Championship: Who got promoted, relegated and who made the play-offs?

Relive all the action from a nail-biting final day

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It’s the final day of the Championship season and before the chaos of the play-offs takes hold next week, there is the small matter of deciding who goes up to the Premier League… and who drops down to League One.

Cardiff City know a win at home to Reading will see them return to the Premier League for the first time since 2014, but their opponents are not totally safe, sitting only two points above the drop zone in 19^th.

Fulham will be waiting in the wings knowing they must win to capitalise on any slip-ups, although they are also playing a relegation-threatened side in Birmingham City.

At the other end of the table, there are five teams fighting to avoid the two final relegation places as Burton Albion and Barnsley are away to play-off chasing Preston North End and Derby County respectively. The final team involved are Bolton Wanderers, who are at home to Nottingham Forest.

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Key Points

• Cardiff City join Wolves in the Premier League next season
• Derby County pipped Preston North End to the final play-off place
• Burton Albion and Barnsley were relegated as Bolton Wanderers managed a remarkable comeback

[6 May 2018 12:28 · digitalsport]

AS IT STANDS

Five minutes to go until kick-off, so here is our first (of many) as it stands updates:

Promoted

Cardiff

Relegated:

Burton

Bolton

Sunderland

Playoffs

Fulham

Aston Villa

Middlesbrough

Derby

[6 May 2018 12:30 · digitalsport]

The teams are in the tunnels... Here we go!

[6 May 2018 12:32 · digitalsport]

1: We are underway!

[6 May 2018 12:36 · digitalsport]

3: No goals as yet. Warnock is prowling the technical area at the Cardiff City stadium. He's after his eighth promotion today. That would make him the out-right record holder. He is currently tied on seven with Dave Bassett, Graham Taylor and Jim Smith.

[6 May 2018 12:38 · digitalsport]

Birmingham 0-0 Fulham

5: Close! Mitrovic gets on the end of Matt Targett's cross but can't direct it goal-wards

[6 May 2018 12:39 · digitalsport]

GOAL - IPSWICH TOWN

[6 May 2018 12:40 · digitalsport]

Ipswich Town 1-0 Middlesbrough

8: We have our first goal of the afternoon, as Freddie Sears fires home for Bryan Klug's side

[6 May 2018 12:42 · digitalsport]

Derby County 0-0 Barnsley

10: It's packed at Pride Park but still goalless. Olsson brings a save out of Walton after a swift counter-attack. Still goalless. 

[6 May 2018 12:44 · digitalsport]

Bolton Wanderers 0-0 Nottingham Forest

12: Ben Brereton goes close for the Reds. From six yards out he fires wide. Bolton have started positively, but it's the visitors who have the best opening so far.

[6 May 2018 12:45 · digitalsport]

GOAL - DERBY COUNTY