Brighton secured promotion to Premier League after winning 2 - 1 against Wigan Athletic on Monday 17th April 2017 and Brighton’s rise to the top-flight was confirmed after Huddersfield Town can only played 1- 1 draw at Derby County later in the day.
The story of a team rising from the bottom tier of England's Football League to the top is an increasingly familiar one, with Hull, Swansea and Bournemouth among the most recent examples. But few of those tales have been more remarkable than that of Brighton & Hove Albion, whose promotion to the top flight was confirmed yesterday.
Thousands of fans celebrated on the pitch at full-time after the Seagulls beat Wigan.
Brighton coach by Manager Chris Hughton are on 92 points, seven ahead of Newcastle United and 13 clear of third-placed Reading with four games remaining. The promotion came 34 years after the club reached the FA Cup Final but was relegated. The club's chief executive Paul Barber said a 25,000-strong crowd remained at the stadium after the game on Sunday.
This promotion was a sweet one for Brighton after painfully missed out on promotion last season though ending in 3rd position but went through playoffs and crumbled on the way. Brighton got straight five wins as they seek to secured promotion.
Chris Hughton said after the game “I’m incredibly proud of the way that they bounced back. To put together the run they have, at this stage of the season, is incredibly difficult, and they deserve every bit of credit, I knew we had a group of lads that were capable of doing it, but being capable of doing it and actually doing it are two different things.
“They’ve been good all season. They’ve bounced back and shown good determination and desire to win as many game as possible. It is a wonderful achievement,” he added.
Newcastle are in second position hope to keep fighting until the end but got defeated to a 3 - 1 by Ipswich Town in what has been a disappointing Easter for Rafa Benitez’s team, who played 1 - 1 home draw by Leeds United on Friday while Reading kept up the pressure on Newcastle and are now six points behind them after coming from a goal down to beat relegated battling side Rotherham United 2-1, thanks to second-half strikes from Lewis Grabban and John Swift.
Fulham defeated Aston Villa 3-1 to take advantage of Leeds’ 1 - 0 who loss to Wolverhampton Wanderers to climb above them into sixth position and the final playoff spot. Sheffield Wednesday maintained their playoff push and are in fifth place on 75 points, two points ahead of Fulham, after a 2 - 1 win at Queens Park Rangers.
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