Worst. Relegation Battle. Ever: New low for promoted teams

They say the desk would not lie, and it’s definitely telling some harsh house truths for the Premier League’s backside three as we head into the November worldwide break.

With roughly one third of the 2023-24 marketing campaign already performed, the trio of promoted teams — Luton Town, Sheffield United and Burnley — are all entrenched in the relegation zone with just one win every to their names thus far.

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And when it comes to factors on the board, all three teams are nonetheless in single figures: 18th-placed Luton are faring finest with a complete of six factors, Sheffield United (nineteenth) have 5 factors and Burnley (twentieth) have 4. That signifies that the whole backside three have amassed 15 factors between them from a complete of 36 video games performed.

Things are already trying bleak on the foot of the desk with Sheffield United being the one bottom-three facet to have registered a win of their final 5 video games. It’s trying much more dire at Turf Moor, the place Vincent Kompany’s ailing Burnley facet — promoted as runaway winners of the 2022-23 Championship with 101 factors and 87 targets scored in 46 video games — are on a five-game shedding streak, the worst kind document on this season’s high flight.

As far because the three promoted sides are involved, the 2023-24 Premier League season has seen the worst begin ever for the teams developing from the Championship, with the teams in twentieth, nineteenth and 18th contributing the bottom collective factors tally on document at this level of the season. Indeed, there is just one different event when the trio of recent golf equipment have been collectively within the relegation zone after 12 rounds of video games, and even they managed to eclipse the numbers on show this 12 months.

No Premier League staff has ever taken fewer factors after 12 video games than the 4 that Burnley have mustered thus far this season. The earlier document low for a person membership was the 5 factors amassed by Fulham (2018-19), Sunderland (2005-06), and Swindon Town (1993-94). Both Fulham and Sunderland managed to scrape one win and two attracts of their first 12 video games, whereas Swindon’s 5 factors got here by way of 5 attracts.

Just for the document, the very best factors tally recorded by a newly promoted staff after 12 video games stands at a formidable 27, achieved by each Nottingham Forest (1994-95) and Sunderland (1999-00.)

Presented by means of comparability, here is a take a look at a few of the worst performances supplied up by the three promoted teams at this stage for the reason that Premier League was launched in 1992-93.

2014-15

The solely different Premier League season through which all three newly promoted teams propped up the desk after 12 video games was the 2014-15 marketing campaign, when Leicester City, Burnley and Queens Park Rangers did so.

However, regardless of languishing under the dotted line of doom, the three golf equipment had collectively accrued 28 factors (13 factors greater than their 2023-24 counterparts) with the Foxes and Clarets each one level adrift of Hull City in seventeenth.

Come the tip of the season, Burnley (nineteenth, 33 factors) and QPR (twentieth, 30 factors) have been relegated whereas Leicester efficiently rallied to complete up in a comparatively lofty 14th place. The following season they’d go on to win the Premier League title below Claudio Ranieri.

1995-96

Without wishing to throw but extra shade on the performances of Luton, Sheffield United and Burnley this season, all three sides have received fewer mixed factors than the 2 — sure, TWO — promoted sides managed to gather within the first third of the 1995-96.

Due to the variety of Premier League teams being diminished from 22 to twenty, solely two sides have been promoted from what was then often called the First Division, specifically Middlesbrough and Bolton Wanderers — and but they nonetheless managed to get extra factors on the board (30) from their opening 12 video games than the category of 2023-24.

2007-08

The earlier document for lowest collective factors haul among the many three promoted sides was set in 2007-08 when Derby, Sunderland and Birmingham City had scraped 26 factors collectively after 12 video games.

Birmingham (11 factors) and Sunderland (9 factors) have been using excessive in 14th and fifteenth place respectively. However, in what was to develop into their annus horribilis, Derby have been already rooted to the underside of the desk. But not less than the stricken Rams might boast having six factors to their title — greater than each Burnley and Sheffield United have collected thus far this season.

They could also be this season’s backside facet, however the excellent news for the Clarets is that regardless of solely having 4 factors to name their very own, they’re nonetheless on the right track to beat the all-time document low factors haul recorded by Derby of their actually dismal 2007-08 marketing campaign

Winning one sport all season, the Rams claimed 11 factors from 38 video games — a feeble tally that has by no means been “beaten.” Thankfully, Kompany’s facet are set to move Derby’s grim milestone sooner or later in late April/early May.