By Bill Turianski on the 24th of September 2020; twitter.com/billsportsmaps.
- Below are illustrations for the 3 newly-promoted clubs in the EFL Championship (Coventry City, Rotherham United, Wycombe Wanderers).
Below: the 2020 EFL League One champions: Coventry City (the homeless Coventry City returns to the 2nd tier, after an 8-year spell in the lower Leagues)…
Photo and Image credits above – Blank map of UK metroploitan & non-metropolitan counties, by Nilfanion at commons.wikimedia.org. Aerial shot of Ricoh Arena unattributed at psam.uk.com. Illustrations of the three 2019-20 Coventry City jerseys: illustrations by footballshirthistory.weebly.com/[Coventry City]. Mark Robins, photo from ccfc.co.uk/news. Matt Godden, photo by Marc Atkins/Getty Images via portsmouth.co.uk/sport. Jordan Shipley, photo from PA Wire via newschain.uk/sport. Fankaty Dabo, photo by AMA Sports Photo Agency via coventrytelegraph.net/sport. Liam Walsh, photo from ccfc.co.uk/news.
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Below: Rotherham United: 2nd place finish in the 2019-20 EFL League One (Rotherham are promoted straight back to the 2nd division)…
Photo and Image credits above – Aerial shot of the New York Stadium, photo from burgesscommercial.co.uk/properties. Exterior shot of the New York Stadium, from yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport. Illustrations of the three 2019-20 Rotherham United jerseys: illustrations by footballshirthistory.weebly.com/[Rotherham United]. Paul Warne, photo from rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk/news. Freddie Ladapo, photo from rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk/news. Matt Crooks, photo by JR Brailsford via facebook.com. Michael Smith, photo from themillers.co.uk/news. Michael Ihiekwe, photo from thestar.co.uk/sport. Daniel Barlaser, photo by Nigel French/PA Images via Getty Images via gettyimages.com.
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Below: Wycombe Wanderers: 2020 EFL League One Play-off Final winners (Wycombe are promoted to the 2nd division for the first time in the club’s 133-year history)…
Photo and Image credits above – Shot of Adams Park from wycombewanderers.co.uk/news. Pre-game scene outside Adams Park (Chairboys Village), photo from twitter.com/[@wwfcofficial]. Stained-glass window at High Wycombe Guildhall, marking the end of the First World War [made circa 1919], photo by Thorskegga Thorn at flickr.com. 3 Wycombe Wanderers chained-goose crests (1930s, 1990s, 1999) from hisoricalkits.co.uk/Wycombe_Wanderers. Illustrations of the two 2019-20 Wycombe Wanderers’ jerseys, by footballshirthistory.weebly.com/w—y/category/wycombe-wanderers. Gareth Ainsworth, photo by PRiME Media Images via bucksfreepress.co.uk/sport. Joe Jacobson, photo from skysports.com/football/news. Adebayo Akinfenwa, photo from bucksfreepress.co.uk/sport. 1st goal in Play-off Final (Anthony Stewart), image from screenshot from video uploaded by EFL at youtube.com. Anthony Stewart and teammates celebrate 1st goal, photo from twitter.com/[@wwfcofficial]. Joe Jacobson scores 2nd goal from penalty spot, photo by Getty Images via bbc.com/sport/football. Post-match celebration (Captain Matt Bloomfield and Adebayo Akinfenwa lift the trophy), image from screenshot from video uploaded by EFL at youtube.com.
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Thanks to all at the following…
-Blank map of UK historic counties, by Nilfanion (using UK Ordnance Survey data), at File:United Kingdom police areas map.svg (commons.wikimedia.org).
-Blank relief map of Greater London, by Nilfanion (using UK Ordnance Survey data), at File:Greater London UK relief location map.jpg.
-Club histories, from Football Club History Database at fchd.info/[index].
-Seasons in 1st division (all-time), from RSSSF at England – First Level All-Time Tables 1888/89-2018/19 (rsssf.com).
-Seasons in 2nd division, 3rd division, 4th division (all-time), from myfootballfacts.com – Club League History Summary 1888-89 to 2020-21.
-2019-20 kit illustrations from footballshirthistory.weebly.com.
-Thanks to the contributors at EFL Championship (en.wikipedia.org).
