The Championship relegation battle has taken a surreal turn. Two of the division’s biggest names, West Brom and Leicester City, are currently staring into the abyss of League One football.
While Leicester’s six-point deduction is the only thing currently keeping Albion outside of the bottom three, a side-by-side comparison of the remaining fixtures suggests the Baggies are facing a significantly steeper climb to safety.
For interim boss James Morrison, the challenge isn’t just dragging this West Brom side off the floor, it’s mathematical, and quite frankly, the fixture list makes for grim reading.
West Brom’s disastrous form
West Brom have now gone two months without winning a Championship league game. That’s 11 games since last tasting victory against QPR on 29th December 2025. A run that has consisted of seven defeats and four draws.
So far this in 2026, West Brom have lost to Swansea, Leicester, Norwich, Portsmouth and Oxford United, all teams who are currently sitting in the bottom half of the table. This run of fixtures was supposed to pull West Brom away from trouble. What it’s actually done is make relegation, which seemed an impossibility six months ago, almost certain.
West Brom went to Oxford United knowing it was another six-pointer in an intense week. Eric Ramsay was sacked and the players fell well short of West Brom’s six-point target. Now, the club are teetering on the edge of relegation, the failure of others around them their only safety net with a team of players who look like they don’t have a clue how to win a football match.
| West Brom | Leicester City | |
| Average opponent rank | 8th | 14th |
| Home games remaining | 6 | 6 |
| Key “six-pointers” | 1 (Blackburn) | 2 (Portsmouth, Blackburn) |
| Top 6 opponents | Hull City, Wrexham Millwall, Ipswich | Ipswich, Hull City, Millwall |
Falling into the bottom three feels more like an inevitability at this moment in time and looking at the remaining fixtures doesn’t inspire any feeling of optimism.
Five of West Brom’s remaining six home fixtures are against sides currently sitting in the top six, the other game being against Watford, who sit ninth.
West Brom’s remaining fixtures
Sheffield United (a), Southampton (h), Hull City (h), Bristol City (a), Wrexham (h), Blackburn (a), Millwall (h), Preston (a), Watford (h), Ipswich (h), Sheffield Wednesday (a).
Leicester City’s remaining fixtures
Ipswich (a), Bristol City (h), QPR (h), Waford (a), Preston (h), Sheffield Wednesday (a), Swansea (h), Portsmouth (a), Hull City (h), Millwall (h), Blackburn (a).
The one positive of course is that it doesn’t really matter who West Brom play, the run-in is in no way favourable, but West Brom can’t beat teams around them, so what difference does it make?
No more room for error for West Brom
If West Brom are to remain outside of the bottom three, they have scuppered the opportunity to rely on “favourable” fixtures to bail them out. Ultimately, they have none. The solution is simple: Albion will somehow need to take points off of at least two of the current top six to survive.
The club cannot continue to rely on the failure of others, fans cannot take comfort from the fact other club’s around them are losing, it just makes the situation even more infuriating.
Morrison has a monumental task ahead. If he can improve West Brom’s fortunes and keep this squad in the Championship, it will be a miracle of Great Escape proportions.