Tag: EFL

24 June 2026 Off

What to look out for on EFL fixture release day

By Total Football News

The fixtures for the 2026-27 English Football League season will be released at 12:00 BST on Thursday, 25 June.

West Ham United, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Burnley, who were all relegated from the Premier League, will be joined in the Championship by Bolton Wanderers, Cardiff City and Lincoln City, with the Imps returning to the second tier for the first time in 65 years.

Leicester City will play in the third

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5 June 2026 Off

World Cup 2026: EFL players to look out for

By Total Football News

Elsewhere, Hull midfielder Amir Hadziahmetovic will be at the World Cup with Bosnia, as will his Tigers team-mate Ivor Pandur, who has been selected for Croatia.

Fellow Premier League-bound players competing include Coventry striker Haji Wright, who is in the United States squad, and Ipswich’s Iraqi forward Ali Al-Hamadi.

Watford goalkeeper Egil Selvik and Derby defender Sondre Langas will represent Norway.

Curacao, the smallest nation to ever qualify for the

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4 June 2026 Off

EFL: Clubs remove three-window penalty for late payments

By Total Football News

English Football League clubs have voted to reduce the length of ‘fee restriction’ transfer windows for clubs failing to meet financial obligations.

Those who do not keep up with payments for more than 30 days have previously been banned for three transfer windows from any incoming transfers or loans which involve a fee.

Sheffield Wednesday were one of the clubs hit by a three-window restriction when they twice failed to

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21 May 2026 Off

Neil Warnock on how to win the EFL play-offs

By Total Football News

Warnock says one of his most memorable play-off triumphs came with Plymouth Argyle in 1996 as they won promotion from what is now League Two.

“I enjoyed Plymouth because it was the first time the Green Army had been to Wembley and they were always really supportive – I remember people queuing for tickets and the talk around the town,” he says.

But that victory was far from simple for

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15 May 2026 Off

West Bromwich Albion: Championship club decide against appealing against EFL penalty

By Total Football News

Central to Albion’s objection at the time was around so-called ‘in-kind’ payments, which are not included in PSR calculations, to their charity The Albion Foundation.

The Baggies said at the time the Club Financial Reporting Unit (CFRU) accepted the payments of £2.1m were not part of the final PSR calculation, but the EFL said that had been “disallowed”.

“The CFRU originally made an adjustment to the club’s final PSR calculation

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13 May 2026 Off

Football Daily – 72+ EFL Pod: Forty years of the play-offs

By Total Football News

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Play-off winners Tommy Smith, Lyle Taylor and Darrell Clarke are with Aaron Paul to celebrate 40 years of the play-offs.

Former Sheffield Wednesday boss Darren Moore joins the pod to reflect on one of the greatest playoff games of the last 40 years, the ‘Miracle of Hillsborough’, when the Owls came from beat Peterborough 5-1 in the second leg to overcome a 4-0 first leg

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8 May 2026 Off

Southampton spying probe: Saints face EFL probe for spying on Middlesbrough

By Total Football News

The English Football League (EFL) has launched an investigation into an alleged case of spying by Southampton on Middlesbrough before they meet in the Championship play-offs.

The first leg of their semi-final takes place at the Riverside Stadium on Saturday, with the return at St Mary’s on Tuesday.

BBC Sport has learned Saints’ performance analyst was allegedly caught recording Boro training and taking pictures of tactics late on Thursday morning.

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4 May 2026 Off

Sam Parkin’s EFL takeaways: Credit for Kieran McKenna and Hull City a play-off force

By Total Football News

Kieran McKenna has led Ipswich Town back to the Premier League after just one season in the Championship and it is his third promotion in four years.

Parkin: “Ipswich must have learned lessons from the previous season, I suppose it’s all about what type of player they get in. Maybe the benchmark now has become Sunderland, how they’ve attacked it, maybe not going for that Premier League experience and just

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