Championship Table 2014: Standings, Promotion, Relegation and Play-Off Scenarios

The last matchday of the 2013-14 Football League Championship will see all 24 teams play their final match of the season on Saturday, wrapping up what has been a fantastic season.

Wigan Athletic became the third team to book their place in the play-offs last week, joining Queens Park Rangers and Derby County as the teams still vying for promotion to the Premier League.

Barnsley and Yeovil Town will be relegated to the League One, and one of Birmingham City, Doncaster Rovers, Millwall or Blackpool will join these two teams when the final matchday concludes.

Position	Team	Played	Won	Tied	Lost	GF	GA	GD	Points
1	Leicester City	45	30	9	6	82	43	39	99
2	Burnley	45	26	14	5	70	35	35	92
3	Derby County	45	25	9	11	83	51	32	84
4	Queens Park Rangers	45	22	11	12	57	42	15	77
5	Wigan Athletic	45	21	10	14	58	44	14	73
6	Reading	45	19	13	13	68	54	14	70
7	Brighton & Hove Albion	45	18	15	12	53	39	14	69
8	Blackburn Rovers	45	17	16	12	66	59	7	67
9	AFC Bournemouth	45	18	12	15	67	65	2	66
10	Ipswich Town	45	17	14	14	58	53	5	65
11	Nottingham Forest	45	16	17	12	66	62	4	65
12	Middlesbrough	45	15	16	14	58	49	9	61
13	Watford	45	15	15	15	73	60	13	60
14	Bolton Wanderers	45	14	16	15	57	58	-1	58
15	Leeds United	45	16	8	21	58	66	-8	56
16	Sheffield Wednesday	45	13	14	18	62	63	-1	53
17	Huddersfield Town	45	13	11	21	54	64	-10	50
18	Charlton Athletic	45	12	12	21	38	61	-23	48
19	Blackpool	45	11	13	21	38	63	-25	46
20	Millwall	45	10	15	20	45	74	-29	45
21	Doncaster Rovers	45	11	11	23	39	69	-30	44
22	Birmingham City	45	11	10	24	56	72	-16	43
23	Barnsley	45	9	12	24	42	74	-32	39
24	Yeovil Town	45	8	13	24	43	71	-28	37

Time	Home	v	Away
12:15	Barnsley	v	Queens Park Rangers
12:15	Blackburn Rovers	v	Wigan Athletic
12:15	Blackpool	v	Charlton Athletic
12:15	Bolton Wanderers	v	Birmingham City
12:15	Ipswich Town	v	Sheffield Wednesday
12:15	Leeds United	v	Derby County
12:15	Leicester City	v	Doncaster Rovers
12:15	Millwall	v	AFC Bournemouth
12:15	Nottingham Forest	v	Brighton & Hove Albion
12:15	Reading	v	Burnley

Leicester City and Burnley have already booked their spot in next year's Premier League, and they will be joined by the winners of the play-offs. While Blackburn Rovers still have an outside chance of making those play-offs, the more realistic scenario would see either Reading or Brighton & Hove Albion capture the final play-off ticket.

Reading will host second-place Burnley and will qualify if they match the result of Albion, who will visit Nottingham Forest. The hosts convincingly lost to AFC Bournemouth last Saturday but had been on quite a run going into that match and should make for a difficult opponent at home.

The challengers could be without two key contributors, as reported by Brighton FC News:

Burnley have already clinched promotion and have little left to play for, but the club should have no intentions of just gifting the three points to Reading. With Sky Sports announcing they plan on broadcasting the battle for the play-offs, the visitors will no doubt wish to look good in front of a national audience.

Sky Sports also reported Nigel Adkins' comments on his team's final match of the Championship season, indicating he doesn't expect any presents from the Clarets:

"

Burnley did very well when we played up at their place. We're facing a team who's just been promoted, they will come to our place and give us nothing. We've got to be right at it.

The mindset has to be to win. We won our last home game, won on Saturday and showed we can come from behind.

We'll work hard on the training ground, be right mentally and it's going to be a great day.

"

Blackburn would need both Reading and Brighton to lose big on Saturday, and with a goal difference of plus-seven, Rovers would need to score at least seven or eight goals against Wigan to have any chance at the play-offs. While still a mathematical possibility, it would truly be the most unlikely path to the play-offs the league has ever seen.

Blackpool, Millwall and Doncaster can all avoid the drop with a win on Saturday, but thanks to Birmingham City's superior goal difference (minus-16), the Blues would finish higher on the table than any of the aforementioned teams in case of a tie in points.

Birmingham will travel to Bolton and will either need to win and hope for one of Millwall or Doncaster to drop points (or Blackpool to lose), or draw and watch Doncaster lose to champions Leicester City.

As shared by Simply Sean, it truly is a fall from grace for the Blues:

Blackpool will be safe if they can get a single point from their tie against Charlton Athletic or if any of the three teams below them drop points.

Millwall will stay in the Championship with either a win over Bournemouth, a loss of points from Birmingham or a loss by Doncaster and hold the edge in goal difference with a single goal.

Doncaster will need to match Birmingham's result when they take on Leicester due to a worse goal difference (minus-30) or will have to better Millwall's result to jump over the east Londoners and avoid the drop.

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