What Preston North End 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 Preston North End in Championship rates 3.3 of 5 for difficulty, which the scale calls Balanced. 2 of them rate harder than balanced, and nothing in the run rates easier. The model expects 1.28 projected xG a match from them and 8.4 of the 21 points the priced fixtures could return. The hardest of them is West Ham United away, banded 4 of 5 — Difficult, against an attack rated 79/99 and a defence rated 70/99.
The run at a glance
Sheffield United home Tue 03/11
Projected xG 1.48 – 1.19 Preston North End win 42%
West Ham United away Sat 21/11
Projected xG 0.98 – 2.05 Preston North End win 15%
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Open the match page for West Bromwich Albion
Sat 24/10 Home West Bromwich Albion Championship
3 Balanced Opponent: attack 41/99, defence 62/99Projected xG 1.25 – 1.27 Projected xPts 1.32- Preston North End
- 34%
- Draw
- 32%
- West Bromwich Albion
- 35%
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Open the match page for Stoke City
Sat 31/10 Away Stoke City Championship
3 Balanced Opponent: attack 26/99, defence 29/99Projected xG 1.28 – 1.29 Projected xPts 1.33- Stoke City
- 35%
- Draw
- 31%
- Preston North End
- 34%
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Open the match page for Sheffield United
Tue 03/11 Home Sheffield United Championship
3 Balanced Opponent: attack 34/99, defence 33/99Projected xG 1.48 – 1.19 Projected xPts 1.56- Preston North End
- 42%
- Draw
- 30%
- Sheffield United
- 28%
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Open the match page for Southampton
Sat 07/11 Home Southampton Championship
3 Balanced Opponent: attack 70/99, defence 48/99Projected xG 1.36 – 1.59 Projected xPts 1.19- Preston North End
- 30%
- Draw
- 29%
- Southampton
- 41%
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Open the match page for West Ham United
Sat 21/11 Away West Ham United Championship
4 Difficult Opponent: attack 79/99, defence 70/99Projected xG 0.98 – 2.05 Projected xPts 0.67- West Ham United
- 62%
- Draw
- 24%
- Preston North End
- 15%
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Open the match page for Cardiff City
Tue 24/11 Away Cardiff City Championship
4 Difficult Opponent: attack 70/99, defence 29/99Projected xG 1.28 – 1.89 Projected xPts 0.96- Cardiff City
- 51%
- Draw
- 26%
- Preston North End
- 23%
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Open the match page for Norwich City
Sat 28/11 Home Norwich City Championship
3 Balanced Opponent: attack 49/99, defence 54/99Projected xG 1.31 – 1.36 Projected xPts 1.31- Preston North End
- 33%
- Draw
- 31%
- Norwich City
- 36%
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 Preston North End: the band is cut from the model's chances of Preston North End winning and losing the match, so Preston North End'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 14 hardest of 24 in Championship
−0.01 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 Preston North End's own strength in it.
Opponents behind the figure
Upcoming
−0.01 xG vs league average · over 5 fixtures · number 14 hardest of 24
- West Bromwich Albion Home −0.01
- Stoke City Away −0.44
- Sheffield United Home −0.31
- Southampton Home +0.19
- West Ham United Away +0.50
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.