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 →

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

Wolverhampton Wanderers

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Locations of teams in the 2006–07 Football League Championship

See the map on the right

From Championship

Promoted to Premier League

Reading (1st)
Sheffield United (2nd)
Watford (3rd Play-offs)

Relegated to League One

To Championship

Relegated from Premier League

Promoted from League One

Southend United (1st)
Colchester United (2nd)
Barnsley (3rd Play-offs)

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	F	A	GD	Pts	Notes
1	Sunderland	46	15	4	4	38	18	12	3	8	38	29	76	47	+ 29	88
2	Birmingham City	46	15	5	3	37	18	11	3	9	30	24	67	42	+ 25	86
3	Derby County	46	13	6	4	33	19	12	3	8	29	27	62	46	+ 16	84
4	West Bromwich Albion	46	14	4	5	51	24	8	6	9	30	31	81	55	+ 26	76
5	Wolverhampton Wanderers	46	12	5	6	33	28	10	5	8	26	28	59	56	+ 3	76
6	Southampton	46	13	6	4	36	20	8	6	9	41	33	77	53	+ 24	75
7	Preston North End	46	15	4	4	38	17	7	4	12	26	36	64	53	+ 11	74
8	Stoke City	46	12	8	3	35	16	7	8	8	27	25	62	41	+ 21	73
9	Sheffield Wednesday	46	10	6	7	38	36	10	5	8	32	30	70	66	+ 4	71
10	Colchester United	46	15	4	4	46	19	5	5	13	24	37	70	56	+ 14	69
11	Plymouth Argyle	46	10	8	5	36	26	7	8	8	27	36	63	62	+ 1	67
12	Crystal Palace	46	12	3	8	33	22	6	8	9	26	29	59	51	+ 8	65
13	Cardiff City	46	11	7	5	33	18	6	6	11	24	35	57	53	+ 4	64
14	Ipswich Town	46	13	2	8	40	29	5	6	12	24	30	64	59	+ 5	62
15	Burnley	46	10	6	7	35	23	5	6	12	17	26	52	49	+ 3	57
16	Norwich City	46	10	5	8	29	25	6	4	13	27	46	56	71	– 15	57
17	Coventry City	46	11	4	8	30	25	5	4	14	17	37	47	62	– 15	56
18	Queens Park Rangers	46	9	6	8	31	29	5	5	13	23	39	54	68	– 14	53
19	Leicester City	46	6	8	9	26	31	7	6	10	23	33	49	64	– 15	53
20	Barnsley	46	9	4	10	27	29	6	1	16	26	56	53	85	– 32	50
21	Hull City	46	8	3	12	33	32	5	7	11	18	35	51	67	– 16	49
22	Southend United	46	6	6	11	29	38	4	6	13	18	42	47	80	– 33	42
23	Luton Town	46	7	5	11	33	40	3	5	15	20	41	53	81	– 28	40
24	Leeds United	46	10	4	9	27	30	3	3	17	19	42	46	72	– 26	36	^{[notes 1]}

Pld = Matches ; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points
NB: In the Football League goals scored (F) takes precedence over goal difference (GD).

^ 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.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

Final

28 May 2007

Derby County	1–0	West Bromwich Albion
Pearson 61'	(Details)

Wembley Stadium, London

Attendance: 74,993

Referee: Graham Poll

References

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

[3] Leeds United had 10 points deducted for entering financial administration.

[topscorers-1] "English League Leading Goalscorers". RSSSF. Retrieved 31 October 2010.

[2] "Luton 0–5 Sunderland". BBC Sport. 6 May 2007. Retrieved 12 August 2013.

[4] soccernet.espn.go.com

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