2021–22 EFL Championship

EFL Championship
Season	2021–22
Dates	6 August 2021 – ; 7 May 2022
Champions	Fulham ; 1st Championship title; 3rd 2nd tier title
Promoted	Fulham ; Bournemouth ; Nottingham Forest
Relegated	Peterborough United; Derby County; Barnsley
Matches	552
Goals	1,385 (2.51 per match)
Top goalscorer	Aleksandar Mitrović; (Fulham) ; (43 goals)
Biggest home win	Fulham 7–0 ; Luton Town ; (2 May 2022)
Biggest away win	Blackburn Rovers 0–7 Fulham ; (3 November 2021) ; Reading 0–7 Fulham ; (11 January 2022)
Highest scoring	Sheffield United 6–2 Peterborough United ; (11 September 2021) ; Fulham 6–2 Bristol City ; (15 January 2022) ; Fulham 6–2 ; Birmingham City ; (18 January 2022) ; Reading 4–4 ; Swansea City ; (18 April 2022)
Longest winning run	Fulham ; (7 games)
Longest unbeaten run	Huddersfield Town ; (17 games)
Longest winless run	Peterborough United ; (15 games)
Longest losing run	Cardiff City ; (8 games)
Highest attendance	32,211 ; Derby County 2–2 Birmingham City ; (30 January 2022)
Lowest attendance	6,832 ; Peterborough United 2–3 Swansea City ; (16 March 2022)
Total attendance	9,310,401
Average attendance	16,867
	← 2020–21 2022–23 →

The 2021–22 EFL Championship (referred to as the Sky Bet Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the 6th season of the EFL Championship under its current title and the 30th season under its current league division format.

Season2021–22

Dates6 August 2021 –
7 May 2022

ChampionsFulham
1st Championship title
3rd 2nd tier title

PromotedFulham
Bournemouth
Nottingham Forest

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Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Bournemouth	Bournemouth	Dean Court	11,364
Barnsley	Barnsley	Oakwell	23,287
Birmingham City	Birmingham	St Andrew's	29,409
Blackburn Rovers	Blackburn	Ewood Park	31,367
Blackpool	Blackpool	Bloomfield Road	17,338
Bristol City	Bristol	Ashton Gate Stadium	27,000
Cardiff City	Cardiff	Cardiff City Stadium	33,280
Coventry City	Coventry	Coventry Building Society Arena	32,609
Derby County	Derby	Pride Park Stadium	33,600
Fulham	London (Fulham)	Craven Cottage	19,359
Huddersfield Town	Huddersfield	Kirklees Stadium	24,121
Hull City	Kingston upon Hull	MKM Stadium	25,586
Luton Town	Luton	Kenilworth Road	10,356
Middlesbrough	Middlesbrough	Riverside Stadium	34,742
Millwall	London (South Bermondsey)	The Den	20,146
Nottingham Forest	West Bridgford	City Ground	30,445
Peterborough United	Peterborough	London Road Stadium	15,314
Preston North End	Preston	Deepdale	23,404
Queens Park Rangers	London (White City)	Loftus Road	18,439
Reading	Reading	Select Car Leasing Stadium	24,161
Sheffield United	Sheffield	Bramall Lane	32,050
Stoke City	Stoke-on-Trent	bet365 Stadium	30,089
Swansea City	Swansea	Swansea.com Stadium	21,088
West Bromwich Albion	West Bromwich	The Hawthorns	26,850

