2017–18 EFL Championship

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EFL Championship 2017–18
Season information
Winners	Wolverhampton Wanderers
Promoted	Wolverhampton Wanderers Cardiff City Fulham
Relegated	Barnsley Burton Albion Sunderland
Season statistics
Matches played	526
Goals scored	1337
Average	(2.54 per match)
Top goalscorer	Matěj Vydra (Derby County) (21 goals)
Biggest home win	Fulham 6–0 Burton Albion (20 January 2018)
Biggest away win	Burton Albion 0–5 Hull City (10 April 2018)
Highest scoring	Bristol City 5–5 Hull City (21 April 2018)
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The 2017–18 EFL Championship (referred to as the Sky Bet Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the second season of the EFL Championship under its current name, and the twenty-sixth season under its current league structure.

Changes from last season

Team changes

The following teams have changed division since the 2015–16 season.

To Championship Promoted from League One Sheffield United Bolton Wanderers Millwall Relegated from Premier League Sunderland Middlesbrough Hull City

From Championship Promoted to Premier League Brighton & Hove Albion Newcastle United Huddersfield Town Relegated to League One Rotherham United Wigan Athletic Blackburn Rovers

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Norwich City	Irvine, AlanAlan Irvine	End of caretaker spell	7 May 2017	Pre-season	Daniel Farke	25 May 2017
Middlesbrough	Steve Agnew		21 May 2017		Monk, GarryGarry Monk	9 June 2017
Sunderland	Moyes, DavidDavid Moyes	Resigned	22 May 2017		Simon Grayson	29 June 2017
Leeds United	Monk, GarryGarry Monk		25 May 2017		Thomas Christiansen	15 June 2017
Hull City	Silva, MarcoMarco Silva		25 May 2017		Leonid Slutsky	9 June 2017
Wolverhampton Wanderers	Lambert, PaulPaul Lambert	Mutual consent	30 May 2017		Nuno Espírito Santo	31 May 2017
Preston North End	Simon Grayson	Signed by Sunderland	29 June 2017		Alex Neil	4 July 2017
Birmingham City	Harry Redknapp	Sacked	16 September 2017	23rd	Cotterill, SteveSteve Cotterill	29 September 2017
Sunderland	Simon Grayson		31 October 2017	22nd	Chris Coleman	17 November 2017
Hull City	Leonid Slutsky	Mutual consent	3 December 2017	20th	Nigel Adkins	7 December 2017
Middlesbrough	Monk, GarryGarry Monk	Sacked	23 December 2017	9th	Tony Pulis	26 December 2017
Sheffield Wednesday	Carlos Carvalhal	Mutual consent	24 December 2017	15th	Jos Luhukay	5 January 2018
Nottingham Forest	Mark Warburton	Sacked	31 December 2017	14th	Aitor Karanka	8 January 2018
Leeds United	Thomas Christiansen		4 February 2018	10th	Paul Heckingbottom	6 February 2018
Barnsley	Paul Heckingbottom	Signed by Leeds United	6 February 2018	21st	José Morais	16 February 2018

Stadia

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Aston Villa	Birmingham	Villa Park	42,790
Barnsley	Barnsley	Oakwell	23,009
Birmingham City	Birmingham	St. Andrews Stadium	30,015
Bolton Wanderers	Bolton	Macron Stadium	28,723
Brentford	London	Griffin Park	12,300
Bristol City	Bristol	Ashton Gate	27,000
Burton Albion	Burton upon Trent	Pirelli Stadium	6,912
Cardiff City	Cardiff	Cardiff City Stadium	33,300
Derby County	Derby	Pride Park	33,600
Hull City	Kingston upon Hull	KCOM Stadium	25,400
Ipswich Town	Ipswich	Portman Road	30,300
Leeds United	Leeds	Elland Road	37,890
Middlesbrough	Middlesbrough	Riverside Stadium	33,746
Millwall	London	The Den	20,146
Norwich City	Norwich	Carrow Road	27,220
Nottm Forest	Nottingham	City Ground	30,445
Preston North End	Preston	Deepdale	23,408
Queens Park Rangers	London	Loftus Road	18,439
Reading	Reading	Madejski Stadium	24,161
Sheffield Utd	Sheffield	Bramall Lane	32,702
Sunderland	Sunderland	Stadium of Light	49,000
Wolves	Wolverhampton	Molineux	31,700

