Championship 2024/25 outright odds, predictions and tips
The 2024/25 Championship season is well underway with a host of big names hoping this is the year they make it to the top flight.
Luton, Burnley and Sheffield United all dropped down from the Premier League and will be looking to return to the top flight at the first time of asking, while Leeds United will be hoping to put last season’s play-off final defeat to Southampton firmly behind them and secure one of the two automatic promotion spots this time around.
The likes of Middlesbrough, Coventry, West Brom, Norwich, Sunderland, Stoke, Watford, Blackburn, Swansea and Hull City have all tasted Premier League football in the not too distant past and will be looking for another crack at the big league, while Portsmouth, Derby and Oxford will take confidence from Ipswich’s back-to-back promotions.
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For those not in the know, perhaps new to football, the promotion system in England allows three teams from the Championship to be promoted to the Premier League at the end of each season. This is to the detriment of the bottom three teams in the top flight, moving down to the Championship level.
The top two teams in the Championship automatically qualify for promotion, making those spots some of the most lucrative in football. The third team worthy of promotion is then decided by a play-off, with the teams finishing third to sixth entering a tournament. Across two two-legged semi-finals and a final at Wembley—dubbed the richest game in football—the winner is then promoted to the Premier League.
So who are the favourites to win the league this time around?
Leeds
Leeds go into the 2025 as favourites to return to the Premier League as champions after last season’s play-off defeat to Southampton at Wembley.
After their three-year spell in the top flight ended in 2022/23, many fans thought they would secure an automatic promotion spot back to the top flight alongside Leicester last season. However, with just one win from their final six matches, they missed out to Ipswich before falling at the final play-off hurdle.
This time, Daniel Farke, who has the perfect CV for the Championship, having led Norwich to promotion in both 2019 and 2021 will looking to do the same with the Whites, but at the second time of asking. It will be tough though, with last season’s top goalscorer Crysencio Summerville joining West Ham and talented academy star Archie Gray moving to North London to sign for Tottenham Hotspur.
Burnley
After blitzing their way to the Championship title with 101 points under Vincent Kompany in 2022/23, many fans and pundits thought the Belgian was the right man to keep the Clarets in the Premier League last season.
However, after picking up just 24 points and the former Man City captain leaving to take over at Bayern Munich at the end of the campaign, they once again find themselves looking to gain promotion back to the top flight. This time around they are under Scott Parker, who has experience of leading sides to the promised land having secured promotion with both Bournemouth and Fulham in recent seasons and will be looking to complete the hat-trick with the Clarets.
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