{"id":7849,"date":"2026-05-21T05:44:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/us\/?post_type=news&p=7849"},"modified":"2026-06-03T21:12:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T01:12:31","slug":"will-tottenham-be-relegated-2025-26","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/us\/news\/will-tottenham-be-relegated-2025-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Tottenham Be Relegated? Spurs Hope to Survive the Closest Call in Their Premier League History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tottenham go into the final day of the 2025-26 Premier League<\/a> season needing to avoid a result that would have sounded absurd in August. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beat Everton at home, or draw, and they stay up. Lose, and they need West Ham to slip up against Leeds at the same kick-off. Kalshi<\/a>, the CFTC-regulated prediction market, currently prices Spurs at a 15% chance of going down. That is the smallest number on this page that should still keep anyone connected to the club uncomfortable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is also, for context, the closest Spurs have come to relegation<\/a> since the Premier League era began. They have never finished lower than 14th in 33 seasons. This time, they go into matchday 38 in 17th place, two points above the drop zone, with a worse goal difference than every team above them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Tottenham ended up in this conversation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For most of the autumn the market did not even price Spurs in the relegation conversation. Kalshi traders weren’t laying down any meaningful position on them until January 20, when they finally appeared in the contract at around 26%. By that point the season had already turned. Run after run of one win in five, then one in seven, then a winless March that emptied the cushion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The alarm peaked on April 27. Kalshi had Spurs at 56% to go down, briefly the bookies’ favourites for the third relegation place. That was the week Aston Villa beat them at home and Burnley, of all teams, took a point off them on a Tuesday night. By the time the calendar flipped to May, anyone watching the market would have told you Tottenham were going down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What pulled them back was not a run of form. It was a single win at Crystal Palace and a late equaliser at Brighton, plus two genuinely bad weekends for West Ham. By May 19, after Spurs lost 2-1 at Chelsea, the market had them back at 9.4%. The Chelsea defeat nudged that figure up again. They sit at 15% going into the final 90 minutes of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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