Coca-Cola Championship

FM09 Release

Competition
110Reputation
—League games
24Clubs
—Total squad value

Competition

Code
CH
Nation
England
Confederation
Europe
Type
—
Level
2
Reputation
110
Status
Active
Season
— – —
Colours
#FFFFFF #0030A0
Short name
Coca-Cola Championship
Parent competition
—
Crowd tendencies
—

Format

Partial export
Teams
24
League games
—
Promoted in
—
Relegated
—
Champions League
—
Europa League
—
Conference League
—
Play-offs
—
Maximum games
—

Squad rules

Partial export
Registered squad
—
Home-grown
—
Club-trained
—
Foreign players
—
Under-21
—
Loans
—

Most titles

105 recorded titlesFMDB calculation
7Manchester City2002, 1966, 1947, 1928, 1910, 1903, 1899
6Leicester City1980, 1971, 1957, 1954, 1937, 1925
5Sunderland2007, 2005, 1999, 1996, 1976
4Middlesbrough1995, 1974, 1929, 1927
4Derby County1987, 1969, 1915, 1912
4Liverpool1962, 1905, 1896, 1894
4Sheffield Wednesday1959, 1956, 1952, 1926
3West Bromwich Albion2008, 1911, 1902
3Norwich City2004, 1986, 1972
3Nottingham Forest1998, 1922, 1907
3Bolton Wanderers1997, 1978, 1909
3Ipswich Town1992, 1968, 1961
3Leeds United1990, 1964, 1924
3Birmingham City1955, 1948, 1921
3Preston North End1951, 1913, 1904
3Notts County1923, 1914, 1897
2Fulham2001, 1949
2Crystal Palace1994, 1979
2Newcastle United1993, 1965
2Chelsea1989, 1984
2West Ham United1981, 1958
2Burnley1973, 1898
2Stoke City1963, 1933
2Aston Villa1960, 1938
2Grimsby Town1934, 1901
1Reading2006
1Everton1931
1Bury1895

Counted over every recorded season of this competition, not the page of the roll of honour below. Placings point at teams rather than clubs, because international tournaments are won by national teams. Every recorded season in this version. It records no cancelled, abandoned or joint-winner flags, so none are excluded.

Season table

In the export
Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Points
1 West Bromwich Albion 46 23 12 11 88 55 33 81
2 Stoke City 46 21 16 9 69 55 14 79
3 Hull City 46 21 12 13 65 47 18 75
4 Bristol City 46 20 14 12 54 53 1 74
5 Crystal Palace 46 18 17 11 58 42 16 71
6 Watford 46 18 16 12 62 56 6 70
7 Wolverhampton Wanderers 46 18 16 12 53 48 5 70
8 Ipswich Town 46 18 15 13 65 56 9 69
9 Sheffield United 46 17 15 14 56 51 5 66
10 Plymouth Argyle 46 17 13 16 60 50 10 64
11 Charlton Athletic 46 17 13 16 63 58 5 64
12 Cardiff City 46 16 16 14 59 55 4 64
13 Burnley 46 16 14 16 60 67 -7 62
14 Queens Park Rangers 46 14 16 16 60 66 -6 58
15 Preston North End 46 15 11 20 50 56 -6 56
16 Sheffield Wednesday 46 14 13 19 54 55 -1 55
17 Norwich City 46 15 10 21 49 59 -10 55
18 Barnsley 46 14 13 19 52 65 -13 55
19 Blackpool 46 12 18 16 59 64 -5 54
20 Southampton 46 13 15 18 56 72 -16 54
21 Coventry City 46 14 11 21 52 64 -12 53
22 Leicester City 46 12 16 18 42 45 -3 52
23 Scunthorpe United 46 11 13 22 46 69 -23 46
24 Colchester United 46 7 17 22 62 86 -24 38

Points are shown as the database stores them, including deductions, so they will not always match a total derived from wins and draws — and wins, draws and losses need not add up to games played. A blank cell is a figure the source does not record; it is never a zero.

