For a fifth straight season, Fulham is riding the promotion-relegation yo-yo.
The Cottagers secured a top-two finish in England’s Championship by virtue of their 3–0 win over Preston North End on Tuesday, thus clinching automatic promotion back to the Premier League with four games to spare. The achievement means that, barring moves elsewhere, two more U.S. internationals—Antonee Robinson and Tim Ream, though the latter is out of contract after this season—will be playing Premier League football in the run-up to the 2022 World Cup. It also nets Fulham another hefty financial windfall. Whether that will be enough to reinforce the club—and find a suitable replacement for talented 19-year-old attacking star Fábio Carvalho, who is expected to leave for Liverpool—and prevent it from suffering immediate relegation in 2022–23 remains to be seen.