| Competition: | The Football League |
| Season: | 2005–06 |
| Winners: | Reading |
| Promoted: | Reading Sheffield United Watford |
| Relegated: | Oxford United Rushden & Diamonds |
| Continentalcup1: | New Clubs in League |
| Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Barnet Carlisle United |
| Prevseason: | 2004–05 |
| Nextseason: | 2006–07 |
The 2005–06 Football League (known as the Coca-Cola Football League for sponsorship reasons) was the 107th completed season of The Football League.
This season saw Reading promoted to the top flight for the first time in their history, after winning the Championship with 106 points – a record for a 46-match season with three points for a win. Southend United were the champions of League One, while Carlisle United, having played in the Conference in 2004–05, completed a double promotion by winning League Two.
These are the changes that happened last season.
Relegated to Championship
Promoted to Premier League
Relegated to League 1
Promoted to Championship
Relegated to League 2
Promoted to League 1
Relegated to Conference National
Promoted to League 2
The tables below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation website,[1] with home and away statistics separated. Play-off results are from the same website.
See main article: 2005–06 Football League Championship.
| Competition: | Football League Championship |
| Season: | 2005–06 |
| Winners: | Reading (1st second tier title) |
| Continentalcup1: | Direct promotion to FA Premier League |
| Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Reading, Sheffield United |
| Continentalcup2: | Promoted to FA Premier League through play-offs |
| Continentalcup2 Qualifiers: | Watford |
| Continentalcup3: | Relegated |
| Continentalcup3 Qualifiers: | Brighton & Hove Albion, Crewe Alexandra, Millwall |
| League Topscorer: | Marlon King (Watford), 21[2] |
| Matches: | 552 |
| Total Goals: | 1341 |
| Prevseason: | 2004–05 |
| Nextseason: | 2006–07 |
| width=20 | Rank | width=155 | Player | width=155 | Club | width=50 | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marlon King | Watford | 21 | ||||
| 2 | 18 | ||||||
| = | 18 | ||||||
| = | 18 | ||||||
| 5 | 15 | ||||||
| = | 15 | ||||||
| = | 15 | ||||||
| = | 15 | ||||||
| 9 | 14 | ||||||
| = | 14 |
| Competition: | League One |
| Season: | 2005–06 |
| Winners: | Southend United |
| Promoted: | Southend United Colchester United Barnsley |
| Relegated: | Hartlepool United Milton Keynes Dons Swindon Town Walsall |
| League Topscorer: | Billy Sharp Freddy Eastwood (23 goals each) |
| Matches: | 552 |
| Total Goals: | 1384 |
| Prevseason: | 2004–05 |
| Nextseason: | 2006–07 |
| width=20 | Rank | width=155 | Player | width=210 | Club | width=50 | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Billy Sharp | Scunthorpe United | 23 | ||||
| = | Freddy Eastwood | Southend United | 23 | ||||
| 3 | 20 | ||||||
| = | 20 | ||||||
| 5 | 18 | ||||||
| 6 | 17 | ||||||
| = | 17 | ||||||
| = | 17 | ||||||
| 9 | 16 | ||||||
| = | 16 | ||||||
| = | 16 |
| Competition: | Football League Two |
| Season: | 2005–06 |
| Winners: | Carlisle United (2nd fourth tier title) |
| Continentalcup1: | Direct promotion |
| Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Carlisle United, Leyton Orient, Northampton Town |
| Continentalcup2: | Promoted through play-offs |
| Continentalcup2 Qualifiers: | Cheltenham Town |
| Continentalcup3: | Relegated to Conference |
| Continentalcup3 Qualifiers: | Oxford United, Rushden & Diamonds |
| Continentalcup4: | New clubs in the league |
| Continentalcup4 Qualifiers: | Barnet, Carlisle United |
| League Topscorer: | Karl Hawley (Carlisle United), 22 Rickie Lambert (Rochdale), 22 |
| Matches: | 552 |
| Total Goals: | 1392 |
| Prevseason: | 2004–05 |
| Nextseason: | 2006–07 |
| width=20 | Rank | width=155 | Player | width=155 | Club | width=50 | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rickie Lambert | Rochdale | 22 | ||||
| = | Karl Hawley | Carlisle United | 22 | ||||
| 3 | 20 | ||||||
| 4 | 18 | ||||||
| = | 18 | ||||||
| 6 | 17 | ||||||
| 7 | 16 | ||||||
| 8 | 15 | ||||||
| = | 15 | ||||||
| = | 15 |