2007–08 — full season table. Showing 24 of 24 recorded rows. Points are shown as stored.

League strength

FMDB calculation
Member clubs with the figures that size them up
Barnsley90102114130——£57,949—2318612000
Birmingham City112120127147——£230,875—3001623000
Blackpool8695102119——£39,048—90838500
Bristol City97102117135——£67,787—2180016500
Burnley89107117132——£87,650—2251612365
Cardiff City102106117137——£102,925—2059218000
Charlton Athletic10899115141——£146,449—2711117000
Coventry City9699112131——£75,868—3200019123
Crystal Palace10497115138——£95,749—2630916000
Derby County103110119141——£250,400—3359726000
Doncaster Rovers8698109125——£46,346—152317980
Ipswich Town103105118140——£108,667—3031121935
Norwich City10298112141——£92,797—2603424000
Nottingham Forest10085109140——£64,050—3060219955
Plymouth Argyle95102112130——£66,050—1980013000
Preston North End97102116131——£66,838—2450013000
Queens Park Rangers103114119140——£128,176—1914813500
Reading108107129147——£197,358—2422520500
Sheffield United104105119142——£188,749—3260725630
Sheffield Wednesday10095108130——£51,400—3981421418
Southampton10196113146——£113,904—3268921253
Swansea City9188103131——£32,397—2052015000
Watford103104118141——£160,390—2200017000
Wolverhampton Wanderers10498117143——£114,065—2852523498

Every club naming this competition as its current division, with the squad of the team that shares the club uid. Average ability, CA16, PA16, average age, squad value and wage bill are the FMDB's own figures over each club's whole squad; hover one for the population it was computed from. CA16 and PA16 are the means of the sixteen highest abilities and potentials, a coded potential counted at its band midpoint as on the club page. Balance is the club's authored club_finance_detail.cash; reputation, capacity and attendance are stored club figures.

Best in the league

FMDB calculation

Roll of honour

Placings point at teams, not clubs

A season links to its league table only where team_league_history records one. The top scorer is the rank-1 winner of the one award of type “Most goals scored” scoped to this competition, with the goals it records; no single award can be identified as the player of the season, so that column points to the Awards panel.

