Championship

Championship table 2026/2027

Leader Middlesbrough 25 pts
Most above xPts Stoke City +8.77 against expected points
Most below xPts Preston North End −9.33 against expected points

The Championship table for 2026/2027, with expected goals (xG), xGA and expected points (xPts) beside every club's points. Middlesbrough top both the table and expected points, on 25.22 xPts.

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Championship 2026/2027 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	Middlesbrough MID	12	7	4	1	27	17	+10	25	25.95	12.18	+13.77	25.22	−0.22
2	Southampton SOU	12	7	3	2	24	12	+12	24	21.71	15.90	+5.81	20.41	+3.59
3	Swansea City SWA	12	7	2	3	16	13	+3	23	17.84	15.78	+2.06	17.95	+5.05
4	West Ham United WHU	12	6	4	2	32	15	+17	22	25.30	14.49	+10.81	22.12	−0.12
5	Wolverhampton WOL	12	6	3	3	20	16	+4	21	20.68	10.99	+9.69	23.61	−2.61
6	West Bromwich Albion WES	12	6	3	3	16	13	+3	21	16.23	17.63	−1.40	15.29	+5.71
7	Birmingham City BIR	12	5	5	2	20	12	+8	20	20.32	15.94	+4.38	19.73	+0.27
8	Queens Park Rangers QUE	12	5	5	2	20	12	+8	20	19.77	13.40	+6.37	20.68	−0.68
9	Stoke City STO	12	6	2	4	18	16	+2	20	10.54	19.59	−9.05	11.23	+8.77
10	Blackburn Rovers BLA	12	5	3	4	19	16	+3	18	12.36	20.63	−8.27	10.99	+7.01
11	Portsmouth POR	12	5	3	4	16	15	+1	18	15.72	13.59	+2.13	18.08	−0.08
12	Sheffield United SHE	12	4	4	4	16	15	+1	16	14.14	17.46	−3.32	14.08	+1.92
13	Millwall MIL	12	4	3	5	19	20	−1	15	20.99	15.84	+5.15	19.61	−4.61
14	Bristol City BRI	12	4	3	5	12	15	−3	15	15.28	15.51	−0.23	17.27	−2.27
15	Lincoln City LIN	12	4	3	5	13	20	−7	15	15.61	17.44	−1.83	16.18	−1.18
16	Cardiff City CAR	12	3	5	4	19	17	+2	14	23.01	18.82	+4.19	19.00	−5.00
17	Wrexham WRE	12	3	5	4	15	18	−3	14	14.04	14.47	−0.43	16.89	−2.89
18	Bolton Wanderers BOL	12	4	2	6	16	23	−7	14	16.26	22.81	−6.55	12.71	+1.29
19	Charlton Athletic CHA	12	3	5	4	11	18	−7	14	11.84	18.99	−7.15	11.67	+2.33
20	Norwich City NOR	12	4	0	8	20	22	−2	12	17.81	18.41	−0.60	15.96	−3.96
21	Watford WAT	12	3	2	7	10	20	−10	11	12.61	22.52	−9.91	9.83	+1.17
22	Burnley BUR	12	1	5	6	17	25	−8	8	15.84	19.76	−3.92	13.29	−5.29
23	Derby County DER	12	1	4	7	10	21	−11	7	11.64	20.59	−8.95	12.29	−5.29
24	Preston North End PRE	12	1	2	9	10	25	−15	5	15.41	18.16	−2.75	14.33	−9.33

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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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