Season trivia for EFL Championship 2022/2023
It's not all about becoming the top scorer or winning matches - there's also a wealth of fascinating information related to goalscorers and other remarkable records. Below, you'll find trivia and interesting facts from the 2022/2023 EFL Championship season in England.
Best scoring couple
The top goal-scoring pair, in other words two players where one scored the goal and the other player assisted to it, were Gustavo Hamer and Viktor Gyökeres. Together they were behind 6 goals for Coventry in the 2022/2023 season.
Fastest goalscorer
These players all scored goals in the first minute of a match during the 2022/2023 season:
Fastest hat-trick
Tom Bradshaw, playing for Millwall, was the player who scored the fastest hat-trick. In the space of 25 minutes, he scored three goals in the match between Millwall-Watford.
Top goalscorer by calendar month
The most goals scored in a calendar month during the season 2022/2023 was 7 goals, which these players scored in those months:
Óscar Estupiñán (Hull) - August 2022
Jerry Yates (Blackpool) - October 2022
Most braces by player
Chuba Akpom in Middlesbrough scored (at least) two goals in a match 5 times and was thus the player who scored the most braces in matches during the 2022/2023 season.
Most first goals in a match
The player who scored the first goal in a match the most times during the 2022/2023 season was Carlton Morris in Luton, in total he did it 14 times.
Most last goals in a match
The last goal of the match was scored the most times by Chuba Akpom in Middlesbrough during the 2022/2023 season, in total he did this 10 times.
Most penalty goals by player
The best penalty taker in the league during the 2022/2023 season was Chuba Akpom, in total he scored 4 penalties for his Middlesbrough.
Most penalty goals by team
Reading was the most effective team of all when it came to penalty goals during the 2022/2023 season, in total they scored 7 of their goals from penalties.
Most stoppage time goals by player
Viktor Gyökeres was the player who scored the most stoppage time goals during the 2022/2023 season, in total he scored 4 stoppage time goals for his Coventry.
Most stoppage time goals by team
The highest number of goals in added time by a team was 6 goals, which 3 teams managed to do, and these were Coventry, Sunderland and Stoke.
Most own goals by player
2 players share the less-than-honourable title of most own goals during the 2022/2023 season in EFL Championship. These players each scored 2 own goals and they were Callum Connolly (Blackpool) and Tom Lockyer (Luton).
Most own goals by team
Hull scored 6 own goals in all their matches, making them the best at it in the entire league during the 2022/2023 season.
Players with goals in most consecutive matches
Chuba Akpom in Middlesbrough scored in 6 consecutive matches during the 2022/2023 season, which was the best in the league.
Players with assists in most consecutive matches
It was Iliman Ndiaye in Sheffield United who had the longest streak of matches in a row with at least one assist, achieving this in 4 consecutive matches.
Players with most goals in the first half
It was Chuba Akpom in Middlesbrough who scored the most goals in the first half, with a total of 11 goals in the first half of the match.
Players with most goals in the second half
Chuba Akpom in Middlesbrough scored a total of 17 goals in the second half, including stoppage time, which was the best in EFL Championship during the 2022/2023 season.
Most consecutive wins
Burnley was the team with the most consecutive wins during the 2022/2023 season, with a total of 10 wins in a row.
Most matches in a row without losing
Burnley were the team with the longest unbeaten run during the 2022/2023 season, playing 22 straight matches without losing.
Most consecutive losses
During the 2022/2023 season, there were 4 teams that had 5 consecutive losses, and those teams were Hull, Wigan, Birmingham and Queens Park Rangers.
Most matches in a row without a win
Blackpool managed the feat of not winning a single match in 14 consecutive matches during the 2022/2023 season, something they did best among all the teams in the league.
Most comebacks from behind to win
The art of turning a deficit in a match into a win is something Middlesbrough were best at during the 2022/2023 season, they came back to win 7 matches in total.
Most blown leads resulting in losses
Middlesbrough and West Bromwich were the teams that struggled most to win despite taking the lead, these teams blew a lead and lost in 5 different matches during the 2022/2023 season.
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