Across versions

Recorded
Coca-Cola Championship reputation across versions0100200 CM0102 RFM06 RFM10 RFM13 RFM16 RFM19 RFM22 RFM26 UReputation, CM0102 Release: 12 Reputation, CM0203 Release: 12 Reputation, CM0304 Release: 12 Reputation, CM0304 Update: 12 Reputation, FM05 Release: 120 Reputation, FM05 Update: 110 Reputation, FM06 Release: 110 Reputation, FM07 Release: 110 Reputation, FM07 Update: 110 Reputation, FM08 Release: 110 Reputation, FM09 Release: 110 Reputation, FM09 Update: 110 Reputation, FM10 Release: 120 Reputation, FM10 Update: 120 Reputation, FM11 Release: 120 Reputation, FM11 Update: 120 Reputation, FM12 Release: 120 Reputation, FM12 Update: 120 Reputation, FM13 Release: 125 Reputation, FM13 Update: 125 Reputation, FM14 Release: 125 Reputation, FM14 Update: 124 Reputation, FM15 Release: 124 Reputation, FM15 Update: 124 Reputation, FM16 Release: 124 Reputation, FM16 Update: 124 Reputation, FM17 Release: 129 Reputation, FM17 Update: 129 Reputation, FM18 Release: 128 Reputation, FM18 Update: 128 Reputation, FM19 Release: 127 Reputation, FM19 Update: 127 Reputation, FM20 Release: 128 Reputation, FM20 Update: 128 Reputation, FM21 Release: 128 Reputation, FM21 Update: 130 Reputation, FM22 Release: 132 Reputation, FM23 Release: 134 Reputation, FM24 Release: 134 Reputation, FM26 Release: 135 Reputation, FM26 Update: 135
Recorded reputation in each database where this uid resolves. Missing values remain gaps. Raw export scales may differ between versions.
Version Name as recorded
CM0102 ReleaseEnglish First Division
CM0203 ReleaseEnglish First Division
CM0304 ReleaseEnglish First Division
CM0304 UpdateEnglish First Division
FM05 ReleaseEnglish Championship
FM05 UpdateEnglish Championship
FM06 ReleaseEnglish Championship
FM07 ReleaseCoca-Cola Championship
FM07 UpdateCoca-Cola Championship
FM08 ReleaseCoca-Cola Championship
FM09 ReleaseCoca-Cola Championship
FM09 UpdateCoca-Cola Championship
FM10 ReleaseCoca-Cola Championship
FM10 UpdateCoca-Cola Championship
FM11 Releasenpower Championship
FM11 Updatenpower Championship
FM12 Releasenpower Championship
FM12 Updatenpower Championship
FM13 Releasenpower Championship
FM13 Updatenpower Championship
FM14 ReleaseSky Bet Championship
FM14 UpdateSky Bet Championship
FM15 ReleaseSky Bet Championship
FM15 UpdateSky Bet Championship
FM16 ReleaseSky Bet Championship
FM16 UpdateSky Bet Championship
FM17 ReleaseSky Bet Championship
FM17 UpdateSky Bet Championship
FM18 ReleaseSky Bet Championship
FM18 UpdateSky Bet Championship
FM19 ReleaseSky Bet Championship
FM19 UpdateSky Bet Championship
FM20 ReleaseSky Bet Championship
FM20 UpdateSky Bet Championship
FM21 ReleaseSky Bet Championship
FM21 UpdateSky Bet Championship
FM22 ReleaseSky Bet Championship
FM23 ReleaseSky Bet Championship
FM24 ReleaseSky Bet Championship
FM26 ReleaseSky Bet Championship
FM26 UpdateSky Bet Championship

Recorded competition names are shown for each version where the identity resolves.

Awards

Not in this export

No award scope in this export

Only the modern exports record which competition an award belongs to (award_scope). Sharing a nation with a competition does not make an award that competition's, so none is listed.

Awards whose award_scope names this competition. Editions flagged as having no data or not taking place are not counted. “Latest” is the award's stored season year; where that season has several editions — one per slot of a team of the year — the award page lists them.

Media prediction

Not in this export

No media predictions in this export

club_media_expectation is part of the modern exports only.

The predicted finish is the authored club_media_expectation.expected_league_finish. Last position is club_team.last_position as stored, in whatever competition the team last played, so for a club that has just joined it is not a place in this division.

Derbies in this division

0 between member clubs
Derbies whose two clubs both name this competition as their division
Derby Clubs W–D–L National reputation
No derby in this version is between two of this competition's clubs.

Derbies between two clubs that both name this competition as their current division. derby.competition_uid is empty in every loaded export, so this is the only way a derby belongs to a league. W–D–L is the first-named club's record as stored.

All-time records

FMDB calculation

Most goals and appearances in this division, summed from the playing history of every person this database records.

It counts only the people the export carries, it can include seasons the source files under this competition from before it took its current form, and some players are listed by uid because their person record is missing. The page states each of these.

See the all-time records

Member teams

Current members from club.division_uid; no comp_membership rows are recorded.

Last position is club_team.last_position as stored. The manager is the current staff_history spell at the club — the one whose end date is absent or in the future, most recent join first — never club_team.manager_index, which is a raw internal index that joins to nothing.

