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Complete 2014 Championship Table, BWFC Rank 15th

• December 31, 2014 | By Chris Mann
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• Complete 2013 Championship Table; BWFC Rank 13th

With 2014's Championship fixtures over and done with, take a look at the league table for the entire calendar year.

30 teams played in England's second tier in 2014, with 18 of them part of the division for the 12-month duration.

Leicester City, Burnley and Queens Park Rangers swapped places with relegated Premier League sides Norwich City, Fulham and Cardiff City, while promotion from League One saw Wolverhampton Wanderers, Brentford and Rotherham United take the places of Doncaster Rovers, Barnsley and Yeovil Town.

Bolton picked up 62 points from their 47 league games in 2014, a total only nine teams could beat, but the league table provided below is ordered on a 'Points per Game' basis - giving an average number of points per game played by each side.

Using this method, Wanderers finish the year in 15th position - averaging 1.32 points per game, down from 1.41 in 2013. To compare, Leicester City, who were promoted as champions last season, top the table with an average of 2.35 points per game.

In the second half of 2013/14, Dougie Freedman's Bolton side averaged 1.43 points per game - a total bettered by 10 teams, leaving them tied with Ipswich Town in 11th place.

After recording a commendable average points tally in the first-half of 2014, Wanderers' form dipped dramatically in the second. The 1.43 points they averaged in the latter half of the previous campaign dipped to 1.21 points per game this term, seeing them drop four places - to 15th.

Under the stewardship of Freedman, Bolton played 11 times this campaign - averaging just 0.45 points per game. Their form has picked up since Neil Lennon's arrival as manager, in October, with a record of seven wins from 13 games seeing that total rise to 1.85 points per game - a number only bettered by Bournemouth (2.00), Ipswich Town (1.96) and Derby County (1.88).

Only nine teams - Bournemouth (91), Derby County (82), Watford (82), Blackburn Rovers (77), Reading (70), Nottingham Forest (67), Ipswich Town (66), Middlesbrough (64) and Wigan Athletic (61) - scored more than Wanderers' 58 goals, but the only 10 teams conceded more than their 59.

Only six teams - Derby County (76), Watford (76), Leicester City (72), Brighton & Hove Albion (65), Nottingham Forest (60) and Birmingham City (59) - scored more than Wanderers' 57 goals, but the 54 they conceded was only better than eight sides - Millwall (74), Barnsley (70), Middlesbrough (68), Huddersfield Town (62), Birmingham City (56), Blackburn Rovers (56), Watford (55) and Charlton Athletic (55).

Sky Bet Championship - Full 2014 Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	Pts	PPG
1	Leicester City	23	16	6	1	44	18	54	2.35
2	Burnley	23	14	7	2	39	21	49	2.13
3	Derby County	47	25	11	11	82	46	86	1.83
4	Bournemouth	47	24	13	10	91	51	85	1.81
5	Ipswich Town	47	22	14	11	66	50	80	1.70
6	Brentford	24	12	4	8	40	35	40	1.67
7	Middlesbrough	47	21	15	11	64	36	78	1.66
8	Queens Park Rangers	23	11	4	8	36	31	37	1.61
9	Blackburn Rovers	47	19	17	11	77	68	74	1.57
10	Norwich City	24	10	7	7	44	29	37	1.54
11	Wolverhampton Wanderers	24	10	7	7	28	33	37	1.54
12	Watford	47	20	11	16	82	61	71	1.51
13	Sheffield Wednesday	48	18	14	16	58	54	68	1.42
14	Reading	47	18	12	17	70	68	66	1.40
15	Bolton Wanderers	47	16	14	17	58	59	62	1.32
16	Wigan Athletic	48	17	12	19	61	56	63	1.31
17	Cardiff City	24	8	7	9	32	35	31	1.29
18	Brighton & Hove Albion	47	14	18	15	53	51	60	1.28
19	Charlton Athletic	47	14	17	16	44	60	59	1.26
20	Nottingham Forest	47	13	18	16	67	74	57	1.21
21	Fulham	24	8	4	12	35	43	28	1.17
22	Rotherham United	24	5	11	8	21	30	26	1.08
23	Huddersfield Town	47	13	11	23	58	81	50	1.06
24	Millwall	47	11	16	20	45	68	49	1.04
25	Doncaster Rovers	23	6	5	12	21	30	23	1.00
26	Barnsley	23	6	5	12	24	36	23	1.00
27	Birmingham City	47	12	11	24	56	83	47	1.00
28	Leeds United	47	12	10	25	50	77	46	0.98
29	Yeovil Town	23	4	8	11	26	39	20	0.87
30	Blackpool	47	5	13	29	31	80	28	0.60

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