Supercomputer predicts where all 24 EFL League Two teams will finish in the 2025/26 league table | OneFootball

With just five points separating top from 10th, League Two has been tight so far, and a supercomputer has predicted where they'll all end up.

With a third of the League Two season now played, things are looking as though they could be tight at both the top and the bottom of the table by next May, but this hasn't prevented a supercomputer from predicting the final standings. Here's how they line up.

The 2025-26 League Two season seems set to go to the wire. With almost a third of the season played, there are just five points between Walsall and Swindon Town at the top of the table and Chesterfield, down in tenth place. Everybody down to 15th place is within six points of a play-off spot. With nobody running away with it at the top of the table and no-one falling off the bottom of it either, there's still all to play for.

But for all this, predictions are still being made about how the League Two season will end up, and one of those is the supercomputer owned by Opta, which gives extremely precise numbers on where it expects teams to end up by the end of the season. So let's take a look at what it expects for League Two, and how this might measure up against the realities of a gruelling 46-game season.

Current position: 24th

Current points: 11

Predicted final position: 24th

Predicted final points: 42.16

Having finished last season in 22nd place in the table and seven points above the relegation places, it's perhaps no surprise that Newport County are struggling again this time around. Except there's a couple of huge asterisks to be added to this. Newport started their season reasonably well, with a home draw against Notts County and an away win at Crawley.

They then went on the run that dropped them to the foot of the table, with just one point collected from their next nine matches. But they have started to show signs of life again, with two wins - both away from home - from their last four games, and with two of their three defeats in October coming against the division's top two, it might just be that they're capable of pulling themselves clear of danger. They're currently only three points from safety.

Current position: 21st

Current points: 14

Predicted final position: 23rd

Predicted final points: 48.35

Promoted via the National League play-offs in 2019-20, Harrogate haven't finished above 13th place in League Two since, so it's not a huge surprise to see them predicted to finish near the bottom of League Two this time around. Like Newport County, though, they also had a decent start to the season, with two wins and two draws from their first four games leaving them in 8th place in the table.

Things haven't gone as well since, with two wins and nine defeats from the eleven games that they've played since then dropping them to just above the relegation places. At the time of writing, they're on a run of five successive defeats as a result of their 1-0 home defeat to Oldham Athletic.

But if there is a glimmer of light for Harrogate fans, it's that predicted final points total. No team has been relegated from the EFL with as many points as 48 since Bristol Rovers went down with 50 points at the end of 2013-14. If they can get to 48 points, the odds are in favour of them staying up.

Current position: 23rd

Current points: 13

Predicted final position: 22nd

Predicted final points: 50.59

Shrewsbury Town have been in a serious decline over the last couple of years. They finished 12th in League One at the end of the 2022-23 season, but they were relegated at the end of 2024-25 and have continued that bad run into this season. After losing seven of their first ten League games of this season, they had a better October, with two wins and two draws lifting them up to 21st in the table. The supercomputer predicts that things will improve for them, but not by much.

Current position: 20th

Current points: 14

Predicted final position: 21st

Predicted final points: 51.06

There was always a degree of gravity suspension about Accrington Stanley's five seasons in League One after winning the League One title in 2018, and their relegation back to League Two in 2023 wasn't a huge surprise. The two seasons since then have seen them finish 17th and 21st, and they're struggling again this season. With the lowest average crowds in the entire EFL - being sandwiched almost exactly halfway between Burnley and Blackburn doesn't help, this respect - money is always tight, but the supercomputer predicts them to finish just above the relegation places, this time around.

Current position: 22nd

Current points: 14

Predicted final position: 20th

Predicted final points: 53.15

Cheltenham Town are the first club listed here to have replaced their manager already this season, when Michael Flynn was sacked after a 3-0 home defeat to Oldham Athletic left them bottom of the table. It looked as though they might have miscalculated when a managerless team was beaten 7-1 at Grimsby a week later, but the appointment of returning manager Steve Cotterill has turned their fortunes around.

Cotterill is a Cheltenham legend, having taken them from the Southern League to the EFL between 1998 and 2002, and his return was marked with a run of three wins and a draw to lift them out of the relegation places. The ten points that he managed in his first four games is two and half times as many as they'd managed in their first ten.

Current position: 19th

Current points: 15

Predicted final position: 19th

Predicted final points: 54.72

Crawley are the second of the teams relegated from League One at the end of last season to be placed this list. They have also had a small revival in the League of late, with consecutive wins against Bristol Rovers and Fleetwood Town, though between these two matches they were dumped out of the FA Cup by National League side Boreham Wood. The Opta supercomputer predicts their survival this season, but not by very much.

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Current position: 17th

Current points: 17

Predicted final position: 18th

Predicted final points: 56.22

It's fair to say that this hasn't been the best of starts to the season for the clubs relegated from League One last season. Bristol Rovers are the third of them to feature in this list, and we're still in the bottom half of it. They were relegated after a dreadful run at the end of last season, from which they took just one point from their last ten games, sent them down. They have had a rollercoaster of a season, so far. After losing their first three matches, they won five and drew two of their next seven, but have slumped again with five straight defeats including three consecutive games in which they conceded four goals each time. They're expected to be just too strong to go down, but they need to arrest this current bad run.

Current position: 18th

Current points: 16

Predicted final position: 17th

Predicted final points: 57.18

Upon winning promotion back to the EFL in 2018 after three years away, Tranmere were promoted to League One at the first attempt, but each season since then has seen them finish in a lower and lower league position ever since. Last season saw them finish 20th, so there isn't much lower that they can go without losing their EFL place again. Thankfully for their fans, this season has seen a bit of an improvement. With seven draws from their first 15 games, there could even be room for improvement on their current position, but the supercomputer doesn't see this as likely to happen. Arresting that six-year-long downward slide would be a start, though.

Current position: 14th

Current points: 19

Predicted final position: 16th

Predicted final points: 59.82

Promoted from the National League via the play-offs at the end of last season, Oldham share the record of the most draws so far this season in League Two with Tranmere, with seven. Oldham became the first club to have played Premier League football to be relegated into the non-league game when they went down in 2022, and this season has so far been about consolidation for them. Oldham's biggest problem so far this season has come in front of goal. The 13 they've scored in 15 games is the joint-second-lowest in the division. Lower mid-table is the supercomputer's assessment of where they'll finish the 2025-26 season.

Current position: 15th

Current points: 19

Predicted final position: 15th

Predicted final points: 59.87

Since their return to the EFL following an absence of 48 years in 2020, Barrow have been a mixed bag, struggling in their first two seasons back, but then pushing towards the play-offs for two seasons before ending last season in 16th place in League Two. This season felt like a microcosm of that return, so far. They started badly, with two wins and six defeats from their opening eight matches, but have improved considerably since then, with three wins and four draws from their last seven matches. Opta's supercomputer predicts more of the same, with the team finishing comfortably clear of the relegation places.