From Arsenal to Doncaster Rovers, factors don’t all the time win prizes with regards to the groups who topped the tables on video games performed in 2024.
The Premier League prime two over the calendar yr, Arsenal and Liverpool, each missed out on the title, whereas solely two of the groups to complete as the highest two points-wise throughout the EFL divisions gained promotion.
On the different finish of the size, Everton, Wolves, Luton City and Plymouth Argyle, who’ve began and ended the yr with no supervisor after Wayne Rooney left the membership on New 12 months’s Eve, are amongst these to have averaged lower than a degree a sport.
Questioning how your crew fared? Take a look at the very best and lowest-performing groups throughout English soccer in 2024, grouped by their present divisions and with factors totals proven alongside the variety of video games performed by every crew in brackets.
The groups making a robust finish to 2024 💪 pic.twitter.com/hk6O98wSPI
— Premier League (@premierleague) December 31, 2024
Premier League groups with most factors in 2024
Liverpool completed 9 factors behind Manchester Metropolis and 7 behind Arsenal in Could, however Arne Slot’s blistering begin to life with the Premier League leaders on the finish of 2024 has put them between final season’s prime two for the yr.
The Gunners misplaced the fewest video games of any crew within the prime 4 divisions in England (3) and joined the Reds in profitable essentially the most Premier League matches (26), one forward of Metropolis.
All six of Metropolis’s defeats have arrived through the last two months of the yr, however they continue to be one in every of 5 different groups in all of the division to have misplaced fewer than 12 instances, alongside Liverpool (4), Chelsea (7), Fulham (11) and Newcastle (11).
Greater than 20% of Wolves’ factors in 2024 have arrived within the last 9 days of the yr underneath new supervisor Vitor Pereira, whereas half of Everton’s factors have come since September 21, with the opposite half arriving in April and Could after they began the yr with a 10-match winless run.
Arsenal 85 (36)Liverpool 85 (37)Man Metropolis 82 (38)Chelsea 70 (37)Newcastle 63 (38)Ipswich City 57 (40)* – together with 39 in ChampionshipAston Villa 55 (37)Nottingham Forest 53 (37)Bournemouth 53 (38)Fulham 52 (37)Manchester United 51 (37)Tottenham 51 (37)Leicester Metropolis 49 (40)* – 35 in ChampionshipCrystal Palace 48 (37)Brighton & Hove Albion 45 (38)Brentford 44 (37)West Ham 42 (38)Southampton 42 (40)* – 36 in ChampionshipEverton 39 (36)Wolves 34 (37)
* Performed within the 2023/24 Championship till Could.
Introducing the Premier League desk for the calendar yr… pic.twitter.com/tM98PVSuq9
— Premier League (@premierleague) December 31, 2024
Which EFL groups gained essentially the most factors in 2024?
After ending third within the 2023/24 Championship and topping the second tier on the finish of 2024, Leeds United have gained essentially the most factors of any crew in elite English soccer – six greater than next-nearest rivals Wrexham, who gained promotion from League Two and ended the yr second in League One.
Third-tier high-flyers Wycombe Wanderers are the opposite crew to have gained extra factors than Arsenal or Liverpool, and the Whites (7), Chairboys (8) and Purple Dragons (9) be a part of West Bromwich Albion, Doncaster Rovers and Stockport County (all 10) because the golf equipment to have misplaced fewer than 11 video games whereas being within the EFL all year long.
Unsurprisingly, Leeds (29), Wrexham (27) and Wycombe (25) gained essentially the most instances, with Doncaster and Walsall each victorious at the least twice greater than every other crew by every triumphing on 24 events.
🤯😍 WHAT. A. GOAL. pic.twitter.com/uGjhwYtlaE
— Leeds United (@LUFC) December 29, 2024
Relegated from the Premier League and nineteenth within the Championship on the finish of 2024, Luton earned the fourth-fewest factors of any membership to have a whole yr of fixtures.
Burton Albion and Bristol Rovers every misplaced 26 matches, however Carlisle United – relegated from League One and second-bottom of League Two on the finish of the yr – outdid them each by being crushed 29 instances.
