AI predicts the final 2025/26 EFL League One table now the summer transfer window has closed | OneFootball

We asked the software to crunch the numbers now that League One squads are confirmed for the first half of the season

The transfer window has now slammed shut and League One sides have concluded all their primary business for the season ahead.

With a better idea now of how each team is looking, and how they've started the season, the true league predictions can begin.

It's difficult to know how each element of each squad's business will work out, and which teams might spring a surprise on the division.

To help us out, with enlisted AI to crunch the numbers and predict how it sees the League One table finishing. Here's what it came up with...

24 Exeter City

Taking the uneviable position of last place in this prediction is Exeter City, who finished in 16th place last term.

That's exactly where they sat after their first eight games too, but AI sees them taking a slide from this point forward, and ultimately finding themselves relegated to League Two.

23 AFC Wimbledon

Promoted from League Two last season, Wimbledon are not expected to flourish in their new surroundings, being backed here to go straight back down in second-to-last place.

They've landed Danilo Orsi from Burton and goalkeeper Nathan Bishop from Sunderland, among others, but are not predicted to survive in the third tier.

22 Wycombe Wanderers

AI predicts Wycombe Wanderers to be one of the shock packages of the season, for all the wrong reasons.

They made it all the way to the play-offs last season, after looking like potential automatic promotion winners at one stage, but this model predicts them to fall off a cliff this term.

They've won just one of their first eight, so the computer could be onto something if they don't start turning it around soon.

21 Burton Albion

Similarly to Northampton, Burton Albion struggled last season and are expected to suffer a similar campaign this time around, only this time ending in relegation.

Managing just one win in their first six League One outings, there is, as yet, little evidence to counter that prediction.

Five points separated Northampton Town and the relegation zone last season, and this prediction sees them flying extremely close again this season.

The start they've made to the season marries up with the prediction, despite enlisting the help of a host of free transfers from Premier League academies, the Championship, League One and League Two.

19 Port Vale

Port Vale's extreme faith in Darren Moore, handing him an usually long five-and-a-half year contract when he signed in February last year, paid off when he got them back into the third tier.

AI sees a tough season ahead, however, with the Valiants finishing just outside of the relegation zone.

18 Stevenage

Stevenage finished in 14th place last season, and despite making some interesting signings in the likes of Chem Campbell and Filip Marschall from Wolverhampton Wanderers and Aston Villa, this prediction sees them slipping further.

It would be some drop, considering they managed to pick up five wins from their first seven games.

17 Bradford City

After too many years of waiting, Bradford City were finally promoted out of League Two.

They've grabbed the League One opportunity with both hands, too, storming to near the top of the table in their first eight games, with impressive wins over Huddersfield, Stockport and Luton.

It seems unthinkable that the Bantams will slip so far after such an opening, but AI cannot see them maintaining their current form.

Last season proved to be a lot of nothing for Mansfield Town on their promotion to League One, and they're expected to do much the same this time around.

Defensive pair Kyle Knoyle and Luke Bolton, from Stockport and Wrexham respectively, look like shrewd pick-ups, but not enough to move the dial as far as AI is concerned.

15 Doncaster Rovers

Having won League Two last term, Doncaster Rovers have strengthened with a mix of loanees and free transfers.

Their business has not inspired confidence of a promotion push, but a consolidation season may not be the worst outcome.