Season trivia for EFL Championship 2023/2024
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 2023/2024 EFL Championship season in England.
Best scoring couple
The players who were behind the most goals for their team in the 2023/2024 season were the players Morgan Whittaker - Ryan Hardie (Plymouth), Conor Chaplin - Leif Davis (Ipswich) and Georginio Rutter - Crysencio Summerville (Leeds). Together they scored 7 goals for their teams, where one of the players scored the goal and the other one assisted to it.
Fastest goalscorer
These players all scored goals in the first minute of a match during the 2023/2024 season:
Fastest hat-trick
Milutin Osmajic, playing for Preston North End, was the player who scored the fastest hat-trick. In the space of 8 minutes, he scored three goals in the match between Preston North End-Huddersfield.
Top goalscorer by calendar month
In April 2024, Emmanuel Latte Lath (Middlesbrough) scored 7 goals, which was the most goals in a calendar month of the 2023/2024 season.
Most braces by player
Sammie Szmodics in Blackburn scored (at least) two goals in a match 6 times and was thus the player who scored the most braces in matches during the 2023/2024 season.
Most first goals in a match
The player who scored the first goal in a match the most times during the 2023/2024 season was Morgan Whittaker in Plymouth, in total he did it 9 times.
Most last goals in a match
In total, there were 2 players who scored the last goal of the match the most times, 7 times to be precise, and the players who did it were these:
Jamie Vardy (Leicester)
Adam Armstrong (Southampton)
Most penalty goals by player
The title of the league's best penalty taker in 2023/2024 was shared between 2 players, all of whom scored 5 penalties each, and these were Jack Clarke (Sunderland) and Tommy Conway (Bristol City).
Most penalty goals by team
Leicester was the most effective team of all when it came to penalty goals during the 2023/2024 season, in total they scored 12 of their goals from penalties.
Most stoppage time goals by player
In total, 3 players scored 3 goals in added time, and the players who did so were:
Most stoppage time goals by team
When it comes to stoppage time goals, Southampton was the best team, in total they scored 12 goals in the final minutes of the match.
Most own goals by player
5 players share the less-than-honourable title of most own goals during the 2023/2024 season in EFL Championship. These players each scored 2 own goals and they were:
Aynsley Pears (Blackburn)
Bobby Thomas (Coventry)
Wesley Hoedt (Watford)
Liam Kitching (Coventry)
Leif Davis (Ipswich)
Most own goals by team
Ipswich scored 6 own goals in all their matches, making them the best at it in the entire league during the 2023/2024 season.
Players with goals in most consecutive matches
Emmanuel Latte Lath in Middlesbrough scored in 6 consecutive matches during the 2023/2024 season, which was the best in the league.
Players with assists in most consecutive matches
It was Andrew Moran in Blackburn who had the longest streak of matches in a row with at least one assist, achieving this in 4 consecutive matches.
Players with goals or assists in most consecutive matches
Adam Armstrong in Southampton scored or assisted in 8 consecutive matches during the 2023/2024 season, which was the best in the league.
Players with most goals in the first half
It was Adam Armstrong in Southampton who scored the most goals in the first half, with a total of 14 goals in the first half of the match.
Players with most goals in the second half
Sammie Szmodics in Blackburn scored a total of 17 goals in the second half, including stoppage time, which was the best in EFL Championship during the 2023/2024 season.
Most matches in a row without losing
Southampton were the team with the longest unbeaten run during the 2023/2024 season, playing 22 straight matches without losing.
Most consecutive losses
Rotherham had a streak of 9 consecutive losses, something no other team surpassed in EFL Championship during the 2023/2024 season.
Most matches in a row without a win
Rotherham managed the feat of not winning a single match in 15 consecutive matches during the 2023/2024 season, something they did best among all the teams in the league.
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