EFL Championship · 2025-26 · play-offs
Every 2025-26 EFL Championship play-off tie, three ways: the season race carried on into the play-offs, who beat their seeding, and the bracket.
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The same race these clubs ran all season, carried on through the play-offs on one scale and on real dates.
Where each club finished the season against how far it went, ranked on record rather than seed.
Who played whom, round by round, which no line chart can say.
Hull City won promotion through the 2025-26 play-off from a regular season record of 21-10-15. 4 teams reached the play-offs and the bracket ran 2 rounds. Southampton won their semi-final 2-1 on aggregate and were then expelled from the competition for the unauthorised filming of other clubs' training. Middlesbrough took their place in the final. Every tie below is taken from the RSSSF except Southampton's expulsion after the semi-final, written in from BBC Sport's reports of May 19 and 20, 2026; nothing on this page is estimated.
| Round | Won by | Result | Opponent | Played |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-finals | Hull City | 2-0 on aggregate | Millwall | May 8 to May 11, 2026 |
| Semi-finals | Southampton | 2-1 on aggregate after extra time | Middlesbrough | May 9 to May 12, 2026 |
| Final | Hull City | 1-0 | Middlesbrough | May 23, 2026 |
The left column ranks this field by regular season record, not by seed number: seeding rules differ by era, so this site uses records everywhere instead. The right column groups clubs by the round they went out in, which is not the same as the number of rounds they won, because a bye carries a club further without it winning anything. The figure beside a name is places moved between the two columns, and part of it is only where a club sat inside its band. Nothing here is a prediction. The data notes carry the whole method, and a standings race and the play-offs that followed it says what each of the three views is for.
The races that filled this bracket: EFL Championship