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[]

Barnsley

Birmingham City

Burnley

Cardiff City

Colchester

Coventry City

Crystal Palace

Derby County

Hull City

Ipswich Town

Leeds United

Leicester City

Luton Town

Norwich City

Plymouth Argyle

Preston

Queens Park Rangers

Sheffield Wednesday

Southampton

Southend Utd

Stoke City

Sunderland

West Brom

Wolverhampton Wanderers

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

Crewe Alexandra (22nd)
Millwall (23rd)
Brighton & Hove Albion (24th)

To Championship[]

Relegated from Premier League

Birmingham City (18th)
West Bromwich Albion (19th)
Sunderland (20th)

Promoted from League One

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

League table[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Sunderland (C, P)	46	27	7	12	76	47	+29	88	Promotion to the Premier League
2	Birmingham City (P)	46	26	8	12	67	42	+25	86	Promotion to the Premier League
3	Derby County (O, P)	46	25	9	12	62	46	+16	84	Qualification for Championship play-offs
4	West Bromwich Albion	46	22	10	14	81	55	+26	76
5	Wolverhampton Wanderers	46	22	10	14	59	56	+3	76
6	Southampton	46	21	12	13	77	53	+24	75
7	Preston North End	46	22	8	16	64	53	+11	74
8	Stoke City	46	19	16	11	62	41	+21	73
9	Sheffield Wednesday	46	20	11	15	70	66	+4	71
10	Colchester United	46	20	9	17	70	56	+14	69
11	Plymouth Argyle	46	17	16	13	63	62	+1	67
12	Crystal Palace	46	18	11	17	58	50	+8	65
13	Cardiff City	46	17	13	16	57	53	+4	64
14	Ipswich Town	46	18	8	20	64	59	+5	62
15	Burnley	46	15	12	19	52	49	+3	57
16	Norwich City	46	16	9	21	56	71	−15	57
17	Coventry City	46	16	8	22	47	62	−15	56
18	Queens Park Rangers	46	14	11	21	54	68	−14	53
19	Leicester City	46	13	14	19	49	64	−15	53
20	Barnsley	46	15	5	26	53	85	−32	50
21	Hull City	46	13	10	23	51	67	−16	49
22	Southend United (R)	46	10	12	24	47	80	−33	42	Relegation to Football League One
23	Luton Town (R)	46	10	10	26	53	81	−28	40
24	Leeds United (R)	46	13	7	26	46	72	−26	36^[a]

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: In the Football League goals scored (F) takes precedence over goal difference (GD).
(C) Champion; (O) Play-off winner; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Leeds United had 10 points deducted for entering financial administration.

Results[]

