2024/25 Championship Top Scorer Odds & Betting Markets

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Championship Top Scorer 2024/25

Championship Winner 2025/26

23 May at 13:00

Championship Winner 2025/26

If a Championship team has promotion aspirations at the end of the campaign, they need a top striker in their ranks.

Joël Piroe, the 2024/25 Championship top scorer, was the first player to win the golden boot with under 20 goals, highlighting that the goals were spread throughout each Championship team last season.

Usually, players who bag 20+ or 30+ goals will likely fire their team to the playoffs or automatic promotion, so this is a great market to get involved with.

Learn how to bet on the 2025/26 Championship top scorer at Parimatch Sportsbook and consider the leading candidates to end the campaign with the most goals for their respective teams.

Leeds United’s Joël Piroe ended the 2024/25 season as the EFL Championship’s top scorer, with 19 goals. Here’s a run-through of the previous ten EFL Championship top scorers, with details of who they played for and how many goals they scored:

Season	Player	Team	Goals scored
2024/25	Joël Piroe	Leeds United	19
2023/24	Sammie Szmodics	Blackburn Rovers	27
2022/23	Chuba Akpom	Middlesbrough	28
2021/22	Aleksandar Mitrović	Fulham	43
2020/21	Ivan Toney	Brentford	31
2019/20	Aleksandar Mitrović Ollie Watkins	Fulham Brentford	26 26
2018/19	Teemu Pukki	Norwich City	29
2017/18	Matej Vydra	Derby County	21
2016/17	Chris Wood	Leeds United	27
2015/16	Andre Gray	Burnley	25

Billy Sharp is the all-time EFL Championship top scorer, bagging 130 goals in the English second tier. Jordan Rhodes is second in the list, with 123 goals, while David Nugent scored 121 in his Championship career. Here’s a list of the top five all-time EFL Championship top scorers:

Name	Total Goals Scored
Billy Sharp	130
Jordan Rhodes	123
David Nugent	121
Ross McCormack	120
Chris Martin	114

With many big clubs and top forwards competing in the 2025/26 EFL Championship, the top scorer market will be as exciting as ever.

But who will likely top the charts and end the season as the top scorer? Here are just a few of the big names you can bet on in this outright market at Parimatch this season:

Jay Stansfield (Birmingham City)

Birmingham spent over £15 million to bring Jay Stansfield to the club last season, a League One record. The England under-21 international repaid the faith shown by Chris Davies, scoring 19 league goals as the Blues gained promotion.

Stansfield will be keen to prove his worth in the EFL Championship this season and will likely be one of the top scorers by the end of the campaign.

Sammie Szmodics (Ipswich Town)

Szmodics didn’t have a particularly productive campaign with Ipswich Town in the Premier League last season, but the Ireland international is back in the Championship this campaign.

He finished the 2023/24 season as the league’s top scorer, and Ipswich will hope that he bags 20+ goals again this season to fire the Tractor Boys back to the EPL at the first time of asking.

Adam Armstrong (Southampton)

Like Szmodics, Armstrong wasn’t great in the Premier League last season, and even spent half the season out on loan at West Bromwich Albion.

But the Englishman has scored eighty Championship goals in his career, and knows how to find the back of the net at this level. He could be the leading man up top for Southampton again this season.

Borja Sainz (Norwich City)

Despite enduring an extremely disappointing campaign in 2024/25, Norwich City fans were impressed by Borja Sainz's goals and performances. The forward found the net 18 times in his 41 appearances.

The left winger will be integral to Liam Manning’s new-look Norwich City throughout the 2025/26 season, and he could be a good shout for a top scorer wager, given how good he was last year.

Haji Wright (Coventry City)

Coventry City’s Haji Wright has a big season ahead of him, with one eye on the 2026 World Cup. The American will hope to fire in the goals to be assured of a place in Mauricio Pochettino’s squad.

Wright was excellent for Coventry in the 2024/25 season, scoring 12 league goals in 29 appearances as the Sky Blues narrowly missed out on promotion. With much to prove, Wright will likely be among the goals again in the 2025/26 campaign.

You can bet on Stansfield, Szmodics, Armstrong, and others to end the 2025/26 EFL Championship season as the top scorer at Parimatch.

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Then, decide which player to bet on and place an outright wager on the player you think will end the campaign with the most goals.

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Our EFL Championship outright markets extend beyond the league’s top scorer. You can also place the following outright bets at Parimatch:

Outright winner: Back the team you think will win the title.
Automatic promotion: Bet on the two teams you think will gain automatic promotion to the Premier League.
To make the playoffs: Back the four teams you think will make the postseason playoffs.
Relegation: Bet on the three teams you think will be relegated to League One at the end of the EFL Championship season.

You can also place outright bets on League One and League Two, including the players you think will end this season as the top scorer in each league.