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(Top) 1 Changes from last season 1.1 Team changes 1.1.1 From Championship 1.2 To Championship 2 Team overview 2.1 Stadia and locations 3 League table 3.1 Play-offs 3.2 Semi-finals 3.2.1 First leg 3.2.2 Second leg 3.3 Final 4 Results 5 References

2005–06 Football League Championship

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Football League Championship
Season	2005–06
Champions	Reading 1st Championship title 1st 2nd tier title
Promoted	Reading Sheffield United Watford
Relegated	Crewe Alexandra Millwall Brighton & Hove Albion
Matches played	557
Goals scored	1,341 (2.41 per match)
Top goalscorer	Marlon King (Watford), 21^[1]
← 2004–05 2006–07 →

The 2005–06 Football League Championship (known as the Coca-Cola Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the second season of the league under its current title and fourteenth season under its current league division format.

Reading dominated the Championship, setting a new league record of 33 league games unbeaten between the opening day defeat by Plymouth Argyle and the loss at Luton Town in February; these were the only league defeats the team would suffer that season. On 25 March 2006 they clinched promotion to the top flight for the first time in their 135-year history thanks to a 1–1 draw away to Leicester City.^[2] Coppell's team secured the league title in the following week, with a 5–0 drubbing of Derby County, and they would go on to set a new English league record for the number of points won in a season, with 106.^[3]

Changes from last season

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Team changes

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From Championship

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Promoted to Premier League

Relegated to League One

To Championship

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Promoted from League One

Relegated from Premier League

Team overview

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Stadia and locations

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Brighton & Hove Albion

Wolverhampton Wanderers

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Locations of the Football League Championship 2005–2006 teams

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Burnley	Burnley	Turf Moor	22,546
Brighton & Hove Albion	Brighton & Hove	Withdean Stadium	8,850
Cardiff City	Cardiff	Ninian Park	21,508
Coventry City	Coventry	Ricoh Arena	32,602
Crewe Alexandra	Crewe	Alexandra Stadium	10,153
Crystal Palace	London	Selhurst Park	26,309
Derby County	Derby	Pride Park Stadium	33,597
Hull City	Hull	KC Stadium	25,586
Ipswich Town	Ipswich	Portman Road	30,311
Leeds United	Leeds	Elland Road	39,460
Leicester City	Leicester	Walkers Stadium	32,500
Luton Town	Luton	Kenilworth Road	10,226
Millwall	London	The Den	20,146
Norwich City	Norwich	Carrow Road	26,018
Plymouth Argyle	Plymouth	Home Park	18,000
Preston North End	Preston	Deepdale	23,408
Queens Park Rangers	London	Loftus Road	18,360
Reading	Reading	Madejski Stadium	24,161
Sheffield United	Sheffield	Bramall Lane	32,702
Sheffield Wednesday	Sheffield	Hillsborough Stadium	39,812
Southampton	Southampton	St Mary's Stadium	32,690
Stoke City	Stoke	Britannia Stadium	27,740
Watford	Watford	Vicarage Road	17,504
Wolverhampton Wanderers	Wolverhampton	Molineux	27,828

