Season trivia for EFL Championship 2024/2025
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 2024/2025 EFL Championship season in England.
Note that the season is not finished yet, and there for the information below is not necessarily the final version.
Best scoring couple
The players who were behind the most goals for their team in the 2024/2025 season were the players Tom Fellows - Josh Maja (West Bromwich), Finn Azaz - Emmanuel Latte Lath (Middlesbrough), Daniel James - Manor Solomon (Leeds) and Colby Bishop - Josh Murphy (Portsmouth). Together they scored 6 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 2024/2025 season:
Fastest hat-trick
Emmanuel Latte Lath, playing for Middlesbrough, was the player who scored the fastest hat-trick. In the space of 12 minutes, he scored three goals in the match between Oxford United-Middlesbrough.
Top goalscorer by calendar month
In November 2024, Vakoun Issouf Bayo (Watford) scored 6 goals, which was the most goals in a calendar month of the 2024/2025 season.
Most braces by player
Most braces (at least two goals in a match) were scored 3 times during this season, and the players who managed that were these:
Anis Mehmeti (Bristol City)
Joël Piroe (Leeds)
Ryan Hardie (Plymouth)
Finn Azaz (Middlesbrough/Plymouth)
Borja Sainz (Norwich)
Most first goals in a match
The first goal of a match means a lot, and these players each scored it in a total of 8 matches during the season:
Gustavo Hamer (Sheffield United)
Mihailo Ivanovic (Millwall)
Most last goals in a match
The last goal of the match was scored the most times by Joël Piroe in Leeds during the 2024/2025 season, in total he did this 8 times.
Most penalty goals by player
The title of the league's best penalty taker in 2024/2025 was shared between 5 players, all of whom scored 3 penalties each, and these were
Thomas Cannon (Stoke/Sheffield United)
Josh Brownhill (Burnley)
Ryan Hardie (Plymouth)
Tom Dele-Bashiru (Watford)
Colby Bishop (Portsmouth)
Most penalty goals by team
Watford was the most effective team of all when it came to penalty goals during the 2024/2025 season, in total they scored 7 of their goals from penalties.
Most stoppage time goals by player
In total, 9 players scored 2 goals in added time, and the players who did so were:
Bobby Thomas (Coventry)
Brenden Aaronson (Leeds)
Josh Brownhill (Burnley)
Mihailo Ivanovic (Millwall)
Joël Piroe (Leeds)
Lewis Baker (Stoke)
Haji Wright (Coventry)
Morgan Whittaker (Plymouth)
Forson Amankwah (Norwich)
Most stoppage time goals by team
When it comes to stoppage time goals, Leeds was the best team, in total they scored 10 goals in the final minutes of the match.
Most own goals by player
6 players share the less-than-honourable title of most own goals during the 2024/2025 season in EFL Championship. These players each scored 2 own goals and they were:
Ben Gibson (Stoke)
Luke O'Nien (Sunderland)
Joe Bryan (Millwall)
Anthony Patterson (Sunderland)
Morgan Fox (Queens Park Rangers)
Jake Cooper (Millwall)
Most own goals by team
3 teams each scored 5 own goals, and the teams that were best at putting the ball into their own net were Sunderland, Portsmouth and Stoke.
Players with goals in most consecutive matches
Josh Windass in Sheffield Wednesday scored in 5 consecutive matches during the 2024/2025 season, which was the best in the league.
Players with goals or assists in most consecutive matches
The players who were involved in goals in the most consecutive matches during the 2024/2025 season were Josh Windass (Sheffield Wednesday) and Manor Solomon (Leeds), with a streak of 6 matches in a row with at least one goal and/or assist.
Players with most goals in the first half
It was Joël Piroe in Leeds who scored the most goals in the first half, with a total of 9 goals in the first half of the match.
Players with most goals in the second half
3 players were the best at scoring in the second half, something they did 10 times, and the players who did this were Josh Brownhill (Burnley), Joël Piroe (Leeds) and Borja Sainz (Norwich).
Most consecutive wins
Blackburn was the team with the most consecutive wins during the 2024/2025 season, with a total of 6 wins in a row.
Most matches in a row without losing
Leeds were the team with the longest unbeaten run during the 2024/2025 season, playing 17 straight matches without losing.
Most consecutive losses
Derby had a streak of 7 consecutive losses, something no other team surpassed in EFL Championship during the 2024/2025 season.
Most matches in a row without a win
Plymouth managed the feat of not winning a single match in 15 consecutive matches during the 2024/2025 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 Sheffield Wednesday were best at during the 2024/2025 season, they came back to win 6 matches in total.
Most blown leads resulting in losses
Taking the lead in matches only to lose is no admirable feat, but Oxford United have managed this in 6 matches during the 2024/2025 season, more than any other team in EFL Championship.
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