From Arsenal to Doncaster Rovers, points don’t always bring prizes when it comes to the teams who have topped the standings in matches played in 2024.
The top two in the Premier League during the calendar year, Arsenal and Liverpool, both missed out on the title, while only two of the teams who finished in the top two on points in the EFL divisions won the promotion.
At the other end of the scale, Everton, Wolves, Luton Town and Plymouth Argyle, who started and finished the year without a manager after Wayne Rooney left the club on New Year’s Eve, are among those whose average is less than one point per year. game.
Wondering how your team did? See the best and worst performing teams in English football in 2024, grouped by current divisions and with the points total shown next to the number of matches played by each team in parentheses.
The teams are having a strong end to 2024 💪 pic.twitter.com/hk6O98wSPI
–Premierleague (@premierleague) December 31, 2024
Premier League teams with most points in 2024
Liverpool finished nine points behind Manchester City and seven behind Arsenal in May, but Arne Slot’s blistering start to life with the Premier League leaders at the end of 2024 has put them between last season’s top two.
The Gunners are the team who have lost the fewest games in England’s top four divisions (3) and have joined the Reds in winning the most Premier League matches (26), one ahead of City.
All six of City’s defeats came in the final two months of the year, but they remain one of five other teams in the entire division to have lost fewer than 12 times, alongside Liverpool (4), Chelsea (7), Fulham (11). ) and Newcastle (11).
More than 20% of Wolves’ points in 2024 have come in the final nine days of the year under new manager Vitor Pereira, while half of Everton’s points have come since September 21, the other half arriving in April and May after the start of the season. year with a streak of 10 games without a win.
Arsenal85 (36)
Liverpool 85 (37)
Man City 82 (38)
Chelsea70 (37)
Newcastle 63 (38)
Ipswich Town 57 (40)* – including 39 in the Championship
Aston Villa 55 (37)
Nottingham Forest 53 (37)
Bournemouth 53 (38)
Fulham 52 (37)
Manchester United 51 (37)
Tottenham 51 (37)
Leicester City 49 (40)* – 35 in Championship
Crystal Palace 48 (37)
Brighton & Hove Albion 45 (38)
Brentford 44 (37)
Western Ham 42 (38)
Southampton 42 (40)* – 36 in the Championship
Everton 39 (36)
Wolves 34 (37)
* Played in the 2023/24 championship until May.
Presenting the Premier League table for the calendar year… pic.twitter.com/tM98PVSuq9
–Premierleague (@premierleague) December 31, 2024
Which EFL teams have won the most points in 2024?
After finishing third in the 2023/24 Championship and dominating the second tier at the end of 2024, Leeds United have won the most points of any team in elite English football – six more than their next rivals, Wrexham, who won the promotion from League 2. and finished the year second in League One.
Third Division high-flyers Wycombe Wanderers are the other team to have won more points than Arsenal or Liverpool, and the Whites (7), Chairboys (8) and Red Dragons (9) join West Bromwich Albion, Doncaster Rovers and Stockport County (all 10) as the clubs lost fewer than 11 games while in the EFL throughout the year.
Unsurprisingly, Leeds (29), Wrexham (27) and Wycombe (25) have won the most times, with Doncaster and Walsall both winning at least twice as many times as any other team, each triumphing on 24 occasions.
🤯😍 WHAT. A. PURPOSE. pic.twitter.com/uGjhwYtlaE
– Leeds United (@LUFC) December 29, 2024
Relegated from the Premier League and 19th in the Championship at the end of 2024, Luton have won the fourth fewest points of any club to have played a full year of matches.
Burton Albion and Bristol Rovers each lost 26 matches, but Carlisle United – relegated from League One and second in League Two at the end of the year – surpassed them both by being beaten 29 times.
In a respectable start to their first ever EFL season, Bromley have earned as many points for the year in half as many games as Carlisle, while fellow promoted and play-off hopefuls Chesterfield have taken three points more than the Cumbrians in 21 matches less. .
Carlisle’s win over Accrington in their final game of the year, however, sees them tied with Everton and Rotherham United with the second fewest wins, with eight. Burton conceded the 88th-minute equalizer at Huddersfield Town in their final match of 2024, ensuring they maintain the team’s lowest total of seven wins.
Championship
Leeds 96 (45)
Derby County 73 (47)** – 46 in Ligue 1
Middlesbrough 70 (45)
City of Norwich 69 (45)
Barnsley 70 (46)
Brom West 69 (45)
Sheffield Wednesday 67 (45)
Portsmouth 67 (44)** – 47 in Ligue 1
Sunderland 63 (45)
Burnley 61 (42)* – 13 in the Premier League
Swansea Town 61 (45)
QPR 61 (45)
Blackburn Rovers 60 (44)
Millwall 59 (44)
Bristol City 59 (45)
Sheffield United 58 (42)* – 14 in the Premier League
Watford 58 (44)
Coventry City 58 (45)
Oxford United 58 (45)** – 34 in Ligue 1
Preston North End 57 (45)
City of Stoke 53 (45)
City of Hull 53 (45)
Cardiff City 49 (44)
Luton 36 (43)* – 11 in Ligue 1
*Played in the 2023/24 Premier League until May.
**Played in League One 2023/24 until May.
The 2024 calendar year championship table based on points per match 🥁
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– The #EFL Zone (@TheFLZone) December 30, 2024
League 1
Wrexham90 (45)** – 42 in Ligue Two
Wycombe 87 (45)
Stockport 78 (44)** – 41 in Ligue Two
Bolton Vagabonds 73 (44)
Lincoln City 73 (44)
Reading 72 (44)
Birmingham City 71 (42)* – 22 in the Championship
Town of Mansfield 71 (44)** – 40 in Ligue Two
City of Exeter 69 (45)
Leyton Orient 67 (44)
Blackpool 65 (43)
Huddersfield Town 63 (43)* – 20 in Championship
Wigan Athletic 63 (44)
Peterborough United 62 (44)
Borough of Stevenage 57 (43)
Town of Crawley 57 (44)** – 37 in Ligue Two
Charlton Athletic 57 (45)
Town of Northampton 49 (45)
Bristol Rovers 45 (45)
Plymouth 41 (44)
Cambridge United 38 (45)
Shrewsbury Town 37 (43)
Rotherham United 34 (42)* – 10 in Championship
Burton 32 (44)
*Played in League One 2023/24 until May.
**Played in League Two 2023/24 until May.
I still think about Fletch’s goal 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 City 69 (44)
Crewe Alexandra 69 (44)
Salford City 64 (44)
Wimbledon 64 (44)
Gillingham 59 (44)
Town of Grimsby 59 (44)
Notts County 56 (43)
Cheltenham Town 54 (46)* – 24 in Ligue 1
Town of Fleetwood 52 (44)* – 25 in Ligue 1
Harrogate Town 52 (45)
Newport County 51 (43)
Tumulus 51 (44)
Tranmere Rovers 49 (42)
Colchester United 49 (43)
Port-Valé 49 (46)* – 12 in Ligue 1
Morecambe 46 (46)
Swindon Town 42 (44)
Accrington Stanley 41 (42)
Chesterfield 34 (23)**
Bromley 31 (22)**
Charles 31 (44)* – 13 in Ligue 1
Forest Green Rovers 26 (23)***
Sutton United 25 (22)***
*Played in League One 2023/24 until May.
**Played in the 2023/24 National League until May.
***Played until relegation to the 2024/25 National League in May.
