EFL Championship table 2026/27 season: England, points and home and away records
updated 2026-08-31The EFL Championship table covers 24 clubs over 3 matches each. Points run three for a win and one for a draw, so the order follows points first, then goal difference and goals scored.
| # | Club | P | W | D | L | Goals | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charlton Athletic | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | +3 | 9 |
| 2 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | +5 | 7 |
| 3 | Swansea City | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | +4 | 7 |
| 4 | Queens Park Rangers | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | +3 | 7 |
| 5 | Middlesbrough | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | +2 | 6 |
| 6 | Millwall | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | +1 | 6 |
| 7 | West Bromwich Albion | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | +1 | 6 |
| 8 | Birmingham City | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | +1 | 5 |
| 9 | Watford | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | +1 | 5 |
| 10 | Blackburn Rovers | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 4 |
| 11 | Bolton Wanderers | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 12 | Bristol City | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -1 | 4 |
| 13 | Cardiff City | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 |
| 14 | Sheffield United | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 15 | Portsmouth | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | -1 | 3 |
| 16 | Norwich City | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | -1 | 3 |
| 17 | Lincoln City | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | -2 | 3 |
| 18 | Southampton | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | +5 | 2 |
| 19 | West Ham United | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -1 | 2 |
| 20 | Wrexham | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -1 | 2 |
| 21 | Derby County | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -4 | 1 |
| 22 | Burnley | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -5 | 1 |
| 23 | Preston North End | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | -4 | 0 |
| 24 | Stoke City | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | -6 | 0 |
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EFL Championship table: how to read points and goal difference
The gap from top to bottom is 9 points. Charlton Athletic lead on 9 with a difference of +3; Stoke City sit last on 0. Wolverhampton Wanderers are second, 2 points behind.
Wolverhampton Wanderers score most with 9 goals. Swansea City defend best, conceding 1, while Burnley have shipped 9 — the spread between those two says how uneven the league is at the back.
A club takes 1.29 points per match on average and scores 4.5 goals across the season. The median is 4 points (Blackburn Rovers), with 9 clubs above it. The median describes a league better than the mean does: one runaway side pulls the mean up and barely moves the median.
The drop zone is 1 points from safety: Derby County sit 21th on 1, against Stoke City on 0. Those are the numbers that decide the closing weeks.
EFL Championship home and away: split points
The EFL Championship table recomputes separately for home fixtures and for away ones. They are the same matches split by venue, so points in the two tables always sum back to the overall one.
Southampton take the most at home, 6 points from 2 matches, while Swansea City lead away on 6 — more often different clubs than you would expect.
Middlesbrough depend on their ground most: 6 points at home against 0 away, a gap of 6. Swansea City show the smallest split at -5. Across the league a club takes 0.4 more points at home than away.
EFL Championship: goals, averages and difference
Across 36 matches the league has produced 109 goals, 3.03 per game. Home sides win 39% of the time, both teams score in 78%, and 75% finish over 2.5.
Blackburn Rovers carry the flattest goal difference at 0 — clubs on those numbers usually sit mid-table, equally far from the title and the drop.
How the EFL Championship table looked in earlier seasons is in the archive: England, year by year, with final tables for every division and zone.
EFL Championship: division size and what it changes
The size of a division changes how its figures read. With 24 clubs each plays 3 matches, and a run of three or four results moves a position further than it would in a league twice the size: the sample is smaller, so chance weighs more.
For the same reason the points gap between neighbouring places tends to be narrower here and the middle of the table reorders more often. Goal difference is especially useful in a division this size, because it accumulates across every match and depends less on who a club happened to face recently.
Comparing this division with others on absolute numbers — goals scored, points taken — means little where the number of rounds differs. What compares is the relative measures: points per match, scoring rate, the share of draws.
England: the divisions and where EFL Championship sits
We cover 4 divisions in England. Above this one sit Premier League. Below it run EFL League One, EFL League Two, computed on the same rules.
Cardiff City have drawn most at 3, Charlton Athletic fewest at 0. Bolton Wanderers defend best on the road, conceding 0 away from home.
EFL Championship: match results and head-to-head
The widest result of the season is Southampton against Millwall, 5-1, a margin of 4. The highest-scoring match is Southampton against Millwall at 5-1, 6 goals in all.
11 of 36 matches ended level, 31%. The draw rate is among the steadiest numbers a league produces: it moves less from season to season than goals scored or final positions do.
Any two clubs can be compared in the panel alongside, which reads the same results grid the home and away tables are computed from.
Common questions
How are points awarded in the EFL Championship table?
Three points for a win, one for a draw, none for a defeat. A side with more wins can still sit below one that draws often, but only where the number of matches played differs.
What separates clubs level on points?
Goal difference first, then goals scored. Charlton Athletic currently lead EFL Championship on 9 points with a difference of +3.
How does the home table differ from the overall one?
The home table counts only matches played at home and the away table only those on the road. They are the same fixtures, so the two sets of points add back to the overall table. A mid-table club is often in the top three of one of them.
How many goals does a match produce on average?
3.03 per game across 36 matches. Both teams score in 78% of them and 75% finish over 2.5 goals.
Where are previous seasons?
In the country archive: England, final tables year by year, split by division and, where they existed, by territorial zone.
How can two clubs be compared?
Through the head-to-head panel: pick two sides and it returns the score of their meetings this season, read from the same results grid the home and away tables are computed from.
Season metrics
- Goals per match
- 3.03
- Home wins
- 39%
- Both scored
- 78%
- Over 2.5
- 75%
Head to head
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