Championship Winners List: Which Club has Been The Most Dominant

Championship Winners List: Which Club has Been The Most Dominant

Championship Winners List: Take a look at which club has been the most dominant in the Second Most Tier of English Football System and who has won the Championship season wise.

The English Football League Championship, often reckoned as Championship is the highest division of the English Football League and the second highest overall in the English football league system after the Premier League.

The league consists of 24 teams each season, out of which top 2 are directly promoted into the Premier League. The teams who finish from the 3rd to 6th spot are involved in a playoff tournament and the winner also gets promoted into the Premier League.

Having said that let’s take a detailed look at the EFL Championships List Season wise-

Championship Winners List: A look at the top clubs winning the Championship

The Football League Division One was renamed the Football League Championship from 2004–05.

Season

EFL Champion

EFL Championship Runners Up

1992-1993

Newcastle United

West Ham United

1993-1994

Crystal Palace

Nottingham Forest

1994-1995

Middlesbrough

Reading

1995-1996

Sunderland

Derby County

1996-1997

Bolton Wanderers

Barnley

1997-1998

Nottingham Forest

Middlesbrough

1998-1999

Sunderland

Bradford City

1999-2000

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Charlton Athletic

Manchester City

2000-2001

Fulham

Blackburn Rovers

2001-2002

Manchester City

West Bromwich Albion

2002-2003

Portsmouth

Leicester City

2003-2004

Norwich City

West Bromwich Albion

2004-2005

Sunderland

Wigan Athletic

2005-2006

Reading

Sheffield United

2006-2007

Sunderland

Birmingham City

2007-2008

West Bromwich Albion

Stoke City

2008-2009

Wolverhampton Wanderers

Birmingham City

2009-2010

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Newcastle United

West Bromwich Albion

2010-2011

Queens Park Rangers

Norwich City

2011-2012

Reading

Southampton

2012-2013

Cardiff City

Hull City

2013-2014

Leicester City

Burnley

2014-2015

AFC Bournemouth

Watford

2015-2016

Burnley

Middlesbrough

2016-2017

Newcastle United

Brighton and Hove Albion

2017-2018

Wolverhampton Wanderers

Cardiff City

2018-2019

Norwich City

Sheffield United

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2019-2020

Leeds United

West Bromwich Albion

2020-2021

Norwich City

Watford

Interesting to note that during the 1994-95 season, the Premier League was to be reduced to twenty teams from twenty-two. Hence there were four relegation places in the Premier League and in Division One (EFL Championship) and only two promotion places in Division One and Division Two, therefore the runners-up didn’t earn automatic promotion.

It might seem a shocker to many modern-era Premier League fans to witness the name of Manchester city on this league as well. But as it stands, the Blues have had a tremendous turn-around to be proclaimed as the best English Club after winning numerous PL Championship in the previous decade.

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