Name: 1997-98 EFL Championship standings
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Nottingham Forest won the 1997-98 EFL Championship promotion and relegation race on 94 points, 3 points ahead of Middlesbrough. Manchester City, Stoke City and Reading finished in the relegation places.

EFL Championship standings, 1997-98

Team	W	D	L	GD	PTS	L10	Streak
Nottingham Forest (NFO) c	28	10	8	+40	94	7-2-1	D1
Middlesbrough (MID) a	27	10	9	+36	91	6-2-2	W1
Sunderland (SUN) o	26	12	8	+36	90	6-3-1	W1
Charlton Athletic (CHA) o	26	10	10	+31	88	8-2-0	D1
Ipswich Town (IPS) o	23	14	9	+34	83	8-1-1	W5
Sheffield United (SHU) o	19	17	10	+15	74	3-3-4	L2
Birmingham City (BIR)	19	17	10	+25	74	4-5-1	D1
Stockport County (SPT)	19	8	19	+2	65	3-2-5	W2
Wolverhampton Wanderers (WOL)	18	11	17	+4	65	2-3-5	L1
West Bromwich Albion (WBA)	16	13	17	-6	61	2-5-3	D1
Crewe Alexandra (CRE)	18	5	23	-7	59	4-0-6	L1
Oxford United (OXF)	16	10	20	-4	58	4-2-4	L2
Bradford City (BRD)	14	15	17	-13	57	2-3-5	L2
Tranmere Rovers (TRA)	14	14	18	-3	56	4-4-2	W1
Norwich City (NOR)	14	13	19	-17	55	3-2-5	W2
Huddersfield Town (HUD)	14	11	21	-22	53	5-2-3	L2
Bury (BUY)	11	19	16	-16	52	4-1-5	W1
Swindon Town (SWI)	14	10	22	-31	52	1-3-6	L3
Port Vale (PVL)	13	10	23	-10	49	4-2-4	W1
Portsmouth (POR)	13	10	23	-12	49	2-3-5	W2
Queens Park Rangers (QPR)	10	19	17	-12	49	0-6-4	L1
Manchester City (MCI) r	12	12	22	-1	48	2-3-5	W1
Stoke City (STK) r	11	13	22	-30	46	3-0-7	L2
Reading (REA) r	11	9	26	-39	42	1-0-9	L5

The three dashed lines are the automatic promotion pace, the play-off pace, and the relegation line.

Clinch key

o: clinched a play-off place
a: promoted
c: clinched the title
r: relegated

Turning points

The lead changed hands 19 times.
Nottingham Forest trailed by as many as 3 points on November 8, 1997.
Nottingham Forest took first place for good on March 14, 1998.
Charlton Athletic won 8 games in a row from March 21, 1998 to April 25, 1998, the longest run of the race.
Swindon Town led by 3 points as late as November 14, 1997.
Nottingham Forest went 8-0-2 from February 28, 1998 to April 13, 1998, turning a deficit of 3 points into a lead of 8 points.
The top two ended the day within three points of each other on 96 of the 120 days played.
Nine teams held first place.
Nottingham Forest spent 181 of the season's 268 charted days in first place.