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2009-10 Football League Championship

Football League Championship
Season 2009–10
Champions Newcastle United
Promoted Newcastle United
West Bromwich Albion
Blackpool
Relegated Sheffield Wednesday
Plymouth Argyle
Peterborough United
Matches played 557
Goals scored 1,446 (2.6 per match)
Top goalscorer Peter Whittingham (22)
Biggest home win Reading 6–0 Peterborough
Biggest away win Bristol City 0–6 Cardiff City
Highest scoring Peterborough 4–4 Cardiff
Derby 5–3 Preston
Bristol City 5–3 Barnsley
Longest winning run Newcastle United (7 games, twice)
Longest unbeaten run Nottingham Forest (19 games)
Longest losing run Plymouth Argyle (7 games)
Highest attendance 52,381
Newcastle United 2–2 Ipswich Town
Lowest attendance 4,995
Scunthorpe United 4–0 Peterborough United
Average attendance 18,119

The 2009–10 Football League Championship (known as the Coca-Cola Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the sixth season of the league under its current title and eighteenth season under its current league division format. It started on 7 August 2009.

Promoted to Premier League

Relegated to League One

Relegated from Premier League

Promoted from League One

Note: "Amendments to the laws of the game 2009–2010" also applied

1 Ground contains some terracing

A total of 24 teams contested the division, including 18 sides remaining in the division from last season, three relegated from the Premier League, and three promoted from League One.

Source: The Football League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
* Crystal Palace were given a ten-point deduction for entering administration.
(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.

Blackpool win 6–4 on aggregate

Cardiff City 3–3 Leicester City on aggregate. Cardiff City win 4–3 on penalties

Blackpool are promoted to the Premier League

Fixtures for the 2009–10 season were announced by The Football League on 17 June 2009.


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