Annus mirabilis or year to forget? How the current 92 league clubs fared in 2023

Treble-winners Manchester City and Hollywood success story Wrexham were the English league’s top-performing teams of 2023, with a less heralded name joining them in the mix.

Here, the PA news agency looks at the calendar-year league table for the 92 current Premier League and EFL clubs.

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The table ranks teams by average points per league game in 2023, with ties broken by per-game goal difference.

Pep Guardiola’s City led the way with 2.27 points per game as they went unbeaten at home in all competitions. They won 29 of their 41 Premier League games, drawing six and losing six.

Wrexham, promoted from the National League and thriving in League Two to kick-start high-profile owners Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds’ grand plans for the north Wales club, won 31 of their 47 league games for an average of 2.21ppg.

League One runners-up Ipswich, who finished 2023 in the same spot in the Championship, rank third in the calendar year table at 2.19ppg even after taking just three points from their last four games.

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Kieran McKenna’s side join only City with a goal difference better than plus-one per game, scoring 103 and conceding 44 to average +1.26 (+59 in 47 games), while their four defeats are the fewest of any team.

Aston Villa were the only other side to average over two points per game, 2.02, with 26 wins from 42 including a club-record 15 consecutively at home.

Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester United, Brighton, Newcastle and Tottenham make it eight Premier League teams among the top 20 in the combined table, joined by Championship pair Ipswich and Leicester, six League One clubs and four from League Two.

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