Championship teams ranked by best possession percentage (Season 2025/26) – 09.03.2026

Championship teams ranked by best possession percentage (Season 2025/26)

• Date: 09.03.2026
• Euro Football Rumours
• Championship teams ranked by best possession percentage (Season 2025/26)

Which team will finish the season as the top ranked by best possession percentage in Championship?

Which teams are really the best in this category?

Passing is a lost art form in football, but these teams on the list try to keep the tradition going.

There are thousands of relevant statistics that we could take away from the season so far, and some would argue that the most important statistic is the one that tells us who’s at the top of the league.

But today we are looking at the teams ranked by best possession percentage in Championship of the season so far. Let’s see.

Team	P%
1. Middlesbrough	58.5
2. Southampton	57.4
3. Ipswich	55.6
4. Swansea	55.2
5. Birmingham	54.0
6. Coventry	53.9
7. Stoke	53.0
8. Norwich	52.3
9. West Bromwich Albion	51.9
10. Sheffield United	51.7
11. Leicester	51.3
12. Portsmouth	50.9
13. Watford	50.8
14. Blackburn	49.6
15. Bristol City	48.9
16. Wrexham	47.4
17. Millwall	46.5
18. Queens Park Rangers	46.3
19. Sheffield Wednesday	45.9
20. Hull	45.7
21. Preston	45.3
22. Charlton	43.3
23. Derby	42.9
24. Oxford	40.3

P% = Possession Percentage

* A list of the teams ranked by best possession percentage in Championship (Season 2025/26).

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Site expert for statistical analysis and avid fan of all European football. Nikola Horvat has written for various Italian football portals and now he writes for Euro Football Rumours. He is a sports and travel aficionado and has lived in three continents – North America, South America and Europe. The languages that Nikola knows are Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian, Italian, English, and Spanish.