2008–09 Football League Championship

Team changes from previous season

;Joining the Championship Relegated from the Premier League:

• Reading
• Birmingham City
• Derby County

Promoted from League One:

• Swansea City
• Nottingham Forest
• Doncaster Rovers

;Leaving the Championship Promoted to the Premier League:

• West Bromwich Albion
• Stoke City
• Hull City

Relegated to League One:

• Leicester City
• Scunthorpe United
• Colchester United

Team overview

Stadium and locations

Personnel and sponsoring

Managerial changes

League table

Play-offs

Main article: 2009 Football League play-offs

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Results

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Top goalscorers

Awards

;PFA Team of the Year{{Cite book | editor-first = Barry J. | editor-last = Hugman | title = The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2009–10 | year = 2009

Events

Goal controversies

• On 20 September 2008, during Watford's home game against Reading, the assistant referee Nigel Banister adjudged that a John Eustace own goal had opened the scoring for Reading. In fact, the ball had gone four yards wide of the goal after Eustace challenged Royals forward Noel Hunt and a corner should therefore have been awarded. Referee Stuart Attwell followed the signal by the assistant and awarded the goal. The next day Reading manager Steve Coppell said that he was happy for the game to be replayed, but his offer was turned down when an official said, "the referee's decision is final."
• On 6 December 2008 an apparent Bristol City goal against Swansea City was not awarded after both the linesman and referee failed to see the ball cross the line. This led Bristol City manager Gary Johnson to add to calls for goal-line technology.

Southampton administration

On 23 April 2009, The Football League announced that Southampton had been placed into administration. The ruling occurred after the deadline for immediate points deduction application, so the ten-point deduction would have to await whether or not Southampton, in 22nd place at the time of the announcement, were relegated. If they had finished above the relegation zone, then the points would have been deducted from their total for the current year to thereby relegate them. However, since their relegation was confirmed following their penultimate match, their point penalty would be applied the next season in League One.

Attendances

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References

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