AI names the easiest EFL Championship stadium to win at and why | OneFootball

AI has named the Championship stadium which away teams are most likely to win at this season

Home form is so often key to determining whether sides will have a successful or dismal season, and that has always been the case in the Championship.

Whether it is crucial to clubs achieving immediate promotions back to the Premier League, mounting unexpected promotion bids, reaching the end of season play-offs or merely surviving in the second-tier, all 24 clubs aim to make their home stadiums a 'fortress'.

There are several factors which can often swing narrow contests in favour of the home side, whether that be a difference in tactics on home turf compared to away from home, as well as the atmosphere which can be generated from the masses.

With that being said, Football League World has enlisted the help of AI-based chatbot, ChatGPT, to see if it can determine which ground across the 2025/26 Championship campaign will be the easiest for away teams to pick up three points.

AI predicts which 2025/26 EFL Championship stadium is the easiest for away sides to win at this season and why

Throughout the Championship, there is a nice blend of historic stadiums and those newly-built in comparison, as well as a major difference when it comes to the capacity.

Some are also notorious for the design and atmosphere which can be generated from home supporters, with grounds such as Fratton Park known for having stands where Portsmouth supporters effectively feel 'on top' of the opposition players due to a close proximity to the pitch.

When putting the aforementioned question to ChatGPT, there was a number of stadiums which could have potentially been a given for the so-called 'honour'. However, AI sprung a slight surprise when naming The Den - home of Millwall - as the stadium which opposition teams are likely to win at this season.

The South London-based stadium was officially opened in September 1993, and in it's 32 years of existence, has notoriously been one of the hardest stadiums to gain three points at in the Championship and during the Lions' stints in League One, largely down to the hostile atmosphere served up by the locals.

This is often evident when Millwall are featuring in must-win encounters towards the end of the season, local derbies against West Ham United, Charlton Athletic and Crystal Palace, as well as when facing off against the likes of Leeds United and Birmingham City due to the reputation of the fanbases in West Yorkshire and the Second City.

However, AI believes that away teams will enjoy their trips to SE16 throughout this season due to Millwall's 'underwhelming' home form in recent times, although that doesn't necessarily match up with statistics from last term, where the club finished 10th based on results at The Den, which included five successive home wins at the end of the campaign.

Results at the beginning of this season are likely to have swayed AI's thought process though, with Alex Neil's side losing their opening two encounters against Middlesbrough and Wrexham, with the Teesside and North Wales outfits scoring five goals without reply over the course of 180 combined minutes.

AI's runners-up and third-place selections were far more realistic than The Den amid mixed Millwall home form

Unsurprisingly, many Millwall fans and general Championship observers will be perplexed by AI's decision to select The Den as the 'easiest place to go' for second-tier rivals this season.

However, it must be said that it regained some form of credibility and logic with its second and third-place selections, which came in the form of Hillsborough and the MKM Stadium - the homes of Sheffield Wednesday and Hull City.

In comparison to the Lions' 10th-place ranking, the two Yorkshire sides finished 23rd and 24th respectively on home form last term, with the Tigers only accruing 23 of their 49 points in HU3 under Tim Walter and Ruben Selles.

Sergej Jakirovic will hope to turn such fortunes around despite enduring a maiden transfer window in which a transfer fee restriction was imposed on the Tigers, winning one and losing one of his two home matches thus far against Oxford United and Blackburn Rovers.