Which teams have scored the most and fewest points and wins?
From Arsenal to Doncaster Rovers, points don’t always win prizes when it comes to the teams leading the way in games in 2024.
The Premier League’s two calendar year leaders, Arsenal and Liverpool, both missed out on the title, while only two of the teams top two in points in the EFL divisions managed promotion.
At the other end of the scale are Everton, Wolves, Luton Town and Plymouth Argyle, who began and ended the year without a manager after Wayne Rooney left the club on New Year’s Eve, and who averaged less than a point a game.
Wondering how your team fared? Check out the best and worst performing teams in English football in 2024, grouped by their current divisions and with the total points scored alongside the number of games played by each team in brackets.
The teams create a strong finish to 2024 💪 pic.twitter.com/hk6O98wSPI
— Premier League (@premierleague) December 31, 2024
Premier League teams with the most points in 2024
Liverpool finished May nine points behind Manchester City and seven points behind Arsenal, but Arne Slot’s blistering start to life with the Premier League leaders at the end of 2024 has put them between the top two of the year’s final season.
The Gunners lost the fewest games of any team in England’s top four divisions (3) and, tied with the Reds, won the most Premier League games (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 across the division to have lost fewer than 12 times, alongside Liverpool (4), Chelsea (7) and 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 and the other half in April and May after The season began with a 10-game winning streak.
Arsenal 85 (36)
Liverpool 85 (37)
Man City 82 (38)
Chelsea 70 (37)
Newcastle 63 (38)
Ipswich Town 57 (40)* – 39 of them 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 the championship
Crystal Palace 48 (37)
Brighton & Hove Albion 45 (38)
Brentford 44 (37)
West Ham 42 (38)
Southampton 42 (40)* – 36 in the 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-closest rivals Wrexham, who were promoted from and finished in the second tier the year as second in League One.
Third League 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 who lost fewer than 11 games all year while in the EFL.
Unsurprisingly, Leeds (29), Wrexham (27) and Wycombe (25) claimed the most wins, with Doncaster and Walsall winning at least twice more than any other team with 24 wins each.
🤯😍 WHAT. A. GOAL. pic.twitter.com/uGjhwYtlaE
– Leeds United (@LUFC) December 29, 2024
Luton were relegated from the Premier League at the end of 2024, finishing 19th in the Championship. Luton scored the fourth fewest points of all clubs that had completed a full year of play.
Burton Albion and Bristol Rovers each lost 26 games, but Carlisle United – relegated from League One at the end of the year and second in League Two – surpassed them both with 29 defeats.
In a respectable start to their first-ever EFL season, Bromley have picked up as many points in half as many games as Carlisle this year, while fellow promoted team and play-off contenders Chesterfield picked up three points more than the Cumbrians in 21 fewer games.
However, Carlisle’s win over Accrington in their final game of the year took them to the second-fewest wins (8) with Everton and Rotherham United. Burton conceded an 88th-minute equalizer at Huddersfield Town in the final game of 2024, securing their lowest tally of seven wins.
championship
Leeds 96 (45)
Derby County 73 (47)** – 46 in the first division
Middlesbrough 70 (45)
Norwich City 69 (45)
Barnsley 70 (46)
West Brom 69 (45)
Sheffield Wednesday 67th (45)
Portsmouth 67 (44)** – 47 in the first division
Sunderland 63 (45)
Burnley 61 (42)* – 13 in the 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 the Premier League
Watford 58 (44)
Coventry City 58 (45)
Oxford United 58 (45)** – 34 in the first division
Preston North End 57 (45)
Stoke City 53 (45)
Hull City 53 (45)
Cardiff City 49 (44)
Luton 36 (43)* – 11 in the first division
* Played in the 2023/24 Premier League until May.
**Played in League One 2023/24 until May.
The championship table for the calendar year 2024 based on points per game 🥁
Excellent work, @t_peters32 👏 pic.twitter.com/wECo2A5fnQ
– The #EFL Zone (@TheFLZone) December 30, 2024
League One
Wrexham 90 (45)** – 42 in the second division
Wycombe 87 (45)
Stockport 78 (44)** – 41 in the second division
Bolton Wanderers 73 (44)
Lincoln City 73 (44)
Reading 72 (44)
Birmingham City 71 (42)* – 22 in the championship
Mansfield Town 71 (44)** – 40 in the second division
Exeter City 69 (45)
Leyton Orient 67 (44)
Blackpool 65 (43)
Huddersfield Town 63 (43)* – 20 in the championship
Wigan Athletic 63 (44)
Peterborough United 62 (44)
Stevenage Borough 57 (43)
Crawley Town 57 (44)** – 37 in the second division
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 the championship
Burton 32 (44)
* Played in League One 2023/24 until May.
**Played in League Two 2023/24 until May.
I’m still thinking about Fletch’s goal from yesterday 😮💨
🔴⚪️ #WxmAFC pic.twitter.com/NFLY0eRmQl
— Wrexham AFC (@Wrexham_AFC) December 30, 2024
League Two
Doncaster 83 (45)
Walsall 81 (44)
MK Don’s 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 the first division
Fleetwood Town 52 (44)* – 25 in the first division
Harrogate Town 52 (45)
Newport County 51 (43)
Cart 51 (44)
Tranmere Rovers 49 (42)
Colchester United 49 (43)
Port Vale 49 (46)* – 12 in the first division
Morecambe 46 (46)
Swindon Town 42 (44)
Accrington Stanley 41 (42)
Chesterfield 34 (23)**
Bromley 31 (22)**
Carlisle 31 (44)* – 13 in the first division
Forest Green Rover 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.
