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Championship teams ranked by best possession percentage (Season 2025/26) – 29.06.2026

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

  • Date: 29.06.2026
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  • Championship teams ranked by best possession percentage (Season 2025/26)
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Which team finished 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 this season, 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. Let’s see.

Team P%
1. Middlesbrough 59.4
2. Southampton 56.8
3. Ipswich 56.1
4. Coventry 55.1
5. Swansea 54.5
6. Birmingham 53.9
7. Norwich 53.6
8. Sheffield United 52.5
9. Stoke 51.7
10. West Bromwich Albion 51.6
11. Leicester 51.6
12. Watford 51.0
13. Portsmouth 50.2
14. Bristol City 49.2
15. Wrexham 48.0
16. Blackburn 47.6
17. Millwall 46.7
18. Queens Park Rangers 46.0
19. Hull 45.7
20. Preston 45.5
21. Sheffield Wednesday 45.0
22. Derby 44.2
23. Charlton 42.1
24. Oxford 39.7

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.

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