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Bournemouth	Scott Parker	Lloyd Kelly	Umbro	MSP Capital^[3]
Barnsley	Martin Devaney (Interim)	Cauley Woodrow	Puma	The Investment Room^[4]
Birmingham City	Lee Bowyer	Troy Deeney	Nike	BoyleSports^[5]
Blackburn Rovers	Tony Mowbray	Darragh Lenihan	Macron	Totally Wicked¹
Blackpool	Neil Critchley	Chris Maxwell	Puma	Blackpool Council (Home: "VisitBlackpool.com"; Away: "Get Vocal")
Bristol City	Nigel Pearson	Dan Bentley	Hummel	MansionBet^[6]
Cardiff City	Steve Morison	Sean Morrison	Adidas	Tourism Malaysia
Coventry City	Mark Robins	Liam Kelly	Hummel	BoyleSports^[7]
Derby County	Wayne Rooney	Tom Lawrence	Umbro	32Red
Fulham	Marco Silva	Tom Cairney	Adidas	World Mobile ^[8]
Huddersfield Town	Carlos Corberán	Jonathan Hogg	Umbro	Utilita^[9]
Hull City	Shota Arveladze	Richie Smallwood	Umbro	Giacom^[10]
Luton Town	Nathan Jones	Sonny Bradley	Umbro	Utilita (home)² Star Platforms (away) Ryebridge (third)
Middlesbrough	Chris Wilder	Jonny Howson	Hummel	32Red
Millwall	Gary Rowett	Alex Pearce	Macron	Huski Chocolate^[11]
Nottingham Forest	Steve Cooper	Lewis Grabban	Macron	BOXT
Peterborough United	Grant McCann	Oliver Norburn	Puma	Mick George Group
Preston North End	Ryan Lowe	Alan Browne	Nike	PAR Group
Queens Park Rangers	Mark Warburton	Stefan Johansen	Erreà	Ashville Holdings^[12]
Reading	Paul Ince (Interim) Michael Gilkes (Interim)	Michael Morrison	Macron	Select Car Leasing^[13]
Sheffield United	Paul Heckingbottom	Billy Sharp	Adidas	Randox
Stoke City	Michael O'Neill	Lewis Baker	Macron	bet365
Swansea City	Russell Martin	Matt Grimes^[14]	Joma^[15]	Swansea University^[16]
West Bromwich Albion	Steve Bruce	Jake Livermore	Puma^[17]	Ideal Heating

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
West Bromwich Albion	Sam Allardyce^[20]	Resigned	23 May 2021	Pre-season	Valérien Ismaël^[21]	24 June 2021
Sheffield United	Paul Heckingbottom^[22]	End of caretaker spell	23 May 2021		Slaviša Jokanović^[23]	27 May 2021
Barnsley	Valérien Ismaël^[24]	Signed by West Bromwich Albion	24 June 2021		Markus Schopp^[25]	29 June 2021
Fulham	Scott Parker^[26]	Signed by Bournemouth	28 June 2021		Marco Silva^[27]	1 July 2021
Bournemouth	Jonathan Woodgate^[28]	End of contract	28 June 2021		Scott Parker^[28]	28 June 2021
Swansea City	Steve Cooper^[29]	Mutual consent	21 July 2021		Russell Martin^[30]	1 August 2021
Nottingham Forest	Chris Hughton^[31]	Sacked	16 September 2021	24th	Steve Cooper^[32]	21 September 2021
Cardiff City	Mick McCarthy^[33]	Mutual consent	23 October 2021	21st	Steve Morison^[34]	12 November 2021
Barnsley	Markus Schopp^[35]	Sacked	1 November 2021	23rd	Poya Asbaghi^[36]	17 November 2021
Middlesbrough	Neil Warnock^[37]	Mutual consent	6 November 2021	14th	Chris Wilder^[38]	7 November 2021
Sheffield United	Slaviša Jokanović^[39]	Sacked	25 November 2021	16th	Paul Heckingbottom^[39]	25 November 2021
Preston North End	Frankie McAvoy^[40]		6 December 2021	18th	Ryan Lowe^[41]	7 December 2021
Hull City	Grant McCann^[42]		25 January 2022	19th	Shota Arveladze^[43]	27 January 2022
West Bromwich Albion	Valérien Ismaël^[44]		2 February 2022	5th	Steve Bruce^[45]	3 February 2022
Reading	Veljko Paunović^[46]	Mutual consent	19 February 2022	21st	Paul Ince (Interim) Michael Gilkes (Interim)^[46]	19 February 2022
Peterborough United	Darren Ferguson^[47]	Resigned	20 February 2022	23rd	Grant McCann^[48]	24 February 2022
Barnsley	Poya Asbaghi^[49]	Mutual consent	24 April 2022	24th	Martin Devaney (Interim)^[50]	24 April 2022

