Key events
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Goal! Wolves 1-1 Sunderland (Santiago Bueno, 54)
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Goal! Brentford 2-0 West Ham (Igor Thiago, 54 pen)
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Penalty to Brentford!?
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Half-times in those key EFL games
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Red card! Sunderland’s Dan Ballard sent off at Wolves
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Goal! Newcastle 2-0 Brighton (Burn, 24)
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Goal! Wolves 0-1 Sunderland (Mukiele, 17)
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Goal! Brentford 1-0 West Ham (Mavropanos og, 15)
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Goal! Newcastle 1-0 Brighton (Osula, 12)
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To the Premier League
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Championship 2025-26 final table
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Championship final day final scores
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Full-time: Derby 1-2 Sheffield United
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Hull go into the playoffs
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Ipswich promoted!
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Final score: Wrexham 2-2 Middlesbrough
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Goal! Ipswich 3-0 QPR (McAteer, 86)
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Goal! Hull 2-1 Norwich (McBurnie, 67)
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Goal! Derby 1-2 Sheffield United (Peck, 69)
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Goal! Derby 1-1 Sheffield United (Cannon, 62)
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Goal! Preston 1-2 Southampton (Dobbin, 60)
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Goal! Millwall 2-0 Oxford (Azeez, 48)
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Back underway for the second halves
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Championship half-time scores
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Goal! Wrexham 2-2 Middlesbrough (Strelec, 43)
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Goal! Wrexham 2-1 Middlesbrough (Smith, 41)
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Goal! Millwall 1-0 Oxford (Azeez, 35)
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Goal! Hull 1-1 Norwich (McBurnie, 28 pen)
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Goal! Hull 0-1 Norwich (Toure, 26)
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Goal! Wrexham 1-1 Middlesbrough (Windass, 28)
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Goal! Preston 0-1 Southampton (Harwood-Bellis, 12)
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Goal! Ipswich 2-0 QPR (Philogene, 9)
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Sheffield Wednesday takeover completed
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Goal! Derby 1-0 Sheffield United (Szmodics, 5)
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Goal! Wrexham 0-1 Middlesbrough (Conway, 4)
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Goal! Ipswich 1-0 QPR (Hirst, 3)
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Away we go on the final day of the Championship
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Preamble
Goal! Wolves 1-1 Sunderland (Santiago Bueno, 54)
The central defender heads home, and after a brief delay for a suspected tug, it will stands.
Billy Sharp, 40, has just scored for Doncaster at Peterborough, in his final game.
Goal! Brentford 2-0 West Ham (Igor Thiago, 54 pen)
Big moment but Thiago keeps his cool to beat Hermandsen.
Leyton Orient have just scored against Burton, with Dom Ballard getting the goal. That lifts them to 18th in League One.
Penalty to Brentford!?
Ouatarra has been fouled by Diouf, and VAR is checking whether it was inside the box.
In League Two, Barrow have missed a penalty, in that vital game at the bottom. Barrow are still bottom as it stands.
Read Barney Ronay’s report from The New Den.
Half-times in those key EFL games
League One
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Barnsley 0-1 Stockport
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Bolton 2-1 Luton
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Exeter 0-1 Bradford
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Leyton Orient 1-1 Burton
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Northampton 2-2 Plymouth
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Stevenage 0-0 Wigan
League Two
John Brewin
OK, back underway for those second halves. I’m back in the chair.
James Humphries gets in touch: “One for the Knowledge, maybe, but is that gap between Leicester and the owls the biggest points differential between bottom and second bottom? You’d have to go some to beat a 46-point gap, surely, even allowing for deductions.”
Louise Taylor
In the week that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund finally pulled the plug on LIV golf Yasir Al-Rumayyan, Newcastle’s chair headed a 25 PIF delegation conducting an annual club review at Matfen Hall Hotel in Northumberland.
Al-Rumayyan and co rounded their trip off with a visit to St James’ Park to watch Eddie Howe’s team take on Brighton this afternoon. But the chair – who arrived complete with an expensive set of clubs – is understood to have enjoyed a round of golf at the excellent course adjacent to Matfen Hall yesterday/Friday.
Half-time whistles are blowing. In Leagues One and Two, lots of permutations are being tapped into calculators.
Another twist in League One. Luton’s playoff hopes take a knock as they fall 2-1 behind at third-placed Bolton. They’re now eighth in the live table.
In League One, Plymouth have now made it 2-2 at Northampton after being 2-0 down. One more goal and from looking down and out they’d move up into the playoff spots. That’s presuming everything else stays the same and, of course, it won’t!
