{"id":516159,"date":"2026-03-05T14:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/516159\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T14:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:57:16","slug":"premier-league-teams-relegated-2026-which-clubs-are-going-down-to-efl-championship-for-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/516159\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League teams relegated 2026: Which clubs are going down to EFL Championship for next season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For teams in the richest domestic football competition in the world, relegation from the Premier League is a catastrophic outcome that clubs look to avoid at all costs and expense.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/soccer\/leicester-city\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leicester City<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/soccer\/ipswich-town\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ipswich Town<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/soccer\/southampton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Southampton<\/a> going down in 2024\/25 meant all three promoted clubs were sent straight back down for a second consecutive season, leading fans to believe that it is harder than ever for smaller clubs to establish themselves in the highest division full of rich and powerful clubs.<\/p>\n<p>The burden, therefore, was on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/soccer\/sunderland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunderland<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/soccer\/leeds-united\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leeds United<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/soccer\/burnley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Burnley<\/a> to break the trend and find a way to stay up. It appears at least one of them \u2014 Sunderland \u2014 has established a foothold, while the other two battle the drop.<\/p>\n<p>The Sporting News takes a full look at the current relegation picture to review who will be sent down to the Championship next season.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/soccer\/news\/last-time-big-six-club-relegated-premier-league-top-flight\/25dfc1688fbd406b72acd12c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The last time each of the &#8216;big six&#8217;\u00a0 clubs in England were relegated<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Premier League teams relegated 2026: Who is going down?<\/p>\n<p>Even with their recent positive results, Wolves and Burnley are almost certainly going down at the end of the 2025\/26 season.<\/p>\n<p>The real race is for the final relegation place. West Ham occupied the third relegation spot at the start of March, but there are other contenders in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/soccer\/nottingham-forest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nottingham Forest<\/a>, Leeds United, and, sensationally, Tottenham.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s likely this goes right to the wire.<\/p>\n<p>Table updated as of Wednesday, March 4, 2026. Percentage chance via Opta.<\/p>\n<p>PosClubGPPtsW-D-LGD% chance15.Leeds United29317-10-12-118.09%16.Tottenham28297-8-13-57.43%17.Nottingham Forest29287-7-15-1528.87%18.West Ham29287-7-15-1955.43%19.Burnley29194-7-18-2699.49%20.Wolves30163-7-20-3099.92%Which clubs are most likely to be relegated in 2027?<\/p>\n<p>Down in the Championship,\u00a0Coventry City\u00a0have opened up a significant lead at the top of the table, gunning for automatic promotion with a five-point lead through 35 games.<\/p>\n<p>Behind them is Middlebrough\u00a0who are hoping to hang on to the second-place position and secure automatic promotion for themselves, even if the league title is out of reach.<\/p>\n<p>Below the automatic promotion places are those hunting for the playoff positions.\u00a0Ipswich Town\u00a0and\u00a0Millwall\u00a0lead the pack, with Hull City\u00a0right behind them.\u00a0Wrexham\u00a0have a decent lead in the final position, with\u00a0Southampton,\u00a0Derby County, and\u00a0Watford\u00a0giving chase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For teams in the richest domestic football competition in the world, relegation from the Premier League is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-516159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}