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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Your support makes all the difference.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 19th.
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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AS IT STANDS
Top two
2nd - Cardiff - 90pts
3rd - Fulham - 88pts
Relegated:
19th - Birmingham - 46pts
20th - Reading - 44pts
21st - Barnsley - 41 pts (-22)
22nd - Bolton - 41 pts (-36)
23rd - Reading - 41 pts (-43)
Playoffs
6th - Derby - 75pts
7th - Preston - 73pts
8th - Millwall - 72pts
Burton's two-year Championship stay is coming to an end as things stand. Their last relegation? 1977, from the Southern League Premier Division.
Despite trailing at Derby, struggling Barnsley are staying up as things stand
Back underway!
The final 45 minutes of the Championship season is upon us. Will we say any late drama? Can Fulham turn things around at St Andew's? We're about to find out...
Cardiff 0-0 Reading
Cardiff have dominated - and perhaps should have had a penalty - but Warnock is not happy with this side's first half. He thinks Fulham can turn things on a sixpence, but can the Whites pull it off?
Birmingham City 2-0 Fulham
46: Matt Targett has been replaced by Abou Kamara, an attacking change from the visitors. But the forward's first action is get himself booked for a silly challenge.
Cardiff 0-0 Reading
Bizarre moment from the first half, where a throw-in was taken from a shadow line and not the touchline!
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