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The Success Story From The Most Unsuccessful team in Championship Play-Off History

Haekal
3 min readMay 27, 2021

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“Brentford now holds the record as the team with the most Championship Play-Offs participating without winning the final. All Brentford attempts have failed to reach Premier League.”

Brentford will play against Swansea in the Championship playoff finals on May, 29. Now, they are within touching distance from making the Premier League debut.

This is a huge success for the club that was sitting in the fourth tier 11 years ago and makes their fans have to witness this club rescued from the edge of extinction on numerous occasions. On 1 September 2020, Brentford also move from their beloved Griffin Park Stadium to the new fancy home, Brentford Community Stadium. However, the final will never be easy for Brentford, since they failed in this same stage last year. Moreover, Brentford now holds a record as the club with participating in the Championship Play-Off without winning the final.

Last year Brentford was exceptional, they may have only finished 12 points behind champion Leeds United, but they played like a champion. They finished first in goals scored and ranked in the top two in most important offensive and defensive statistical categories, including shots faced per goal conceded and shots, faced per match. With all these stats, Brentford with very…

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