Each and every season, there’s always plenty of value to be found in the EFL Championship odds, a division never short on shocks and surprises.
Whether it’s a favourite for promotion going down to defeat against a league minnow, an outsider making an unlikely push for the play-offs or a former top flight battling against relegation, there’s rarely a shortage of drama and betting opportunities in the second tier of English football.
To take full advantage of this drama, bettors are going to need the best Championship odds available on betting sites. Look no further because we have pulled together the latest live Championship betting odds from bookmakers to help readers find the best prices throughout the course of the campaign.
Punters will find top value on Championship football betting odds on this page, with any changes to markets made by football betting sites immediately reflected by our odds comparison tool.
All our football odds come from recommended online bookmakers, all of which are licensed by the UK Gambling Commission.
Championship Match Odds
The Championship season is a marathon, not a sprint, with each of the 24 teams playing 46 matches. The 2025/26 season gets underway on 8 August, with the regular season ending on the weekend of 2 May. The Championship play-off final concludes the campaign at Wembley on Saturday, 23 May 2026.
Punters can find the best SkyBet Championship odds for each fixture in the table above. All odds will dynamically update based on team news, suspensions, injuries, and other relevant factors.
Championship Winner Odds
Last season’s Championship title battle ended with Leeds winning a three-way race to claim top spot. Daniel Farke’s side accumulated 100 points – as did Burnley – and clinched the title on goal difference on the final day.
In recent seasons, clubs relegated from the Premier League often had the shortest Championship winner odds and that extra spending power a club can have after a spell in the top flight has been put to good use by the likes of Leicester and Fulham in recent seasons. However, the nature of the league means that surprise winners are not uncommon.
In 2011/12 Reading started the season as 16/1 outsiders and were 14th in November before a storming run saw them claim the championship, while Burnley were a fairly generous 8/1 before the 2022/23 season, which ended with them collecting 101 points and the title.
Previous Championship Winners
The table below shows the winners of the last five Championship seasons, along with their pre-season EFL odds.
Season |
Winner |
Points |
Pre-season odds |
|---|---|---|---|
2024/25 |
Leeds United |
100 |
7/2 |
2023/24 |
Leicester City |
97 |
5/4 |
2022/23 |
Burnley |
101 |
8/1 |
2021/22 |
Fulham |
90 |
11/2 |
2020/21 |
Norwich |
97 |
15/2 |
EFL Championship Promotion Odds
Three teams are promoted each season from the Championship — two automatically and one via the play-offs.
The Championship promotion odds are a little shorter than the outright winner market, but it’s still one of the most popular outright Championship options on both established and new betting sites given punters could land more than one winner.
Some long-shots have gone on late-season runs to secure promotion, making this market one to keep an eye on throughout the campaign.
Championship Play-Off Odds
The teams finishing 3rd to 6th compete in the end-of-season play-offs for the final promotion spot. The race for the play-offs, as well as the play-off themselves, are often the most surprising and unpredictable part of the Championship season, with the favourites and form teams not always winning.
Punters can bet on a team to make the play-offs by backing them for a top six finish. Whether they finish in the automatic promotion places (which are first and second place) or the play-off spots, the bet will be declared a winner.
There are several examples of teams who snuck into 6th place and then gained promotion, with Blackpool finishing over 30 points behind champions Newcastle in sixth place in 2009/10 but going up via the play-offs.
Championship Relegation Odds
Each season, the bottom three teams in the Championship table are relegated to League One, the third division of English football.
Newly-promoted League One teams are often priced as the favourites in the Championship relegation odds to go down, though that may not be the case this season.
In fact, some teams can struggle to stop the slide down the league table, with Luton having suffered back-to-back relegations last season after coming down from the Premier League at the end of 2023/24.
The fight to avoid the drop can end up involving numerous teams, with 10 different sides still in danger of going down heading into the final few weeks of last season. In fact, just two points separated 22nd-placed Luton and Stoke City in 18th in the final standings
Championship Top Scorer Odds
Some big names have claimed the Championship’s Golden Boot in the past with Ivan Toney, Ollie Watkins, John Aldridge, Kevin Phillips and Louis Saha all finishing as the division’s top scorer at least once in their career.
In the 2024/25 season, Leeds striker Joel Piroe added his name to the list of Championship Golden Boot winners, netting 19 goals as the Whites secured promotion.
Pioe’s tally was the lowest to claim the top scorer award since the division became the second tier when the Premier League formed with a total in the mid-20s usually the minimum required to win the individual honour.
The list of contenders in the Championship top scorer odds this season suggests the winner will be back in the 20s again, with plenty of goalscoring quality on show.
Responsible Gambling
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You can stay in control by making use of the responsible gambling tools offered, such as deposit limits, loss limits, self-exclusion and time-outs.
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