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English Championship Predictions

  • Can Watford halt Lankshear and Middlesbrough's unbeaten run?

Predict the exact score of every English Championship game. Take on 354 other players, climb four divisions, and run your own mini-league with your mates.

Running since 2002, when it was Predict the Premiership.

Week 15 · next kick-off Friday 20:00

Derby 2 1 Bolton
Bristol C – – Norwich
Portsmouth – – Stoke
Wrexham – – Wolves
Watford – – Middlesbrough
+ 7 more this week

How it works

Predict → score → get promoted

Predict the exact score

Derby 2 1 Bolton

Not who wins - the score. Every game, every week.

Long shots score most

For example

You said 2 - 1
It finished 2 - 1
Exact score 3
Fewer than 1 in 5 predicted that result +2
Fewer than 1 in 20 predicted that score +2
That one fixture 7

3 for the exact score, 1 if you missed the score but got the right result. Then +2 if fewer than a fifth of players predicted that result, and +2 more if fewer than a twentieth predicted that exact score - two separate bonuses.

Get promoted to the Championship

  1. Championship
  2. League 1
  3. League 2
  4. Non‑League you start here

Divisions are decided every month. Nobody skips a rung, so one good week is never enough.

Things to win

41 achievements, and trophies to show off

Badges for the great calls, the long climbs and the head-to-heads - and one or two for the days it all goes wrong. You will find the rest as you play.

  • I Told You So
  • Full House
  • On a Roll
  • Rise Like A Phoenix
  • Pistols At 10 Paces
  • I'm The Boss
  • Champion
  • Missed a Sitter

Fill up your trophy cabinet

Finish in the top 10 of your division in any month, or of the season table, and it goes in your cabinet for every player to see. The Trophy Standings add up every one ever won here: proof, over years rather than weeks, of who really knows their football.

Being played right now

354 people are playing this season

Championship, November

Pos Player Pld Pts
1 elizabeth thomas 12 16
2 No More Heroes 12 15
3 Derek 12 15
4 David Handley 12 14
5 CFairhead 12 14
6 Goldfinger 12 13
7 spawnygit 12 12
8 dinosao 12 12
9 dave 12 11
10 Gillivan 73 12 11

Showing 10 of 60 players. Log in to see the whole table.

Week 14

Pos Player Pld Pts
1 Mark Haworth 12 17
2 Tolka Potter 12 17
3 elizabeth thomas 12 16
4 No More Heroes 12 15
5 Richard Dyer 12 15
6 Josh (Sweco) 12 15
7 Derek 12 15
8 Angela 12 15
9 GameTipper.com 12 15
10 David Handley 12 14

Showing 10 of 271 players. Log in to see the whole table.

Mini-leagues

Settle it with your mates.

Start a mini-league, send round the link, and anyone who opens it is in. One for work, one for the family, one for the pub - as many as you like. The same predictions count in every one of them, and in the main table as well.

Your mini-league

Example
Pos Player Pld Pts
1 Your sister 14 31
2 You 14 29
3 Someone from work 14 26
4 Your best mate 14 22
5 Your dad 13 16
One account covers the lot. Add the Champions League, the Bundesliga, the World Cup - whenever you feel like it. All competitions →

Pestering people to predict since 1993

It started on a family holiday.

The first prediction slips were written out by hand on a family holiday, with no printer in sight, and everybody had fun with them. In 1993 they went round a classroom at 20p each for charity, the scores added up and a table printed so everyone could see how they did. Even a teacher gave in and bought one, not at all sure he was allowed to. It went online in 2002 as Predict the Premiership, and it has run every season since.

20p
a prediction slip
2002
went online

Week 15: next kick-off Friday at 20:00.

Free to play, and nothing to win but the table. Joining halfway through is fine - divisions are decided monthly, so you are playing for something from your first game.

Start predicting