{"id":334987,"date":"2025-08-11T05:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T05:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334987\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T05:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T05:59:10","slug":"premier-league-relegation-the-stats-behind-leeds-burnley-and-sunderlands-chances-in-the-top-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334987\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League relegation: The stats behind Leeds, Burnley and Sunderland&#8217;s chances in the top flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For as long as there&#8217;s been relegation, supporters have been trying to predict the minimum number of points needed to avoid it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So what should Burnley, Leeds, Sunderland and others be aiming for? <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Traditionally, 40 points are said to be enough for Premier League survival. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That&#8217;s because only three teams have ever reached the 40-point mark in a 38-game season and gone down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are: West Ham with 42 in 2002-03, Sunderland with 40 points in 1996-97 and Bolton with 40 points the following year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But, given all three of those seasons were well over 20 years ago, is it time to set a lower benchmark?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over the past 10 seasons, the average points collected by the team in 18th &#8211; a total you&#8217;d need to better in order to stay up &#8211; has been exactly 32.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tottenham finished 17th last term with 38 points but, because of the weaknesses of the promoted trio, they would still have beaten the drop with just 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The season before, 17th-placed Nottingham Forest managed 32 points &#8211; a tally which included a four points deduction &#8211; but actually only needed 27 to stay up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For as long as there&#8217;s been relegation, supporters have been trying to predict the minimum number of points&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-334987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115008606728528099","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}