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Your club’s Christmas omens
- Updated: December 15, 2016
With the final round of fixtures before Boxing Day this weekend, what Christmas omens face your club?
How many teams who top the Premier League on Christmas Day go on to win the title? How many keep their top-four place. How doomed are the bottom three clubs?
We’ve looked at every Premier League table on Christmas Day since the 20-team Premier League was introduced in 1995/96 to find out what the future holds for your club…
CHAMPIONS
It’s good news for current league leaders Chelsea. In each of their four title-winning Premier League seasons, they have topped the table on December 25.
It’s quite a turnaround from this time last year when the Blues were defending champions but found themselves 15th in the league.
In fact, 10 of the 21 clubs that have led on Christmas Day since 1995 went on to win the league – and six of the last seven.
Five Christmas Day runner-ups went on to become Premier League champions, three from third place and one from fourth, fifth and sixth spots.
Arsenal overcame the greatest margin over the last 21 years from that sixth spot in December 1997 to eventually win the title.
The …
