From Arsenal to Doncaster Rovers, points don’t always win prizes when it comes to the teams at the top of the table in games played in 2024.

In the calendar year the Premier League’s top two, Arsenal and Liverpool, both missed out on the title, while only the top two points-wise teams in the EFL divisions won promotion.

At the other end of the scale, Everton, Wolves, Luton Town and Plymouth Argyle, who started and finished the year without a manager after Wayne Rooney left the club on New Year’s Eve, are among those averaging less than a point. game

Wondering how your team did? Check out the highest and lowest performing teams across English football in 2024, grouped by their current divisions and with point totals shown with each team’s number of games played in brackets.

Teams finishing 2024 strong 💪 pic.twitter.com/hk6O98wSPI

— Premier League (@premierleague) December 31, 2024

Premier League teams with the most points in 2024

Liverpool finished nine points behind Manchester City and seven behind Arsenal in May, but Arne Slott’s blistering start to life with the Premier League leaders at the end of 2024 has put them in last season’s top two for the year.

The Gunners have lost the fewest games of any team in the top four divisions in England (3) and join the Reds in winning the most Premier League matches (26), one ahead of City.

All six of City’s defeats have come in the final two months of the year, but they are one of four other teams in all divisions to have lost less than 12 times, along with Liverpool (4), Chelsea (7), 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, with the other half coming after arrivals in April and May. A 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 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)
Brentford 44 (37)
Brighton & Hove Albion 44 (38)
West Ham 42 (38)
Southampton 42 (40)* – 36 in the Championship
Everton 39 (36)
Wolf 34 (37)

* Played in the 2023/24 Championship until May.

Presenting 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 finishing top of 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 won promotion from League Two. And another year in League One ended.

League One high-flyers Wycombe Wanderers are the second team to have won more points than Arsenal or Liverpool, and the Whites (7), Cherboys (8) and Red Dragons (9) join West Bromwich Albion, Doncaster Rovers and Stockport County (all). joins 10) As clubs to lose fewer than 11 games while remaining in the EFL throughout the year.

Unsurprisingly, Leeds (29), Wrexham (27) and Wycombe (25) won the most times, with Doncaster and Walsall both winning on 24 occasions, at least twice more than any other team.

🤯😍 What A. Goal. pic.twitter.com/uGjhwYtlaE

— Leeds United (@LUFC) December 29, 2024

Relegated from the Premier League and finishing 19th in the Championship at the end of the year, Luton took the fourth-fewest points of any club to keep a full year’s fixtures.

Burton Albion and Bristol Rovers each lost 26 matches, but Carlisle United – second bottom of League One and League Two at the end of the year – outscored both with 29 defeats.

In a respectable start to their first EFL season, Bromley have picked up as many points from half as many games as Carlisle for the year, while fellow promoted side and play-off hopefuls Chesterfield have taken three more points than the Cumbrians from 21 fewer matches. .

Carlisle’s win against Accrington in their final game of the year, however, left them level with Everton and Rotherham United for the second-fewest wins with eight. Burton conceded an 88th-minute equalizer at Huddersfield Town in their final match of 2024, ensuring they maintained a record 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 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 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 the 2023/24 Premier League until May.
** Played in League One until May 2023/24.

The 2024 calendar year championship table is 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 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 the 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 the 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 the Championship
Burton 32 (44)

* Played in League One until May 2023/24.
** Played in League Two until May 2023/24.

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)**
Carelli 31 (44)* – 13 in League One
Forest Green Rovers 26 (23) ***
Sutton United 25 (22)***

* Played in League One until May 2023/24.
** Played in the 2023/24 National League until May.
*** Played until relegation to the 2024/25 National League in May.