Biggest Stadiums of the EFL Championship 2026/27

EFL Championship Stadiums: the great grounds of England's second tier

The EFL Championship 2026/27 boasts stadiums that would grace any top flight. West Ham United's London Stadium, with 62,500 seats, is the biggest ground in the division and one of the largest in England. Behind it come Middlesbrough's Riverside Stadium (34,742 seats, 1995), Derby County's Pride Park Stadium (33,597, 1997), the Cardiff City Stadium (33,280, 2009) and Southampton's St Mary's Stadium (32,384, 2001) — a generation of modern arenas built between the nineties and the two-thousands.

Few competitions pack so much history per square metre. Wolverhampton Wanderers' Molineux Stadium has been in use since 1889 and is the division's oldest ground, flanked by West Bromwich Albion's The Hawthorns (1900), Queens Park Rangers' Loftus Road (1904), Birmingham City's St Andrew's @ Knighthead Park (1906), Charlton Athletic's The Valley (1919) and Watford's Vicarage Road (1922). Grounds like Sheffield United's Bramall Lane, Blackburn Rovers' Ewood Park, Burnley's Turf Moor, Preston North End's Deepdale and Portsmouth's Fratton Park complete a map of legendary English football venues.

The 2026/27 season spreads the Championship across Great Britain: four stadiums in London (London Stadium, The Valley, The Den and Loftus Road) and three Welsh clubs — Cardiff City, Swansea City and Wrexham. Wrexham's STōK Cae Ras (Racecourse Ground) is listed with a temporary capacity of 10,771 due to the rebuilding of the Kop, which will lift capacity towards around 18,000. At the other end of the table, Lincoln City's LNER Stadium (Sincil Bank) (10,669) is the smallest ground in the division.