Brentford 1-0 West Ham
The Hammers are doing everything to equalise. Mavropanos had a ‘goal’ ruled out while Castellanos has hit both posts. That said, Brentford have just had a huge chance to double their lead via Lewis-Potter but somehow it stays out.
Are Bromley going to snatch title glory in League Two? That’s how it stands right now as Ben Thompson puts them ahead against Walsall. They’re currently two… hang on, make that one point ahead of MK Dons, who have just equalised at Fleetwood.
Leyton Orient have conceded an equaliser to Burton in League One. They still look safe for now though with Exeter losing at home to Bradford.
Twists at the top in League Two. Leaders MK Dons trail Fleetwood so are in danger of being pipped to the title by Bromley. Third-placed Cambridge have missed a penalty at Crewe.
Key goal in League One. Exeter are heading to League Two after they fall 1-0 behind to playoff hopefuls Bradford. Plymouth have pulled one back at Northampton.
Red card! Sunderland’s Dan Ballard sent off at Wolves
It’s another hair pulling incident, folks. Ballard yanks Arokodare’s barnet and that’s not allowed is it. Paul Tierney jogs over to the pitchside monitor and soon after shows Ballard the red card. Sunderland still lead 1-0 but they’re down to 10 men.
Goal! Newcastle 2-0 Brighton (Burn, 24)
Brighton had made the better start but suddenly they’re 2-0 down to Newcastle as Big Dan Burn heads home at the near-post to double the Magpies’ lead.
Brentford 1-0 West Ham
Mavropanos looks to have equalised but his effort is chalked off for offside. A shame. Always fun to see a player score at both ends.
Plymouth have a mountain to climb if they’re to nick a playoff spot as they’re already 2-0 down at Northampton. All happening at Bolton. Luton score a controversial penalty to go into the playoffs and then drop out of them again as Bolton equalise.
Goal! Wolves 0-1 Sunderland (Mukiele, 17)
And we have goals in all three Premier League kick-offs as Mukiele heads home Xhaka’s corner to put Sunderland in front.
Goal! Brentford 1-0 West Ham (Mavropanos og, 15)
Big goal in the London derby as a scramble in the West Ham box results in what is deemed to be a Mavropanos own goal. Brentford are in front; Spurs fans celebrating.
Goal! Newcastle 1-0 Brighton (Osula, 12)
Twists and turns at St James’ Park. Brighton go close again as Baleba has a pop from 30 yards but sees his shot smash off the bar. But at the other end, Brighton ‘keeper Verbruggen comes out of his goal to intercept, slips over and that allows Murphy to cross for Osula to head into the unguarded net.
Newcastle 0-0 Brighton
The visitors have come flying out of the blocks. Jack Hinshelwood is put clean through on goal but Nick Pope denies him. But, as I write this, Newcastle have strong penalty claims but nothing doing.
In League One, it’s a great start for Leyton Orient. Needing to win to guarantee staying up, they’re in front inside five minutes.
In the Women’s Champions League, Arsenal need a huge second half. Taha Hashim is on the live blog.
Peep peep!! The 3pm kick-offs are go!
Thanks John. A sunny day in London as Brentford and West Ham prepare to do battle. At Exeter, Bradford fans in fancy dress are more than happy to have hoods on their Bantams outfits as it’s lashing it down!
David Tindall is ready to take over for the first half in the Premier League. I’ll be back…
In the EFL, the games to pay attention to are the following, with promotion, playoffs and relegation to be decided.
League One
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Barnsley v Stockport
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Bolton v Luton
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Exeter v Bradford
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Leyton Orient v Burton
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Northampton v Plymouth
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Stevenage v Wigan
League Two
Rod Wooden gets in touch: “The Hull keeper went down John, and immediately the whole Hull team rushed to the sideline for a team talk. Strange, that.”
Newcastle v Brighton teams
Newcastle: Pope, Miley, Thiaw, Botman, Burn, Guimaraes, Tonali, Willock, Jacob Murphy, Osula, Joelinton. Subs: Ramsdale, Trippier, Hall, Wissa, Gordon, Barnes, Elanga, Woltemade, Ramsey.
Brighton: Verbruggen, Wieffer, van Hecke, Boscagli, Kadioglu, Gross, Baleba, Minteh, Hinshelwood, Mitoma, Welbeck. Subs: Steele, Igor, Dunk, Rutter, Kostoulas, Ayari, De Cuyper, O’Riley, Veltman.
Wolverhampton v Sunderland teams
Wolverhampton: Bentley, Mosquera, Santiago Bueno, Toti Gomes, Pedro Lima, Joao Gomes, Andre Trindade, Hugo Bueno, Armstrong, Mane, Arokodare. Subs: Doherty, Wolfe, Hwang, Rodrigo Gomes, Bellegarde, Tchatchoua, Angel Gomes, Edozie, Gracey.
