Championship Live Scores, Fixtures, Results and Standings

Championship

The Championship is a men’s league competition in England, with recorded season coverage from 2011 to 2025. This page brings together live scores, fixtures, results and standings, alongside player and team statistics, so visitors can follow the competition over time and review available season data in one place, from match details to longer-term statistical context.

Upcoming matches, Championship

Regular Season - 6

  • - Regular Season - 6
    Bristol City Bristol City
    Lincoln Lincoln
    Ashton Gate Stadium
  • - Regular Season - 6
    Middlesbrough Middlesbrough
    Millwall Millwall
    Riverside Stadium

Regular Season - 8

  • - Regular Season - 8
    Bristol City Bristol City
    Watford Watford
    Ashton Gate Stadium
  • - Regular Season - 8
    Stoke City Stoke City
    Sheffield Utd
  • - Regular Season - 8
    Millwall Millwall
    West Ham West Ham
    The Den
  • - Regular Season - 8
    Cardiff Cardiff
    Charlton Charlton
  • - Regular Season - 8
    Birmingham Birmingham
    Middlesbrough Middlesbrough
  • - Regular Season - 8
    Wrexham Wrexham
    Southampton Southampton
  • - Regular Season - 8
    QPR QPR
    Preston Preston
  • - Regular Season - 8
    Portsmouth Portsmouth
    Blackburn Blackburn
    Fratton Park

Latest played matches, Championship

Regular Season - 7

  • Regular Season - 7
    Sheffield Utd
    0 - 1
    Wolves Wolves
    Bramall Lane
  • Regular Season - 7
    Blackburn Blackburn
    3 - 1
    Millwall Millwall
  • Regular Season - 7
    Charlton Charlton
    0 - 0
    Portsmouth Portsmouth
    The Valley
  • Regular Season - 7
    Preston Preston
    0 - 1
    Lincoln Lincoln
    Deepdale
  • Regular Season - 7
    Middlesbrough Middlesbrough
    4 - 3
    Norwich Norwich
    Riverside Stadium
  • Regular Season - 7
    Southampton Southampton
    4 - 1
    Bristol City Bristol City
  • Regular Season - 7
    Swansea Swansea
    3 - 1
    Burnley Burnley
  • Regular Season - 7
    Watford Watford
    1 - 2
    Stoke City Stoke City
    Vicarage Road
  • Regular Season - 7
    Derby Derby
    1 - 2
    Birmingham Birmingham
  • Regular Season - 7
    Bolton Bolton
    1 - 0
    Cardiff Cardiff
    Toughsheet Community Stadium

Championship Standings

Rank Club MP W D L GF GA GD Pts Last 5
1 		West Ham 7 4 2 1 20 9 11 14 WWWWD
2 		Swansea 7 4 2 1 11 5 6 14 WLDWW
3 		West Brom 7 4 2 1 10 7 3 14 DWWDL
4 		Middlesbrough 6 4 1 1 12 8 4 13 WWDWL
5 		QPR 7 3 3 1 8 5 3 12 DDLWW
6 		Charlton 7 3 3 1 6 7 -1 12 DDLDW
7 		Wolves 6 3 2 1 14 10 4 11 WDLWW
8 		Southampton 7 4 2 1 18 8 10 10 WWDDW
9 		Birmingham 7 2 4 1 10 9 1 10 WLDDW
10 		Stoke City 7 3 1 3 11 11 0 10 WDWWL
11 		Bristol City 6 3 1 2 10 11 -1 10 LWWWD
12 		Norwich 7 3 0 4 13 13 0 9 LWWLW
13 		Millwall 6 3 0 3 11 11 0 9 LWLLW
14 		Sheffield Utd 7 2 3 2 8 9 -1 9 LWLWD
15 		Blackburn 7 2 2 3 10 10 0 8 WLLDL
16 		Lincoln 6 2 2 2 5 6 -1 8 WDDWL
17 		Watford 7 2 2 3 7 9 -2 8 LWLLD
18 		Portsmouth 6 2 1 3 7 8 -1 7 DWLLW
19 		Wrexham 7 1 4 2 7 11 -4 7 LDDWL
20 		Bolton 7 2 1 4 7 12 -5 7 WLLLL
21 		Cardiff 7 0 4 3 7 11 -4 4 LDLLD
22 		Derby 7 1 1 5 6 13 -7 4 LLLWL
23 		Preston 7 1 0 6 6 13 -7 3 LLWLL
24 		Burnley 7 0 3 4 8 16 -8 3 LDLDL
Promotion - Premier League
Promotion - Championship (Play Offs: Semi-finals)
Promotion - Championship (Play Offs: Quarter-finals)
Relegation - League One

Championship Statistics

Top scorers 2026

# Player Goals
1 C. Larin
Southampton 		6
2 W. Lankshear
Middlesbrough 		4
3 M. Touré
Norwich 		4
4 L. Dykes
Millwall 		3
5 R. Jiménez
Wolves 		3
6 J. Bowen
West Ham 		3
7 C. Lang
Preston 		3
8 F. Azaz
Southampton 		3
9 Rodrigo Gomes
Wolves 		2
10 S. Berhalter
Middlesbrough 		2

Top assists 2026

# Player Assists
1 Rio Cardines
Bristol City 		3
2 L. Millar
Birmingham 		3
3 T. Conway
Middlesbrough 		2
4 J. Morgan
West Brom 		2
5 K. Walker-Peters
West Ham 		2
6 V. Castellanos
West Ham 		2
7 Jenson Metcalfe
Millwall 		2
8 J. Bowen
West Ham 		2
9 André
Wolves 		2
10 F. Azaz
Southampton 		2

