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The Championship
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- For the football competition covered by this TV programme, see Football League Championship
The Championship is a British football television programme featuring highlights from the Coca Cola Football League. It is almost always shown on Sunday mornings on ITV, presented by Matt Smith. Despite its name, it also covers Football League One and Football League Two matches, albeit less frequently than Championship matches.
The show has included various additional features since it began in August 2004 and has had its format changed due to widespread criticism of the number of commercial breaks. Link scenes usually involve Smith speaking to camera from various parts of the stadium of the main match, like the dressing rooms, the referee's office, the boot room, the pie stand and so on.
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- Matt Smith has been the presenter from the start and is very rarely absent. In the rare occasions that he is absent, Andy Townsend deputises, on one occasion Angus Scott filled in but he now works for Setanta Sports.
- The pundits (who report too) are Robbie Earle and Andy Townsend. They give their analysis on some games but they usually report in depth on a game in the Football League.
- The main reporters are Ned Boulting, Gabriel Clarke and Dave Beckett. However there have been many more reporters such as Richard Henwood, Tom Skippings, Mike Hall, Andy Kerr, Mick Conway and Gary Bloom.
- Commmentators on The Championship are Peter Drury, Jon Champion and Clive Tyldesley. Others include Phil Duffell, Tony Jones,
Bob Symonds, Martyn Dean, Trevor Harris, Donovan Blake and John Rawling.