88m), Spain's Primera división (11.57m) and Germany's Bundesliga (10.92m), but beating Italy's Serie A (9.77m) and France's Ligue 1 (8.17m).[1][2][3]; the Championship has 24 clubs compared to 20 clubs in both Serie A and Ligue 1.
2005-06年英冠聯球隊
| 球隊名稱 |
上季聯賽排名 |
|---|---|
| 白禮頓 | 第20位 |
| 般尼 | 第13位 |
| 卡迪夫城 | 第16位 |
| 高雲地利 | 第19位 |
| 克魯 | 第21位 |
| 水晶宮 | 第18位（從英超降級） |
| 打比郡 | 第4位 |
| 侯城 | 第2位（從英甲直接升級） |
| 葉士域治 | 第3位 |
| 列斯聯 | 第14位 |
| 李斯特城 | 第15位 |
| 盧頓 | 第1位（從英甲直接升級） |
| 米禾爾 | 第10位 |
| 諾域治 | 第19位（從英超降級） |
| 普利茅夫 | 第17位 |
| 普雷斯頓 | 第5位 |
| 昆士柏流浪 | 第11位 |
| 雷丁 | 第7位 |
| 錫菲聯 | 第8位 |
| 錫周三 | 第5位（從英甲透過附加賽升級） |
| 修咸頓 | 第20位（從英超降級） |
| 史篤城 | 第12位 |
| 屈福特 | 第18位 |
| 狼隊 | 第9位 |
Note: At the end of last season, Sunderland and Wigan Athetic automatically gained promotion to the FA Premier League while West Ham United won promotion via the playoffs. Gillingham, Nottingham Forest, and Rotherham United were relegated to Football League One
英冠聯盟主
For quick reference, teams in bold are champions that also owned the league's top scorer in the season they won the title.
| Year | Winner | Top Scorer |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 桑德兰 | 埃林顿, 维甘竞技 (24球) |