Who will win EFL Championship 2022-23 playoffs?

Championship season is coming to an end there are still few clubs who could secure English top-flight spot in playoffs

The top two clubs in the EFL Championship qualify for Premier League advancement automatically, making those slots some of the most profitable in all of football. The third team capable of promotion is then chosen by a play-off, with the teams finishing third to sixth entering a competition. The victor receives a promotion to the Premier League after two two-legged semifinals, a final at Wembley, and two further games.

There is only one complete round of regular-season games left, and while a few teams have dropped out of the playoff race, the difference in points between fifth and ninth place is still just three. But who will succeed when there is so much at stake?

4 Coventry: 7/2

Coventry have historically had to contend with problems off the pitch, but they are hope that a run to the play-offs will help them put those problems behind them. The Sky Blues were previously in the Premier League in 2000/01 and haven’t challenged the play-offs after their demotion, with their highest performance being ninth in the EFL Championship in 2005/06.

They have plummeted as low as League Two during that period of time but now with Mark Robins, there is optimism of a brighter future and a solid run at the appropriate moment puts them fifth with one game left.

3 Middlesbrough: 8/13

Middlesbrough's form dipped into the end of the season - they go into the play-offs in the lowest position of all four teams that are involved, having won only three of their last ten games - but they weren't able to harmed their self-assurance by rallying from a 1-0 deficit to draw 1-1 at home to Coventry on the final day. Boro's ninth draw of a rather a case of all 2022-23 season - only Sheffield United (seven) had fewer EFL Championship draws - could bode well for some explosive semi-final excitement.

2 Sunderland: 11/4

After winning the playoffs the previous year, Sunderland is back in the EFL Championship and will be hoping that their stint in the lower division will be brief. Sunderland, which is currently in sixth place after a poor stretch of play, enters the final day of the time still prepared of passing both teams with a win at Preston, but they will also need help from their northern neighbours Middlesbrough, who organise Coventry while Millwall host play-off rivals, Blackburn.

1 Luton: 11/4

Luton Town's impressive third-place result - they ended five points ahead of fourth-placed Middlesbrough and 11 points ahead of seventh-placed Blackburn Rovers - was based on one of the greatest defence credentials in the EFL Championship. Only Burnley surrendered fewer goals or had a lower anticipated score (xG) in their 46 regular-season matches than Luton's respective numbers of 39 and 44.6.