Championship

Championship table 2025/2026

Leader Coventry City 95 pts
Most above xPts Hull City +19.73 against expected points
Most below xPts West Bromwich Albion −17.40 against expected points

The Championship table for 2025/2026, with expected goals (xG), xGA and expected points (xPts) beside every club's points. Ipswich Town lead on expected points with 86.26 xPts, while Coventry City top the table.

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All xG Non-penalty xG

Championship 2025/2026 table
# restore the table order	Team	P sort descending	W sort descending	D sort descending	L sort descending	GF sort descending	GA sort descending	GD sort descending	Pts sort descending	xG sort descending	xGA sort descending	xGD sort descending	xPts sort descending	Pts vs xPts sort descending
1	Coventry City COV	46	28	11	7	97	45	+52	95	85.53	50.43	+35.10	82.83	+12.17
2	Ipswich Town IPS	46	23	15	8	80	47	+33	84	76.72	46.16	+30.56	86.26	−2.26
3	Millwall MIL	46	24	11	11	64	49	+15	83	61.81	56.95	+4.86	66.94	+16.06
4	Southampton SOU	46	22	14	10	82	56	+26	80	76.48	58.05	+18.43	74.12	+5.88
5	Middlesbrough MID	46	22	14	10	72	47	+25	80	69.52	42.35	+27.17	81.54	−1.54
6	Hull City HUL	46	21	10	15	70	66	+4	73	59.79	78.64	−18.85	53.27	+19.73
7	Wrexham WRE	46	19	14	13	69	65	+4	71	54.66	61.98	−7.32	59.35	+11.65
8	Derby County DER	46	20	9	17	67	59	+8	69	56.53	54.93	+1.60	63.88	+5.12
9	Norwich City NOR	46	19	8	19	63	56	+7	65	59.36	63.00	−3.64	62.81	+2.19
10	Birmingham City BIR	46	17	13	16	57	56	+1	64	62.14	48.27	+13.87	71.65	−7.65
11	Swansea City SWA	46	18	10	18	57	59	−2	64	50.76	55.68	−4.92	58.74	+5.26
12	Bristol City BRI	46	17	11	18	59	59	0	62	55.35	63.64	−8.29	56.63	+5.37
13	Sheffield United SHE	46	18	6	22	66	66	0	60	71.82	57.28	+14.54	71.83	−11.83
14	Preston North End PRE	46	15	15	16	55	62	−7	60	54.70	69.56	−14.86	53.38	+6.62
15	Queens Park Rangers QUE	46	16	10	20	61	73	−12	58	53.95	56.97	−3.02	61.15	−3.15
16	Watford WAT	46	14	15	17	53	65	−12	57	56.53	53.49	+3.04	65.28	−8.28
17	Stoke City STO	46	15	10	21	51	56	−5	55	50.30	63.50	−13.20	54.17	+0.83
18	Portsmouth POR	46	14	13	19	49	64	−15	55	50.70	54.42	−3.72	61.46	−6.46
19	West Bromwich Albion WES	46	13	14	19	48	58	−10	53	57.25	47.03	+10.22	70.40	−17.40
20	Charlton Athletic CHA	46	13	14	19	44	58	−14	53	47.19	62.27	−15.08	54.79	−1.79
21	Leicester City LEI	46	12	16	18	58	68	−10	52	53.98	65.15	−11.17	54.36	−2.36
22	Blackburn Rovers BLA	46	13	13	20	42	56	−14	52	55.12	54.92	+0.20	62.70	−10.70
23	Oxford United OXF	46	11	14	21	45	59	−14	47	52.01	58.23	−6.22	57.71	−10.71
24	Sheffield Wednesday SHE	46	2	12	32	29	89	−60	18	38.91	88.21	−49.30	30.47	−12.47

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How to read this table

xG: Expected goals: the summed chance quality of the shots a club took. A chance scored nine times in ten is worth 0.9.
xGA: Expected goals against: the same measure for the shots a club allowed.
xGD: xG minus xGA: how far a club's chances outweighed its opponents', or the other way round.
xPts: Expected points: the points a club's match-by-match xG would be worth on average. Each match's two xG figures become chances of a win, a draw and a loss, and a win is worth 3 and a draw 1.
Pts vs xPts: Actual points minus expected points based on match xG. Positive, drawn in green, is more points than the chances were worth on average; negative, in red, is fewer. It measures the gap and says nothing about its cause.
npxG: Non-penalty xG: xG with penalties removed, offered where the competition's figures support it. It changes xG, xGA and xGD; xPts is always worked out from all xG.

Expected points are read off the same score matrix that prices the board: each played match's two xG totals are taken as scoring rates, and the team's share is 3 × P(win) + 1 × P(draw), summed over the season. Understat arrives at the same figure by simulating each shot, which needs per-shot data, held here for %{competitions}. Passes per defensive action and deep completions are not shown because no source here ingests the event data behind them.

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