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The 2024 EFL Championship play-off final was an association football match played on 26 May 2024 [3] that decided the final team to get promotion from the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football, to the Premier League.
The EFL Championship is the second most-watched second-tier domestic sports league in the World, behind the German 2. Bundesliga (29,081), with an average of 23,048 spectators per game in the 2023–24 season. The Championship is the fifth most watched league in Europe. [28]
EFL Championship play-offs From 1990, the format of the final changed to a single match played at a neutral venue, initially the original Wembley Stadium . The first winners of the inaugural one-off final were Swindon Town who defeated Sunderland 1–0 in the final in front of 72,873 spectators. [ 15 ]
The top two teams of the 2021–22 EFL Championship, Fulham and Bournemouth, gained automatic promotion to the Premier League, while the clubs placed from third to sixth in the table took part in the 2022 English Football League play-offs. Huddersfield Town and Nottingham Forest competed for the final place in the 2022–23 Premier League season.
The English Football League (EFL) play-offs are a series of play-off matches contested by four association football teams finishing immediately below the automatic promotion places in the second, third and fourth tiers of the English football league system, namely the EFL Championship, EFL League One and EFL League Two.
The EFL confirms timings for the final day of the Championship, League One and League Two seasons, as well as the play-offs schedule.
As with the end to the previous season, the season was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in games being played behind closed doors.However, on 19 September 2020, two matches in the division, between Norwich City and Preston North End at Carrow Road, and between Middlesbrough and Bournemouth at The Riverside Stadium, were held in front of 1,000 spectators, as part of EFL pilots.
Football League Championship; 2004–05: Sunderland: 94 Wigan Athletic: 87 West Ham United: Gillingham Nottingham Forest Rotherham United: Crystal Palace Norwich City Southampton: Luton Town Hull City Sheffield Wednesday: Nathan Ellington (Wigan Athletic) 24 2005–06: Reading: 106 Sheffield United: 90 Watford: Crewe Alexandra Millwall Brighton ...