2020–21 EFL Championship

EFL Championship
Season	2020–21
Champions	Norwich City
Promoted	Norwich City; Watford; Brentford
Relegated	Wycombe Wanderers; Rotherham United; Sheffield Wednesday
Matches played	552
Goals scored	1,274 (2.31 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ivan Toney ; (32 goals)
Biggest home win	Norwich City 7–0 Huddersfield Town ; (6 April 2021)
Biggest away win	Preston North End 0–5 Brentford ; (10 April 2021)
Highest scoring	Brentford 7–2 Wycombe Wanderers ; (30 January 2021)
Longest winning run	Norwich City ; (9 games)
Longest unbeaten run	Brentford ; (21 games)
Longest winless run	Derby County ; Wycombe Wanderers ; (11 games)
Longest losing run	Sheffield Wednesday ; Wycombe Wanderers ; (7 games)
Highest attendance	4,000
Lowest attendance	1,000
	← 2019–20 2021–22 → All statistics correct as of 22 May 2021.

The 2020–21 EFL Championship (known as the Sky Bet Championship for sponsors) was the 17th season of the Football League Championship under its current title and the 29th season under its current format.

Teams

The following teams have changed division since the 2019–20 season:

Stadium and locations

London teams
Brentford
Millwall
Queens Park Rangers

Locations of the 2020–21 EFL Championship teams

Brentford

Millwall

Queens Park Rangers

Greater London Championship football clubs

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Barnsley	Barnsley	Oakwell	23,287
Birmingham City	Birmingham	St Andrew's	29,409
Blackburn Rovers	Blackburn	Ewood Park	31,367
Bournemouth	Bournemouth	Dean Court	11,364
Brentford	London (Brentford)	Brentford Community Stadium	17,250
Bristol City	Bristol	Ashton Gate	27,000
Cardiff City	Cardiff	Cardiff City Stadium	33,316
Coventry City	Birmingham	St Andrew's	29,409
Derby County	Derby	Pride Park Stadium	33,600
Huddersfield Town	Huddersfield	Kirklees Stadium	24,121
Luton Town	Luton	Kenilworth Road	10,356
Middlesbrough	Middlesbrough	Riverside Stadium	34,742
Millwall	London (South Bermondsey)	The Den	20,146
Norwich City	Norwich	Carrow Road	27,244
Nottingham Forest	Nottingham	City Ground	30,445
Preston North End	Preston	Deepdale	23,408
Queens Park Rangers	London (White City)	Kiyan Prince Foundation Stadium	18,439
Reading	Reading	Madejski Stadium	24,161
Rotherham United	Rotherham	New York Stadium	12,021
Sheffield Wednesday	Sheffield	Hillsborough Stadium	39,732
Stoke City	Stoke-on-Trent	Bet365 Stadium	30,089
Swansea City	Swansea	Liberty Stadium	21,088
Watford	Watford	Vicarage Road	22,200
Wycombe Wanderers	High Wycombe	Adams Park	9,448