League table

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Reading (C, P)	46	31	13	2	99	32	+67	106	Promotion to the FA Premier League
2	Sheffield United (P)	46	26	12	8	76	46	+30	90	Promotion to the FA Premier League
3	Watford (O, P)	46	22	15	9	77	53	+24	81	Qualification for Championship play-offs
4	Preston North End	46	20	20	6	59	30	+29	80
5	Leeds United	46	21	15	10	57	38	+19	78
6	Crystal Palace	46	21	12	13	67	48	+19	75
7	Wolverhampton Wanderers	46	16	19	11	50	42	+8	67
8	Coventry City	46	16	15	15	62	65	−3	63
9	Norwich City	46	18	8	20	56	65	−9	62
10	Luton Town	46	17	10	19	66	67	−1	61
11	Cardiff City	46	16	12	18	58	59	−1	60
12	Southampton	46	13	19	14	49	50	−1	58
13	Stoke City	46	17	7	22	54	63	−9	58
14	Plymouth Argyle	46	13	17	16	39	46	−7	56
15	Ipswich Town	46	14	14	18	53	66	−13	56
16	Leicester City	46	13	15	18	51	59	−8	54
17	Burnley	46	14	12	20	46	54	−8	54
18	Hull City	46	12	16	18	49	55	−6	52
19	Sheffield Wednesday	46	13	13	20	39	52	−13	52
20	Derby County	46	10	20	16	53	67	−14	50
21	Queens Park Rangers	46	12	14	20	50	65	−15	50
22	Crewe Alexandra (R)	46	9	15	22	57	86	−29	42	Relegation to Football League One
23	Millwall (R)	46	8	16	22	35	62	−27	40
24	Brighton & Hove Albion (R)	46	7	17	22	39	71	−32	38

Updated to match(es) played on 2 December 2011. Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Play-offs

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Semi-finals

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First leg

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5 May 2006

19:45 BST

Leeds United	1–1	Preston North End
Lewis 74'	Statistics	Nugent 48'

Elland Road

Referee: P Crossley

6 May 2006

12:15 BST

Crystal Palace	0–3	Watford
	Statistics	King 46' Young 67' Spring 85'

Selhurst Park

Referee: M J Jones

Second leg

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8 May 2006

20:00 BST

Preston North End	0–2	Leeds United
	Statistics	Hulse 56' Richardson 61' Crainey 68' Cresswell 90'

Deepdale

Referee: Mike Thorpe

Leeds United win 3–1 on aggregate.

9 May 2006

19:45 BST

Watford	0–0	Crystal Palace
	Statistics

Vicarage Road

Referee: Steve Tanner

Watford win 3–0 on aggregate.

Final

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21 May 2006

15:00 BST

Leeds United	0–3	Watford
	(Details)	DeMerit 25' Sullivan 57' (o.g.) Henderson 84' (pen.)