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Fulham (C, P)	46	27	9	10	106	43	+63	90	Promotion to the Premier League
2	Bournemouth (P)	46	25	13	8	74	39	+35	88	Promotion to the Premier League
3	Huddersfield Town	46	23	13	10	64	47	+17	82	Qualification for Championship play-offs
4	Nottingham Forest (O, P)	46	23	11	12	73	40	+33	80
5	Sheffield United	46	21	12	13	63	45	+18	75
6	Luton Town	46	21	12	13	63	55	+8	75
7	Middlesbrough	46	20	10	16	59	50	+9	70
8	Blackburn Rovers	46	19	12	15	59	50	+9	69
9	Millwall	46	18	15	13	53	45	+8	69
10	West Bromwich Albion	46	18	13	15	52	45	+7	67
11	Queens Park Rangers	46	19	9	18	60	59	+1	66
12	Coventry City	46	17	13	16	60	59	+1	64
13	Preston North End	46	16	16	14	52	56	−4	64
14	Stoke City	46	17	11	18	57	52	+5	62
15	Swansea City	46	16	13	17	58	68	−10	61
16	Blackpool	46	16	12	18	54	58	−4	60
17	Bristol City	46	15	10	21	62	77	−15	55
18	Cardiff City	46	15	8	23	50	68	−18	53
19	Hull City	46	14	9	23	41	54	−13	51
20	Birmingham City	46	11	14	21	50	75	−25	47
21	Reading	46	13	8	25	54	87	−33	41^[a]
22	Peterborough United (R)	46	9	10	27	43	87	−44	37	Relegation to EFL League One
23	Derby County (R)	46	14	13	19	45	53	−8	34^[b]
24	Barnsley (R)	46	6	12	28	33	73	−40	30

