English Second Tier Champions

English Second Tier Champions

Second Division Shield
(1893-1958)

Second Division Challenge Cup (1958-1992)

EFL Championship Trophy
(1993-date)
[prev. top tier trophy]

Second Division (1893-1992)

Joe Miller
(Middlesbrough 1927 & 1929)

1896 David Hannah* (Liverpool) [11/3]
1897 Bob Crone (Notts County) [11/0]
1898 Tommy Morrison (Burnley) [29/6]
1913 Jimmy McKnight (Preston North End) [3/0]
1922 Pat Nelis (Nottingham Forest) [10/6]
1926 Patrick McIlvenny (The Wednesday) [1/0]
1927 Joe Miller (Middlesbrough) [40/0]
1929 Joe Miller [2] (Middlesbrough) [40/0]
1931 Jimmy McCambridge (Everton) [1/0]
1947 Willy Walsh (Manchester City) [13/1]
1949 Ted Hinton (Fulham) [10/0]
1957 Willie Cunningham (Leicester City) [1/0]
1960 Peter McParland (Aston Villa) [41/22]
1963 Jimmy McIlroy (Stoke City) [18/6]
1965 Dave Craig (Newcastle Utd) [40/0]
Jim Nicholson
(Huddersfield 1970)
1966 Johnny Crossan (Manchester City) [40/13]
1967 Dave Clements (Coventry City) [40/4]
1968 Danny Hegan (Ipswich Town) [41/6]
1969 Arthur Stewart (Derby County) [4/0]
1970 Jimmy Nicholson (Huddersfield Town) [42/3]
1974 Eric McMordie (Middlesbrough) [7(1)/0]
1974 Jim Archibald Platt (Middlesbrough) [40/0]
1975 Dave McCreery (Manchester Utd) [0(2)/0]
1975 Sammy McIlroy (Manchester Utd) [41(1)/7]
1975 Jimmy Nicholl (Manchester Utd) [0(1)/0]
1976 Tommy Finney (Sunderland) [7(1)/1]
1977 James Kelly* (Wolverhampton Wanderers) [2(1)/0]
1980 John O'Neill (Leicester City) [33/0]
1982 Mal Donaghy (Luton Town) [42/9]
1983 Ian Stewart (Queen`s Park Rangers) [15(4)/0]
1985 Billy Hamilton (Oxford Utd) [23/9]
1989 Kevin Wilson (Chelsea) [43(3)/12]
1990 John McClelland (Leeds Utd) [3/0]

Gerry Taggart
(Bolton Wanderers 1997)

First Division (1993-2004)

1993 Tommy Wright (Newcastle United) [14/0]
1996 Phil Gray (Sunderland) [28(4)/8]
1997 Gerry Taggart (Bolton Wanderers) [43/3]
1998 Damien Johnson (Nottingham Forest (L)) [5(1)/0]
2001 Maik Taylor (Fulham) [44/0]
2002 Kevin Horlock (Manchester City) [33(9)/7]
2002 Jeff Whitley (Manchester City) [0(2)/0]
2004 Paul McVeigh (Norwich City) [36(8)/5]
2004 Phil Mulryne (Norwich City) [14(20)/3]

Championship (2005-date)
2005 Michael Ingham (Sunderland) [1(1)/0]
2005 George McCartney (Sunderland) [35(1)/0]
2005 Jeff Whitley [2] (Sunderland) [32(3)/0]
2007 Jonny Evans (Sunderland) [18/1] (winner of both EPL and EFL)
2008 Chris Brunt (West Bromwich Albion) [22(12)/4]
Stuart Dallas
(Leeds United 2020)
2015 Lee Camp (AFC Bournemouth) [9/0]
2015 Eunan O'Kane* (AFC Bournemouth) [8(3)/0]
2016 Michael Duff (Burnley) [23(1)/0]
2019 Jamal Lewis (Norwich City) [42/0]
2020 Stuart Dallas (Leeds United) [45/5]
2021 Michael McGovern (Norwich City) [9(1)/0]
2023 Bailey Peacock-Farrell (Burnley) 5(3)/0

* Northern Ireland born player. Not capped at senior level.

See Also:

The Football League's Divisional Trophies (1938)

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