The League One title, the Football League Trophy, an FA Cup run and more than 100 goals in all competitions.
Bristol City's season reads like the CV of a Football Manager aficionado.
But, having taken over with the club 23rd in League One and in danger of suffering successive relegations, boss Steve Cotterill has transformed the fortunes of the Robins in the small space of 16 months.
In ending City's 60-year wait for a league championship, the 50-year-old also achieved that feat for the third time in his own career.
But how exactly do you build a team fit to win a title?
Find a formation that suits
Steve Cotterill
Steve Cotterill spent time on Harry Redknapp's coaching staff at QPR after leaving Nottingham Forest
Following the World Cup in Brazil, pundits, managers and supporters alike were eulogising over the return of wing-backs and the 3-5-2 system. BBC Sport's Phil Neville even described it as "fashionable", if such a phrase can be attached to a football team's formation.
However, while Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal tried and promptly ditched it, Cotterill has utilised that style of play to spectacular effect.
"We were already playing the 3-5-2 at the end of last season, so it's a formation I'd been looking at for a little while," Cotterill told BBC Sport. "But what I needed to do was make it better than the season before.
"And, while other formations can sometimes give you a problem, our formation can give other teams a problem. We've managed to do very well with it - and we've improved on it throughout the season too."
Sign players to fit the way you play
Luke Freeman
Cotterill brought in seven players during the summer, including four who were out of contract or had been released by their previous clubs.
Of those for whom the Robins paid a fee, no penny appears to have been better spent than the ones used to sign Luke Freeman.
The youngest-ever player to feature in the FA Cup proper while at Gillingham, the left-winger caught many an eye playing for Stevenage last year. He has done the same this season - but not as a left-winger.
"I always felt he could play as the one in front of a [midfield] two," said Cotterill. "You just needed to make sure he was going to work hard enough to get back and he's managed to do that.
"His running stats are up there every week and we're as delighted with that as we are his great feet in and around the final third.
"For his first season playing in that role, he's been brilliant."
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