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2004–05 Football League Championship

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Season
  
2004–05

Champion
  
Sunderland A.F.C.

Start date
  
August 2004

2004–05 Football League Championship

Promoted
  
SunderlandWigan AthleticWest Ham United

Relegated
  
Similar
  
2010–11 Football League C, 2011–12 Football League C, 2016–17 EFL Championship

The 2004–05 Football League Championship (known as the Coca-Cola Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the thirteenth season under its current league division format. It began in August 2004 and concluded in May 2005, with the promotion play-off finals. This was the first season to feature the rebranded Football League. The First Division, Second Division and Third Division were renamed the Football League Championship, Football League One and Football League Two respectively. Coca-Cola replaced the Nationwide Building Society as title sponsor.

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The winners of the Championship in 2005 are Sunderland. Wigan Athletic reached the Premiership as Championship runners-up. They had been elected to the Football League only 27 years earlier, had been the league's fourth lowest club 11 years earlier and until 2 years before reaching the Premiership they had never played in the upper half of the English league. Nottingham Forest were relegated from the Championship to League One, becoming the first former European Cup winners to slide into the third tier of their domestic league – having won two straight European Cups a quarter of a century earlier. Just ten years ago they had finished third in the Premiership and reached the following season's UEFA Cup quarter finals.

From Championship

Promoted to Premier League

  • Norwich City
  • West Bromwich Albion
  • Crystal Palace
  • Relegated to League One

  • Walsall
  • Bradford City
  • Wimbledon
  • To Championship

    Relegated from Premier League

  • Leicester City
  • Leeds United
  • Wolverhampton Wanderers
  • Promoted from League One

  • Plymouth Argyle
  • Queens Park Rangers
  • Brighton & Hove Albion
  • League table

    Updated to games played on 9 December 2011.
    Source: Football League Tables
    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.

    References

    2004–05 Football League Championship Wikipedia


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