Championship title and promotion odds 2025/26: Wrexham 6/1 to make Premier League, Ipswich faves ahead of Southampton
IPSWICH TOWN are the early favourites to win the 2025/26 Championship and make an immediate return to the Premier League.
The Tractor Boys are the 9/2 frontrunners with Betfair to go one better than 2023/24 and win the second tier and bounce straight back up.
Championship title odds 2025-26
Odds from Betfair
Ipswich 9/2
Southampton 11/2
Sheffield United 17/2
Middlesbrough, Birmingham, Coventry 9/1
Leicester 11/1
Norwich, West Brom, Wrexham 14/1
Bristol City, Watford, Stoke, Swansea, Millwall 28/1
Hull, Blackburn 33/1
Sheffield Wednesday, Derby 40/1
QPR, Preston, Portsmouth 50/1
Charlton, Oxford 80/1
Kieran McKenna's men were relegated from the Premier League some time ago after a disappointing campaign.
All three promoted sides toiled in truth, accumulating the lowest points of bottom three sides in Premier League history.
But with three of the biggest clubs in the Championship all gaining promotion this season, it looks a really wide open chase for the Premier League.
So much so, Wrexham and their Hollywood owners are incredibly just 6/1 to gain promotion for a FOURTH successive year and reach the Premier League.
It was the dream and ambition of the owners to reach the Premier League within five years but given it took them two bites to get out of the National League, saying it was farfetched would be an understatement.
But back-to-back-to-back promotions from non-league to the Championship has the supporters dreaming of the impossible and only eight sides are shorter odds for promotion than them before a ball is kicked.
They're also just 14/1 to win the Championship in 2025/26.
It's Ipswich who lead the betting in that market at 9/2, just ahead of Will Still's Southampton at 11/2 to win the league and just 7/4 for promotion.
Sheffield United missed out on promotion in the most agonising way possible by conceding an injury-time goal in the play-off final to lose to Sunderland.
They're 17/2 for title success this coming season and 23/10 to return to the top flight this time.
Leicester (11/1) find themselves further down the betting list to win the title again having won it two years ago, while the 4/1 for promotion is bound to be popular with punters.
Betfair spokesperson Sam Rosbottom said: 'Ipswich are the early 9/2 favourites to make an immediate return to the Premier League by winning the Championship next season.
"Southampton follow at 11/2, with Sheffield United 17/2 to go one better than their play-off final defeat against Sunderland.
'The Tractor Boys are the frontrunners to be promoted from the second tier, with Birmingham 11/4 and Wrexham 6/1 amongst the contenders to reach the top-flight ahead of the new campaign.'
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