EFL Championship · 1997-98 · play-offs
Every 1997-98 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.
Charlton Athletic won promotion through the 1997-98 play-off from a regular season record of 26-10-10. 4 teams reached the play-offs and the bracket ran 2 rounds. Every tie below is taken from the RSSSF; nothing on this page is estimated.
| Round | Won by | Result | Opponent | Played |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-finals | Sunderland | 3-2 on aggregate | Sheffield United | May 10 to May 13, 1998 |
| Semi-finals | Charlton Athletic | 2-0 on aggregate | Ipswich Town | May 10 to May 13, 1998 |
| Final | Charlton Athletic | 4-4, 7-6 on penalties | Sunderland | May 25, 1998 |
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.
The races that filled this bracket: EFL Championship