Leeds United and Burnley were both locked in the Championship title race on Saturday as both teams pushed for promotion back to the Premier League.
Both Leeds and Burnley got relegated from the Premier League last season and needed to prove book makers wring about their place in England elite football league.
Leeds won 29 Championship games this season – more than any other side before it finally pipped Burnley to the post on Saturday.
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“If you’d have said to me you’d reach 100 points, 33 games unbeaten, 16 goals conceded and you wouldn’t win the league I’d have said ‘no chance’,” Scott Parker, Leeds’ manager said.
Parker had previously helped Fulham in 2020 and Bournemouth in 2022, gain promotion to the Premier League.
“We’ve done remarkably this year. I’m so proud. We came into today hoping it would go our way, but wanting to win the game and get to 100 points, We did that,” he said.
Manor Solomon’s last-gasp winner at relegated Plymouth Argyle meant Leeds matched the Clarets’ win over play-off chasing Millwall, just as the home fans at Turf Moor were gearing up for an almighty party.
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Before kick-off, Leeds knew it was in their hands, but in typical style, twists and turns followed.
For the first time ever, two teams reached 100 points in the same Championship campaign, with Leeds’ superior goal difference proving decisive.
With Birmingham City also finishing with 111 points in League One, it is the first time in the Football League’s 137-year history that three sides have earned a century of points in the same campaign.
