Championship experts agree one stadium is the ‘best in the league’ under one condition – do you agree?

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Ever season sees six new clubs competing in the Championship, but which stadium is the best of the current 24 teams?

With sides constantly dropping down from the Premier League and securing promotion from League One, there is never a shortage of exciting new stadiums for fans to visit.

Of the current clubs plying their trade in the second tier of English football, Sunderland’s Stadium of Light is the biggest, with a capacity of 48,707.

Sheffield Wednesday then take second place, followed by Leeds United, Middlesbrough, and Derby County rounding out the top five.

But while a bigger crowd often creates a better atmosphere for teams to play in, who actually has the best stadium in the Championship?

Coventry City have best stadium in Championship

It’s a question that will constantly be debated, and in reality, there can never be a proper answer, given the obvious bias fans will have toward their own team or against clubs they do not like for various reasons.

However, Championship experts Justin Peach and Ryan Dilks think they have finally managed to agree on which stadium is the best.

Surprisingly, it’s not the historic Elland Road, with the duo instead believing that Coventry City’s Coventry Building Society Arena is the best if viewed in the sun.

Peach said: “I just want to point out, there’s no bias here obviously, is there a better football ground in the Championship that looks better in the sun than the CBS (home of Coventry City).

“Honestly, when that is basking in sunshine it is a glorious watch on TV, it really, really is, just Sky Blue under the sky blue, poetic.”

To which Dilks agreed: “I think you could make plenty of arguments for other stadiums as well, but I think you could be onto something there, Justin.”

Middlesbrough refused to pay for rights to Riverside Stadium

Dilks went on to mention other grounds across England, including Fulham’s Craven Cottage and the City Ground outside of the Championship.

Peach then spoke about Middlesbrough’s Riverside Stadium, which he thinks they ‘ruined’.

He said: “On the river vibe, The Riverside at Boro, they’ve ruined it by putting corners in the architectural nightmare that is the Riverside, which is also Pride Park by the way, they’re just very badly put together grounds.”

Dilks responded: “I don’t know about that, hadn’t had any thought on that at all but I think I agree with you on the CBS, because it is a beautiful stadium to look at in the sun.”

Interestingly, Boro’s stadium is pretty similar to the aforementioned Pride Park as well as Leicester City’s King Power and Southampton’s St Mary’s.

This is because Middlesbrough refused to pay for exclusivity on the plans for the Riverside, which then allowed them to be sold and explains why the bowls on all four of the above stadiums are identical.