Semi-finals					Final

3	Huddersfield Town	1	1	2

6	Luton Town	1	0	1
					3	Huddersfield Town	0

					4	Nottingham Forest	1
4	Nottingham Forest	2	1	3 (3)

5	Sheffield United	1	2	3 (2)

2021–22 EFL Championship

Team changes

To Championship

From Championship

Stadiums

Personnel and sponsoring

Managerial changes

League table

Play-offs

Final

Results

Season statistics

Scoring

Top scorers

Hat-tricks

Clean sheets

Discipline

Player

Club

Awards

Monthly

Annual

PFA Championship Team of the Year

Notes

References

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Home \ Away	BOU	BAR	BIR	BLA	BLP	BRI	CAR	COV	DER	FUL	HUD	HUL	LUT	MID	MIL	NTF	PET	PNE	QPR	REA	SHU	STO	SWA	WBA
Bournemouth	—	3–0	3–1	0–2	2–2	3–2	3–0	2–2	2–0	1–1	3–0	0–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–2	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–1	4–0	2–2
Barnsley	0–1	—	1–1	0–0	0–2	2–0	0–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	0–2	0–1	3–2	0–1	1–3	0–2	1–3	1–0	1–1	2–3	1–1	0–2	0–0
Birmingham City	0–2	2–1	—	1–2	1–0	3–0	2–2	2–4	2–0	1–4	0–2	0–0	3–0	0–2	2–2	0–3	2–2	0–0	1–2	1–2	1–2	0–0	2–1	1–0
Blackburn Rovers	0–3	2–1	4–0	—	1–1	0–1	5–1	2–2	3–1	0–7	0–0	2–0	2–2	1–0	0–0	0–2	4–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	3–1	0–1	2–1	1–2
Blackpool	1–2	1–0	6–1	2–1	—	3–1	0–2	0–1	0–2	1–0	0–3	1–0	0–3	1–2	1–0	1–4	3–1	2–0	1–1	4–1	0–0	0–1	1–0	0–0
Bristol City	0–2	2–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	—	3–2	1–2	1–0	1–1	2–3	5–0	1–1	2–1	3–2	1–2	1–1	0–0	1–2	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	2–2
Cardiff City	0–1	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	1–2	—	2–0	1–0	0–1	2–1	0–1	0–1	0–2	3–1	2–1	4–0	0–0	0–1	0–1	2–3	2–1	0–4	0–4
Coventry City	0–3	1–0	0–0	2–2	1–1	3–2	1–0	—	1–1	4–1	1–2	0–2	0–1	2–0	0–1	2–1	3–0	1–1	1–2	2–1	4–1	1–0	1–2	1–2
Derby County	3–2	2–0	2–2	1–2	1–0	1–3	0–1	1–1	—	2–1	1–1	3–1	2–2	0–0	1–2	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	2–0	2–1	0–0	1–0
Fulham	1–1	4–1	6–2	2–0	1–1	6–2	2–0	1–3	0–0	—	1–2	2–0	7–0	1–1	3–0	0–1	2–1	3–0	4–1	1–2	0–1	3–0	3–1	3–0
Huddersfield Town	0–3	2–1	0–0	3–2	3–2	2–0	2–1	1–1	2–0	1–5	—	2–0	2–0	1–2	1–0	0–2	3–0	1–0	2–2	4–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–0
Hull City	0–0	0–2	2–0	2–0	1–1	2–2	2–1	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–1	—	1–3	2–0	2–1	1–1	1–2	0–1	0–3	3–0	1–3	0–2	2–0	0–2
Luton Town	3–2	2–1	0–5	0–0	1–1	2–1	1–2	5–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	—	3–1	2–2	1–0	3–0	4–0	1–2	1–0	0–0	0–1	3–3	2–0
Middlesbrough	1–0	2–0	0–2	1–1	1–2	2–1	2–0	1–0	4–1	0–1	0–2	0–1	2–1	—	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–2	2–3	2–1	2–0	3–1	1–0	2–1
Millwall	1–1	4–1	3–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–2	2–0	2–1	0–2	0–0	—	0–1	3–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	0–1	2–0
Nottingham Forest	1–2	3–0	2–0	1–2	2–1	2–0	1–2	2–0	2–1	0–4	0–1	2–1	0–0	0–2	1–1	—	2–0	3–0	3–1	4–0	1–1	2–2	5–1	4–0
Peterborough United	0–0	0–0	3–0	2–1	5–0	2–3	2–2	1–4	2–1	0–1	1–1	0–3	1–1	0–4	2–1	0–1	—	0–1	2–1	0–0	0–2	2–2	2–3	0–1
Preston North End	2–1	2–1	1–1	1–4	1–0	2–2	1–2	2–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	1–4	2–0	4–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	—	2–1	2–3	2–2	1–1	3–1	1–1
Queens Park Rangers	0–1	2–2	2–0	1–0	2–1	1–2	1–2	2–0	1–0	0–2	1–0	1–1	2–0	2–2	1–1	1–1	1–3	3–2	—	4–0	1–3	0–2	0–0	1–0
Reading	0–2	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–3	2–3	1–2	2–3	2–2	0–7	3–4	1–1	0–2	1–0	0–1	1–1	3–1	2–1	3–3	—	0–1	2–1	4–4	0–1
Sheffield United	0–0	2–0	0–1	1–0	0–1	2–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	4–0	1–2	0–0	2–0	4–1	1–2	1–1	6–2	2–2	1–0	1–2	—	2–1	4–0	2–0
Stoke City	0–1	1–1	2–2	0–1	0–1	0–1	3–3	1–1	1–2	2–3	2–1	2–0	1–2	0–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–2	1–0	3–2	1–0	—	3–0	1–0
Swansea City	3–3	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	3–1	3–0	3–1	2–1	1–5	1–0	0–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	1–4	3–0	1–0	0–1	2–3	0–0	1–3	—	2–1
West Bromwich Albion	2–0	4–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	3–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–0	2–2	1–0	3–2	1–1	1–1	0–0	3–0	0–2	2–1	1–0	4–0	1–3	0–2	—

