What Cardiff City have left to play in Championship 2026/2027, soonest first. Open a match for the projection behind it and the prices standing against it.
Fixture outlook
7 matches ahead in Championship
Every club's remaining calendar is a different length, so there is nothing of equal length to place the whole of this one against.
What the fixtures say
The run of 7 matches ahead of Cardiff City in Championship rates 3.0 of 5 for difficulty, which the scale calls Balanced. 1 of them rates easier than balanced, and 1 of them rates harder than balanced. The model expects 1.46 projected xG a match from them and 9.1 of the 21 points the priced fixtures could return. The hardest of them is Wolverhampton away, banded 4 of 5 — Difficult, against an attack rated 68/99 and a defence rated 78/99.
The run at a glance
Preston North End home Tue 24/11
Projected xG 1.89 – 1.28 Cardiff City win 51%
Wolverhampton away Sat 31/10
Projected xG 1.12 – 1.83 Cardiff City win 20%
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Open the match page for Birmingham City
Sat 24/10 Home Birmingham City Championship
3 Balanced Opponent: attack 61/99, defence 63/99Projected xG 1.51 – 1.46 Projected xPts 1.39- Cardiff City
- 37%
- Draw
- 29%
- Birmingham City
- 35%
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Open the match page for Wolverhampton
Sat 31/10 Away Wolverhampton Championship
4 Difficult Opponent: attack 68/99, defence 78/99Projected xG 1.12 – 1.83 Projected xPts 0.87- Wolverhampton
- 53%
- Draw
- 27%
- Cardiff City
- 20%
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Open the match page for West Ham United
Wed 04/11 Home West Ham United Championship
3 Balanced Opponent: attack 79/99, defence 70/99Projected xG 1.43 – 1.69 Projected xPts 1.18- Cardiff City
- 30%
- Draw
- 28%
- West Ham United
- 42%
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Open the match page for Burnley
Sat 07/11 Home Burnley Championship
3 Balanced Opponent: attack 50/99, defence 40/99Projected xG 1.73 – 1.34 Projected xPts 1.63- Cardiff City
- 45%
- Draw
- 27%
- Burnley
- 27%
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Open the match page for Norwich City
Sat 21/11 Away Norwich City Championship
3 Balanced Opponent: attack 49/99, defence 54/99Projected xG 1.35 – 1.58 Projected xPts 1.19- Norwich City
- 41%
- Draw
- 29%
- Cardiff City
- 30%
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Open the match page for Preston North End
Tue 24/11 Home Preston North End Championship
2 Favourable Opponent: attack 44/99, defence 26/99Projected xG 1.89 – 1.28 Projected xPts 1.78- Cardiff City
- 51%
- Draw
- 26%
- Preston North End
- 23%
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Open the match page for Swansea City
Sun 29/11 Away Swansea City Championship
3 Balanced Opponent: attack 49/99, defence 69/99Projected xG 1.22 – 1.59 Projected xPts 1.09- Swansea City
- 44%
- Draw
- 29%
- Cardiff City
- 27%
Championship publishes only its next few rounds, so the list stops here. The rest of the season is added as the league schedules it.
The band is how hard the model rates each match, from 1 (easiest) to 5 (hardest). Opponent attack and defence use the same 1–99 scale as Team Strength, where 50 is the average side in Championship.
Fixture difficulty in Championship
Reads each matchup for Cardiff City: the band is cut from the model's chances of Cardiff City winning and losing the match, so Cardiff City's own strength and home advantage are in it.
Every club's remaining calendar is a different length, so there is nothing of equal length to place the whole of this one against.
Upcoming opponent strength
number 1 hardest of 24 in Championship
+0.22 xG vs league average
Over 5 upcoming league fixtures
Reads the opponents alone, whoever plays them: each one's fitted xG margin against Championship's average club, with no venue and nothing of Cardiff City's own strength in it.
Opponents behind the figure
Upcoming
+0.22 xG vs league average · over 5 fixtures · number 1 hardest of 24
- Birmingham City Home +0.22
- Wolverhampton Away +0.43
- West Ham United Home +0.50
- Burnley Home −0.08
- Norwich City Away +0.02
About these numbers
What is published, what is worked out, and what is the model's
Published by the fixtures feed and stored as it arrives: the kickoff time, the two clubs, the competition, and whether a match is still scheduled.
Worked out here from stored figures: each opponent's attack and defence on a 1–99 scale, where 50 is the average side in Championship and a higher score is a stronger side at both ends; the difficulty band, cut from the model's chances of winning and losing each fixture; and everything the outlook, the strip and the fixture difficulty block add up from the rows — the run's mean band, its averages and totals, the counts they were taken over, the placings and the competition's average.
Worked out here from the model's ratings alone: the Upcoming opponent strength block, the mean of the next 5 opponents' fitted xG margins against the league's average club, whoever plays them, and its rank among the competition's clubs.
The model's output, for matches nobody has played yet: projected xG and xGA, the chances of a win, a draw and a loss, and xPts.
Projected xG is what the model expects a side to create in a match still to come. It is not the xG on the Results page, which measures the chances a side actually had.
xPts is what those three chances are worth in points: 3 times the chance of a win plus the chance of a draw, so 3 is the most a single fixture can be worth.
The difficulty band runs from 1, the most favourable fixture, to 5, the least favourable — so the lower a run's difficulty, the kinder the run.