Here’s the latest on the 2025 EFL Championship play-off final.
- Result and date: Sunderland beat Sheffield United 2-1 in the final, held on May 24, 2025 at Wembley Stadium, London, to secure promotion to the 2025–26 Premier League. This marked Sunderland’s return to the top flight after the 2016–17 season.[1][2]
- Context: Leeds United and Burnley finished 1st and 2nd in the Championship in 2024–25 and were automatically promoted, with Sheffield United, Sunderland, Coventry City, and Bristol City contesting the play-offs. Sunderland’s win in the final completed the three-promotion spots for the season.[1]
- Final details: Attendance was 82,718, and the match kicked off at 15:01 BST as part of a CPR awareness initiative. The final is often described as the “richest game in football” due to its financial rewards for promotion.[1]
If you’d like, I can pull a concise match recap or create a quick timeline of the play-off results that led to this final.[1]
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Watch all the highlights and read the reports and reaction from the 2025 Sky Bet Championship, League One and League Two play-offs.
www.skysports.comA total of three teams are promoted from the second tier
www.101greatgoals.comThe 2025 EFL Championship play-off final was an association football match which was played on 24 May 2025 at Wembley Stadium, London, to determine the third and final team to gain promotion from EFL Championship, the second tier of English football, to the Premier League. The top two teams of the 2024–25 EFL Championship, Leeds United and Burnley, gained automatic promotion to the Premier League, while the clubs placed from third to sixth in the table – Sheffield United, Sunderland...
football.fandom.comThe matches end more than nine months of Championship drama
www.101greatgoals.comComplete guide to the 2024-25 Championship playoffs, including dates, fixtures, teams and how to watch the games live on TV
www.goal.com3pts Chesterfield to win League Two play-offs at 4/1 (General) 2pts Charlton to win League One play-offs at 5/2 (Betfair, Paddy Power) It was a predictably dramatic final day in the Sky Bet EFL with Leeds pipping Burnley to the Championship title in stoppage time, Luton suffering back-to-back relegations and Bradford scoring in the 97th minute to clinch promotion from League Two. … Thursday, May 8 Bristol City 20:00 Sheffield United Friday, May 9 Coventry 20:00 Sunderland Monday, May 12...
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