2020–21 EFL Championship

The 2020–21 EFL Championship (referred to as the Sky Bet Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the 5th season of the EFL Championship under its current title and the 29th season under its current league division format.

EFL Championship

Season	2020–21
Dates	11 September 2020 – 9 May 2021
Champions	Norwich City 2nd Championship title 5th 2nd tier title
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 (Brentford) (33 goals)[1]
Biggest home win	Norwich City 7–0 Huddersfield Town (6 April 2021)
Biggest away win	Preston North End 0–5 Brentford (10 April 2021)[1]
Highest scoring	Brentford 7–2 Wycombe Wanderers (30 January 2021)
Longest winning run	Norwich City (9 games)[1]
Longest unbeaten run	Brentford (21 games)[1]
Longest winless run	Derby County Wycombe Wanderers (11 games)[1]
Longest losing run	Sheffield Wednesday Wycombe Wanderers (7 games)[1]
Highest attendance	11,689[2]
Lowest attendance	1,000[3]
← 2019–20 2021–22 →

Team changes

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

To Championship Promoted from League One Coventry City Rotherham United Wycombe Wanderers Relegated from the Premier League Bournemouth Watford Norwich City

From Championship Promoted to the Premier League Leeds United West Bromwich Albion Fulham Relegated to League One Charlton Athletic Wigan Athletic[lower-alpha 1] Hull City

1. Wigan Athletic were deducted 12 points by the EFL for entering administration. The club appealed the decision, but it was confirmed on 4 August 2020 that the appeal was unsuccessful. Therefore Wigan were not reprieved from relegation.^[4][5]

Stadiums

London

Barnsley

Birmingham City

Blackburn Rovers

Bournemouth

Bristol City

Coventry City

Cardiff City

Derby County

Huddersfield Town

Luton Town

Middlesbrough

Norwich City

Nottingham Forest

Preston North End

Reading

Rotherham United

Sheffield Wednesday

Stoke City

Swansea City

Watford

Wycombe Wanderers

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

Attendances

As with the end to the previous season, the season was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in games being played behind closed doors. However, on 19 September 2020, two matches in the division, between Norwich City and Preston North End at Carrow Road, and between Middlesbrough and Bournemouth at The Riverside Stadium, were held in front of 1,000 spectators, as part of EFL pilots.^[6]

This was seen as the beginning of fans gradually returning, but a rapid rise of cases from the end of September (eventually resulting in a second nationwide lockdown in November), led to plans being put on hold.^[7]

With the second nationwide lockdown ending on 2 December 2020, it was announced England would return to its previous three tier system, with clubs in Tier 2 allowed to host a maximum of 2,000 spectators.^[8] The first of these matches took place on 2 December 2020 itself, although the matches of Luton Town and Wycombe Wanderers were capped at 1,000 spectators, as they had not previously held an EFL pilot event.^[9]

On Saturday 5 December 2020, Reading, Millwall, Watford, Norwich City and Brentford all hosted matches in front of the maximum allotted 2,000 spectators permitted, with fans in attendance at Brentford Community Stadium for the very first time.^[10]

However, it was then announced that from Wednesday 16 December 2020, that London, parts of Essex and parts of Hertfordshire, would move up to Tier 3, the highest tier of restrictions in England, meaning football clubs in these areas, (for The EFL Championship: Brentford, Millwall, Queens Park Rangers and Watford), would revert to playing behind closed doors without fans, due to a rise in coronavirus cases, following a tier review.^[11]

It was then announced that from Saturday, 19 December 2020 that Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire would also move into Tier 3, meaning for the EFL Championship that Luton Town, Reading & Wycombe Wanderers would also revert to playing behind closed doors without fans again, as of this date. Conversely, Bristol City, who had previously been unable to host fans, would now be able to allow fans back in, with Bristol being downgraded from Tier 3 to Tier 2.^[12] As of these updated restrictions, it now meant that only Bournemouth, Bristol City and Norwich City's stadiums would be open to host fans in The EFL Championship.^[13] This was reversed on Wednesday 23 December 2020, with Bournemouth the sole team in the division eligible to host fans.^[14][15] A week later on 30 December 2020, Tier 2 was removed in England, with mainland England in either Tiers 3 or 4, meaning once again, no clubs could host fans for the foreseeable future.^[16] A third national lockdown in January 2021 meant that fans ultimately were barred from matches for the rest of the regular season. Following an easing of restrictions in May 2021, the play-offs were able to take place in front of crowds of up to 20% of a stadium's capacity.

