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
	← 2005–06 2007–08 →

2006–07 Football League Championship

Football league season

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.

Quick Facts Season, Champions ...

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.

Results

More information Home \ Away, BAR ...

Home \ Away	BAR	BIR	BUR	CAR	COL	COV	CRY	DER	HUL	IPS	LEE	LEI	LUT	NWC	PLY	PNE	QPR	SHW	SOU	SEU	STK	SUN	WBA	WOL
Barnsley		1–0	1–0	1–2	0–3	0–1	2–0	1–2	3–0	1–0	3–2	0–1	1–2	1–3	2–2	0–1	2–0	0–3	2–2	2–0	2–2	2–0	1–1	1–0
Birmingham City	2–0		0–1	1–0	2–1	3–0	2–1	1–0	2–1	2–2	1–0	1–1	2–2	0–1	3–0	3–1	2–1	2–0	2–1	1–3	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–1
Burnley	4–2	1–2		2–0	1–2	1–2	1–1	0–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	0–1	0–0	3–0	4–0	3–2	2–0	1–1	2–3	0–0	0–1	2–2	3–2	0–1
Cardiff City	2–0	2–0	1–0		0–0	1–0	0–0	2–2	0–1	2–2	1–0	3–2	4–1	1–0	2–2	4–1	0–1	1–2	1–0	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	4–0
Colchester United	1–2	1–1	0–0	3–1		0–0	0–2	4–3	5–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	4–1	3–0	0–1	1–0	2–1	4–0	2–0	3–0	3–0	3–1	1–2	2–1
Coventry City	4–1	0–1	1–0	2–2	2–1		2–4	1–2	2–0	1–2	1–0	0–0	1–0	3–0	0–1	0–4	0–1	3–1	2–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	0–1	2–1
Crystal Palace	2–0	0–1	2–2	1–2	1–3	1–0		2–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	2–0	2–1	3–1	0–1	3–0	3–0	1–2	0–2	3–1	0–1	1–0	0–2	2–2
Derby County	2–1	0–1	1–0	3–1	5–1	1–1	1–0		2–2	2–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–2	3–0	0–2	1–2	2–1	0–2
Hull City	2–3	2–0	2–0	4–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	1–2		2–5	1–2	1–2	0–0	1–2	1–2	2–0	2–1	2–1	2–4	4–0	0–2	0–1	0–1	2–0
Ipswich Town	5–1	1–0	1–1	3–1	3–2	2–1	1–2	2–1	0–0		1–0	0–2	5–0	3–1	3–0	2–3	2–1	0–2	2–1	0–2	0–1	3–1	1–5	0–1
Leeds United	2–2	3–2	1–0	0–1	3–0	2–1	2–1	0–1	0–0	1–1		1–2	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	0–0	2–3	0–3	2–0	0–4	0–3	2–3	0–1
Leicester City	2–0	1–2	0–1	0–0	0–0	3–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	3–1	1–1		1–1	1–2	2–2	0–1	1–3	1–4	3–2	1–0	2–1	0–2	1–1	1–4
Luton Town	0–2	3–2	0–2	0–0	1–1	3–1	2–1	0–2	1–2	0–2	5–1	2–0		2–3	1–2	2–0	2–3	3–2	0–2	0–0	2–2	0–5	2–2	2–3
Norwich City	5–1	1–0	1–4	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	2–1	3–1	3–2		1–3	2–0	1–0	1–2	0–1	0–0	1–0	0–1	1–2	0–1
Plymouth Argyle	2–4	0–1	2–0	3–3	3–0	3–2	1–0	3–1	1–0	1–1	1–2	3–0	1–0	3–1		2–0	1–1	1–2	1–1	2–1	1–1	0–2	2–2	1–1
Preston North End	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–2	2–1	1–0	4–1	0–1	3–0	2–1	3–0		1–1	0–0	3–1	2–3	3–2	4–1	1–0	0–1
Queens Park Rangers	1–0	0–2	3–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	4–2	1–2	2–0	1–3	2–2	1–1	3–2	3–3	1–1	1–0		1–1	0–2	2–0	1–1	1–2	1–2	0–1
Sheffield Wednesday	2–1	0–3	1–1	0–0	2–0	2–1	3–2	1–2	1–2	2–0	0–1	2–1	0–1	3–2	1–1	1–3	3–2		3–3	3–2	1–1	2–4	3–1	2–2
Southampton	5–2	4–3	0–0	2–2	1–2	0–0	1–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–2	2–1		4–1	1–0	1–2	0–0	2–0
Southend United	1–3	0–4	1–0	0–3	1–3	2–3	0–1	0–1	2–3	1–3	1–1	2–2	1–3	3–3	1–1	0–0	5–0	0–0	2–1		1–0	3–1	3–1	0–1
Stoke City	0–1	0–0	0–1	3–0	3–1	1–0	2–1	2–0	1–1	0–0	3–1	4–2	0–0	5–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–2	2–1	1–1		2–1	1–0	1–1
Sunderland	2–0	0–1	3–2	1–2	3–1	2–0	0–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	2–3	0–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	4–0	2–2		2–0	2–1
West Bromwich Albion	7–0	1–1	3–0	1–0	2–1	5–0	2–3	1–0	2–0	2–0	4–2	2–0	3–2	0–1	2–1	4–2	3–3	0–1	1–1	1–1	1–3	1–2		3–0
Wolverhampton Wanderers	2–0	2–3	2–1	1–2	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–1	3–1	1–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	2–2	2–2	1–3	2–0	2–2	0–6	3–1	2–0	1–1	1–0

Updated to match(es) played on 7 September 2020. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Sunderland (C, P)	46	27	7	12	76	47	+29	88	Promotion to the Premier League
2	Birmingham City (P)	46	26	8	12	67	42	+25	86	Promotion to the Premier League
3	Derby County (O, P)	46	25	9	12	62	46	+16	84	Qualification for Championship play-offs
4	West Bromwich Albion	46	22	10	14	81	55	+26	76
5	Wolverhampton Wanderers	46	22	10	14	59	56	+3	76
6	Southampton	46	21	12	13	77	53	+24	75
7	Preston North End	46	22	8	16	64	53	+11	74
8	Stoke City	46	19	16	11	62	41	+21	73
9	Sheffield Wednesday	46	20	11	15	70	66	+4	71
10	Colchester United	46	20	9	17	70	56	+14	69
11	Plymouth Argyle	46	17	16	13	63	62	+1	67
12	Crystal Palace	46	18	11	17	58	50	+8	65
13	Cardiff City	46	17	13	16	57	53	+4	64
14	Ipswich Town	46	18	8	20	64	59	+5	62
15	Burnley	46	15	12	19	52	49	+3	57
16	Norwich City	46	16	9	21	56	71	−15	57
17	Coventry City	46	16	8	22	47	62	−15	56
18	Queens Park Rangers	46	14	11	21	54	68	−14	53
19	Leicester City	46	13	14	19	49	64	−15	53
20	Barnsley	46	15	5	26	53	85	−32	50
21	Hull City	46	13	10	23	51	67	−16	49
22	Southend United (R)	46	10	12	24	47	80	−33	42	Relegation to Football League One
23	Luton Town (R)	46	10	10	26	53	81	−28	40
24	Leeds United (R)	46	13	7	26	46	72	−26	36^{[lower-alpha 1]}

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

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	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

2006–07_Football_League_Championship

2006–07 Football League Championship

Changes from last (2005–06) season

Stadia and locations

From Championship

To Championship

League table

Results

Top scorers

Play-offs

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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]
← 2005–06 2007–08 →