2005-06 Football League Championship

Football League Championship
Season 2005–06
Champions Reading
Promoted Reading
Sheffield United
Watford
Relegated Crewe Alexandra
Millwall
Brighton & Hove Albion
Matches played 557
Goals scored 1341 (2.41 per match)
Top goalscorer Marlon King (Watford), 21 [1]

The 2005-06 Football League Championship is the second season of the league under its current title and fourteenth season under its current league division format.

Contents

Changes from last season

Team changes

From First Division

Promoted toPremier League

Relegated to Second Division

To First Division

Promoted from Second Division

Relegated from Premier League

Team overview

Stadia and locations

Locations of the Football League Championship 2005–2006 teams
Team Location Stadium Capacity
Burnley Burnley Turf Moor 22,546
Brighton & Hove Albion Brighton & Hove Withdean Stadium 8,850
Cardiff City Cardiff Ninian Park 21,508
Coventry City Coventry Highfield Road 23,489
Crewe Alexandra Crewe Alexandra Stadium 10,153
Crystal Palace London Selhurst Park 26,309
Derby County Derby Pride Park Stadium 33,597
Hull City Hull KC Stadium 25,586
Ipswich Town Ipswich Portman Road 30,311
Leeds United Leeds Elland Road 39,460
Leicester City Leicester Walkers Stadium 32,50
Luton Town Luton Kenilworth Road 10,226
Millwall London The Den 20,146
Norwich City Norwich Carrow Road 26,018
Plymouth Argyle Plymouth Home Park 18,000
Preston North End Preston Deepdale 23,408
Queens Park Rangers London Loftus Road 18,360
Reading Reading Madjeski Stadium 24,161
Sheffield United Sheffield Bramall Lane 32,702
Sheffield Wednesday Sheffield Hillsborough Stadium 39,812
Southampton Southampton St Mary's Stadium 32,690
Stoke City Stoke Britannia Stadium 27,740
Watford Watford Vicarage Road 17,504
Wolverhampton Wanderers Wolverhampton Molineux 27,828

League Table

Pos
 Team
 Pld
 W
 D
 L
 GF
 GA
 GD
 Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Reading (C) (P) 46 31 13 2 99 32 +67 106 Promotion to the 2006–07 FA Premier League
2 Sheffield United (P) 46 26 14 6 76 46 +30 92
3 Watford (P) 46 22 15 9 77 53 +24 81 Qualification to the 2005-06 Championship Playoffs
4 Preston North End 46 20 20 6 59 30 +29 80
5 Leeds United 46 21 15 10 57 38 +19 78
6 Crystal Palace 46 21 12 13 67 48 +19 75
7 Wolverhampton Wanderers 46 16 19 11 50 42 +8 67
8 Coventry City 46 16 15 15 62 65 −3 63
9 Norwich City 46 18 8 20 56 65 −9 62
10 Luton Town 46 17 10 19 66 67 −1 61
11 Cardiff City 46 16 12 18 58 59 −1 60
12 Southampton 46 13 19 14 49 50 −1 58
13 Stoke City 46 17 7 22 54 63 −9 58
14 Plymouth Argyle 46 13 17 16 39 46 −7 56
15 Ipswich Town 46 14 14 18 53 66 −13 56
16 Leicester City 46 13 15 18 51 59 −8 54
17 Burnley 46 14 12 20 46 54 −8 54
18 Hull City 49 15 16 18 39 52 −13 61
19 Sheffield Wednesday 46 13 13 20 49 55 −6 52
20 Derby County 46 10 20 16 53 67 −14 50
21 Queens Park Rangers 46 12 14 20 50 65 −15 50*
22 Crewe Alexandra (R) 46 9 15 22 57 86 −29 42 Relegation to the 2006-07 League One
23 Millwall (R) 43 8 12 23 35 62 −27 36
24 Brighton & Hove Albion (R) 46 7 17 22 39 71 −32 38

Updated to games played on 02 December 2011
Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Play-offs

Semi-finals

First leg

05/05/2006
19:45 BST
 Leeds United 1 – 1 Preston North End Elland Road
Referee: P Crossley
Lewis  74' Statistics Nugent  48'
06/05/2006
12:15 BST
 Crystal Palace 0 – 3 Watford Selhurst Park
Referee: M J Jones
Statistics King  46'
Young  67'
Spring  85'

Second leg

08/05/2006
20:00 BST
 Preston North End 0 – 2 Leeds United Deepdale
Referee: Mike Thorpe
Statistics Hulse  56'
Richardson  61'
Crainey  68'
Cresswell  90'
09/05/2006
19:45 BST
 Watford 0 – 0 Crystal Palace Vicarage Road
Referee: Steve Tanner
Statistics

Final

Main article: 2006 Football League Championship play-off Final
21 May 2006
15:00 BST
 Leeds United 0 – 3 Watford Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
Attendance: 64,736
Referee: Mike Dean
(Details) DeMerit  25'
Sullivan  57' (o.g.)
Henderson  84' (pen.)

References

  1. ^ "English League Leading Goalscorers". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablese/engtops.html#1947-1. Retrieved 2010-10-31. 
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