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Sheffield Wednesday could be set for further heartbreak this season

Sheffield Wednesday could be set to break an unwanted Championship record following their latest points deduction.

The Owls have suffered a nightmare 2025, with now-former owner Dejphon Chansiri’s financial woes condemning supporters to a great deal of torment.

For seven of the last nine months of the Thai businessman’s reign, players weren’t paid on time, which led to a number of Wednesday’s best players leaving for free in the summer, such as Josh Windass and Michael Smith, while Djeidi Gassama also departed for Rangers in a cut-price deal.

Due to Chansiri’s mismanagement, the Steel City side were limited in the transfer business and were only able to make the loan signings of Harry Amass and Ethan Horvath. Former manager Danny Rohl was gone, replaced by Henrik Pedersen, who had no experience of leading a team forward in the English game.

All of these factors have made for a severely uncompetitive Wednesday team, who would be bottom of the Championship regardless of any further penalties. However, after finally being placed into administration by Chansiri at the end of October, the Owls were hit with an automatic 12-point deduction.

This all but confirmed their relegation to League One, but players and supporters remained hopeful that nothing was impossible. If Wednesday managed to start winning games regularly, they could end up pulling off a remarkable survival bid.

Hopes of that may now have been dashed further, after it was revealed that the Hillsborough outfit are to be given an extra six-point deduction.

Sheffield Wednesday may be set to earn unwanted Championship record

Now, instead of trying to stay in the division, Wednesday could be on their way to earning one of the competition’s least desirable statuses.

Currently, the record for the least number of points accumulated in a Championship season is held by Rotherham United, who only managed to rack up a tally of 23 during the 2016/17 campaign.

After the Owls’ latest point deduction, they will sit on a total of minus 10, with 28 matches left to play. It seems almost impossible for Wednesday to survive now, as the gap to 21st is already 27 points, but trying to avoid earning this unwanted record may be equally as hard.

If Pedersen’s side hadn’t been given any penalties, they would have accumulated just eight points after 18 matches, which would have forecast them to finish on a total very similar to Rotherham’s in 2017.

However, after being hit with 18 points' worth of deductions, the Steel City side would have to score another 34 points from this moment forward to avoid breaking the record.

That seems extremely unlikely, as despite signing free agents such as Liam Cooper and Nathan Redmond during the season, Wednesday actually appear to have regressed as the campaign has gone on.

After picking up six points from their first eight matches, the Owls have only managed to score another two in the 10 games that have followed, which shows a clear sign of dropping off.

Therefore, it might be almost impossible for Wednesday to avoid becoming statistically the Championship’s worst ever team this season.

Sheffield Wednesday fans will be counting down the days until the 2026/27 campaign

After what has been a horrific 2025, everyone involved with Sheffield Wednesday will be eagerly anticipating the moment they can turn their backs on the year and look ahead to the future.

With multiple parties interested in taking over the Steel City side, there is hope that better times could soon be on the horizon and it might not be too much longer before the Owls are competing back at the top of the Championship.

Although that will excite the Hillsborough faithful, there unfortunately may be slightly more suffering they have to endure during the remainder of this campaign.

Wednesday look extremely uncompetitive and right now, supporters are turning up in their droves to consistently watch their team come out second-best.