About Championship
The Championship sits one rung below the Premier League but routinely claims to be the most competitive league in Europe, and it has a case. Twenty-four clubs, forty-six games, no winter break, and the kind of chaos that can send a team into automatic promotion one season and the third tier the next. The top two go up automatically. Third through sixth contest the play-off, a three-round lottery ending in a Wembley final worth roughly 170 million pounds to the winner. Relegation to League One is quieter but just as final. Clubs like Leeds United, Sunderland and Leicester have bounced between the Championship and the Premier League in recent years.