With two months' worth of matches now played, we're starting to get a proper feel for how the Championship season might play out, so here's how AI believes the fans of the 24 teams in the division are feeling with almost a quarter of the season played.

The lot of a football supporter isn't always a happy one. A bad run of form of mismanagement of a club can make turning out on a Saturday afternoon an unhappy experience at the worst of times, and in a division in which there are winners and losers every week, there will always be those who lose more than they win.

The EFL Championship seems set to be a tight division, as the nights start to draw in. There are just four points between fourth and fourteenth places in the division, meaning that more than half of the clubs competing have reasonable grounds for hope that this season could end in promotion to the Premier League, especially with summer rule changes increasing the number of play-off places from four to six.

So with all of this in mind, Football League World have asked AI to rank all 24 fan bases in the Championship by how miserable they are at the moment, and some of its replies might just surprise you.

24 Swansea City

This is a list that you ideally want to be at the bottom of, and it's no surprise that Swansea City occupy 24th place in the table. With one defeat in their opening ten games and having spent the last four consecutive weeks sitting at the top of the pile, Swans fans are delighted by the turnaround their team has made so far in 2026-27, all the more so when we recall that it's been five years since they finished above 10th in the Championship table.

23 Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough may have ended up disappointed as the result of losing last year's Championship play-off final to Hull City, but AI believes that they've bounced from that pretty quickly. Boro have occupied the runners-up space since the last international break, and their new striker Will Lankshear, who heads the divisional top scorer charts with eight in his first ten games. It describes the possibility of a rturn to the Premier League as "a tantalising prospect."

22 Lincoln City

Having not previously played at this level since 1961, Lincoln City supporters were pinching themselves a little over the summer at the prospect of playing Championship football in 2026-27, and expectations for them before the start of the season were not high. Though they've lost three in a row, they did acquit themselves reasonably well, with a run of five games unbeaten which featured four clean sheets. Against West Ham United, however, they ran head-first into a reminder of how difficult this level might be for them.

21 Wrexham

Given that there has been speculation that Phil Parkinson may no longer be the Wrexham manager recently, it may be somewhat surprising to see the club this low on this list, but AI takes a broader perspective, that "the Hollywood story continues." The limitations of AI can be seen in it adding that, "Even a disappointing result can be turned into a documentary subplot", when that would clearly be cold comfort to fans. Wrexham have only won two Championship games out of ten so far in 2026-27, and that should at least act as a partial counterweight to the optimism brought about by the longer-term revival of the club.

20 Birmingham City

Birmingham City are a club with similar ambitions to Wrexham, but their season has been going rather better. AI points to the sky-high expectations around St Andrew's since the sale of the club to Knighthead in 2023, and it's certainly fair to say that there's no cap on the ambition of the owners. Plans to build a new 62,000-capacity stadium as part of a sports quarter are proof of that. But given how Birmingham were run for so many years before Knighthead arrived at the club, it's not a surprise to understand that, with their team in third place in the Championship table and having won three of their last four matches, Blues fans are a pretty happy bunch at the moment.

19 Southampton

It was always going to be impossible to truly gauge the mood of Southampton fans before the FA confirmed their sanction for Tonda Eckert over Spygate, but the punishment was mild and the mood around the club lifted almost immediately. They're in a play-off place, with the four-point deduction already in their rear view mirror, and a recent derby win against Portsmouth won't have done them any harm. It looks like it could be competitive at the top of the Championship and that deduction may well come back to haunt them, but for the time being, Southampton are looking forward rather than back.

18 West Ham United

They had a slightly wobbly start, but West Ham United acclimatised quickly to life back in the Championship. They're unbeaten in the League since the end of August and they've already won 6-0 twice, which sends out a very clear warning indeed to the rest of the division. Add that to the departure of the deeply unpopular David Sullivan and the decision of star player Jarrod Bowen to stay with the club despite their relegation, and they've been pretty happy Hammers so far in 2026-27.

17 West Bromwich Albion

The last couple of seasons have been pretty underwhelming for West Bromwich Albion fans, but this season has started reasonably well. In James Morrison, Albion have found a head coach with a clear and obvious connection with the club, and after finishing 21st last season, Morrison's team have been performing generally pretty well in the League, in sixth place in the table. They'd be higher in this list, had they not lost to Wolves in their big derby match.

16 Stoke City

Stoke City fans will be wary of their team's start to this season. Last time around they had a strong start and were still looking like they had the potential to challenge for automatic promotion as late as the end of November before a huge slump left them down in 17th place and licking their wounds again. The owners of the club kept faith with manager Mark Robins over the summer and they've been rewarded so, with the Potters having made another good start leaving them in the play-off places, but Stoke fans, who've seen almost a decade of stagnation since their 2018 relegation from the Premier League, will be wondering whether this sort of pace is one that they can maintain.

15 Queens Park Rangers

Having finished in the top half of the Championship table twice in the last eleven years, fifth place off the back of a 4-1 beating of Derby County is a pretty good place for Queens Park Rangers to be. Another team with just one defeat to their name in the League all season, the Derby win ended a run of four successive draws of which a couple - in particular getting held at home by bottom of the table Preston - were disappointing results. AI gets itself a little preoccupied by the club's lack of a "long-term plan", but in the short-term, Julien Stephan's team are exceeding many pre-season expectations.