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Sponsor
Barnsley	Valérien Ismaël	Alex Mowatt[17]	Puma	The Investment Room[18]
Birmingham City	Lee Bowyer	Harlee Dean[19]	Nike	BoyleSports[20]
Blackburn Rovers	Tony Mowbray	Elliott Bennett	Umbro	Recoverite Compression[21]
Bournemouth	Jonathan Woodgate	Steve Cook	Umbro	MSP Capital[22]
Brentford	Thomas Frank	Pontus Jansson	Umbro	Utilita
Bristol City	Nigel Pearson	Tomáš Kalas[23]	Hummel	MansionBet[24]
Cardiff City	Mick McCarthy	Sean Morrison	Adidas	Tourism Malaysia
Coventry City	Mark Robins	Liam Kelly	Hummel	BoyleSports[25]
Derby County	Wayne Rooney	David Marshall[26]	Umbro[27]	32Red
Huddersfield Town	Carlos Corberán	Christopher Schindler	Umbro	Various (home) Yorkshire Air Ambulance / The Town Foundation / Kirkwood Hospice (away and third)[28]
Luton Town	Nathan Jones	Sonny Bradley	Umbro	JB Developments (home) Star Platforms (away) Ryebridge (third)
Middlesbrough	Neil Warnock	Jonny Howson	Hummel	32Red
Millwall	Gary Rowett	Alex Pearce	Macron	Huski Chocolate[29]
Norwich City	Daniel Farke	Grant Hanley	Erreà	Dafabet
Nottingham Forest	Chris Hughton	Michael Dawson	Macron	Boxt 2
Preston North End	Frankie McAvoy	Alan Browne	Nike	32Red
Queens Park Rangers	Mark Warburton	Geoff Cameron	Erreà	Senate Bespoke 2
Reading	Veljko Paunović	Liam Moore	Macron	Casumo[30]
Rotherham United	Paul Warne	Richard Wood	Puma	Embark Group
Sheffield Wednesday	Darren Moore	Barry Bannan	Elev8	Chansiri (home) Elev8 (away and third)
Stoke City	Michael O'Neill	Vacant	Macron	bet365
Swansea City	Steve Cooper	Matt Grimes[31]	Joma[32]	Swansea University[33]
Watford	Xisco Muñoz	Troy Deeney	Kelme[34]	Sportsbet.io
Wycombe Wanderers	Gareth Ainsworth	Matt Bloomfield	O'Neills	Dreams (home and away)[35] Cherry Red Records (third)[36]

1. ^ Club captain Wayne Rooney retired from playing on 15 January 2021 to manage the club on a permanent basis, having served as interim player-manager since the previous November following the dismissal of Phillip Cocu.
2. ^ Nottingham Forest and Queens Park Rangers' shirt sponsor was Football Index until 12 March 2021 when they entered administration.^[37]

