The Championship Play-Offs include the most valuable sporting event in the world, giving one team a slot in the Premier League. But do you know how they work? Baring a historic makeup of goal differential, Fulham are in the playoffs. Being four points out of fifth place means Fulham are locked into sixth. We may not yet know are opponent, but we do know the playoff format. The qualifications for the Championship playoffs are pretty easy to understand.
The teams that finish in third through sixth place are the only teams that make the playoffs. Unlike some other leagues, there is no team from the top flight that competes with the lower division squads to go back up.
The first round of the playoffs is held over two legs. On the first leg of the tie, the sixth place team hosts the third place team, while the fifth place team hosts the fourth place team. Since Fulham are locked into sixth place, the first leg of the semi-final will be held at Craven Cottage. The two semi-final games will happen on consecutive days, Saturday May 13th and Sunday May 14th.
The second leg will be hosted by the team that finishes higher three days later May 16th and May 17th. The winner of each semi-final is determined by the aggregate score of both games. But the English Championship is genuinely the most exciting league in the world.
The league is always very tight, and the teams in there are always so tough. If you string three wins together very rare in the Championship you can go from relegation threatened to automatic promotion candidates. And the playoffs is the Championship's four best teams well, apart from two that got automatic promotion of that year, going to war.
Anything could happen. Almost everyone has a good a chance of winning as anyone else. The FA Cup having its semi-finals at Wembley has taken the gloss off of the achievement of getting to football's hallowed ground. And the playoffs see teams who never usually get to go to Wembley, get to go to Wembley.
The final scenes are played out at the home of football the biological home, the Maracana is just the foster home ,. We all know that feeling. As the last full-time whistle is blown and all the results are in, you suddenly think to yourself: "what now?
From May, the first day of the season in August seems such like a long time away. But the playoffs are a bit of extra time. A merit system is in place to pair the teams for the semi-finals.
Third place plays sixth place in one semi-final and fourth place plays fifth place in the other semi-final. The Championship semi-finals are traditionally two-legged affairs, but the away goals rule does not apply.
The semi-final winners progress to the play-off final. Brentford secured their place in the Championship play-offs with three games to spare. The Bees will be joined in the promotion tournament by Bournemouth , Swansea and Barnsley. Norwich City secured automatic promotion in April, with Watford joining the Canaries a few weeks later with a second-placed finish.
The play-off semi-finals began on May 17, with the second legs being played five days later on May
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