Middlesbrough manager Aitor Karanka said his side will mount another promotion push next season after missing out on the Premier League at the final hurdle in Monday's 2-0 defeat to Norwich.
Boro were defeated in the Championship playoff final despite beating Norwich twice in the league this season, but Karanka preferred to reflect on the positives of his side's recent progress
"I want to congratulate Norwich for getting promotion, but I am so proud of my players, my chairman and club," Karanka said. "When I arrived here 18 months ago the team was two points above relegation, with only 13,000 people at the Riverside [Stadium].
"Today we saw that we are a Premier League club [for our supporters] and it is my job to take them into the Premier League again."
Karanka added: "When you make mistakes it is difficult to win games, but I prefer not to speak about the mistakes because we achieved to play here at Wembley as a team, so we win as a team and we lose as a team."
The Spaniard believes Boro have the foundations in place to mount another sustained promotion bid again come 2016.
"We have made a big step for what we have done since the beginning of the season and I am looking forward to next season," he said. "I have one more year on my contract. When I came here my objective was to put Middlesbrough in the Premier League, and I always said I could not choose a better place for my career."
Karanka insisted on-loan Chelsea forward Patrick Bamford was "100 percent" ready to play, despite concerns over his fitness in the build-up to the match.
The Middlesbrough manager also had no issues with the late arrival at the team coach to Wembley, coming in just an hour before kickoff.
"It is not the first time, so that is not why we lost today," he said. "Sometimes if the players are in the changing room a lot of time [before kickoff], there is more pressure, so we prefer to go to the pitch for the warm-up."