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

Championship clubs ranked by expected points (xPts) in 2026/2027, with the points each actually took beside them. Middlesbrough top both the table and expected points, on 25.22 xPts.

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 2026/2027 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	Same place as in the actual table	Middlesbrough MID	12	7	4	1	27	17	+10	25	26.11	11.81	+14.30	25.22	−0.22
2	Up 3 places against the actual table	Wolverhampton WOL	12	6	3	3	20	16	+4	21	18.89	10.13	+8.76	23.61	−2.61
3	Up 1 place against the actual table	West Ham United WHU	12	6	4	2	32	15	+17	22	22.35	12.57	+9.78	22.12	−0.12
4	Up 4 places against the actual table	Queens Park Rangers QUE	12	5	5	2	20	12	+8	20	17.92	13.10	+4.82	20.68	−0.68
5	Down 3 places against the actual table	Southampton SOU	12	7	3	2	24	12	+12	24	19.45	13.72	+5.73	20.41	+3.59
6	Up 1 place against the actual table	Birmingham City BIR	12	5	5	2	20	12	+8	20	18.69	14.52	+4.17	19.73	+0.27
7	Up 6 places against the actual table	Millwall MIL	12	4	3	5	19	20	−1	15	20.03	14.24	+5.79	19.61	−4.61
8	Up 8 places against the actual table	Cardiff City CAR	12	3	5	4	19	17	+2	14	19.92	16.79	+3.13	19.00	−5.00
9	Up 2 places against the actual table	Portsmouth POR	12	5	3	4	16	15	+1	18	13.93	12.58	+1.35	18.08	−0.08
10	Down 7 places against the actual table	Swansea City SWA	12	7	2	3	16	13	+3	23	17.48	13.44	+4.04	17.95	+5.05
11	Up 3 places against the actual table	Bristol City BRI	12	4	3	5	12	15	−3	15	14.21	13.48	+0.73	17.27	−2.27
12	Up 5 places against the actual table	Wrexham WRE	12	3	5	4	15	18	−3	14	13.76	13.56	+0.20	16.89	−2.89
13	Up 2 places against the actual table	Lincoln City LIN	12	4	3	5	13	20	−7	15	13.64	16.00	−2.36	16.18	−1.18
14	Up 6 places against the actual table	Norwich City NOR	12	4	0	8	20	22	−2	12	15.55	18.04	−2.49	15.96	−3.96
15	Down 9 places against the actual table	West Bromwich Albion WES	12	6	3	3	16	13	+3	21	14.26	16.73	−2.47	15.29	+5.71
16	Up 8 places against the actual table	Preston North End PRE	12	1	2	9	10	25	−15	5	14.22	17.73	−3.51	14.33	−9.33
17	Down 5 places against the actual table	Sheffield United SHE	12	4	4	4	16	15	+1	16	13.57	16.04	−2.47	14.08	+1.92
18	Up 4 places against the actual table	Burnley BUR	12	1	5	6	17	25	−8	8	13.71	17.59	−3.88	13.29	−5.29
19	Down 1 place against the actual table	Bolton Wanderers BOL	12	4	2	6	16	23	−7	14	14.03	22.98	−8.95	12.71	+1.29
20	Up 3 places against the actual table	Derby County DER	12	1	4	7	10	21	−11	7	10.83	20.20	−9.37	12.29	−5.29
21	Down 2 places against the actual table	Charlton Athletic CHA	12	3	5	4	11	18	−7	14	12.20	16.30	−4.10	11.67	+2.33
22	Down 13 places against the actual table	Stoke City STO	12	6	2	4	18	16	+2	20	9.16	17.21	−8.05	11.23	+8.77
23	Down 13 places against the actual table	Blackburn Rovers BLA	12	5	3	4	19	16	+3	18	11.20	17.06	−5.86	10.99	+7.01
24	Down 3 places against the actual table	Watford WAT	12	3	2	7	10	20	−10	11	11.39	20.68	−9.29	9.83	+1.17

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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