Key events
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Goal! Newcastle 1-0 Brighton (Osula, 12)
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To the Premier League
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Championship 2025-26 final table
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Championship final day final scores
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Full-time: Derby 1-2 Sheffield United
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Hull go into the playoffs
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Ipswich promoted!
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Final score: Wrexham 2-2 Middlesbrough
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Goal! Ipswich 3-0 QPR (McAteer, 86)
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Goal! Hull 2-1 Norwich (McBurnie, 67)
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Goal! Derby 1-2 Sheffield United (Peck, 69)
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Goal! Derby 1-1 Sheffield United (Cannon, 62)
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Goal! Preston 1-2 Southampton (Dobbin, 60)
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Goal! Millwall 2-0 Oxford (Azeez, 48)
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Back underway for the second halves
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Championship half-time scores
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Goal! Wrexham 2-2 Middlesbrough (Strelec, 43)
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Goal! Wrexham 2-1 Middlesbrough (Smith, 41)
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Goal! Millwall 1-0 Oxford (Azeez, 35)
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Goal! Hull 1-1 Norwich (McBurnie, 28 pen)
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Goal! Hull 0-1 Norwich (Toure, 26)
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Goal! Wrexham 1-1 Middlesbrough (Windass, 28)
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Goal! Preston 0-1 Southampton (Harwood-Bellis, 12)
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Goal! Ipswich 2-0 QPR (Philogene, 9)
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Sheffield Wednesday takeover completed
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Goal! Derby 1-0 Sheffield United (Szmodics, 5)
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Goal! Wrexham 0-1 Middlesbrough (Conway, 4)
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Goal! Ipswich 1-0 QPR (Hirst, 3)
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Away we go on the final day of the Championship
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Preamble
Goal! Newcastle 1-0 Brighton (Osula, 12)
Twists and turns at St James’ Park. Brighton go close again as Baleba has a pop from 30 yards but sees his shot smash off the bar. But at the other end, Brighton ‘keeper Verbruggen comes out of his goal to intercept, slips over and that allows Murphy to cross for Osula to head into the unguarded net.
Newcastle 0-0 Brighton
The visitors have come flying out of the blocks. Jack Hinshelwood is put clean through on goal but Nick Pope denies him. But, as I write this, Newcastle have strong penalty claims but nothing doing.
In League One, it’s a great start for Leyton Orient. Needing to win to guarantee staying up, they’re in front inside five minutes.
In the Women’s Champions League, Arsenal need a huge second half. Taha Hashim is on the live blog.
Peep peep!! The 3pm kick-offs are go!
Thanks John. A sunny day in London as Brentford and West Ham prepare to do battle. At Exeter, Bradford fans in fancy dress are more than happy to have hoods on their Bantams outfits as it’s lashing it down!
David Tindall is ready to take over for the first half in the Premier League. I’ll be back…
In the EFL, the games to pay attention to are the following, with promotion, playoffs and relegation to be decided.
League One
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Barnsley v Stockport
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Bolton v Luton
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Exeter v Bradford
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Leyton Orient v Burton
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Northampton v Plymouth
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Stevenage v Wigan
League Two
Rod Wooden gets in touch: “The Hull keeper went down John, and immediately the whole Hull team rushed to the sideline for a team talk. Strange, that.”
Newcastle v Brighton teams
Newcastle: Pope, Miley, Thiaw, Botman, Burn, Guimaraes, Tonali, Willock, Jacob Murphy, Osula, Joelinton. Subs: Ramsdale, Trippier, Hall, Wissa, Gordon, Barnes, Elanga, Woltemade, Ramsey.
Brighton: Verbruggen, Wieffer, van Hecke, Boscagli, Kadioglu, Gross, Baleba, Minteh, Hinshelwood, Mitoma, Welbeck. Subs: Steele, Igor, Dunk, Rutter, Kostoulas, Ayari, De Cuyper, O’Riley, Veltman.
Wolverhampton v Sunderland teams
Wolverhampton: Bentley, Mosquera, Santiago Bueno, Toti Gomes, Pedro Lima, Joao Gomes, Andre Trindade, Hugo Bueno, Armstrong, Mane, Arokodare. Subs: Doherty, Wolfe, Hwang, Rodrigo Gomes, Bellegarde, Tchatchoua, Angel Gomes, Edozie, Gracey.
