Confirmed - Relegated in February

Sheffield Wednesday lose 2-1 at Sheffield United and are relegated to League One.

The first EFL club to ever be relegated in February.



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Sheffield Wednesday will be relegated to League One if they fail to win today in the Steel City Derby away at Sheffield United.

They would become the first EFL club to ever be relegated in February.

Couldn't happen in a worse fixture too

Sheffield United 2-0 up after 20 minutes.

Looks like it's today that Wednesday are going down.

Feel bad for Wednesday fans and players

They gave great support and deserve better than what they have been through these last few seasons

Sheffield Wednesday lose 2-1 at Sheffield United and are relegated to League One.

The first EFL club to ever be relegated in February.

Imagine if this had been played on a Wednesday, top quiz question.

At least the authorities have dealt with this wealhy club , its terrible how Man City have been treated .

This is definitely an example of how a relegation and reset will be good for a club.
Wednesday are a huge club and won't be short of buyers and will no doubt be right back up where they belong soon

Wednesday look to avoid more unwanted history

They travel to Norwich City on Wednesday night aiming to avoid a Championship record 11th straight defeat.
They are also in danger of breaking a number of other EFL records, including the fewest goals in a season, the fewest wins in a 46-game season, and becoming the first team to go a whole season without a home win.

Sheffield Wednesday have been relegated from the Championship with 13 games to play.

The administration-hit side were deducted 18 points this season, and their inevitable relegation was confirmed with a defeat at city rivals Sheffield United on Sunday, which left them on -7 points, 41 adrift of safety with just 39 to play for.

It is the earliest relegation in the history of the English Football League.

A large number of the senior squad were sold or released in a chaotic summer marked by then owner Dejphon Chansiri's failure to pay wages on time, which left the club under numerous embargoes.

Administration inevitably followed in October, and Wednesday's depleted squad, further weakened by January exits, have struggled to compete, with one win all season and now 10 successive league defeats.

A preferred bidder for the club was announced in December but, as yet, the takeover has not been completed.

Wednesday's only win of the campaign came in September and it looks possible they will become the first team in Football League history to end a campaign on minus points.

Protests against Thai businessman Chansiri's ownership had increased last season, a campaign which marked 10 years since he took over at Hillsborough.

Players and staff had their wages for March delayed and then went unpaid again in May.

It proved to be the start of the end for Chansiri and for Wednesday's Championship hopes.

As the initial delay in paying wages wore on, and with no comment from the owner, the club were hit with registration embargoes and the Professional Footballers' Association called the situation "shocking".

Popular boss Danny Rohl initially refused to return to the club when pre-season began before briefly returning.

In the meantime, players Josh Windass and Michael Smith both left on free transfers with their contracts ended by mutual consent.

Rohl quit at the end of July on the same day Sheffield Council announced it had not given the ground's North Stand a safety certificate for the forthcoming campaign.

Henrik Pedersen, Rohl's assistant, was appointed boss and captain Barry Bannan signed a new one-year deal, but the club's chaotic summer lurched onwards as the players refused to play a training match at Burnley.

That was their final planned pre-season game and so they went into the new campaign having not played a single friendly in front of a crowd.