Английская Википедия:2008–09 Football League

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox football league season The 2008–09 Football League (known as the Coca-Cola Football League for sponsorship reasons) was the 110th completed season of the Football League. It began in August 2008 and concluded in May 2009, with the promotion play-off finals.

The Football League is contested through three Divisions: the Championship, League One and League Two. The winner and the runner up of the League Championship are automatically promoted to the Premier League and they will are joined by the winner of the Championship playoff. The bottom two teams in League Two are relegated to the Conference Premier.

Promotion and relegation

As a consequence of results in the 2008–09 English football season, the following promotions and relegations involving teams within, or entering or exiting the Football League occurred. These changes take effect for the 2009–10 season.

From Premier League

Relegated to Championship

• West Bromwich Albion
• Middlesbrough
• Newcastle United

From Championship

Promoted to Premier League

• Wolverhampton Wanderers
• Birmingham City
• Burnley

Relegated to League One

• Norwich City
• Southampton
• Charlton Athletic

From Football League One

Promoted to Championship

• Leicester City
• Peterborough United
• Scunthorpe United

Relegated to League Two

• Northampton Town
• Crewe Alexandra
• Cheltenham Town
• Hereford United

From Football League Two

Promoted to League One

• Brentford
• Exeter City
• Wycombe Wanderers
• Gillingham

Relegated to Conference Premier

• Chester City
• Luton Town

From Conference Premier

Promoted to League Two

• Burton Albion
• Torquay United

Championship

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Queens Park Rangers	Iain Dowie	Contract terminated	24 October 2008	Paulo Sousa	19 November 2008	9th
Watford	Aidy Boothroyd	Mutual consent	3 November 2008	Brendan Rodgers	24 November 2008	21st
Charlton Athletic	Alan Pardew	Mutual Consent	22 November 2008	Phil Parkinson	31 December 2008	22nd
Blackpool	Simon Grayson	Signed by Leeds United (Mutual Consent)	23 December 2008	Ian Holloway	21 May 2009	16th
Nottingham Forest	Colin Calderwood	Contract terminated	26 December 2008	Billy Davies	1 January 2009	22nd
Derby County	Paul Jewell	Resigned	28 December 2008	Nigel Clough	6 January 2009	18th
Norwich City	Glenn Roeder	Contract terminated	14 January 2009	Bryan Gunn	21 January 2009	21st
Southampton	Jan Poortvliet	Resigned	23 January 2009	Mark Wotte	23 January 2009	23rd
Queens Park Rangers	Paulo Sousa	Contract terminated	9 April 2009			10th
Ipswich Town	Jim Magilton	Contract terminated	22 April 2009	Roy Keane	23 April 2009	9th
Reading	Steve Coppell	Resigned	13 May 2009			4th

Top scorers

Pos	Player	Team	Goals
1	Sylvan Ebanks-Blake	Wolverhampton Wanderers	25
2	Jason Scotland	Swansea City	21
	Ross McCormack	Cardiff City
4	Kevin Doyle	Reading	18
5	Tommy Smith	Watford	17
6	Rob Hulse	Derby County	15
7	Chris Iwelumo	Wolverhampton Wanderers	14
	Kevin Phillips	Birmingham City
	Marcus Tudgay	Sheffield Wednesday
10	Dexter Blackstock	Nottingham Forest	13
	Nicky Bailey	Charlton Athletic
	Paul Gallagher	Plymouth Argyle

League One

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Milton Keynes Dons	Paul Ince	Signed by Blackburn Rovers (Mutual Consent)	22 June 2008	Roberto Di Matteo	2 July 2008	Pre-season
Cheltenham Town	Keith Downing	Mutual consent	13 September 2008	Martin Allen	15 September 2008	24th
Colchester United	Geraint Williams	Mutual consent	22 September 2008	Paul Lambert	9 October 2008	23rd
Carlisle United	John Ward	Mutual consent	3 November 2008	Greg Abbott	5 December 2008	20th
Huddersfield Town	Stan Ternent	Contract terminated	4 November 2008	Lee Clark	11 December 2008	16th
Swindon Town	Maurice Malpas	Mutual consent	14 November 2008	Danny Wilson	26 December 2008	17th
Crewe Alexandra	Steve Holland		18 November 2008	Guðjón Thórðarson	24 December 2008	24th
Hartlepool United	Danny Wilson	Contract terminated	15 December 2008			13th
Leeds United	Gary McAllister	Contract terminated	21 December 2008	Simon Grayson	23 December 2008	9th
Walsall	Jimmy Mullen	Contract terminated	10 January 2009	Chris Hutchings	20 January 2009	12th
Leyton Orient	Martin Ling	Mutual Consent	18 January 2009	Geraint Williams	5 February 2009	21st
Yeovil Town	Russell Slade	Mutual Consent	16 February 2009	Terry Skiverton	18 February 2009	16th
Brighton & Hove Albion	Micky Adams	Mutual Consent	21 February 2009	Russell Slade	6 March 2009	21st
Oldham Athletic	John Sheridan	Mutual Consent	15 March 2009	Joe Royle	15 March 2009	8th

Top scorers

Pos	Player	Club	Goals
1	Rickie Lambert	Bristol Rovers	29
	Simon Cox	Swindon Town
3	Jermaine Beckford	Leeds United	27
	Matty Fryatt	Leicester City
5	Gary Hooper	Scunthorpe United	24
6	Craig Mackail-Smith	Peterborough United	23
7	Aaron McLean	Peterborough United	18
	Joel Porter	Hartlepool United
9	Paul Hayes	Scunthorpe United	17
10	Aaron Wilbraham	Milton Keynes Dons	16

League Two

Table

2008–09 Football League Two

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
AFC Bournemouth	Kevin Bond	Contract terminated	1 September 2008	Jimmy Quinn	2 September 2008	23rd
Grimsby Town	Alan Buckley	Contract terminated	15 September 2008	Mike Newell	6 October 2008	20th
Port Vale	Lee Sinnott	Mutual consent	22 September 2008	Dean Glover	6 October 2008	16th
Chester City	Simon Davies	Contract terminated	11 November 2008	Mark Wright	14 November 2008	19th
Barnet	Paul Fairclough	Resigned	28 December 2008			21st
AFC Bournemouth	Jimmy Quinn	Contract terminated	31 December 2008	Eddie Howe	31 December 2008	23rd

Top scorers

Pos	Player	Team	Goals
1	Simeon Jackson	Gillingham	21
2	Grant Holt	Shrewsbury Town	20
	Jack Lester	Chesterfield
4	Reuben Reid	Rotherham United	18
5	Paul Benson	Dagenham & Redbridge	17
	John O'Flynn	Barnet
	Adam Le Fondre	Rochdale
	Peter Thorne	Bradford City
	Brett Pitman	AFC Bournemouth
10	Andy Bishop	Bury	16
	Ryan Lowe	Chester City
	Charlie MacDonald	Brentford

Notes

• Luton (−30), Bournemouth (−17) and Rotherham (−17) began the League Two season on negative points.

External links

• Football League website
• Soccerbase results database
• BBC Sport football pagesШаблон:Dead link