Top key passes

Top tackles

Top yellow cards

Top red cards

Championship teams participation since 2011

History

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Team Nb participations
Birmingham 14
Middlesbrough 14
Bristol City 13
Millwall 13
Blackburn 13
Derby 13
Cardiff 12
QPR 12
Sheffield Wednesday 12
Reading 11
Preston 11
Leeds 11
Hull City 11
Nottingham Forest 11
Huddersfield 10
Ipswich 10
Watford 9
Norwich 9
Stoke City 8
Swansea 8
Barnsley 8
Brentford 7
West Brom 7
Rotherham 7
Coventry 7
Fulham 6
Burnley 6
Brighton 6
Wigan 6
Sheffield Utd 6
Bolton 6
Charlton 6
Blackpool 6
Wolves 5
Leicester 5
Luton 5
Bournemouth 4
Sunderland 4
Southampton 3
Aston Villa 3
Peterborough 3
Portsmouth 3
Crystal Palace 2
Burton Albion 2
Oxford United 2

Championship top scorer teams

Goals scored vs. conversion rate

Team Goals scored Total shots Conversion %
West Ham 20 111
18%
Southampton 18 110
16.4%
Wolves 14 95
14.7%
Norwich 13 110
11.8%
Middlesbrough 12 102
11.8%
Stoke City 11 83
13.3%
Swansea 11 86
12.8%
Millwall 11 89
12.4%
Blackburn 10 85
11.8%
Birmingham 10 93
10.8%
Bristol City 10 79
12.7%
West Brom 10 71
14.1%
Burnley 8 101
7.9%
QPR 8 104
7.7%
Sheffield Utd 8 58
13.8%
Watford 7 82
8.5%
Bolton 7 88
8%
Portsmouth 7 88
8%
Cardiff 7 123
5.7%
Wrexham 7 79
8.9%
Charlton 6 71
8.5%
Derby 6 81
7.4%
Preston 6 89
6.7%
Lincoln 5 79
6.3%

Championship About

Championship is a professional men’s league in England and the second tier of the English football pyramid, governed by the English Football League (EFL). Its central purpose is to provide a national competition in which 24 clubs pursue promotion to the Premier League while competing to avoid relegation to EFL League One. Although its focus is domestic, the league has a substantial international audience and is recognised as one of the strongest and most commercially significant second divisions in world football.

Identity and place in the English game

The Championship sits between the Premier League and EFL League One within England’s promotion-and-relegation system. Clubs gain entry through two sporting routes: relegation from the Premier League or promotion from League One. Membership is therefore continuously renewed, giving the competition a distinctive mixture of established professional clubs, recently relegated sides and ambitious teams moving up the pyramid. Clubs must also satisfy the EFL’s competition, ownership and financial governance requirements.

The official Championship identity dates from 2004, when the former First Division was renamed as part of the EFL’s modern competition structure. Its historical lineage is considerably older. The division began as the Second Division in 1892, with the first recorded event taking place on 3 September that year. It became the First Division in 1992 after the creation of the Premier League, before adopting the Championship name in 2004. This history makes the competition both a modern commercial brand and a direct continuation of one of English football’s foundational league divisions.

League format and promotion race

The Championship is a double round-robin league rather than a knockout cup. Each club plays every other club twice, once at home and once away, producing 46 matches per team across a standard 24-club season. Three points are awarded for a win, one for a draw and none for a defeat. The final table is determined primarily by points, followed by goal difference and goals scored under the applicable competition regulations.

The top two clubs receive automatic promotion to the Premier League. The remaining promotion place is decided through the play-offs, which turn the closing stages of the season into a separate knockout contest. Traditionally, the play-offs involve the teams finishing third to sixth. The third- and fourth-placed clubs meet the sixth- and fifth-placed clubs respectively in two-legged semi-finals, with the winners progressing to a one-match final at Wembley Stadium.

EFL regulations have also set out a six-team Championship play-off structure from the 2026–27 season. Under that model, clubs finishing third to eighth qualify: fifth plays eighth and sixth plays seventh in single-leg eliminators, while the third- and fourth-placed clubs enter at the semi-final stage. Those semi-finals are played over two legs, followed by a Wembley final to determine the third promoted club. Because competition regulations can change, the official season rules remain the definitive reference for the format applying in any particular campaign.

Match rules and decisive ties

Regular-season matches follow the standard laws of association football. League positions are settled through the published EFL ranking criteria, with points, goal difference and goals scored forming the principal measures. Where an exceptional tie directly affects promotion, relegation or another decisive outcome, the regulations may provide for an additional deciding match or other prescribed procedure rather than relying on an informal sporting judgement.

In the play-offs, the semi-finals are decided on aggregate score across two legs. If the aggregate score is level after the second leg, the tie proceeds to extra time and, if necessary, a penalty shoot-out. The away-goals rule is not used. The final is a single match, so a level score after normal time is likewise resolved through extra time and penalties when required. This combination of league consistency and knockout pressure is one of the competition’s defining features.

Calendar, governance and sporting stakes

A Championship season normally runs from August to May. The long league programme tests squad depth, consistency and resilience, while the play-offs reward clubs capable of handling the intense pressure of a short end-of-season campaign. The bottom three clubs are relegated to League One, creating an equally significant battle at the foot of the table.

The EFL administers the competition through its league governance framework and member-club structures. Promotion to the Premier League is the principal prize, bringing access to the top level of English football and a major increase in sporting and broadcast exposure. That financial and competitive incentive explains why the Championship is often described as one of football’s most consequential leagues: every campaign combines the certainty of a full league schedule with the possibility that a single play-off tie can define a club’s future.

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