In a decent begin to their first ever EFL season, Bromley have earned as many factors for the yr in half as many video games as Carlisle, whereas fellow promoted aspect and play-off hopefuls Chesterfield have taken three extra factors than the Cumbrians in 21 fewer matches.
Carlisle’s win over Accrington of their last sport of the yr, nevertheless, put them degree with Everton and Rotherham United on the second-fewest victories, with eight. Burton conceded an 88th-minute equaliser at Huddersfield City of their closing fixture of 2024, guaranteeing that they retained the bottom complete of seven wins.
Championship
Leeds 96 (45)Derby County 73 (47)** – 46 in League OneMiddlesbrough 70 (45)Norwich Metropolis 69 (45)Barnsley 70 (46)West Brom 69 (45)Sheffield Wednesday 67 (45)Portsmouth 67 (44)** – 47 in League OneSunderland 63 (45)Burnley 61 (42)* – 13 in Premier LeagueSwansea Metropolis 61 (45)QPR 61 (45)Blackburn Rovers 60 (44)Millwall 59 (44)Bristol Metropolis 59 (45)Sheffield United 58 (42)* – 14 in Premier LeagueWatford 58 (44)Coventry Metropolis 58 (45)Oxford United 58 (45)** – 34 in League OnePreston North Finish 57 (45)Stoke Metropolis 53 (45)Hull Metropolis 53 (45)Cardiff Metropolis 49 (44)Luton 36 (43)* – 11 in League One
* Performed in 2023/24 Premier League till Could.** Performed in 2023/24 League One till Could.
The 2024 calendar yr Championship desk primarily based on points-per-game 🥁
Wonderful work, @t_peters32 👏 pic.twitter.com/wECo2A5fnQ
— The #EFL Zone (@TheFLZone) December 30, 2024
League One
Wrexham 90 (45)** – 42 in League TwoWycombe 87 (45)Stockport 78 (44)** – 41 in League TwoBolton Wanderers 73 (44)Lincoln Metropolis 73 (44)Studying 72 (44)Birmingham Metropolis 71 (42)* – 22 in ChampionshipMansfield City 71 (44)** – 40 in League TwoExeter Metropolis 69 (45)Leyton Orient 67 (44)Blackpool 65 (43)Huddersfield City 63 (43)* – 20 in ChampionshipWigan Athletic 63 (44)Peterborough United 62 (44)Stevenage Borough 57 (43)Crawley City 57 (44)** – 37 in League TwoCharlton Athletic 57 (45)Northampton City 49 (45)Bristol Rovers 45 (45)Plymouth 41 (44)Cambridge United 38 (45)Shrewsbury City 37 (43)Rotherham United 34 (42)* – 10 in ChampionshipBurton 32 (44)
* Performed in 2023/24 League One till Could.** Performed in 2023/24 League Two till Could.
Nonetheless excited about Fletch’s objective yesterday 😮💨
🔴⚪️ #WxmAFC pic.twitter.com/NFLY0eRmQl
— Wrexham AFC (@Wrexham_AFC) December 30, 2024
League Two
Doncaster 83 (45)Walsall 81 (44)MK Dons 70 (44)Bradford Metropolis 69 (44)Crewe Alexandra 69 (44)Salford Metropolis 64 (44)Wimbledon 64 (44)Gillingham 59 (44)Grimsby City 59 (44)Notts County 56 (43)Cheltenham City 54 (46)* – 24 in League OneFleetwood City 52 (44)* – 25 in League OneHarrogate City 52 (45)Newport County 51 (43)Barrow 51 (44)Tranmere Rovers 49 (42)Colchester United 49 (43)Port Vale 49 (46)* – 12 in League OneMorecambe 46 (46)Swindon City 42 (44)Accrington Stanley 41 (42)Chesterfield 34 (23)**Bromley 31 (22)**Carlisle 31 (44)* – 13 in League OneForest Inexperienced Rovers 26 (23)***Sutton United 25 (22)***
* Performed in 2023/24 League One till Could.** Performed in 2023/24 Nationwide League till Could.*** Performed till relegation to 2024/25 Nationwide League in Could.