Home \ Away	BAR	BIR	BUR	CAR	COL	COV	CRY	DER	HUL	IPS	LEE	LEI	LUT	NWC	PLY	PNE	QPR	SHW	SOU	SEU	STK	SUN	WBA	WOL
Barnsley		1–0	1–0	1–2	0–3	0–1	2–0	1–2	3–0	1–0		0–1	1–2	1–3	2–2	0–1	2–0		2–2	2–0	2–2	2–0	1–1	1–0
Birmingham City	2–0		0–1	1–0	2–1		2–1	1–0	2–1	2–2	1–0	1–1	2–2	0–1	3–0	3–1	2–1	2–0	2–1	1–3	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–1
Burnley	4–2	1–2		2–0	1–2	1–2	1–1	0–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	0–1	0–0	3–0	4–0		2–0	1–1	2–3	0–0	0–1	2–2	3–2	0–1
Cardiff City	2–0	2–0	1–0		0–0	1–0	0–0	2–2	0–1	2–2	1–0	3–2	4–1	1–0	2–2	4–1	0–1	1–2	1–0	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	4–0
Colchester United	1–2	1–1	0–0	3–1		0–0	0–2	4–3	5–1		2–1	1–1	4–1		0–1	1–0	2–1	4–0	2–0	3–0	3–0	3–1	1–2	2–1
Coventry City	4–1		1–0	2–2	2–1		2–4	1–2	2–0	1–2	1–0	0–0	1–0	3–0	0–1	0–4	0–1	3–1	2–1	1–1	0–0	2–1
Crystal Palace	2–0	0–1	2–2	1–2	1–3	1–0		2–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	2–0	2–1	3–1	0–1	3–0	3–0	1–2	0–2	3–1	0–1	1–0	0–2	2–2
Derby County	2–1	0–1	1–0	3–1	5–1	1–1	1–0		2–2	2–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–2	3–0	0–2	1–2	2–1	0–2
Hull City	2–3	2–0	2–0	4–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	1–2		2–5	1–2	1–2	0–0	1–2	1–2	2–0	2–1	2–1	2–4	4–0	0–2	0–1	0–1	2–0
Ipswich Town	5–1	1–0	1–1	3–1		2–1	1–2	2–1	0–0		1–0	0–2	5–0	3–1	3–0	2–3	2–1	0–2	2–1	0–2	0–1	3–1	1–5	0–1
Leeds United	2–2	3–2	1–0	0–1	3–0	2–1	2–1	0–1	0–0	1–1		1–2	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	0–0		0–3	2–0	0–4	0–3	2–3	0–1
Leicester City	2–0	1–2	0–1	0–0	0–0	3–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	3–1	1–1		1–1	1–2	2–2	0–1	1–3	1–4	3–2	1–0	2–1	0–2	1–1	1–4
Luton Town	0–2	3–2	0–2	0–0	1–1	3–1	2–1	0–2	1–2	0–2	5–1	2–0		2–3	1–2	2–0		3–2	0–2	0–0	2–2	0–5	2–2	2–3
Norwich City	5–1	1–0	1–4	1–0		1–1	0–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	2–1	3–1	3–2		1–3	2–0	1–0	1–2	0–1	0–0	1–0	0–1	1–2	0–1
Plymouth Argyle	2–4	0–1	2–0	3–3	3–0	3–2	1–0	3–1	1–0	1–1	1–2	3–0	1–0	3–1		2–0	1–1	1–2	1–1	2–1	1–1	0–2	2–2	1–1
Preston North End	1–0	1–0		2–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–2	2–1	1–0	4–1	0–1	3–0	2–1	3–0		1–1	0–0	3–1	2–3	3–2	4–1	1–0	0–1
Queens Park Rangers	1–0	0–2	3–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	4–2	1–2	2–0	1–3	2–2	1–1		3–3	1–1	1–0		1–1	0–2	2–0	1–1	1–2	1–2	0–1
Sheffield Wednesday		0–3	1–1	0–0	2–0	2–1	3–2	1–2	1–2	2–0		2–1	0–1	3–2	1–1	1–3	3–2		3–3	3–2	1–1	2–4	3–1	2–2
Southampton	5–2	4–3	0–0	2–2	1–2	0–0	1–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–2	2–1		4–1	1–0	1–2	0–0	2–0
Southend United	1–3	0–4	1–0	0–3	1–3	2–3	0–1	0–1	2–3	1–3	1–1	2–2	1–3	3–3	1–1	0–0	5–0	0–0	2–1		1–0	3–1	3–1	0–1
Stoke City	0–1	0–0	0–1	3–0	3–1	1–0	2–1	2–0	1–1	0–0	3–1	4–2	0–0	5–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–2	2–1	1–1		2–1
Sunderland	2–0	0–1	3–2	1–2	3–1	2–0	0–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	2–3	0–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	4–0	2–2		2–0	2–1
West Bromwich Albion	7–0	1–1	3–0	1–0	2–1		2–3	1–0	2–0	2–0	4–2	2–0	3–2	0–1	2–1	4–2	3–3	0–1	1–1	1–1		1–2		3–0
Wolverhampton Wanderers	2–0	2–3	2–1	1–2	1–0		1–1	0–1	3–1	1–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	2–2	2–2	1–3	2–0	2–2	0–6	3–1		1–1	1–0

Updated to match(es) played on 7 September 2020. Source:^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

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.	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

[table_hth_LEE0.82080315929875-3] 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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List of champions

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^[1]
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