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of exit	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Birmingham City	Steve Spooner Craig Gardner^[4]	End of caretaker spell	22 July 2020	Pre-season	Aitor Karanka^[5]	31 July 2020
Huddersfield Town	Danny Schofield^[4]		22 July 2020		Carlos Corberán^[6]	23 July 2020
Watford	Hayden Mullins^[7]^[8]		26 July 2020		Vladimir Ivić^[9]	15 August 2020
Bournemouth	Eddie Howe^[10]	Mutual consent	1 August 2020		Jason Tindall^[11]	8 August 2020
Reading	Mark Bowen^[12]	Mutual consent	29 August 2020		Veljko Paunović^[12]	29 August 2020
Barnsley	Gerhard Struber^[13]	Signed by New York Red Bulls	6 October 2020	21st	Valérien Ismaël^[14]	23 October 2020
Nottingham Forest	Sabri Lamouchi^[15]	Sacked	6 October 2020	22nd	Chris Hughton^[15]	6 October 2020
Sheffield Wednesday	Garry Monk^[16]	Sacked	9 November 2020	23rd	Tony Pulis^[17]	13 November 2020
Derby County	Phillip Cocu^[18]	Mutual consent	14 November 2020	24th	Wayne Rooney^[a]^[19]^[20]	27 November 2020
Watford	Vladimir Ivić^[21]	Sacked	19 December 2020	5th	Xisco Muñoz^[22]	20 December 2020
Sheffield Wednesday	Tony Pulis^[23]		28 December 2020	23rd	Darren Moore^[24]	1 March 2021
Cardiff City	Neil Harris^[25]		21 January 2021	15th	Mick McCarthy^[26]	22 January 2021
Bournemouth	Jason Tindall^[27]		3 February 2021	6th	Jonathan Woodgate^[b]^[28]	21 February 2021
Bristol City	Dean Holden^[29]		16 February 2021	13th	Nigel Pearson^[30]	22 February 2021
Birmingham City	Aitor Karanka^[31]	Resigned	16 March 2021	21st	Lee Bowyer^[32]	16 March 2021
Preston North End	Alex Neil^[33]	Sacked	21 March 2021	16th	Frankie McAvoy^[34]	10 May 2021

↑ Rooney was initially appointed as interim manager until the end of the season, but the move was made permanent on 15 January 2021.
↑ Woodgate was initially caretaker manager, but was then appointed as manager until the end of the season on 21 February 2021.

Play-offs

First leg

17 May 2021

18:00

Bournemouth	1–0	Brentford
Danjuma 55'	Report

Dean Court, Boscombe

Attendance: 2,000

Referee: Tim Robinson

17 May 2021

20:15

Barnsley	0–1	Swansea City
	Report	A. Ayew 39'

Oakwell, Barnsley

Attendance: 4,000

Referee: Geoff Eltringham

Second leg

22 May 2021

12:30

Brentford	3–1	Bournemouth
Toney 16' (pen.) Janelt 50' Forss 81'	Report	Danjuma 5'

Brentford Community Stadium, London

Referee: Jarred Gillett

22 May 2021

17:30

Swansea City	1–1	Barnsley
Grimes 39'		Woodrow 71'

