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95th minute winner sees Hull City beat Middlesbrough in Championship playoff final

A 95th minute winner from Oli McBurnie sees Hull City beat Middlesbrough in the 2026 Championship playoff final.

A tense and tight start, Middlesbrough the better side with more of the ball and created chances and Hull not on the attack, but doing enough to keep it goalless.

The 23rd minute was the first real chance for the Tigers, their first touch inside the Boro box, went for a corner, but it came to nothing.

That was followed by the first drinks break of the match. Water on the players’ faces, wet towels on players headed to cope with the heat, 29 degrees at Wembley. Managers in their dark navy jackets.

Defence turned into attack for Hull on the 39th minute, three on four, but Solomon Brynn charged out of his goal to beat Liam Millar to the ball. A vital clearance.

After Hull keeper Ivor Pandur had come off his line to keep out Riley McGree’s effort we then came the closest to seeing a goal.

On 45 minutes, Oli McBurnie with a header against the bar and over. But despite appeals for a corner after the ball had come came off Malanda, goal kick it was.

Injury time saw Middlesbrough go down the other end on a quick release only to see David Strelec with a chance go just wide.

Shortly into the second half began, Hull’s John Egan deflected a strike by Boro’s Morgan Whittaker wide, before Matt Targett’s corner was headed across goal by Dael Fry at the back post, only for it to fall onto the roof of the net.

The game began to open up more, both sides having chances, end-to-end, but it took one goal to win it, absolute scenes in the Hull end.

Sol Brynn with a mistake, fumbling it when Yu Hirakawa sent the ball in, Oli McBurnie found the net from close range, and took his shirt off in celebration.

Hull’s Oli McBurnie speaking to Sky Sports: “For the first time ever, I think I’m speechless!

“It’s been a long, hard season and that game today summed us up. We knew we weren’t going to come in and have all of the ball – I don’t think we’ve won a game this year when we’ve had more of the ball than the opposition!

“It was tough out there with the heat and Middlesbrough are a top, top team. We knew we were going to be right up against it, but we felt we’d have one chance and it was written for me to get it.

“I didn’t think it would be so late on, but what a feeling.

“When I first got my move to Sheffield United, it was what they expected of me and I probably wasn’t really ready to be that person.

“As I’ve grown and got older and more mature, I think I’ve grown into that role and I enjoy that. I was looking forward to this game so much I couldn’t sleep last night!”

Hull captain Lewie Coyle speaking to Sky Sports: “It’s tough. There’s just one man I want to celebrate this with. He’s not with us. I look up at the sky and I had a look up there today. He’s with me, I know he’s with me, for sure.

“The next best thing is I have my family, my beautiful partner, my little boy, my brothers and my friend that have been there since day one.

“I don’t think there’s many people that thought I could captain a side to the Premier League and even saying that out loud sounds a little bit wild. I’m just an honest, humble kid.

“But there’s certainly one man that would have believed in me and that’s my old man – and that’s all I told myself throughout the game.

“He would’ve been saying ‘you can do it, son, f**k them’. I know I swore and I shouldn’t, I apologise, but I had to get it in there because that’s how my old man spoke.

“I just kept replaying those words in my mind and he got us over the line today. I know for a fact my old man did it.”

Here’s how fans reacted after a 95th minute winner sees Hull City beat Middlesbrough in the 2026 Championship playoff final…

@YouBearsssssss: Fair play Hull City promoted to the Premier League👏justice done as Middlesbrough did NOT deserve to be in the Final…. going to be very tough for Hull to stay in the PL but you never know…. #HCAFC #Boro #HULMID

@B3rt1e: Congratulations Hull City, the right way to win promotion, on the pitch, not in the court room! And hopefully this finally puts to bed all the spygate shit! #hcafc

@Bradders_87: The footballing gods have done their thing. Southampton shouldn’t have had the opportunity and Boro had more than enough chances. Football is the winner. Congratulations #HCAFC well deserved. #Boro #SaintsFC

@VitorsWolves: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha fucking love it!!!!!! Glad #boro didn’t go up & glad #saintsfc didn’t go up aswell! Get in there hull!!!!! #hcafc

@R_J_M_11: We have just witnessed the biggest bottle job in championship history. Over 200 days in the automatic places BOTTLED, knocked out of the Playoffs TWICE 🤣. Couldn’t sell their wembley allocation 🤣. What a pathetic football club 🤣. #boro #utb #hcafc #sfc #itfc

@kierangallop00: Amidst all of the noise, Hull fully deserving of their promotion. What an incredible season, agains the odds 👏 #HCAFC #HULMID

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