Burnley have secured promotion to the Premier League after a 2-1 win at Middlesbrough helped Vincent Kompany guide the team to the top flight in his first season of trying.
Relegated on the final day of the 2021-22 campaign, in which they finished third-bottom, the Clarets will return to England’s top flight league next season with seven games to spare.
According to Deloitte Annual Review of Football Finance, the promotion to the Premier League can be worth over 300 million pounds over five seasons, if a club survives their first season in the top flight.
The three points helped Burnley secure promotion 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.
The Lancashire club, coached by ex-Manchester City defender Kompany, top the Championship standings on 87 points after 39 games.
The top two in the division are promoted to the Premier League while the teams that finish third to sixth go into the playoffs to fight for the final spot.
A 66th-minute Connor Roberts strike guided Burnley to the win, after Ashley Barnes’s first-half goal was cancelled out by a Chuba Akpom penalty.
“This is a season’s hard work. From the beginning of the season a lot of people wrote us off, no one said we’d be up there,” Roberts told Sky Sports.
“We’ve shown them and hopefully going into next season we can maintain good performance levels and who knows what can happen.”
Burnley’s next objective will be to win the Championship title. They are 11 points clear of second-placed Sheffield United, who have 76 points.
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