From Arsenal to Doncaster Rovers, points do not always win prizes when it comes to the teams who topped the tables on games played in 2024.
The Premier League top two over the calendar year, Arsenal and Liverpool, both missed out on the title, while only two of the teams to finish as the top two points-wise across the EFL divisions won promotion.
At the other end of the scale, Everton, Wolves, Luton Town and Plymouth Argyle, who have started and ended the year without a manager after Wayne Rooney left the club on New Year’s Eve, are among those to have averaged less than a point a game.
Wondering how your team fared? Check out the highest and lowest-performing teams across English football in 2024, grouped by their current divisions and with points totals shown alongside the number of games played by each team in brackets.
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— Premier League (@premierleague) December 31, 2024
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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 for the year.
The Gunners lost the fewest games of any team in the top four divisions in England (3) and joined the Reds in winning the most Premier League matches (26), one ahead of City.
All six of City’s defeats have arrived during the final two months of the year, but they remain one of five other teams in all the 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 arrived in the final nine days of the year under new manager Vitor Pereira, while half of Everton’s points have come since September 21, with the other half arriving in April and May after they started the year with a 10-match winless run.
Arsenal 85 (36)
Liverpool 85 (37)
Man City 82 (38)
Chelsea 70 (37)
Newcastle 63 (38)
Ipswich Town 57 (40)* – including 39 in 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)
West Ham 42 (38)
Southampton 42 (40)* – 36 in Championship
Everton 39 (36)
Wolves 34 (37)
* Played in the 2023/24 Championship until May.
Introducing the Premier League table for the calendar year… pic.twitter.com/tM98PVSuq9
— Premier League (@premierleague) December 31, 2024
Which EFL teams won the most points in 2024?
After finishing third in the 2023/24 Championship and topping 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 next-nearest rivals Wrexham, who won promotion from League Two and ended the year second in League One.
Third-tier 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 to have lost fewer than 11 games while being in the EFL throughout the year.
Unsurprisingly, Leeds (29), Wrexham (27) and Wycombe (25) won the most times, with Doncaster and Walsall both victorious at least twice more than any other team by each triumphing on 24 occasions.
🤯😍 WHAT. A. GOAL. 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 earned the fourth-fewest points of any club to have an entire year of fixtures.
Burton Albion and Bristol Rovers each lost 26 matches, but Carlisle United – relegated from League One and second-bottom of League Two at the end of the year – outdid 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 side and play-off hopefuls Chesterfield have taken three more points than the Cumbrians in 21 fewer matches.
Carlisle’s win over Accrington in their final game of the year, however, put them level with Everton and Rotherham United on the second-fewest victories, with eight. Burton conceded an 88th-minute equaliser at Huddersfield Town in their closing fixture of 2024, ensuring that they retained the lowest total of seven wins.
Championship
Leeds 96 (45)
Derby County 73 (47)** – 46 in League One
Middlesbrough 70 (45)
Norwich City 69 (45)
Barnsley 70 (46)
West Brom 69 (45)
Sheffield Wednesday 67 (45)
Portsmouth 67 (44)** – 47 in League One
Sunderland 63 (45)
Burnley 61 (42)* – 13 in Premier League
Swansea City 61 (45)
QPR 61 (45)
Blackburn Rovers 60 (44)
Millwall 59 (44)
Bristol City 59 (45)
Sheffield United 58 (42)* – 14 in Premier League
Watford 58 (44)
Coventry City 58 (45)
Oxford United 58 (45)** – 34 in League One
Preston North End 57 (45)
Stoke City 53 (45)
Hull City 53 (45)
Cardiff City 49 (44)
Luton 36 (43)* – 11 in League One
* Played in 2023/24 Premier League until May.
** Played in 2023/24 League One until May.
The 2024 calendar year Championship table based on points-per-game 🥁
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— The #EFL Zone (@TheFLZone) December 30, 2024
League One
Wrexham 90 (45)** – 42 in League Two
Wycombe 87 (45)
Stockport 78 (44)** – 41 in League Two
Bolton Wanderers 73 (44)
Lincoln City 73 (44)
Reading 72 (44)
Birmingham City 71 (42)* – 22 in Championship
Mansfield Town 71 (44)** – 40 in League Two
Exeter City 69 (45)
Leyton Orient 67 (44)
Blackpool 65 (43)
Huddersfield Town 63 (43)* – 20 in Championship
Wigan Athletic 63 (44)
Peterborough United 62 (44)
Stevenage Borough 57 (43)
Crawley Town 57 (44)** – 37 in League Two
Charlton Athletic 57 (45)
Northampton Town 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 2023/24 League One until May.
** Played in 2023/24 League Two until May.
Still thinking 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)
Grimsby Town 59 (44)
Notts County 56 (43)
Cheltenham Town 54 (46)* – 24 in League One
Fleetwood Town 52 (44)* – 25 in League One
Harrogate Town 52 (45)
Newport County 51 (43)
Barrow 51 (44)
Tranmere Rovers 49 (42)
Colchester United 49 (43)
Port Vale 49 (46)* – 12 in League One
Morecambe 46 (46)
Swindon Town 42 (44)
Accrington Stanley 41 (42)
Chesterfield 34 (23)**
Bromley 31 (22)**
Carlisle 31 (44)* – 13 in League One
Forest Green Rovers 26 (23)***
Sutton United 25 (22)***
* Played in 2023/24 League One until May.
** Played in 2023/24 National League until May.
*** Played until relegation to 2024/25 National League in May.