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Aleksandar Mitrović	Fulham	43
2	Dominic Solanke	Bournemouth	29
3	Ben Brereton Díaz	Blackburn Rovers	22
	Joël Piroe	Swansea City
	Andreas Weimann	Bristol City
6	Karlan Grant	West Bromwich Albion	18
6	Brennan Johnson¹	Nottingham Forest	18
8	Viktor Gyökeres	Coventry City	17
9	Elijah Adebayo	Luton Town	16
9	Emil Riis Jakobsen	Preston North End	16

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
John Swift	Reading	Queens Park Rangers	3–3 (H)^[56]	11 September 2021
Ben Brereton Díaz	Blackburn Rovers	Cardiff City	5–1 (H)^[57]	25 September 2021
Aleksandar Mitrović	Fulham	Swansea City	3–1 (H)^[58]	29 September 2021
Aleksandar Mitrović	Fulham	West Bromwich Albion	3–0 (H)^[59]	30 October 2021
Andreas Weimann	Bristol City	Millwall	3–2 (H)^[60]	2 January 2022
Aleksandar Mitrović	Fulham	Bristol City	6–2 (H)^[61]	15 January 2022
Danny Ward	Huddersfield Town	Reading	4–3 (A)^[62]	22 January 2022
Sam Surridge	Nottingham Forest	Swansea City	5–1 (H)^[63]	30 April 2022

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Mark Travers	Bournemouth	20
2	Lee Nicholls¹	Huddersfield Town	19
3	Wes Foderingham	Sheffield United	18
4	Sam Johnstone	West Bromwich Albion	15
4	Brice Samba¹	Nottingham Forest	15
6	Bartosz Białkowski	Millwall	14
6	Marek Rodák	Fulham	14
8	Daniel Iversen	Preston North End	13
	Thomas Kaminski	Blackburn Rovers
	Joe Lumley	Middlesbrough

Month	Manager of the Month		Player of the Month		Reference
August	Marco Silva	Fulham	Sorba Thomas	Huddersfield Town	^[65]
September	Scott Parker	Bournemouth	Ben Brereton Díaz	Blackburn Rovers	^[66]
October	Scott Parker	Bournemouth	Aleksandar Mitrović	Fulham	^[67]
November	Mark Warburton	Queens Park Rangers	Chris Willock	Queens Park Rangers	^[68]
December	Chris Wilder	Middlesbrough	Isaiah Jones	Middlesbrough	^[69]
January	Marco Silva	Fulham	Antoine Semenyo	Bristol City	^[70]
February	Carlos Corberán	Huddersfield Town	Lucas João	Reading	^[71]
March	Steve Morison	Cardiff City	Djed Spence	Nottingham Forest	^[72]
April	Steve Cooper	Nottingham Forest	Brennan Johnson	Nottingham Forest	^[73]

Award	Winner	Club
Player of the Season	Aleksandar Mitrović^[74]	Fulham
Young Player of the Season	Brennan Johnson^[75]	Nottingham Forest
Apprentice of the Season	Ryan Howley^[76]	Coventry City

Pos.	Player	Club	Ref.
GK	Lee Nicholls	Huddersfield Town	^[77]
CB	Tosin Adarabioyo	Fulham
CB	Lloyd Kelly	Bournemouth
CB	Joe Worrall	Nottingham Forest
RWB	Djed Spence	Nottingham Forest
CM	Ryan Yates	Nottingham Forest
CM	Philip Billing	Bournemouth
LWB	Antonee Robinson	Fulham
FW	Harry Wilson	Fulham
FW	Dominic Solanke	Bournemouth
FW	Aleksandar Mitrović	Fulham
Manager	Nathan Jones	Luton Town

Pos.	Player	Club
GK	Lee Nicholls	Huddersfield Town
DF	Tim Ream	Fulham
DF	Tosin Adarabioyo	Fulham
DF	Lloyd Kelly	Bournemouth
DF	Djed Spence	Nottingham Forest
MF	Philip Billing	Bournemouth
MF	Fábio Carvalho	Fulham
MF	Harry Wilson	Fulham
FW	Ben Brereton Díaz	Blackburn Rovers
FW	Dominic Solanke	Bournemouth
FW	Aleksandar Mitrović	Fulham