Liberty Stadium, Swansea

Referee: John Brooks

Results

Home \ Away	BAR	BIR	BLA	BOU	BRE	BRI	CAR	COV	DER	HUD	LUT	MID	MIL	NOR	NOT	PNE	QPR	REA	ROT	SHW	STO	SWA	WAT	WYC
Barnsley	—	1–0	2–1	0–4	0–1	2–2	2–2	0–0	0–0	2–1	0–1	2–0	2–1	2–2	2–0	2–1	3–0	1–1	1–0	1–2	2–0	0–2	1–0	2–1
Birmingham City	1–2	—	0–2	1–3	1–0	0–3	0–4	1–1	0–4	2–1	0–1	1–4	0–0	1–3	1–1	0–1	2–1	2–1	1–1	0–1	2–0	1–0	0–1	1–2
Blackburn Rovers	2–1	5–2	—	0–2	0–1	0–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	5–2	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–2	0–1	1–2	3–1	2–4	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–3	5–0
Bournemouth	2–3	3–2	3–2	—	0–1	1–0	1–2	4–1	1–1	5–0	0–1	3–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	2–3	0–0	4–2	1–0	1–2	0–2	3–0	1–0	1–0
Brentford	0–2	0–0	2–2	2–1	—	3–2	1–1	2–0	0–0	3–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	2–4	2–1	3–1	1–0	3–0	2–1	1–1	2–0	7–2
Bristol City	0–1	0–1	1–0	1–2	1–3	—	0–2	2–1	1–0	2–1	2–3	0–1	0–2	1–3	0–0	2–0	0–2	0–2	0–2	2–0	0–2	1–1	0–0	2–1
Cardiff City	3–0	3–2	2–2	1–1	2–3	0–1	—	3–1	4–0	3–0	4–0	1–1	1–1	1–2	0–1	4–0	0–1	1–2	1–1	0–2	0–0	0–2	1–2	2–1
Coventry City	2–0	0–0	0–4	1–3	2–0	3–1	1–0	—	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–2	6–1	0–2	1–2	0–1	3–2	3–2	3–1	2–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–0
Derby County	0–2	1–2	0–4	1–0	2–2	1–0	1–1	1–1	—	2–0	2–0	2–1	0–1	0–1	1–1	0–1	0–1	0–2	0–1	3–3	0–0	2–0	0–1	1–1
Huddersfield Town	0–1	1–1	2–1	1–2	1–1	1–2	0–0	1–1	1–0	—	1–1	3–2	0–1	0–1	1–0	1–2	2–0	1–2	0–0	2–0	1–1	4–1	2–0	2–3
Luton Town	1–2	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–3	2–1	0–2	2–0	2–1	1–1	—	1–1	1–1	3–1	1–1	3–0	0–2	0–0	0–0	3–2	0–2	0–1	1–0	2–0
Middlesbrough	2–1	0–1	0–1	1–1	1–4	1–3	1–1	2–0	3–0	2–1	1–0	—	3–0	0–1	1–0	2–0	1–2	0–0	0–3	3–1	3–0	2–1	1–1	0–3
Millwall	1–1	2–0	0–2	1–4	1–1	4–1	1–1	1–2	0–1	0–3	2–0	1–0	—	0–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	4–1	0–0	0–3	0–0	0–0
Norwich City	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–3	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	0–1	7–0	3–0	0–0	0–0	—	2–1	2–2	1–1	4–1	1–0	2–1	4–1	1–0	0–1	2–1
Nottingham Forest	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–3	1–2	0–2	2–1	1–1	0–2	0–1	1–2	3–1	0–2	—	1–2	3–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–1	0–1	0–0	2–0
Preston North End	2–0	1–2	0–3	1–1	0–5	1–0	0–1	2–0	3–0	3–0	0–1	3–0	0–2	1–1	0–1	—	0–0	0–0	1–2	1–0	0–1	0–1	0–1	2–2
Queens Park Rangers	1–3	0–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–2	3–2	3–0	0–1	0–1	3–1	1–1	3–2	1–3	2–0	0–2	—	0–1	3–2	4–1	0–0	0–2	1–1	1–0
Reading	2–0	1–2	1–0	3–1	1–3	3–1	1–1	3–0	3–1	2–2	2–1	0–2	1–2	1–2	2–0	0–3	1–1	—	3–0	3–0	0–3	2–2	1–0	1–0
Rotherham United	1–2	0–1	1–1	2–2	0–2	2–0	1–2	0–1	3–0	1–1	0–1	1–2	0–1	1–2	0–1	2–1	3–1	0–1	—	3–0	3–3	1–3	1–4	0–3
Sheffield Wednesday	1–2	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–2	1–1	5–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–1	2–1	0–0	1–2	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–2	—	0–0	0–2	0–0	2–0
Stoke City	2–2	1–1	1–0	0–1	3–2	0–2	1–2	2–3	1–0	4–3	3–0	1–0	1–2	2–3	1–1	0–0	2–2	0–0	1–0	1–1	—	1–2	1–2	2–0
Swansea City	2–0	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–1	1–3	0–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	2–2	2–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	—	2–1	2–2
Watford	1–0	3–0	3–1	1–1	1–1	6–0	0–1	3–2	2–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	4–1	1–2	2–0	2–0	1–0	3–2	2–0	—	2–0
Wycombe Wanderers	1–3	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	2–1	1–2	1–2	0–0	1–3	1–3	1–2	0–2	0–3	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	0–1	0–2	1–1	—

Updated to match(es) played on 8 May 2021. Source: "Championship Results". Sky Sports. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Season statistics

As of 22 May 2021^[35]

Scoring

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Ivan Toney¹	Brentford	32
2	Adam Armstrong	Blackburn Rovers	28
3	Teemu Pukki	Norwich City	26
4	Kieffer Moore	Cardiff City	20
5	Lucas João	Reading	19
6	André Ayew¹	Swansea City	17
6	Arnaut Danjuma²	Bournemouth	17
8	Emiliano Buendía	Norwich City	15
8	Dominic Solanke	Bournemouth	15
10	Jamal Lowe	Swansea City	14

¹ Includes 1 goal in The Championship play-offs.
² Includes 2 goals in The Championship play-offs.

