{"id":7176,"date":"2022-05-23T08:14:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T13:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=7176"},"modified":"2022-05-23T10:13:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T15:13:22","slug":"congratulations-to-this-years-league-one-promotion-winners-2021-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/congratulations-to-this-years-league-one-promotion-winners-2021-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to This Year\u2019s League One Promotion Winners (2021-22)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/wiki\/index.php\/2021-22_English_football_season\">2021-22 EFL League One season<\/a> has drawn to a close and it&#8217;s time to recognize the clubs that will be leaving via promotion for the EFL Championship. This year the League One promotion winners were Wigan Athletic and Rotherham United on points and Sunderland from winning the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Rotherham is returning to the Championship just one season after relegation, while for Wigan it was only two seasons spent in League One. Sunderland, meanwhile, had the longest spell of the three promotion winners; it&#8217;s been five seasons since they were last in the EFL Championship.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Wigan Athletic (2019-20)<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/wiki\/index.php\/Wigan_Athletic_vs._Cardiff_City_(August_3,_2019)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/wiki\/images\/thumb\/6\/64\/English-football-program_2019-08-03_cacfc-wifc.jpg\/600px-English-football-program_2019-08-03_cacfc-wifc.jpg\" alt=\"Wigan Athletic vs. Cardiff City (August 3, 2019)\" width=\"600\" height=\"889\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wigan Athletic vs. Cardiff City (August 3, 2019)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Rotherham United (2020-21)<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/wiki\/index.php\/Rotherham_United_vs._Nottingham_Forest_(February_23,_2021)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/wiki\/images\/thumb\/b\/bb\/English-football-program_2021-02-23_nffc-rufc.jpg\/600px-English-football-program_2021-02-23_nffc-rufc.jpg\" alt=\"Rotherham United vs. Nottingham Forest (February 23, 2021)\" width=\"600\" height=\"889\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rotherham United vs. Nottingham Forest (February 23, 2021)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Sunderland (2017-18)<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/wiki\/index.php\/Sunderland_vs._Aston_Villa_(March_6,_2018)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/wiki\/images\/thumb\/0\/04\/English-football-program_2018-03-06_avfc-safc.jpg\/600px-English-football-program_2018-03-06_avfc-safc.jpg\" alt=\"Sunderland vs. Aston Villa (March 6, 2018)\" width=\"600\" height=\"881\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunderland vs. Aston Villa (March 6, 2018)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gallery of program covers for the clubs promoted from EFL League One to the EFL League Championship for the 2022-23 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[459,715,140,14,680,129,410,730],"class_list":["post-7176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-galleries","tag-2010s","tag-2020s","tag-english-football","tag-programs","tag-rotherham-united","tag-soccer","tag-sunderland","tag-wigan-athletic","wpcat-120-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7176"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7196,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7176\/revisions\/7196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}