The 2026/27 Championship Season: What Hidden Surprises Will Make It Unforgettable?
The Championship is often branded as the most competitive and unpredictable league in world football. Except that’s not always the case.
Parachute payments have skewed the odds in favour of the clubs relegated from the Premier League – in each of the past six seasons, at least one of the automatic promotion places have been filled by a team who spent the previous campaign in the top flight.
That trend could continue this term but it doesn’t feel like a foregone conclusion, while the play-off and relegation pictures are equally exciting. Ladies and gentlemen, this could be the most on-brand Championship season for some time.
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Goals, shocks and wild scorelines: This could be a Championship season for the ages
Last season’s Championship was a tough act to follow. Coventry City lifted the title to return to the Premier League after 25 years away, Hull City won the play-offs despite starting the campaign as one of the favourites to go down, and Leicester City suffered a shock second relegation in a row.
Furthermore, the teams who came down from the Premier League were not as dominant as in previous years. Ipswich Town were the only member of that trio to gain promotion, finishing second behind Coventry, and their total of 84 points ended a run of five seasons where one of the three relegated clubs reached 90 points or more in their first campaign back in the Championship.
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