It is the league that has been described as 'incomprehensible' financially – and that was the situation before the coronavirus crisis even kicked off.
The Championship comes with both the biggest prize and the biggest financial risk in world football. Earn promotion to the Premier League and all of the riches that come with that fall into your lap.
Go for it and miss out, and the consequences can be huge.
Sportsmail has analysed the bonkers figures across the league, the huge disparity in finances and how:
- One team spent 194 PER CENT of their annual turnover on staff costs in 2018-19
- No club brings in even £10million in TV money without parachute payments – a tenth of the LOWEST earning Premier League side
- Wigan survived on a revenue of £11m last season – finishing just two places behind a team that brought in SEVEN times that figure
- Top earner Wayne Rooney's weekly salary of around £100,000 per week means he takes home around a quarter of an entire team's wages from last season
In data provided by analysts Vysyble, the truth of Championship finances has been made clear.