Teams recorded as members of this competition
Team Membership Last position Manager
BarnsleyCurrent division18Ronnie Branson
Birmingham CityCurrent division19Alex McLeish
BlackpoolCurrent division19—
Bristol CityCurrent division4Gary Johnson
BurnleyCurrent division13Vince Overson
Cardiff CityCurrent division12Neal Ardley
Charlton AthleticCurrent division11Mark Kinsella
Coventry CityCurrent division21Chris Coleman
Crystal PalaceCurrent division5—
Derby CountyCurrent division20Billy Davies
Doncaster RoversCurrent division3Sean O'Driscoll
Ipswich TownCurrent division8Jim Magilton
Norwich CityCurrent division17Glenn Roeder
Nottingham ForestCurrent division2John Pemberton
Plymouth ArgyleCurrent division10Paul Sturrock
Preston North EndCurrent division15Julian Darby
Queens Park RangersCurrent division14Iain Dowie
ReadingCurrent division18Eamonn Dolan
Sheffield UnitedCurrent division9Kevin Blackwell
Sheffield WednesdayCurrent division16Sean McAuley
SouthamptonCurrent division20—
Swansea CityCurrent division1Tony Pennock
WatfordCurrent division6Mark Warburton
Wolverhampton WanderersCurrent division7Kevin Thelwell

Data wishlist for this page

13 data pointsWhole site
  • club_media_expectation, club_finance_detail Media prediction and club balances across the division Now liveThe predicted finish of every member club and each club's authored cash balance, where the version exports them.
  • player_history.division_uid All-time goals and appearances in the division Now liveAn FMDB sum over the people this database records, on its own page. Players with no person record are listed by uid; seasons the source files under this competition before it took its current form are included and dated.
  • derby, club.division_uid Derbies between member clubs Now livederby.competition_uid is empty in every export, so a derby belongs to a division when both its clubs name that division.
  • comps_competition, comps_stage and stage promotion, relegation and play-off tables Format, promotion, relegation, play-offs and qualification Needs source dataThe comps.dbc archive tables are empty in every loaded export. The format panel shows the clubs that joined and left since the latest recorded season table as an FMDB comparison, which is not a count of promotion places.
  • competition rules, nation_foreign_rule, nation_agreement Registration size, home-grown quotas, foreign-player limits and age rules Partial exportNation foreign/non-foreign definitions and agreements are exported, but do not supply the complete competition registration rules.
  • competition income and prize schedules Prize money, television distributions and sponsor Needs source dataThe current catalog does not provide these competition-level schedules and contracts.
  • competition.champions_club_uid, parent_division_uid, league_body_club_uid Current champions, parent division and organising body Needs source dataThe parent division is displayed. The champions and organising-body columns are empty in all 41 loaded databases.
  • team_league_history Recorded season tables Now liveSeason links are offered only where rows exist; stored points and missing results are preserved.
  • club.division_uid, stadium and primary-team squads League strength and leading players Now liveStrength and ability rankings use clubs naming this division, with a 100-club cap. League totals are withheld on overflow.
  • person.date_of_birth, export_meta.game_start_year Best young players in the league Now liveUnder-21s at 1 July of the exported game start year, ranked on recorded potential. Versions without a start year say so; coded potential bands are not ranked.
  • award_scope, award_type, award_history_winner Top scorer and player-of-season awards by season Now liveScoped awards are listed with their latest winner and the top scorer fills the roll of honour where exactly one most-goals award is scoped. No award type identifies a single player of the season, so that column stays empty. CSV-era exports have no award scope.
  • comp_history and Honours Titles per team over recorded history Now liveCounts use the bounded history query, not just the displayed page, and apply available edition and stage flags. Coverage is stated.
  • competition across versions, export_value_scale Recorded names and reputation across versions Now liveThese are real version records. Reputation is shown against its stated 1–200 scale where the export records one; the cross-version chart still plots raw values.

Reviewed 30 September 2026 against the current schema and page implementation. “Now live” means implemented where data is recorded; “Exported; UI pending” means the schema has data this page does not yet use. Tables and coverage vary by version. Missing values stay blank.