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Manager1	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Sponsor
Aston Villa	Bruce, SteveSteve Bruce	John Terry	Under Armour	Unibet
Barnsley	Morais, JoséJosé Morais	Adam Davis	Puma	C.K. Beckett
Birmingham City	Cotterill, SteveSteve Cotterill	Michael Morrison	Adidas	888sport
Bolton Wanderers	Parkinson, PhilPhil Parkinson	Darren Pratley	Macron	Betfred
Brentford	Dean Smith	John Egan	Adidas	LeoVegas
Bristol City	Johnson, LeeLee Johnson	Bailey Wright	Bristol Sport	Lancer Scott
Burton Albion	Clough, NigelNigel Clough	John Mousinho	TAG	Tempobet
Cardiff City	Neil Warnock	Sean Morrison	Adidas	Visit Malaysia
Derby County	Rowett, GaryGary Rowett	Richard Keogh	Umbro	Avon Tyres
Fulham	Slaviša Jokanović	Tom Cairney	Adidas	Grosvenor Casinos
Hull City	Nigel Adkins	Michael Dawson	Umbro	SportPesa
Ipswich Town	Mick McCarthy	Luke Chambers	Adidas	Marcus Evans
Leeds United	Heckingbottom, PaulPaul Heckingbottom	Liam Cooper	Kappa	32Red
Middlesbrough	Tony Pulis	Grant Leadbitter	Adidas	Ramsdens Currency
Millwall	Neil Harris	Steve Morison	Erreà	DCS Roofing
Norwich City	Daniel Farke	Ivo Pinto	Erreà	LeoVegas
Nottingham Forest	Karanka, AitorAitor Karanka	Chris Cohen	Adidas	888sport
Preston North End	Neil, AlexAlex Neil	Greg Cunningham	Nike	Tempobet
Queens Park Rangers	Holloway, IanIan Holloway	Nedum Onuoha	Erreà	Royal Panda
Reading	Stam, JaapJaap Stam	Paul McShane	Puma	Carabao
Sheffield United	Wilder, ChrisChris Wilder	Billy Sharp	Adidas	Teletext Holidays
Sheffield Wednesday	Jos Luhukay	Glenn Loovens	Elev8	Chansiri
Sunderland	Chris Coleman	Lee Cattermole	Adidas	Dafabet
Wolverhampton Wanderers	Nuno Espírito Santo	Danny Batth	Puma	The Money Shop

League Table

2017–18 Football League Championship table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Wolves  (C) (P)	46	30	9	7	82	39	+43	99	Promotion to the Premier League
2	Cardiff City  (P)	46	27	9	10	69	39	+30	90
3	Fulham  (P)	46	25	13	8	79	46	+33	88	Qualification to the Championship Play-offs
4	Aston Villa	46	24	11	11	72	42	+30	83
5	Middlesbrough	46	22	10	14	67	45	+22	76
6	Derby County	46	20	15	11	69	48	+21	75
7	Preston North End	46	19	16	11	58	45	+13	73
8	Millwall	46	19	15	12	56	45	+11	72
9	Brentford	46	18	15	13	62	52	+10	69
10	Sheffield Utd	46	20	9	17	62	55	+7	69
11	Bristol City	46	17	16	13	67	58	+9	67
12	Ipswich Town	46	17	9	20	57	60	−3	60
13	Leeds United	46	17	9	20	59	64	−5	60
14	Norwich City	46	15	15	16	49	60	−11	60
15	Reading	46	14	15	17	59	60	−1	57
16	Queens Park Rangers	46	15	11	20	58	70	−12	56
17	Nottm Forest	46	15	8	23	51	65	−14	53
18	Hull City	46	11	16	19	70	70	0	49
19	Birmingham City	46	13	7	26	38	68	−30	46
20	Reading	46	10	14	22	48	70	−22	44
21	Bolton Wanderers	46	10	13	23	39	74	−35	43
22	Barnsley  (R)	46	9	14	23	48	71	−23	41	Relegation to League One
23	Burton Albion  (R)	46	10	11	25	38	81	−43	41
24	Sunderland  (R)	46	7	16	23	52	80	−28	37

Updated to games played on 26 May 2018
Source: EFL.com
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

Play-offs

See also: 2018 English Football League play-offs

		Semi-finals				Final
	3	Fulham	0 2 2
	6	Derby County	1 0 1
						3	Fulham	1
						4	Aston Villa	0
	4	Aston Villa	1 0 1
	5	Middlesbrough	0 0 0

Results

Home \ Away

AST

BAR

BIR

BOL

BRE

BRC

BRT

CDC

DER

FUL

HUL

IPS

LEE

MID

MIL

NWC

NTF

PNE

QPR

REA

SHU

REA

SUN

WOL

Aston Villa

1–1

0–0

4–2

Barnsley

0–3

1–2

2–1

3–0

Birmingham City

0–0

2–1

1–3

0–2

Bolton Wanderers

1–2

2–3

0–1

Brentford

2–2

3–4

1–1

0–0

Bristol City

1–1

3–1

4–1

0–0

Burton Albion

2–1

0–1

2–1

1–1

Cardiff City

3–0

2–1

2–0

1–1

Derby County

1–0

0–2

Fulham

2–1

1–1

0–1

Hull City

4–0

4–1

1–1

2–3

Ipswich Town

1–0

2–0

2–0

0–2

Leeds United

2–0

0–0

0–0

Middlesbrough

2–0

0–0

3–2

1–0

Millwall

1–1

3–4

1–0

4–0

Norwich City

0–0

2–0

1–3

Nottm Forest

0–2

2–1

1–0

1–2

Preston North End

3–0

1–0

1–0

Queens Park Rangers

2–1

2–2

2–0

Reading

2–1

1–1

Sheffield Utd

1–0

1–0

3–1

0–1

Reading

2–1

1–1

1–1

Sunderland

1–1

0–2

0–1

Wolves

3–3

1–2

1–0

Updated to games played on 16 September 2017
Source: BBC Sport
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

As of 13 February 2018

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Matěj Vydra	Derby County	17
2	Leon Clarke	Sheffield United	15
3	Bobby Reid	Bristol City	14
4	Albert Adomah	Aston Villa	13
	Lewis Grabban	Sunderland/Aston Villa
6	Léo Bonatini	Wolverhampton Wanderers	12
	Diogo Jota	Wolverhampton Wanderers
	Ryan Sessegnon	Fulham
	Jarrod Bowen	Hull City
	Britt Assombalonga	Middlesbrough

External links

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