How to Get Promoted

Thank you to Eric Piaz­zoni (South Bend, Indi­ana) and the Ipswich Town FC Sup­port­ers Club for the fol­low­ing his­tor­i­cal break­down on the required Cham­pi­onship league point totals for poten­tial pro­mo­tion to the Pre­mier­ship. Eric’s blog is http://ericpz.wordpress.com and his sup­port­ers club chap­ter is http://www.itfcnasc.com.

Points needed for the final (6th table posi­tion) play­off berth:

2003–2004: 72
2004–2005: 72
2005–2006: 68
2006–2007: 75

Points needed for auto­matic pro­mo­tion (2nd table position):

2003–2004: 80
2004–2005: 86
2005–2006: 82
2006–2007: 85