Looking at the 20 Premier League teams this season, which ones do you think will end up relegated?

I think it is a tough one, a really tough one…

We appeared to have reached a point where it was looking all but impossible for clubs to come up from the Championship and survive.

In the 2024-25 season, all three Premier League teams that had been promoted from the Championship in May 2024 were all relegated with a pitiful number of points. They only picked up 59 points in total from their 114 collective fixtures with Leicester 25 points, Ipswich 22 points and Southampton 12 points, they won only 12 Premier League matches between them.

It is early days but from a total of 30 collective attempts this season, you have Ipswich, Hull and Coventry having picked up eight wins and seven draws between them and 31 points.

One or more of them may well end up relegated but I don’t think any of that trio are guaranteed to go down this time, immediately after having escaped from the Championship.

The current Premier League table on Thursday 12 November 2026

I honestly think that it is a case of any three from the following seventeen Premier League clubs who will be relegated.

Aston Villa
Bournemouth
Brentford
Chelsea
Coventry
Crystal Palace
Everton
Fulham
Hull
Ipswich
Leeds
Manchester City
Manchester United
Newcastle United
Nottingham Forest
Sunderland
Tottenham

Apart from Arsenal, Brighton and probably Liverpool, I don’t think any of the Premier League teams are safe.

By this point after ten games of the 2025-26 Premier League season:
Eight Premier League teams had 17 or more points (this season only four have 17+).
There was a gap of 16 points between 5th top and 20th (this season only nine points).
Twelve Premier League teams had won at least four matches (this season seven).

I am guessing that some of you are puzzled about the inclusion of Manchester City, but if/when their appeal fails against the 114 guilty verdicts on breaches of Premier League rules, every chance that relegation will be the key punishment.

Put it this way, only Hull and Coventry are seen by the bookies as more likely to be relegated than Manchester City.

Last season you needed 40 points for safety, with West Ham ending the season on 39 points in 18th place.

Plenty of people will think it is impossible for say Manchester United to be relegated, when they have such huge advantages on almost all other Premier League clubs when it comes to their ability to spend on transfer fees and wages.

If Manchester United hadn’t fluked a home win against Aston Villa on the final day of the 2024-25 season they would have finished on 39 points. Before that Villa match Man U had only won four of their last 21 EPL games and picked up 17 points. Considering they only have one win and eight points from their first ten Premier League games this 2026-27 season, what if Manchester United had a similar end to this campaign as they had two seasons ago?

The Premier League is so competitive this season, so many teams can beat each other, pretty much anything is possible…