Birmingham City have been promoted back to the Sky Bet Championship.
The Blues suffered relegation on the final day of the Championship last season, returning to League One for the first time in 29 years.
But they will be back in the second tier of English football next season after winning 2-1 away at Peterborough on Tuesday night.
Birmingham on track to make League One history
It has been a cruise to promotion for most of the season for Birmingham City. They have lost just three games all campaign, and could be set to break the record for most wins and most points in the third tier.
The record for points currently belongs to Wolves, who accrued 103 in 2013/14.
As it stands, Birmingham have 95 points after 40 games. They could still gain a maximum of 113 points this season, and need to take just nine points from their final six games to break the record.
Birmingham also have 29 wins so far this season. The record in the third tier is 32 wins, set by Aston Villa in 1971/72. The Blues need to win four of their final six games to beat that.
Could they beat the overall points record?
- Birmingham are on pace to equal, and possibly break, the points record for an English professional league season.
- That was set in 2005/06 by Steve Coppell’s Reading, who won the Championship title with 106 points.
Birmingham club records
- 95 points – new club record for most points in a season, beating 89 in 1994/95 Division Two under Barry Fry.
- 29 league wins – beating 26 wins in the 2006-07 Championship under Steve Bruce.
A Blues cruise in the third tier, but could they go back-to-back?
Sky Sports EFL Editor Simeon Gholam:
“Such is the positivity that has swirled around St Andrew’s this season, it is easy to forget that this is a club that had just suffered a near-historic relegation to League One – their first spell in the third tier for nearly 30 years.
“Mistakes were made last season, especially in terms of management recruitment, but the new owners have been working hard to rebuild the relationship between club and fans that had dissipated during the previous era.
“While the owners have made their long-term plans clear to rejuvenate the club and area, they have also not forgotten the short term. St Andrew’s has been given a new lease of life, and the place feels buoyant again.
“Winning games has also helped, of course. A club that had spent the best part of a decade treading water in the Championship have cruised to promotion in League One.
“A lot of money has been spent on the playing squad, as well: £15m+ on Jay Stansfield, for example, is an unprecedented cost for a League One club. But the gamble has paid off, in the hope they were assembling a team that could immediately go on to try and compete in the Championship as well.
“It hasn’t been long since we’ve seen Ipswich achieve back-to-back promotions from League One to the Premier League. There is a growing sense among the Blues that something similar is on the horizon.”