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Adam Armstrong	Blackburn Rovers	Wycombe Wanderers	5–0 (H)^[36]	19 September 2020
James Collins	Luton Town	Preston North End	3–0 (H)^[37]	12 December 2020
Sergi Canós	Brentford	Cardiff City	3–2 (A)^[38]	26 December 2020
Ivan Toney	Brentford	Wycombe Wanderers	7–2 (H)^[39]	30 January 2021
Teemu Pukki	Norwich City	Huddersfield Town	7–0 (H)^[40]	6 April 2021
Adam Armstrong	Blackburn Rovers	Huddersfield Town	5–2 (H)^[41]	24 April 2021
Harry Wilson	Cardiff City	Birmingham City	4–0 (A)^[42]	1 May 2021
Adam Armstrong	Blackburn Rovers	Birmingham City	5–2 (H)^[43]	8 May 2021

Most assists

Rank	Player	Club	Assists^[44]
1	Emiliano Buendía	Norwich City	16
2	Michael Olise	Reading	12
3	Harvey Elliott	Blackburn Rovers	11
3	Harry Wilson	Cardiff City	11
5	Bryan Mbeumo	Brentford	10
5	Ivan Toney	Brentford	10
7	Jake Bidwell	Swansea City	8
	David Brooks¹	Bournemouth
	Sergi Canós	Brentford
	Callum O'Hare	Coventry City
	Dominic Solanke	Bournemouth

¹ Includes 1 assist in The Championship play-offs.

Clean sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean Sheets
1	Freddie Woodman¹	Swansea City	21
2	Bartosz Białkowski	Millwall	17
	Tim Krul	Norwich City
	Rafael	Reading
5	Asmir Begović¹	Bournemouth	16
5	David Raya	Brentford	16
7	Brice Samba	Nottingham Forest	14
8	Daniel Bachmann	Watford	13
	Marcus Bettinelli	Middlesbrough
	Neil Etheridge	Birmingham City

¹ Includes 1 clean sheet in The Championship play-offs.

Discipline

Players

Most yellow cards: 12^[45]
- Nathaniel Chalobah (Watford)
- Michael Ihiekwe (Rotherham United)
- Jefferson Lerma ¹ (Bournemouth)

Most red cards: 2
- Emiliano Buendía (Norwich City)
- Kyle McFadzean (Coventry City)

¹ Includes 1 yellow card in The Championship play-offs.

Club

Most yellow cards: 80^[46]
- Rotherham United
- Watford
Most red cards: 7
- Sheffield Wednesday

Monthly awards

Month	Manager of the Month		Player of the Month		Reference
September	Veljko Paunović	Reading	Bradley Johnson	Blackburn Rovers	^[47]
October	Neil Warnock	Middlesbrough	Ivan Toney	Brentford	^[48]
November	Vladimir Ivić	Watford	David Brooks	Bournemouth	^[49]
December	Thomas Frank	Brentford	Duncan Watmore	Middlesbrough	^[50]
January	Steve Cooper	Swansea City	Matt Crooks	Rotherham United	^[51]
February	Mick McCarthy	Cardiff City	Teemu Pukki	Norwich City	^[52]
March	Xisco Muñoz	Watford	Alex Mowatt	Barnsley	^[53]
April	Jonathan Woodgate	Bournemouth	Arnaut Danjuma	Bournemouth	^[54]

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