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Birmingham City	Steve Spooner Craig Gardner[38]	End of caretaker spell	22 July 2020	Pre-season	Aitor Karanka[39]	31 July 2020
Huddersfield Town	Danny Schofield[38]				Carlos Corberán[40]	23 July 2020
Watford	Hayden Mullins[41][42]		26 July 2020		Vladimir Ivić[43]	15 August 2020
Bournemouth	Eddie Howe[44]	Mutual consent	1 August 2020		Jason Tindall[45]	8 August 2020
Reading	Mark Bowen[46]		29 August 2020		Veljko Paunović[46]	29 August 2020
Barnsley	Gerhard Struber[47]	Signed by New York Red Bulls	6 October 2020	21st	Valérien Ismaël[48]	23 October 2020
Nottingham Forest	Sabri Lamouchi[49]	Sacked		22nd	Chris Hughton[49]	6 October 2020
Sheffield Wednesday	Garry Monk[50]		9 November 2020	23rd	Tony Pulis[51]	13 November 2020
Derby County	Phillip Cocu[52]	Mutual consent	14 November 2020	24th	Wayne Rooney[lower-alpha 1][53][54]	27 November 2020
Watford	Vladimir Ivić[55]	Sacked	19 December 2020	5th	Xisco Muñoz[56]	20 December 2020
Sheffield Wednesday	Tony Pulis[57]		28 December 2020	23rd	Darren Moore[58]	1 March 2021
Cardiff City	Neil Harris[59]		21 January 2021	15th	Mick McCarthy[60]	22 January 2021
Bournemouth	Jason Tindall[61]		3 February 2021	6th	Jonathan Woodgate[lower-alpha 2][62]	21 February 2021
Bristol City	Dean Holden[63]		16 February 2021	13th	Nigel Pearson[64]	22 February 2021
Birmingham City	Aitor Karanka[65]	Resigned	16 March 2021	21st	Lee Bowyer[66]	16 March 2021
Preston North End	Alex Neil[67]	Sacked	21 March 2021	16th	Frankie McAvoy[68]	10 May 2021

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

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Norwich City (C, P)	46	29	10	7	75	36	+39	97	Promotion to the Premier League
2	Watford (P)	46	27	10	9	63	30	+33	91
3	Brentford (O, P)	46	24	15	7	79	42	+37	87	Qualification for Championship play-offs
4	Swansea City	46	23	11	12	56	39	+17	80
5	Barnsley	46	23	9	14	58	50	+8	78
6	Bournemouth	46	22	11	13	73	46	+27	77
7	Reading	46	19	13	14	62	54	+8	70
8	Cardiff City	46	18	14	14	66	49	+17	68
9	Queens Park Rangers	46	19	11	16	57	55	+2	68
10	Middlesbrough	46	18	10	18	55	53	+2	64
11	Millwall	46	15	17	14	47	52	−5	62
12	Luton Town	46	17	11	18	41	52	−11	62
13	Preston North End	46	18	7	21	49	56	−7	61
14	Stoke City	46	15	15	16	50	52	−2	60
15	Blackburn Rovers	46	15	12	19	65	54	+11	57
16	Coventry City	46	14	13	19	49	61	−12	55
17	Nottingham Forest	46	12	16	18	37	45	−8	52
18	Birmingham City	46	13	13	20	37	61	−24	52
19	Bristol City	46	15	6	25	46	68	−22	51
20	Huddersfield Town	46	12	13	21	50	71	−21	49
21	Derby County	46	11	11	24	36	58	−22	44
22	Wycombe Wanderers (R)	46	11	10	25	39	69	−30	43	Relegation to EFL League One
23	Rotherham United (R)	46	11	9	26	44	60	−16	42
24	Sheffield Wednesday (R)	46	12	11	23	40	61	−21	41[lower-alpha 1]

Source: EFL Official Website
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Head-to-head results; 5) Wins; 6) Away goals; 7) Penalty points (sec 9.5); 8) 12-point sending off offences^[71]
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Sheffield Wednesday received a 12 point deduction for breaching the League's Profitability and Sustainability Rules. This was later reduced to 6 points by an Independent League Arbitration panel.^[69][70]

Play-offs

Main article: 2021 English Football League play-offs

	Semi-finals							Final
	3	Brentford	0	3	3
	6	Bournemouth	1	1	2
								3	Brentford	2
								4	Swansea City	0
	4	Swansea City	1	1	2
	5	Barnsley	0	1	1

First leg

Bournemouth	1–0	Brentford
Danjuma 55'	Report

17 May 2021

18:00

Dean Court, Boscombe

Attendance: 2,000

Referee: Tim Robinson

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

17 May 2021

20:15

Oakwell, Barnsley

Attendance: 4,000

Referee: Geoff Eltringham

Second leg

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

22 May 2021

12:30

Brentford Community Stadium, London

Referee: Jarred Gillett

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

22 May 2021

17:30

Liberty Stadium, Swansea

Referee: John Brooks

Final

Main article: 2021 EFL Championship play-off Final

Brentford	2–0	Swansea City
Toney 10' (pen.) Marcondes 20'	Report

29 May 2021 (2021-05-29)

15:00 BST

Wembley Stadium, London

Attendance: 11,689

Referee: Chris Kavanagh

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	0–2	0–0	1–0	1–0	—	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	1–2	2–0	2–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	0–1	0–1	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

