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

Championship clubs ranked by expected points (xPts) in 2025/2026, with the points each actually took beside them. Ipswich Town lead on expected points with 86.26 xPts, while Coventry City top the table.

Actual table Expected table

All xG Non-penalty xG

Showing non-penalty xG. Penalties are removed from xG, xGA and xGD; xPts is unchanged.

Championship 2025/2026 table ranked on expected points
# restore the table order	Move sort descending	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	npxG sort descending	npxGA sort descending	npxGD sort descending	xPts sort descending	Pts vs xPts sort descending
1	Up 1 place against the actual table	Ipswich Town IPS	46	23	15	8	80	47	+33	84	68.33	43.11	+25.22	86.26	−2.26
2	Down 1 place against the actual table	Coventry City COV	46	28	11	7	97	45	+52	95	81.83	47.72	+34.11	82.83	+12.17
3	Up 2 places against the actual table	Middlesbrough MID	46	22	14	10	72	47	+25	80	67.65	36.14	+31.51	81.54	−1.54
4	Same place as in the actual table	Southampton SOU	46	22	14	10	82	56	+26	80	75.60	56.79	+18.81	74.12	+5.88
5	Up 8 places against the actual table	Sheffield United SHE	46	18	6	22	66	66	0	60	66.76	54.20	+12.56	71.83	−11.83
6	Up 4 places against the actual table	Birmingham City BIR	46	17	13	16	57	56	+1	64	60.00	46.89	+13.11	71.65	−7.65
7	Up 12 places against the actual table	West Bromwich Albion WES	46	13	14	19	48	58	−10	53	57.22	45.41	+11.81	70.40	−17.40
8	Down 5 places against the actual table	Millwall MIL	46	24	11	11	64	49	+15	83	60.83	57.26	+3.57	66.94	+16.06
9	Up 7 places against the actual table	Watford WAT	46	14	15	17	53	65	−12	57	52.66	51.53	+1.13	65.28	−8.28
10	Down 2 places against the actual table	Derby County DER	46	20	9	17	67	59	+8	69	52.34	51.65	+0.69	63.88	+5.12
11	Down 2 places against the actual table	Norwich City NOR	46	19	8	19	63	56	+7	65	58.75	61.01	−2.26	62.81	+2.19
12	Up 10 places against the actual table	Blackburn Rovers BLA	46	13	13	20	42	56	−14	52	53.55	52.48	+1.07	62.70	−10.70
13	Up 5 places against the actual table	Portsmouth POR	46	14	13	19	49	64	−15	55	48.82	52.20	−3.38	61.46	−6.46
14	Up 1 place against the actual table	Queens Park Rangers QUE	46	16	10	20	61	73	−12	58	51.75	53.60	−1.85	61.15	−3.15
15	Down 8 places against the actual table	Wrexham WRE	46	19	14	13	69	65	+4	71	52.06	62.00	−9.94	59.35	+11.65
16	Down 5 places against the actual table	Swansea City SWA	46	18	10	18	57	59	−2	64	46.82	53.91	−7.09	58.74	+5.26
17	Up 6 places against the actual table	Oxford United OXF	46	11	14	21	45	59	−14	47	51.95	57.71	−5.76	57.71	−10.71
18	Down 6 places against the actual table	Bristol City BRI	46	17	11	18	59	59	0	62	54.24	61.96	−7.72	56.63	+5.37
19	Up 1 place against the actual table	Charlton Athletic CHA	46	13	14	19	44	58	−14	53	46.50	57.76	−11.26	54.79	−1.79
20	Up 1 place against the actual table	Leicester City LEI	46	12	16	18	58	68	−10	52	49.80	63.69	−13.89	54.36	−2.36
21	Down 4 places against the actual table	Stoke City STO	46	15	10	21	51	56	−5	55	51.79	62.75	−10.96	54.17	+0.83
22	Down 8 places against the actual table	Preston North End PRE	46	15	15	16	55	62	−7	60	53.22	65.91	−12.69	53.38	+6.62
23	Down 17 places against the actual table	Hull City HUL	46	21	10	15	70	66	+4	73	56.34	73.73	−17.39	53.27	+19.73
24	Same place as in the actual table	Sheffield Wednesday SHE	46	2	12	32	29	89	−60	18	38.65	88.05	−49.40	30.47	−12.47

More points than xPts
Fewer points than xPts

Ranked by xPts. ▲ / ▼ beside the rank shows how far a club sits above or below its place in the actual table.

The provider published an implausible non-penalty figure for 2 of these matches — under 50% of the match total, which needs more penalties than a match usually has. Those matches fall back to total xG in the npxG columns.

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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