{"id":596423,"date":"2026-04-20T23:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/596423\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T23:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:16:08","slug":"wolves-relegated-from-the-premier-league-as-west-ham-crystal-palace-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/596423\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves relegated from the Premier League as West Ham, Crystal Palace draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 20, 2026, 04:59 PM ET<img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Wolves will now return to the Championship for the first time since the 2017\/18 season.\u00a0Brett Patzke &#8211; WWFC\/Wolves via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"7b64f56c-a775-945c-6eb8-686461c3e898\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=380\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wolverhampton Wanderers<\/a> have officially been relegated from the <a data-league-guid=\"6949f3af-300c-35f1-beab-b95669eedd38\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/league\/_\/name\/ENG.1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premier League<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Their fate was confirmed with <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"28c48827-3a74-9af3-21b2-f324cdb1fc01\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=371\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Ham United<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/report\/_\/gameId\/740923\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">0-0<\/a> draw against <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"e8703d92-a160-9bbf-cb81-1be6f3fd7969\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=384\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crystal Palace<\/a> on Monday. Rob Edwards&#8217; side are on 17 points after 33 games.<\/p>\n<p>Wolves started the season with V\u00edtor Pereira in charge before the Portuguese manager was sacked in November last year and replaced by former Luton Town and Middlesbrough boss Rob Edwards.<\/p>\n<p>Pereira is now at <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ad9ef79b-ca27-077e-8a6f-335e0d220b27\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=393\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nottingham Forest<\/a> who are in their own relegation battle, but recent results have seen them inch toward safety.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a miserable season in the Premier League for Wolves &#8212; who did not get their first win until January. Since then, they have won only two more games &#8212; albeit against European spot-chasing <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"610557ff-e870-ea0e-a3b2-8244df325d22\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=362\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aston Villa<\/a> and <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"a47fbcec-c948-cf4c-9e41-3dfa37588c9c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=364\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Their relegation ends an eight-season stay in the English top flight and means that the West Midlands club will be back in the Championship for the first time since the 2017\/18 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 20, 2026, 04:59 PM ETWolves will now return to the Championship for the first time since the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-596423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}