Scoring

Ivan Toney won The Golden Boot for Brentford in his debut season at the club, scoring 33 goals for The Bees, as they won the play–offs to seal promotion to The Premier League, ending a seventy-four year absence from the top flight.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Ivan Toney1	Brentford	33
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 Ayew2	Swansea City	17
	Arnaut Danjuma1	Bournemouth
8	Emiliano Buendía	Norwich City	15
	Dominic Solanke	Bournemouth
10	Jamal Lowe	Swansea City	14

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

Hat-tricks

Main article: List of EFL Championship hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Adam Armstrong	Blackburn Rovers	Wycombe Wanderers	5–0 (H)[72]	19 September 2020
James Collins	Luton Town	Preston North End	3–0 (H)[73]	12 December 2020
Sergi Canós	Brentford	Cardiff City	3–2 (A)[74]	26 December 2020
Ivan Toney		Wycombe Wanderers	7–2 (H)[75]	30 January 2021
Teemu Pukki	Norwich City	Huddersfield Town	7–0 (H)[76]	6 April 2021
Adam Armstrong	Blackburn Rovers		5–2 (H)[77]	24 April 2021
Harry Wilson	Cardiff City	Birmingham City	4–0 (A)[78]	1 May 2021
Adam Armstrong	Blackburn Rovers		5–2 (H)[79]	8 May 2021

Clean sheets

Freddie Woodman won The Golden Glove this season with 21 clean sheets, as he helped Swansea City reach the play-off final, whilst on loan from Premier League club Newcastle United.

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
	David Raya	Brentford
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^[80]
  • Nathaniel Chalobah (Watford)
  • Michael Ihiekwe (Rotherham United)
  • Jefferson Lerma¹ (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^[81]
  • Rotherham United
  • Watford
• Most red cards: 7
  • Sheffield Wednesday

Awards

Monthly

Month	Manager of the Month		Player of the Month		Reference
September	Veljko Paunović	Reading	Bradley Johnson	Blackburn Rovers	[82]
October	Neil Warnock	Middlesbrough	Ivan Toney	Brentford	[83]
November	Vladimir Ivić	Watford	David Brooks	Bournemouth	[84]
December	Thomas Frank	Brentford	Duncan Watmore	Middlesbrough	[85]
January	Steve Cooper	Swansea City	Matt Crooks	Rotherham United	[86]
February	Mick McCarthy	Cardiff City	Teemu Pukki	Norwich City	[87]
March	Xisco Muñoz	Watford	Alex Mowatt	Barnsley	[88]
April	Jonathan Woodgate	Bournemouth	Arnaut Danjuma	Bournemouth	[89]

Annual

Award	Winner	Club
Player of the Season	Emiliano Buendía[90]	Norwich City
Young Player of the Season	Michael Olise[90]	Reading

Championship Team of the season

Pos.	Player	Club	Ref.
GK	Asmir Begović	Bournemouth	[90][91]
DF	Max Aarons	Norwich City
DF	Grant Hanley	Norwich City
DF	Sean Morrison	Cardiff City
DF	Adam Masina	Watford
MF	Emiliano Buendía	Norwich City
MF	Michael Olise	Reading
MF	Alex Mowatt	Barnsley
FW	Arnaut Danjuma	Bournemouth
FW	Ivan Toney	Brentford
FW	Teemu Pukki	Norwich City
Manager	Daniel Farke	Norwich City

PFA Championship Team of the Year

Pos.	Player	Club
GK	Tim Krul	Norwich City
DF	Max Aarons	Norwich City
DF	Ethan Pinnock	Brentford
DF	Grant Hanley	Norwich City
DF	Rico Henry	Brentford
MF	Emiliano Buendía	Norwich City
MF	Michael Olise	Reading
MF	Oliver Skipp	Norwich City
FW	Adam Armstrong	Blackburn Rovers
FW	Ivan Toney	Brentford
FW	Teemu Pukki	Norwich City

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