2006–07 Football League Championship

Football League Championship
Season 2006–07
Champions Sunderland (5th second tier title)
Direct promotion to Premier League Sunderland,
Birmingham City
Promoted to Premier League through play-offs Derby County
Relegated Leeds United,
Luton Town,
Southend United
Matches played 552
Goals scored 1,439 (2.61 per match)
Top goalscorer Jamie Cureton (Colchester United), 23[1]

The 2006–07 Football League Championship (known as the Coca-Cola Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the third season of the league under its current title and fifteenth season under its current league division format.

The Football League is contested through three Divisions. The top divisions of these is the League Championship. The winner and the runner up of the League Championship will be automatically promoted to the Premiership and they will be joined by the winner of the League Championship playoff. The bottom three teams in the Championship will be relegated to the second division, League One.

Sunderland finished top of the league with 88 points, closely followed by Birmingham City who had 86 points.[2] Derby County were promoted through the play-offs. Southend United, Luton Town and Leeds United were relegated.

Changes from last (2005–06) season

Stadia and locations

See the map on the right

From Championship

Promoted to Premier League

Relegated to League One


To Championship

Relegated from Premier League

Promoted from League One

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L F A W D L F A F A GD Pts Notes
1 Sunderland 4615443818123838297647+ 2988
2 Birmingham City 4615533718113930246742+ 2586
3 Derby County 4613643319123829276246+ 1684
4 West Bromwich Albion 461445512486930318155+ 2676
5 Wolverhampton Wanderers 4612563328105826285956+ 376
6 Southampton 461364362086941337753+ 2475
7 Preston North End 4615443817741226366453+ 1174
8 Stoke City 461283351678827256241+ 2173
9 Sheffield Wednesday 4610673836105832307066+ 471
10 Colchester United 4615444619551324377056+ 1469
11 Plymouth Argyle 461085362678827366362+ 167
12 Crystal Palace 461238332268926295951+ 865
13 Cardiff City 4611753318661124355753+ 464
14 Ipswich Town 4613284029561224306459+ 562
15 Burnley 4610673523561217265249+ 357
16 Norwich City 4610582925641327465671– 1557
17 Coventry City 4611483025541417374762– 1556
18 Queens Park Rangers 469683129551323395468– 1453
19 Leicester City 466892631761023334964– 1553
20 Barnsley 4694102729611626565385– 3250
21 Hull City 4683123332571118355167– 1649
22 Southend United 4666112938461318424780– 3342
23 Luton Town 4675113340351520415381– 2840
24 Leeds United 4610492730331719424672– 2636[notes 1]
  1. Leeds United had 10 points deducted for entering financial administration.
Key
Football League Champions, promoted to FA Premier League
Promoted to FA Premier League
Participated in play-offs
Promoted to Premier League through play-offs
Relegated

Top scorers

Rank Player Club Goals
1 Jamie Cureton Colchester United 23
2 Michael Chopra Cardiff City 22
3 Diomansy Kamara West Bromwich Albion 21
4 Robert Earnshaw Norwich City 19
5 Chris Iwelumo Colchester United 18
= Grzegorz Rasiak Southampton 18
7 Steve Howard Derby County 16
= Alan Lee Ipswich Town 16
= Kevin Phillips West Bromwich Albion 16
10 David Nugent Preston North End 15

[3]

Play-offs

Semi-finals
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
6th Southampton 4–4 (3–4 pens) Derby County 3rd 1–2 3–2 aet
5th Wolverhampton Wanderers 2–4 West Bromwich Albion 4th 2–3 0–1
Final

References

  1. "English League Leading Goalscorers". RSSSF. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  2. "Luton 0–5 Sunderland". BBC Sport. 6 May 2007. Retrieved 12 August 2013.
  3. soccernet.espn.go.com
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