Burnley secured automatic promotion to the Premier League with seven games to spare after Saturday’s 2-1 victory at Middlesbrough ensured Vincent Kompany’s side will finish in the second-tier Championship’s top two. Burnley will return to the Premier League after one season, having been relegated on the final day of the 2021-22 campaign, in which they finished third-bottom.
Promotion can be worth over 300 million pounds ($372 million) over five seasons, if a club survives their first season in the Premier League – according to last year’s Deloitte Annual Review of Football Finance.
The three points helped Burnley secure promo-tion after third-placed Luton Town drew 0-0 at Millwall earlier in the day. Luton sit 19 points behind the leaders with only six games left.—APP
