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MIDDLESBROUGH, England (Reuters) -Burnley secured automatic promotion to the Premier League with seven games to spare after Friday’s 2-1 victory at Middlesbrough ensured Vincent Kompany’s side will finish in the second-tier Championship’s top two.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The Lancashire club, coached by ex-Manchester City defender Kompany, top the Championship standings on 87 points after 39 games.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

“We’ve shown them and hopefully going into next season we can maintain good performance levels and who knows what can happen.”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

($1 = 0.8056 pounds)<\/p>\n

(Reporting by Manasi Pathak in Bengaluru, additional reporting by Aadi Nair, editing by Pritha Sarkar)<\/p>\n

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