2012–13 Football League Championship
Season | 2012–13 |
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Matches played | 85 |
Goals scored | 262 (3.08 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Charlie Austin (13 goals) |
Biggest home win | Blackpool 6–0 Ipswich Town |
Biggest away win | Birmingham City 0–5 Barnsley |
Highest scoring | Bristol City 3–5 Blackburn Rovers |
Longest winning run | 5 games Brighton & Hove Albion Leicester City |
Longest unbeaten run | 7 games Crystal Palace |
Longest winless run | 8 games Ipswich Town |
Longest losing run | 7 games Peterborough United |
Highest attendance | 28,707[1] Nottingham Forest v Derby County (30 September 2012) |
Lowest attendance | 5,435[1] Peterborough v Bristol City (18 September 2012) |
Average attendance | 17,059[1] |
← 2011–12 2013–14 → |
The 2012–13 Football League Championship (referred to as the Npower Football League Championship for sponsorship reasons) is the ninth season of the league under its current title and twentieth season under its current league division format. The season began on 17 August 2012 with promotion candidates Cardiff City hosting newly-promoted Huddersfield Town at Cardiff City Stadium and will finish on 4 May 2013 with all matches that day kicking off simultaneously.
Of the 24 teams which will participate, eighteen of these remain following the 2011–12 Football League Championship. They will be joined by Charlton Athletic, Sheffield Wednesday and Huddersfield Town from 2011–12 Football League One, and Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers and Wolverhampton Wanderers from the 2011–12 Premier League. The final place was decided on 26 May 2012, as Huddersfield Town defeated Sheffield United 8–7 on penalties, in the 2012 Football League One play-off Final.
Changes from last season
Team changes
To Championship
Promoted from League One
Relegated from Premier League
From Championship
Promoted to Premier League
Relegated to League One
Rules changes
On 25 April 2012, it was announced that financial fair play rules would be introduced for teams within The Championship.[2] This means that clubs have agreed to new rules on sustainable financing which includes:
- Acceptable losses of £4 million in the 2011–12 season, reducing to £2 million in 2015–16 season
- Acceptable amounts of shareholder investment of £8 million in the 2011–12 season, reducing to £3 million in 2015–16 season
- New rules on providing accounts
- New penalties for teams that fail to abide by the rules
Also the 2011–12 season saw football league clubs vote for five substitutes instead of seven. However, on 1 June 2012, Football League clubs re-voted with the outcome of seven substitutes instead of five, ahead of the 2012–13 Football League season.[3]
Team overview
Stadia and locations
- ABrighton & Hove Albion have been granted permission to add a further 5,500 seats at the AMEX and the stadium is currently undergoing development. Initial capacity in August will be 27,374 and will rise in December to 27,874.[4] The final expansion phase is likely to have been finished before the end of the 2012–13 season, around April 2013. This final phase brings the capacity up to 30,750.[5]
- BMolineux is currently undergoing redevelopment. The new stand is due to be open for the start of the new season with an estimated capacity of 31,700.[6]
Personnel and sponsoring
Managerial changes
Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment |
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Hull City | Nick Barmby | Sacked | 8 May 2012[8] | Pre-season | Steve Bruce | 8 June 2012[9] |
Birmingham City | Chris Hughton | Signed by Norwich City | 7 June 2012[10] | Pre-season | Lee Clark | 26 June 2012 |
Wolverhampton Wanderers | Terry Connor | End of contract | 30 June 2012[11] | Pre-season | Ståle Solbakken | 1 July 20121 |
Watford | Sean Dyche | Sacked | 2 July 2012[12] | Pre-season | Gianfranco Zola | 7 July 2012[13] |
Nottingham Forest | Steve Cotterill | Sacked | 12 July 2012[14] | Pre-season | Sean O'Driscoll | 19 July 2012[15] |
Blackburn Rovers | Steve Kean | Resigned | 28 September 2012[16] | 3rd | ||
Bolton Wanderers | Owen Coyle | Sacked | 9 October 2012[17] | 18th | ||
Burnley | Eddie Howe | Signed by Bournemouth | 12 October 2012[18] | 16th |
- 1Although Solbakken did not officially become manager until this date, his arrival was announced in advance on 11 May 2012.
League table
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Results
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Season statistics
Top scorers
Assists
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Hat-tricks
Peter Whittingham | Cardiff City | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 3–1[21] | 2 September 2012 |
Charlie Austin | Burnley | Peterborough United | 5–2[22] | 15 September 2012 |
Craig Davies4 | Barnsley | Birmingham City | 0–5[23] | 22 September 2012 |
Glenn Murray | Crystal Palace | Cardiff City | 3–2[24] | 22 September 2012 |
David Nugent | Leicester City | Hull City | 3–1[25] | 23 September 2012 |
Emile Sinclair | Peterborough | Hull City | 1–3[26] | 29 September 2012 |
Charlie Austin | Burnley | Sheffield Wednesday | 3–3[27] | 2 October 2012 |
- 4 Player scored 4 goals
Scoring
- First goal of the season: Mark Hudson for Cardiff City against Huddersfield Town (17 August 2012)
- Fastest goal of the season: 30 seconds, Glenn Murray for Crystal Palace against Sheffield Wednesday (1 September 2012)[28]
- Latest goal of the season: 95 minutes and 5 seconds, Jordan Rhodes for Blackburn Rovers against Bristol City (15 September 2012)[29]
- Largest winning margin: 6 goals
- Blackpool 6–0 Ipswich Town (25 August 2012)
- Highest scoring game: 8 goals
- Bristol City 3–5 Blackburn Rovers (15 September 2012)
- Most goals scored in a match by a single team: 6 goals
- Blackpool 6–0 Ipswich Town (25 August 2012)
- Most goals scored in a match by a losing team: 3 goals
- Bristol City 3–5 Blackburn Rovers (15 September 2012)
Clean sheets
- Most clean sheets: 4[1]
- Cardiff City
- Fewest clean sheets: 0[1]
- Bristol City
- Millwall
- Sheffield Wednesday
Discipline
- Most yellow cards (club): 19[30]
- Sheffield Wednesday
- Most yellow cards (player): 5[31]
- Shane Lowry (Millwall)
- Most red cards (club): 1[30]
- Barnsley
- Huddersfield Town
- Millwall
- Nottingham Forest
- Sheffield Wednesday
- Most red cards (player): 1[31]
- Adlène Guedioura (Nottingham Forest)
- Bobby Hassell (Barnsley)
- Joel Lynch (Huddersfield Town)
- Joe Mattock (Sheffield Wednesday)
- Chris Taylor (Millwall)
References
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- ^ "Bruce sets sights on Premier League after agreeing to take over at Hull". Daily Mail. Retrieved 29 June 2012.
- ^ "Chris Hughton appointed as new Norwich City manager". BBC Sport. Retrieved 29 June 2012.
- ^ "Wolves appoint Norwegian Stale Solbakken as new manager". BBC Sport. 11 May 2012.
- ^ "Watford sack Sean Dyche to clear way for Zola". BBC Sport. 3 July 2012.
- ^ "Official: Gianfranco Zola Appointed". Watford F.C. 7 July 2012.
- ^ "Steve Cotterill: Nottingham Forest owners Al-Hasawi family sack boss". BBC Sport. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
- ^ "O'Driscoll Appointed Manager". Nottingham Forest Football Club. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
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- ^ "Owen Coyle is sacked by Bolton Wanderers". BBC Sport. 9 October 2012. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
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