Added fizz for Football League sides

The Football League competitions – The Championship, League One and League Two – will begin their new campaign on Saturday, boosted by a new three-year agreement with main sponsors Coca Cola.

Football League commercial director Stewart Thomson said that as the sponsorship enters its seventh season, Coca Cola have made an exceptional contribution to the competition.

Middlesbrough, meanwhile, are hoping to become the third different northeast club to be crowned Championship winners come May.

Manager Gordon Strachan made a good number of swoops in the market this summer as the Scot also thrives to return to the Premier League as manager.

The Championship winners read as follows:

2004-05: Sunderland
2005-06: Reading
2006-07: Sunderland
2007-08: West Brom
2008-09: Wolves
2009-10: Newcastle

Club call

Barnsley
Manager: Mark Robins.
Signed: Liam Dickinson from Brighton − £150,000; Goran Lovre from Groningen − undisclosed; Jason Shackell from Wolves − undisclosed; Jay McEveley from Derby − free; Jim O’Brien from Motherwell − free; Diego Arismendi from Stoke − free.

Bristol City
Manager: Steve Coppell.
Signed: Kalifa Cisse from Reading − undisclosed; Abert Adomah from Barnet − tribunal; David James − unattached.

Burnley
Manager: Brian Laws.
Signed: Dean Marney from Hull − £500,000; Chris Iwelumo from Wolves − £500,000; Ross Wallace from Preston − undisclosed; Lee Grant from Sheffield Wed. − undisclosed.

Cardiff City
Manager: David Jones.
Signed: Tom Heaton from Manchester United − free.

Coventry City
Manager: Aidy Boothroyd.
Signed: Richard Keogh from Carlisle − undisclosed; Gary McSheffrey from Birmingham − free; Roy O’Donovan from Sunderland − free; Stephen O’Halloran from Aston Villa − free; Lee Carsley from Birmingham − free; Clive Platt from Colchester − undisclosed; Lukas Jutkiewicz from Everton − free.

Crystal Palace
Manager: George Burley.
Signed: Adam Barrett from Southend − free; Andy Dorman from St Mirren − free.

Derby County
Manager: Nigel Clough.
Ins: James Bailey from Crewe − £500,000; John Brayford from Crewe − £500,000; David Martin from Millwall − £200,000; Tomasz Cywka from Wigan − free; Gareth Roberts from Doncaster − free.

Doncaster
Manager: Sean O’Driscoll.
Signed: Billy Sharp from Sheffield United − £1.1m; George Friend from Wolves − free; Simon Gillett from Southampton − free.

Hull City
Manager: Nigel Pearson.
Signed: James Harper from Sheffield United − free; Nolberto Solano from Leicester − free.

Ipswich Town
Manager: Roy Keane.
Signed: Conor Hourihane from Ipswich − £450,000; David Wright from C. Palace − free; Simeon Jackson from Gillingham − undisclosed.

Leeds United
Manager: Simon Grayson.
Signed: Neil Collins from Preston − undisclosed; Federico Bessone from Swansea − free; Paul Connolly from Derby − free; Billy Paynter from Swindon − free; Lloyd Sam from Charlton − free; Kasper Schmeichel from Notts County − free.

Leicester City
Manager: Paulo Sousa.
Signed: Tom Kennedy from Rochdale − free; Alie Sesay from Arsenal − free; Miguel Vitor from Benfica − loan.

Middlesbrough
Manager: Gordon Strachan.
Signed: Kevin Thomson from Rangers − £2m; Stephen McManus from Celtic − £1.5m; Nick Bailey from Charlton − £1.4m; Andy Halliday from Livingston − undisclosed; Kris Boyd from Rangers − free; Tarmo Kink from Gyori − undisclosed.

Millwall
Manager: Kenny Jackett.
Signed: Shaun Batt from Peterborough − undisclosed; Steve Mildenhall from Southend − free; Tamika Mkandawire from L. Orient − free; Liam Trotter from Ipswich − free; James Henry from Reading − undisclosed; Kevin Lisbie from Ipswich − loan.

Norwich City
Manager: Paul Lambert.
Signed: Andrew Surman from Wolves − £1.2m; Simeon Jackson from Gillingham − £600,000; David Fox from Colchester − undisclosed; Stevie Smith from Rangers − free; Elliott Ward from Coventry − free; John Ruddy from Everton.

Nottingham Forest
Manager: Billy Davies.
Signed: Radoslav Majewski from Polonia Warsaw − £1m.

Portsmouth
Manager: Steve Cotterill.
Signed: Ibrahima Sonko from Stoke − loan.

Preston North End
Manager: Darren Ferguson.
Signed: Craig Morgan from Peterborough − £400,000; Wayne Brown from Leicester − free; David Gray from Manchester United − free; Paul Hayes from Scunthorpe − free; Matt James from Manchesteer United − loan.

Queens Park Rangers
Manager: Neil Warnock.
Signed: Paddy Kenny from Sheffield United − £750,000; Jamie Mackie from Plymouth − undisclosed; Leon Clarke from Sheffield Wednesday − free; Shaun Derry from C. Palace − free; Clint Hill from C. Palace − free; Bradley Orr from Bristol City − undisclosed.

Reading
Manager: Brian McDermott.
Signed: Andy Griffin from Stoke − £250,000; Marcus Williams from Scunthorpe − free.

Scunthorpe United
Manager: Nigel Adkins.
Signed: Bobby Grant from Accrington − £250,000; Michael Collins from Huddersfield − undisclosed; Chris Dagnall from Rochdale − free; Eddie Nolan from Preston − loan.

Sheffield United
Manager: Kevin Blackwell.
Signed: Daniel Bogdanovic from Barnsley − free; Leon Britton from Swansea − free; Johannes Ertl from C. Palace − free; Rob Kozluk from Barnsley − free; Steve Simonsen from Stoke − free; Simon Walton from Plymouth − loan; Nyron Nosworthy from Sunderland − loan.

Swansea
Manager: Brendan Rodgers.
Signed: Neil Taylor from Wrexham − free.

Watford
Manager: Malky Mackay.
Signed: Tom Aldred from Carlisle − free; Rene Gilmartin from Walsall − free.