Coca Cola Championship
Category: Sports
The Coca Cola Championship. This is the second tier in English football and is what some people refer to as the “hardest” league in the world. This is because the main aim of the league is to gain promotion into the Premiership, the best league in the world. Normally about 75% teams are good enough to gain promotion to the Premiership and in this league anyone can beat anybody.
The league consists of 24 teams all battling it out over the season which starts in August and finishes in May. All teams play each other twice, once at home and once away from home, the bottom three teams in the league are relegated into League One and three teams win promotion, The top two teams automatically win promotion into the Premiership and the format in which the third team goes up is a format that is fantastic for the neutral fan but nerve wrecking for the fans of the teams involved.
What happens is the team who finish 3rd play the team who finished 6th in what is called a play-ff, they play each other twice. The same thing also happens between the teams who finish in 4th and 5th, then the two winners go into a final and contest what is known in the game as the “worlds most expensive match” this is because the two winners play each other at Wembley Stadium and the winners win promotion into the Premiership. The reason it is known as the expensive match is because Premiership teams get so much more sponsorship money and television rights, rumoured to be in excess in £40million.
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