Millennium Stadium, Cardiff

Attendance: 64,736

Referee: Mike Dean

Results

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Home \ Away	BHA	BUR	CAR	COV	CRE	CRY	DER	HUL	IPS	LEE	LEI	LUT	MIL	NWC	PLY	PNE	QPR	REA	SHE	SHW	SOU	STK	WAT	WOL
Brighton & Hove Albion		0–0	1–2	2–2	2–2	2–3	0–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–2	1–1	1–2	1–3	2–0	0–0	1–0	0–2	0–1	0–2	0–2	1–5	0–1	1–1
Burnley	1–0		3–3	4–0	3–0	0–0	2–2	1–0	3–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	0–2	1–0	0–3	1–2	1–2	1–1	1–0	4–1	0–1
Cardiff City	1–1	3–0		0–0	6–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	1–2	1–1	0–1	0–2	2–2	0–0	2–5	0–1	1–0	2–1	3–0	1–3	2–2
Coventry City	2–0	1–0	3–1		1–1	1–4	6–1	0–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–2	3–1	0–1	3–0	1–1	2–0	2–1	1–1	1–2	3–1	2–0
Crewe Alexandra	2–1	2–1	1–1	4–1		2–2	1–1	2–2	1–2	1–0	2–2	3–1	4–2	1–2	1–2	0–2	3–4	3–4	1–3	2–0	1–1	1–2	0–0	0–4
Crystal Palace	0–1	2–0	1–0	2–0	2–2		2–0	2–0	2–2	1–2	2–0	1–2	1–1	4–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	2–3	2–0	2–1	2–0	3–1	1–1
Derby County	1–1	3–0	2–1	1–1	5–1	2–1		1–1	3–3	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–2	2–2	0–1	0–2	2–2	2–1	1–2	0–3
Hull City	2–0	0–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–1		2–0	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–3	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–2	2–3
Ipswich Town	1–2	2–1	1–0	2–2	2–1	0–2	2–0	1–1		1–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	0–1	3–1	0–4	2–2	0–3	1–1	2–1	2–2	1–4	0–1	1–1
Leeds United	3–3	2–0	0–1	3–1	1–0	0–1	3–1	2–0	0–2		2–1	2–1	2–1	2–2	0–0	0–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	3–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	2–0
Leicester City	0–0	0–1	1–2	2–1	1–1	2–0	2–2	3–2	0–0	1–1		0–2	1–1	0–1	1–0	1–2	1–2	1–1	4–2	2–0	0–0	4–2	2–2	1–0
Luton Town	3–0	2–3	3–3	1–2	4–1	2–0	1–0	2–3	1–0	0–0	1–2		2–1	4–2	1–1	3–0	2–0	3–2	1–1	2–2	3–2	2–3	1–2	1–1
Millwall	0–2	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–3	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–2	0–1	0–1	2–1		1–0	1–1	1–2	1–1	0–2	0–4	0–1	0–2	0–1	0–0	0–0
Norwich City	3–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	2–1	1–2	0–1	2–1	2–0	1–1		2–0	0–3	3–2	0–1	2–1	0–1	3–1	2–1	2–3	1–2
Plymouth Argyle	1–0	1–0	0–1	3–1	1–1	2–0	0–2	0–1	2–1	0–3	1–0	1–2	0–0	1–1		0–0	3–1	0–2	0–0	1–1	2–1	2–1	3–3	2–0
Preston North End	0–0	0–0	2–1	3–1	1–0	2–0	1–1	3–0	3–1	2–0	0–0	5–1	2–0	2–0	0–0		1–1	0–3	0–0	0–0	1–1	0–1	1–1	2–0
Queens Park Rangers	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–2	1–3	1–1	2–2	2–1	0–1	2–3	1–0	1–0	3–0	1–1	0–2		1–2	2–1	0–0	1–0	1–2	1–2	0–0
Reading	5–1	2–1	5–1	2–0	1–0	3–2	5–0	3–1	2–0	1–1	2–0	3–0	5–0	4–0	1–2	2–1	2–1		2–1	2–0	2–0	3–1	1–1	1–1
Sheffield United	3–1	3–0	0–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	2–1	3–2	2–0	1–0	4–1	4–0	2–2	1–3	2–0	2–1	2–3	1–1		1–0	3–0	2–1	1–4	1–0
Sheffield Wednesday	1–1	0–0	1–3	3–2	3–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	2–1	0–2	1–2	1–0	0–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–2		0–1	0–2	1–1	0–2
Southampton	2–1	1–1	3–2	1–1	2–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	0–2	3–4	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	3–0		2–0	1–3	0–0
Stoke City	3–0	1–0	0–3	0–1	2–0	1–3	1–2	0–3	2–2	0–1	3–2	2–1	2–1	3–1	0–0	0–0	1–2	0–1	1–1	0–0	1–2		0–3	1–3
Watford	1–1	3–1	2–1	4–0	4–1	1–2	2–2	0–0	2–1	0–0	1–2	1–1	0–2	2–1	1–1	1–2	3–1	0–0	2–3	2–1	3–0	1–0		3–1
Wolverhampton Wanderers	1–0	0–1	2–0	2–2	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–2	2–0	1–1	1–1	3–1	0–2	0–0	1–3	0–0	0–0	1–1

Updated to match(es) played on 10 September 2020. Source: [1]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

References

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^ "English League Leading Goalscorers". RSSSF. Retrieved 31 October 2010.

^ "Leicester 1-1 Reading". BBC Sports. 25 March 2006. Retrieved 29 September 2017.

^ "Reading 5-0 Derby". BBC Sport. 1 April 2006. Retrieved 29 September 2017.

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