The 2022–23 EFL Championship (referred to as the Sky Bet Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the 7th season of the

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under its current title and the 31st season under its current league division format. The season started on 29 July 2022 and ended on 8 May 2023. Due to the

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, the Championship took a 4-week break mid-season during the tournament. The break commenced in mid-November and the first round of fixtures after the World Cup was held on 10 December.

Team changes

The following teams have changed division since the 2021–22 season:

To Championship

Promoted from

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Wigan Athletic Wigan Athletic Football Club is a professional association football club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The team competes in the EFL League One, the third level of the English football league system. Founded in 1932, they have p ...

Rotherham United Rotherham United Football Club, nicknamed The Millers, is a professional association football club based in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. The team plays in EFL League One, the third tier of English football, after suffering relegation fr ...

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Relegated from the

Premier League The Premier League is a professional association football league in England and the highest level of the English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Football Lea ...

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Norwich City Norwich City Football Club is a professional football club based in Norwich, Norfolk, England. The club competes in the Championship, the second tier of English football. The club was founded in 1902. Since 1935, Norwich have played their h ...

From Championship

Promoted to the

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Relegated to

Peterborough United Peterborough United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. The team compete in League One, the third level of the English football league system. Peterborough United formed in ...

Derby County Derby County Football Club () is a professional association football club in Derby, England. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English football league system. One of the 12 founder members of the English Football ...

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Stadiums

Personnel and sponsoring

Managerial changes

League table

Play-offs

First leg Second leg ''Luton Town won 3–2 on aggregate.'' '' Coventry City won 1–0 on aggregate. ''

Final

Results

Season statistics

Top scorers

* ¹ Includes 1 goal in The Championship play-offs.

Hat-tricks

Clean sheets

* ¹ Includes 1 clean sheet in The Championship play-offs. *² Includes 2 clean sheets in The Championship play-offs.

Discipline

Player

* Most yellow cards: 14 **

Hamza Choudhury Hamza Dewan Choudhury (; born 1 October 1997) is a professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or right-back for club Sheffield United, on loan from Leicester City. Born in England, he plays for the Bangladesh national team. ...

Andy Yiadom Andrew Kyere Yiadom (born 2 December 1991) is a professional footballer who plays as a right back or right midfielder for club Reading. Born in England, he plays for the Ghana national team internationally. Club career Early career Yiadom was ...

* Most red cards: 2 ** Marvin Ekpiteta ** Wes Foderingham **

Gustavo Hamer Gustavo Martin Emilio Hamer (born 24 June 1997) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Sheffield United. Born in Brazil, he has represented the Netherlands at youth level. After moving to the Netherlands as a child, Ha ...

Hassane Kamara Hassane Kamara (born 5 March 1994) is a professional footballer who plays as a left back or left wing-back for Serie A club Udinese. Born in France, he plays for the Ivory Coast national team. Club career Châteauroux Kamara is a youth exponent ...

** Gabriel Osho

Club

* Most yellow cards: 108 **

Swansea City Swansea City Association Football Club ( ; ) is a Welsh professional football club based in Swansea, Wales. It competes in the EFL Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. Swansea have played their home matches at ...

* Most red cards: 9 **

Blackpool Blackpool is a seaside town in Lancashire, England. It is located on the Irish Sea coast of the Fylde peninsula, approximately north of Liverpool and west of Preston, Lancashire, Preston. It is the main settlement in the Borough of Blackpool ...

* Fewest yellow cards: 74 **

Hull City Hull City Association Football Club is a professional association football club based in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. They compete in the , the second level of the English football league system. They play their home ...

* Fewest red cards: 0 **

Birmingham City Birmingham City Football Club is a professional football club based in Birmingham, England. Formed in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance, it was renamed Small Heath in 1888, Birmingham in 1905, and Birmingham City in 1943. The team compete in the ...

Millwall Millwall is a district on the western and southern side of the Isle of Dogs, in east London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It lies to the immediate south of Canary Wharf and Poplar, north of Greenwich and Deptford, east of ...

Queens Park Rangers Queens Park Rangers Football Club, commonly abbreviated to QPR, is a professional association football club based in Shepherd's Bush, West London, England. The team currently compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English f ...

Awards

Monthly

Annual

Championship Team of the Season

PFA Championship Team of the Year

Attendances

Notes

References

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