Sunderland: Roefs, Mukiele, Ballard, Alderete, Mandava, Xhaka, Sadiki, Hume, Talbi, Le Fee, Brobbey. Subs: Ellborg, Cirkin, Geertruida, Rigg, Mayenda, O’Nien, Isidor, Diarra, Bi.
To the Premier League
Brentford v West Ham teams
Brentford: Kelleher, Kayode, van den Berg, Collins, Lewis-Potter, Yarmolyuk, Jensen, Ouattara, Damsgaard, Schade, Thiago. Subs: Valdimarsson, Hickey, Pinnock, Dasilva, Nelson, Ajer, Janelt, Donovan, Furo.
West Ham: Hermansen, Walker-Peters, Mavropanos, Disasi, Diouf, Bowen, Soucek, Fernandes, Summerville, Pablo Felipe, Castellanos. Subs: Areola, Wilson, Traore, Lamadrid, Todibo, Magassa, Wan-Bissaka, Scarles, Kante.
Here’s our Championship final day reports.
Championship 2025-26 final table
Coventry and Ipswich promoted; Millwall to play Hull, Southampton to play Middlesbrough in the playoffs; Oxford, Leicester and Sheffield Wednesday relegated; the Owls celebrate reaching zero.
Championship final day final scores
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Blackburn Rovers 0-1 Leicester City
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Bristol City 2-0 Stoke City
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Derby County 1-3 Sheffield United
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Hull City 2-1 Norwich City
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Ipswich Town 3-0 QPR
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Millwall 2-0 Oxford United
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Portsmouth 1-1 Birmingham City
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Preston North End 1-3 Southampton
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Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 West Brom
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Swansea City 3-1 Charlton Athletic
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Watford 0-4 Coventry City
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Wrexham 2-2 Middlesbrough
There’s a pitch invasion at Hull, even though they have another game to play. Wild celebrations at Ipswich, too. Portman Road is, once again, a Premier League ground.
Full-time: Derby 1-2 Sheffield United
Derby fall short. At one point, a playoff position was in their hands. Instead, disappointment.
Hull go into the playoffs
Penalty call for Norwich? They want it, and Maghoma is booked for his complaints. It’s a corner instead. The final moments of the season and Ivor Pandur claims it. That’s the last of the action, and Hull claim sixth place and will play Millwall over two legs in the playoffs.
Ipswich promoted!
Ipswich are back, and in the Premier League after beating QPR 3-0. They made short work of the job in hand. Well done to Kieran McKenna’s men.
Final score: Wrexham 2-2 Middlesbrough
Kieffer Moore spoons his shot wide, and that’s the last of it. Wrexham fall short. They are relying on Norwich.
So, it comes down to Hull and Wrexham. The latter are in the final minute of time added on. Six minutes are added on at Hull.
Coventry now lead 4-0 at Watford, Victor Torp getting it. Leo Walta has made it 3-1 to Swansea against Charlton. Leicester’s horror season is over, and they sign off with a 1-0 win at Blackburn, Stephy Mavididi getting their goal. It’s full-time at Ewood Park, and Bristol City sign off with a 2-0 win over Stoke.
Wrexham 2-2 Middlesbrough
A huge scramble as Wrexham chase that goal. It’s remaining elusive.
Goal! Ipswich 3-0 QPR (McAteer, 86)
The job is done as the sub, Kasey McAteer, scores as QPR commit men forward and leae themselves open. Ipswich are back in the big time.
Wrexham 2-2 Middlesbrough
Close! Windass smashes over after a counterattack, Nathan Broadhead had laid that on a plate.
Swansea now lead again against Charlton, Adam Idah getting his second. At Hillsborough, Karlan Grant has got one back for West Brom. A Baggies equaliser would stop the Owls getting to zero points. Bristol City, in Roy Hodgson’s last game in charge – we think – now lead 2-0, Sam Bell getting it.
Wrexham 2-2 Middlesbrough
All guns blazing for Wrexham, as they seek the goal that takes them into the playoffs. Imagine the streaming content this would bring about.
Hull 2-1 Norwich
This game kicked off later in the second half than the others, and now the Hull keeper, Ivan Pandur, is down.
We’re into the last ten minutes of the Championship regular season.
By the way, Charlton have equalised, through Miles Leaburn, son of Addicks great Carl Leaburn.
Ipswich 2-0 QPR
Jack Clarke, who nearly got the job done at St Mary’s, is on and causing trouble for Rangers. This has been comfortable, and it might have been more when O’Shea heads back across goal, and McAteer can’t get there.
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