2007-08 Football League Championship
| Season | 2007–08 |
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| Promoted |
West Bromwich Albion (champions) Stoke City (runners up) Hull City (play-off winners) |
| Relegated |
Leicester City Colchester United Scunthorpe United |
| Goals scored | 1,394 |
| Average goals/game | 2.53 |
| Top goalscorer | Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (23) |
| Biggest home win |
Ipswich Town 6–0 Bristol City (2007-11-10) |
| Highest attendance | 36,208 Sheffield Wednesday v Norwich City |
| Average attendance | 17,067 |
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The 2007–08 Football League Championship (known as the Coca-Cola Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the sixteenth season under its current league division format and its fourth with its current sponsorship. The leagues started in August 2007 and concluded in May 2008, with the promotion play-off finals.
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 play-off. The bottom three teams in the Championship will be relegated to the second division, League One.
West Bromwich Albion finished top of the league with 81 points, closely followed by Stoke City who had 79 points. Hull City were promoted through the play-offs. Colchester and Scunthorpe United were both relegated several weeks before the end of the season. However, in a very tight league, with a gap of only 29 points between top and 22nd place, the final team to be relegated, Leicester City, went down on the final day while six other teams were within three points of them, despite the fact that only Crystal Palace had conceded less goals.
Promoted to Premier League
Relegated to League One
Relegated from Premier League
Promoted from League One
Updated to games played on 4 May 2008.
Source: The Football League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
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