The biggest points tallies in English Championship history

Forget the Premier League for a second, the EFL Championship is the hardest and most entertaining league in England's top four divisions.

With 24 teams, 46 matches, and consistently playing on Tuesday and then a Saturday, the Championship is unforgiving and can swallow Premier League teams and take them to the depths of League One.

According to The 72 website, Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said: "I love the Championship, I watched Leeds v Leicester last week. Wow. The football intensity in the Championship is absolutely insane."

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Throughout the years though, like Burnley last year, one team has been better than the rest, consistently winning games and racking up monstrous points tallies.

Here are the top five greatest Championship teams in history!

According to FourFourTwo, Fulham ran away with the title in the 2000/01 season, moving ten points clear of Blackburn with a game in hand by Christmas and ceiling promotion with five games remaining.

Fulham owner Mohamed Al-Fayed spent £35 million that season, a large sum of money in those days. The breakout star was former Manchester United player Louis Saha, who scored 27 league goals.

Leicester City's promotion from the Championship was the start of major things to come for 'The Foxes,' who would go on to win the Premier League just two years after promotion.

Like they were in the Premier League winning campaign, Riyad Mahrez, Jamie Vardy, Kasper Schmeichel, and Wes Morgan were crucial in Leicester's promotion as they reached 102 points, as reported by the 90 Mins website.

Despite a terrible Premier League season in 2008/09, Newcastle United was at their best in 2009/10, going unbeaten at home and returning straight back to the top flight.

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According to FourFourTwo, Chris Hughton used 33 players in the league alone, with Andy Carroll and Kevin Nolan being the stars, scoring 17 goals each in the campaign.

Sunderland performed well on all fronts in the 1998/99 campaign, reaching the League Cup semi-final and racking up a points tally of 105.

Sunderland star man, Kevin Phillips, averaged just under a goal a game on route to promotion and carried his form on in the Premier League, scoring 30 goals and being awarded the European Golden Boot.

The greatest Championship team in history is the 2005/06 Reading team that amassed 106 points, losing just one game after the opening day, according to the 90 Mins website.

With the help of Irish contingent Kevin Doyle and Shane Long, Reading scored 99 goals in the campaign, shipping five past Millwall, Brighton, Derby, and Cardiff.

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