The Football League 2009–10 (called Coca-Cola Football League for sponsorship reasons), was the seventeenth season under its current league division format. It began in August 2009 and ended on 8 May 2010.
The Football League is contested through three divisions. The second division of these is League One. Norwich City and Leeds United were automatically promoted to the Football League Championship as winners and runners-up respectively, and they were joined by the winner of the League One play-offs Millwall. The bottom four teams in the league were relegated to the third division, League Two.
Changes from last season
From League One Promoted to Championship Leicester City Peterborough United Scunthorpe United
Relegated to League Two Northampton Town Crewe Alexandra Cheltenham Town Hereford United
To League One Relegated from Championship Norwich City Southampton Charlton Athletic
Promoted from League Two Brentford Exeter City Wycombe Wanderers Gillingham
League table
Play-offs
First leg
Second leg
Charlton Athletic 3–3 Swindon Town on aggregate. Swindon Town win 5–4 on penalties.
Millwall win 2–0 on aggregate.
Final
Millwall are promoted to the Football League Championship
Results
Top scorers RankScorerClubGoals1 Rickie LambertSouthampton302 Billy PaynterSwindon Town263 Jermaine BeckfordLeeds United254 Lee BarnardSouthampton/Southend Utd24 Grant HoltNorwich City246 Steve MorisonMillwall217 Charlie AustinSwindon Town208 Jordan RhodesHuddersfield Town199 Chris MartinNorwich City1710 Ian HarteCarlisle United16
Stadia
Team Stadium CapacityLeeds United Elland Road 39,460Southampton St Mary's Stadium 32,689 Charlton Athletic The Valley 27,111 Norwich City Carrow Road 26,034Huddersfield Town Galpharm Stadium 24,500Milton Keynes Dons stadium:mk 22,000Millwall The Den 20,146Carlisle United Brunton Park Stadium 16,981Tranmere Rovers Prenton Park 16,567Swindon Town The County Ground 15,728Brentford Griffin Park 12,763Southend United Roots Hall 12,306Bristol Rovers Memorial Stadium 11,916Gillingham Priestfield Stadium 11,582Walsall Bescot Stadium 11,300Wycombe Wanderers Adams Park 11,000Stockport County Edgeley Park 10,651Oldham Athletic Boundary Park 10,638Colchester United Colchester Community Stadium 10,000Yeovil Town Huish Park 9,978Leyton Orient Brisbane Road 9,271Exeter City St James Park 9,036Brighton & Hove Albion Withdean Stadium 8,850Hartlepool United Victoria Park 7,691
Managerial changes Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Replaced by Date of appointment Position in table Norwich City Bryan Gunn Contract terminated 14 August 2009 Paul Lambert 18 August 2009 23rd Colchester United Paul Lambert Resigned 18 August 2009 Adrian Boothroyd 2 September 2009 1st Wycombe Wanderers Peter Taylor Mutual agreement 9 October 2009 Gary Waddock 13 October 2009 23rd Tranmere Rovers John Barnes Contract terminated 9 October 2009 Les Parry 16 December 2009 22nd Brighton & Hove Albion Russell Slade Contract terminated 1 November 2009 Gus Poyet 10 November 2009 20th Leyton Orient Geraint Williams Contract terminated 3 April 2010 Russell Slade 5 April 2010 19th
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