Premier League top five Champions League chances – Bookies react after Thursday night | OneFootball

Some interesting odds on Premier League top five for the 2024/25 season where Newcastle United are concerned.

With bookies taking stock after Forest’s home defeat to Brentford on Thursday night and ahead of a concentrated intense schedule of matches this weekend, regarding those chasing Champions League places.

The title race is done and dusted, as is the case with all three relegation spots. Those contests are already sorted with over three weeks of the season still to go.

They always have a market for finishing Premier League top four but a lot of the major bookies have now also introduced a market on who will finish Premier League top five.

With of course five PL clubs to qualify via their domestic league position for the Champions League.

The bookies and punters reacting to how things now stand in the Premier League table (see below), as well of course, how they are now seeing the underlying strengths of the various teams and squads.

Listed below are the general Premier League odds now (morning of 2 May 2025) available from the various bookies for the 2024/25 season

This is how the Premier League table looks this morning (Friday 2 May 2025):

Bookies odds to finish Premier League top five:

Liverpool – Now guaranteed top five

Arsenal – No offers on the Gunners as seen as sure thing

1/10 Man City

1/4 Newcastle United

1/2 Chelsea

5/4 Forest

7/2 Villa

That defeat against Brentford having a massive impact on Forest. If they had won last night, Nuno and his team would have been strong odds on to finish top five and qualify for Champions League. At this stage of the season and now only four games for each club remaining, every result will have a big impact on how the bookies see their chances of success.

Bookies odds to finish Premier League top four:

Liverpool now guaranteed top four

1/250 Arsenal

1/4 Man City

8/11 Newcastle United

7/4 Chelsea

3/1 Forest

18/1 Villa

A similar story again, with Newcastle United fancied by bookies and punters to end up Premier League top four and rated odds on to do so, whilst Forest damaged by last night’s defeat

The remaining matches for the Champions League chasing clubs:

Newcastle United 62 points GD +21

Brighton (A), Chelsea (H), Arsenal (A), Everton (H)

Man City 61 points GD +23

Wolves (H), Southampton (A), Bournemouth (H), Fulham (A)

Chelsea 60 points GD +19

Liverpool (H), Newcastle (A), Man U (H), Forest (A)

Forest 60 points GD +12

Palace (A), Leicester (H), West Ham (A), Chelsea (H)

Villa 57 points GD +5