Sunderland: Roefs, Mukiele, Ballard, Alderete, Mandava, Xhaka, Sadiki, Hume, Talbi, Le Fee, Brobbey. Subs: Ellborg, Cirkin, Geertruida, Rigg, Mayenda, O’Nien, Isidor, Diarra, Bi.
To the Premier League
Brentford v West Ham teams
Brentford: Kelleher, Kayode, van den Berg, Collins, Lewis-Potter, Yarmolyuk, Jensen, Ouattara, Damsgaard, Schade, Thiago. Subs: Valdimarsson, Hickey, Pinnock, Dasilva, Nelson, Ajer, Janelt, Donovan, Furo.
West Ham: Hermansen, Walker-Peters, Mavropanos, Disasi, Diouf, Bowen, Soucek, Fernandes, Summerville, Pablo Felipe, Castellanos. Subs: Areola, Wilson, Traore, Lamadrid, Todibo, Magassa, Wan-Bissaka, Scarles, Kante.
Here’s our Championship final day reports.
Championship 2025-26 final table
Coventry and Ipswich promoted; Millwall to play Hull, Southampton to play Middlesbrough in the playoffs; Oxford, Leicester and Sheffield Wednesday relegated; the Owls celebrate reaching zero.
Championship final day final scores
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Blackburn Rovers 0-1 Leicester City
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Bristol City 2-0 Stoke City
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Derby County 1-3 Sheffield United
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Hull City 2-1 Norwich City
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Ipswich Town 3-0 QPR
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Millwall 2-0 Oxford United
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Portsmouth 1-1 Birmingham City
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Preston North End 1-3 Southampton
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Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 West Brom
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Swansea City 3-1 Charlton Athletic
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Watford 0-4 Coventry City
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Wrexham 2-2 Middlesbrough
There’s a pitch invasion at Hull, even though they have another game to play. Wild celebrations at Ipswich, too. Portman Road is, once again, a Premier League ground.
Full-time: Derby 1-2 Sheffield United
Derby fall short. At one point, a playoff position was in their hands. Instead, disappointment.
Hull go into the playoffs
Penalty call for Norwich? They want it, and Maghoma is booked for his complaints. It’s a corner instead. The final moments of the season and Ivor Pandur claims it. That’s the last of the action, and Hull claim sixth place and will play Millwall over two legs in the playoffs.
Ipswich promoted!
Ipswich are back, and in the Premier League after beating QPR 3-0. They made short work of the job in hand. Well done to Kieran McKenna’s men.
Final score: Wrexham 2-2 Middlesbrough
Kieffer Moore spoons his shot wide, and that’s the last of it. Wrexham fall short. They are relying on Norwich.
So, it comes down to Hull and Wrexham. The latter are in the final minute of time added on. Six minutes are added on at Hull.
Coventry now lead 4-0 at Watford, Victor Torp getting it. Leo Walta has made it 3-1 to Swansea against Charlton. Leicester’s horror season is over, and they sign off with a 1-0 win at Blackburn, Stephy Mavididi getting their goal. It’s full-time at Ewood Park, and Bristol City sign off with a 2-0 win over Stoke.
Wrexham 2-2 Middlesbrough
A huge scramble as Wrexham chase that goal. It’s remaining elusive.
Goal! Ipswich 3-0 QPR (McAteer, 86)
The job is done as the sub, Kasey McAteer, scores as QPR commit men forward and leae themselves open. Ipswich are back in the big time.
Wrexham 2-2 Middlesbrough
Close! Windass smashes over after a counterattack, Nathan Broadhead had laid that on a plate.
Swansea now lead again against Charlton, Adam Idah getting his second. At Hillsborough, Karlan Grant has got one back for West Brom. A Baggies equaliser would stop the Owls getting to zero points. Bristol City, in Roy Hodgson’s last game in charge – we think – now lead 2-0, Sam Bell getting it.
Wrexham 2-2 Middlesbrough
All guns blazing for Wrexham, as they seek the goal that takes them into the playoffs. Imagine the streaming content this would bring about.
Hull 2-1 Norwich
This game kicked off later in the second half than the others, and now the Hull keeper, Ivan Pandur, is down.
We’re into the last ten minutes of the Championship regular season.
By the way, Charlton have equalised, through Miles Leaburn, son of Addicks great Carl Leaburn.
Ipswich 2-0 QPR
Jack Clarke, who nearly got the job done at St Mary’s, is on and causing trouble for Rangers. This has been comfortable, and it might have been more when O’Shea heads back across goal, and McAteer can’t get there.