The 2013–14 Football League Championship (referred to as the

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Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the tenth season of the

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under its current title, the twenty-first season under its current league division format and marked the 125th anniversary of the Football League's inaugural season. The season started on 3 August 2013 and finished on 3 May 2014, with all matches on the final day kicking off simultaneously.

Changes from last season

Team changes

The following teams changed divisions after the 2012–13 season.

To Championship

Promoted from

League One The English Football League One (often referred to as League One for short or Sky Bet League One for sponsorship purposes, and known as the Football League One from 2004 until 2016) is the second-highest division of the English Football Leag ...

AFC Bournemouth AFC Bournemouth () is a professional association football club based in Kings Park, Boscombe, a suburb of Bournemouth, Dorset, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the highest division of English club football. Formed in 1899 as B ...

Doncaster Rovers Doncaster Rovers Football Club is a professional association football club based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. The team compete in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system. The club play their home games at ...

Yeovil Town Yeovil Town may refer to: * Yeovil Town F.C., an English football team based in Yeovil, Somerset * Yeovil Town L.F.C. Bridgwater United Women's Football Club are an English women's association football club based in Bridgwater, Somerset who wer ...

Relegated from

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Queens Park Rangers Queens Park Rangers Football Club, commonly abbreviated to QPR, is a professional football club based in Shepherd's Bush, West London, England, which compete in the . After a nomadic early existence, they have played home matches at Loftus Ro ...

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Wigan Athletic Wigan Athletic Football Club () is an English professional association football club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The team competes in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1932, ...

From Championship

Relegated to

Bristol City Bristol City Football Club is a professional football club based in Bristol, England, which compete in the , the second tier of English football. They have played their home games at Ashton Gate since moving from St John's Lane in 1904. The ...

Peterborough United Peterborough United Football Club is an English professional football club based in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. The team compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league system. Peterborough have a long-standing ...

Wolverhampton Wanderers Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club (), commonly known as Wolves, is a professional football club based in Wolverhampton, England, which compete in the . The club has played at Molineux Stadium since moving from Dudley Road in 1889. The club's ...

Promoted to

Cardiff City Cardiff City Football Club ( cy, Clwb Pêl-droed Dinas Caerdydd) is a professional association football club based in Cardiff, Wales. It competes in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1899 as R ...

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Hull City Hull City Association Football Club is a professional Association football, football club based in Kingston upon Hull, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, that compete in the . They have played home games at the MKM Stadium since moving ...

Rule changes

Changes to the Championship's financial fair play system allow clubs: * Acceptable losses of £3 million during the 2013–14 season (down from £4 million during the 2012–13 season) * Acceptable shareholder equity investment of £5 million during the 2013–14 season (down from £6 million during the 2012–13 season). * Sanctions for exceeding the allowances take effect from the set of accounts relating to the 2013–14 season which are due to be submitted on 1 December 2014.

Teams

Of the 24 participating teams, eighteen remain following the

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. They are joined by three teams promoted from the

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and three relegated from the

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. On 20 April 2013,

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were promoted to the Championship after

Brentford Brentford is a suburban town in West London, England and part of the London Borough of Hounslow. It lies at the confluence of the River Brent and the Thames, west of Charing Cross. Its economy has diverse company headquarters buildings whi ...

's 1–1 draw with

Hartlepool Hartlepool () is a seaside and port town in County Durham, England. It is the largest settlement and administrative centre of the Borough of Hartlepool. With an estimated population of 90,123, it is the second-largest settlement in County ...

. A week later,

Doncaster Doncaster (, ) is a city in South Yorkshire, England. Named after the River Don, it is the administrative centre of the larger City of Doncaster. It is the second largest settlement in South Yorkshire after Sheffield. Doncaster is situated in ...

were promoted as champions of League One after scoring a late goal against Brentford. This pushed Bournemouth down to second place. On 19 May,

won promotion by beating Brentford in the 2013 Football League One play-off Final. On 28 April 2013,

and

were both relegated from the Premier League after a goalless draw against each other. On 14 May,

were relegated from the Premier League after a 4–1 defeat at

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Team overview

Stadium and locations

Source: Football Ground Guide.

Personnel and sponsoring

* ¹ According to current revision of

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Managerial changes

League table

Play-offs

Results

Season statistics

Top scorers

# - includes 2 goals in the play-offs

Penalties

#- includes 1 penalty in the play-offs

Hat-tricks

* ⁴ Player scored 4 goals

Scoring

*First goal:

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for Burnley against Bolton Wanderers (''3 August 2013'') *Fastest goal: 15 seconds,

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for Blackpool against Derby County (''8 April 2014'') *Widest winning margin: 6 goals **Sheffield Wednesday 6–0 Leeds United (''11 January 2014'') **Reading 7–1 Bolton Wanderers (''18 January 2014'') *Highest scoring game: 8 goals **Derby County 4–4 Ipswich Town (''1 October 2013'') **Leicester City 5–3 Bolton Wanderers (''29 December 2013'') **Reading 7–1 Bolton Wanderers (''18 January 2014'') *Most goals scored in a match by a single team: 7 goals **Reading 7–1 Bolton Wanderers (''18 January 2014'') *Most goals scored in a match by a losing team: 3 goals **Leicester City 5–3 Bolton Wanderers (''29 December 2013'') **Blackburn Rovers 4–3 Wigan Athletic (''3 May 2014'')

Abandoned games

*Charlton Athletic 1–3 Doncaster Rovers (''24 August 2013'')
~ Charlton Athletic 2–0 Doncaster Rovers (Replay) *Sheffield Wednesday 0–1 Wigan Athletic (''18 December 2013'')
~ Sheffield Wednesday 0–3 Wigan Athletic (Replay)

Monthly awards

Transfers

References

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