Opta predicted final 2024/25 Premier League table – Reassessed with 3 games each to play | OneFootball

What do you predict with the final 2024/25 Premier League table?

Less than three weeks of the season still left to go.

In 19 days time Newcastle United will conclude their season with a home game against Everton on Sunday 25 May with a 4pm kick-off.

An intense period of games kicking off May for the five teams competing to get those final three Champions League spots.

Games every day/night for these first five days of the month, culminating in Forest fortunate to escape from Selhurst Park with a 1-1 draw on Monday night.

Now that match has been played, all five Champions League contenders for places third to fifth in the Premier League, having just three games each to play.

So this is how the Premier League table now currently looks on Tuesday 6 May 2025 after Monday night’s Forest result:

As you can see, it is only four points separating Man City in third down to Aston Villa in seventh.

When it comes to predicting what that final Premier League table will look like after the 38th round of fixtures in May 2025, Opta have done some updated analysis after these first five days of May.

Using their latest data simulations, Opta analysis has shown this as the most likely 2024/25 Premier League table come the end of the season – Predicted final table as of Tuesday 6 May 2025:

As you can see, Man City now forecast to end up third on 70 points.

Newcastle United predicted to finish fourth on 67 points.

Chelsea then fifth with the same points total but by very finest of margins behind NUFC.

Then Forest to miss out on the Champions League places by two points, sixth on 65 points.

Then Villa forecast to be seventh on 64 points, three points behind Newcastle.

Newcastle United now with seven wins and a draw in their last nine matches, including six wins and a draw from eight in the Premier League.

The remaining matches for the Champions League chasing clubs:

Man City 64 points GD +24

Southampton (A), Bournemouth (H), Fulham (A)

Newcastle United 63 points GD +21

Chelsea (H), Arsenal (A), Everton (H)

Chelsea 63 points GD +21

Newcastle (A), Man U (H), Forest (A)

Forest 61 points GD +12

Leicester (H), West Ham (A), Chelsea (H)

Villa 60 points GD +6