How many goals Coventry City are projecting to score in 2025/26 - it dwarfs what Leeds United did | OneFootball

The Sky Blues are on course for a mind-blowing season in front of goal thanks to the likes of Haji Wright and Brandon Thomas-Asante

Coventry City are currently wreaking havoc in the Championship and look like one of the division’s strongest sides at present.

They entered the October international break top of the table, by just one point, which is a narrow advantage to hold over the likes of Middlesbrough, who’ve also started well.

But what sets them apart from the rest of their opponents in this first part of the season is their devastating form in front of goal.

Based on their current goals-per-game ratio, they’re set to smash the tally reached by Leeds United last season.

Coventry City’s predicted goal tally based on current output

Frank Lampard’s side have been devastating in front of goal so far this season, with the likes of Haji Wright already on eight goals in just nine games – a number many strikers would call a decent tally over the course of an entire season.

He has contributed massively to his side’s early form, with the Sky Blues so far having netted 27 goals, more than the two teams below them, Boro and Leicester City, have managed combined.

It has left them with a 20-goal difference, as they’ve been pretty solid at the other end too, conceding just seven.

They’re currently operating at an average of three goals per game, which, if extended over the whole season, in 46 games, would see them net an incredible 138 times.

It will be some going to keep that up, but it shows just how lethal the Midlands side have been so far.

That dwarfs what Leeds United managed last season

Daniel Farke’s Leeds received plaudits for their goal-scoring abilities last season, as they battled it out with Burnley for the league title and clinched it on goal difference, with both sides remarkably achieving 100 points.

Naturally, they needed to be efficient attackers to manage such a feat; they were that and then some, notching 95 goals in the end, a full 26 more than the Clarets, who were more renowned for their defence in that campaign.

That put them fourth in the list of most goals scored by a side over the course of a Championship season.

It was an incredible feat, but puts into context just how ridiculous Coventry’s early numbers are.

Coventry City will smash all records if they keep it up

Leeds banked a fourth-place position in the record charts for that stat; Coventry would smash the table to pieces if they kept up their current pace.

The most goals ever scored by a Championship side is Fulham in 2021/22, with Aleksandar Mitrovic somehow managing to register 43 goals in a single season, also a record on an individual basis.

Reading in 2005/06, with 99, and Bournemouth in 2014/15, with 98, round off the top four.

If Coventry managed to keep up their three-goal-a-game rate, they’d end up 32 ahead of Fulham’s current record, which shows that even if they slow a little bit, they’re well on course for a season like no other.

Just how much staying power Lampard’s charges have will be an interesting watch, but if they can maintain anything like their current form, they’re going to be difficult to beat.

Should they continue scoring and keep the bulk of their most productive players fit and, most importantly, at the club, they could be looking at a long-awaited promotion.