WANDERERS fans will travel fewer miles on the road next season after the make-up of the 2015-16 Championship was completed on Monday.

Norwich City's play-off final triumph at Wembley consigned Middlesbrough to another season in the second tier alongside the Whites and also shaved off 100 more miles off the total distance away followers will rack up.

The Canaries' promotion alongside champions Bournemouth and Watford, added to the relegation of Millwall, saw four long-distance trips disappear.

And although that is offset somewhat with the promotion from League One of Bristol City and MK Dons, and the relegation from the Premier League of Queens Park Rangers, the total distance next season for both the team and fans to venture is 6,220 miles – 219 miles less than in 2014-15.

The longest away day next season will again be to the south coast to face Brighton – a round-trip of 546 miles to the Amex Stadium.

That is, however, the only 500-mile journey of the campaign in the league, though there are four trips to London against Charlton Athletic, Fulham, Brentford and QPR.

The shortest journey will be the Lancashire derby at Preston North End – 18 miles away – when Wanderers could come up against former strikers Jermaine Beckford and Kevin Davies should the pair stay on at Deepdale following Sunday's League One play-off final victory against Swindon Town.

The meetings with the Lilywhites will be two of six county derbies for Neil Lennon's men next season with relegated Burnley and Blackburn Rovers the other two Lancashire sides in next season's Championship, after Wigan Athletic and Blackpool both slipped down a division.

And facing Simon Grayson's men will evoke memories of the last competitive meeting between the two teams in 2001.

It was a memorable day at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium for Sam Allardyce's Wanderers when goals from Gareth Farrelly, Michael Ricketts and Ricardo Gardner secured a 3-0 victory in the Division One play-off final and a place in the Premier League – it will be the 14th anniversary of that triumph tomorrow.

The Whites had already beaten Preston 2-0 twice during the regular season – their last visit to Deepdale on New Year's Day 2001 settled again by Farrelly and Ricketts.

Overall, though, Preston have the edge in head-to-head league meetings with 45 wins to Wanderers' 43 in 118 matches.

Another team who hold sway over the Whites are Burnley, who narrowly lead with 44 wins to 41 in 116 league meetings.

Having spent just one season in the top-flight, Wanderers will be facing a familiar recent foe when they head to Turf Moor.

Their last visit came on the opening day of the season before last when Darren Pratley cancelled out Danny Ings' opener in a 1-1 draw.

Sam Vokes scored the only goal in the return fixture at the Macron Stadium in February last year.

Another team who Wanderers faced in that 2013-14 campaign is QPR and they lost both meetings to the side that would eventually win promotion via the play-offs.

Charlie Austin scored the goals in a 2-1 victory for the Hoops in West London, despite Jay Spearing's consolation while Andy Johnson netted the only goal of the game earlier in the campaign at the Macron Stadium.

The third relegated Premier League side visiting next season will be Hull City, who will have painful memories of their last trip across the Pennines to Bolton.

Three goals inside the first eight minutes from Darren Pratley, Mark Davies and Craig Dawson set the Whites on the way to an impressive 4-1 home victory.

The Tigers had beaten Wanderers 3-1 earlier in the campaign when they last visited the KC Stadium in September 2012 – Chris Eagles having opened the scoring in the first half.

Bristol City were also visitors that campaign and arrived in Bolton as the first opponents following Owen Coyle's sacking in October 2012.

Jimmy Phillips was in caretaker charge as Wanderers came from two goals down to win 3-2 thanks to strikes from Eagles, Spearing and Martin Petrov.

Wanderers were under Dougie Freedman's stewardship when they won the reverse fixture 2-1 the following April, when a Liam Fontaine own goal and a late Craig Davies penalty handed them the points.

The last of the new boys comes in the shape of MK Dons – a side Wanderers are yet to face since their name change from Wimbledon in 2004.

Stadium:mk – a 340-mile round trip – will be a new ground to visit for the Whites faithful.

The 24 teams are in place – now it is a case of waiting for the fixtures to be released on June 17 before travel plans can be confirmed.