Premier League 2026-27 relegation race: Coventry, Fulham in danger as Hull, Ipswich impress

The 2026-27 Premier League play whitethorn inactive beryllium successful its infancy, but the opening weeks person already provided immoderate aboriginal indications of which clubs could look battles to sphere their top-flight status. 

Several teams person endured challenging starts, with Fulham, Coventry City, Tottenham Hotspur, Bournemouth and Crystal Palace each struggling for results successful the archetypal six matchdays.

Sunderland, Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest person each besides encountered difficulties, but they person shown encouraging signs that results could commencement to crook successful their favour. 

Meanwhile, expected relegation candidates Ipswich Town and Hull City, some promoted from the Championship past season, person enjoyed superb starts and look good susceptible of avoiding the driblet if they tin support their momentum implicit the people of the campaign.

Although the relegation representation could good alteration importantly implicit the coming months, Sports Mole takes a look astatine which clubs are successful aboriginal information of the drop.

Coventry City

Coventry City booked their long-awaited instrumentality to the Premier League arsenic the champions of the Championship successful 2025-26, but Frank Lampard's broadside person failed to amusement immoderate of their prime successful the top-flight frankincense far. 

The Sky Blues not lone mislaid each of their archetypal 4 matches, but they conceded 10 and failed to people successful that time, highlighting their vulnerabilities astatine some ends of the pitch. 

Although a 1-0 triumph connected matchday 5 against Nottingham Forest volition supply encouragement, Coventry were fortunate to flight unscathed aft the Tricky Trees took 24 shots connected goal. 

If the Sky Blues are to debar suffering an contiguous driblet backmost to the 2nd division, Lampard's broadside indispensable find a mode to go much hard to interruption down and find greater consistency successful beforehand of goal. 

Fulham

Fulham had to accidental goodbye to manager Marco Silva successful the summer, aft his departure to Benfica, with Alvaro Arbeloa appointed to instrumentality complaint astatine Craven Cottage. 

The Spaniard has failed to prime up wherever Silva near off, with Fulham astatine the bottommost of the standings aft six matchdays. 

The Cottagers are yet to triumph a Premier League fixture, picking up conscionable 2 points from 2 draws and 3 defeats, and portion determination person been encouraging signs going forward, determination person besides been plentifulness of antiaircraft issues. 

Fulham person conceded 10 goals successful their archetypal six matches, including conceding 2 precocious goals successful a peculiarly disappointing 2-1 decision to Ipswich Town past clip out. 

As the unit starts to emergence connected Arbeloa's position, the Cottagers indispensable rapidly improve, particularly defensively, if the manager is to support his occupation and usher Fulham distant from the relegation zone. 

Tottenham Hotspur

Tottenham Hotspur, by each means, person a squad acold excessively talented to endure relegation, yet that has been the lawsuit successful each of the past 2 seasons, successful which they person hardly survived with back-to-back 17th-placed finishes.

Roberto De Zerbi's broadside failed to triumph immoderate of their archetypal 5 Premier League fixtures, losing 3 and drafting two, and lone managed to find the backmost of the nett for the archetypal clip against Aston Villa successful a 3-2 decision connected matchday five. 

However, Spurs person produced periods of dominance successful respective of those fixtures, and with the endowment and level of coaching astatine the club, Tottenham are highly improbable to beryllium adjacent the bottommost of the array for excessively overmuch longer. 

Bournemouth

Bournemouth are different broadside that person struggled to accommodate nether a caller manager, with Marco Rose yet to steer the Cherries to a triumph successful his archetypal six league fixtures. 

Bournemouth person been peculiarly susceptible defensively, conceding a sizeable 13 goals successful that time, including allowing 5 successful the desperately disappointing 5-1 nonaccomplishment to Chelsea. 

The added accent of playing successful European contention for the archetypal clip this play volition lone adhd to their struggles arsenic the play progresses, meaning improvements indispensable beryllium swiftly made if they are to debar being dragged into the relegation battle. 

Crystal Palace

Finally, Crystal Palace, likewise to Fulham and Bournemouth, are enduring a hard archetypal play nether caller brag Pierre Sage. 

The Eagles person picked up 4 points aft 5 matches, from 1 win, 1 gully and 3 defeats, and their antiaircraft issues volition permission immoderate acrophobic arsenic the weeks walk by.

Crystal Palace person already conceded 11 goals successful 5 matches, and Sage's broadside indispensable commencement to stem the travel of goals against them if they are to commencement picking up results. 

Hull City and Ipswich Town

In stark opposition to those listed above, Hull City and Ipswich Town were beardown candidates for the driblet earlier the season, but the newly-promoted duo person enjoyed superb starts. 

Hull are 10th successful the standings with 8 points aft 5 matches, portion Ipswich are ninth with 9 points from their opening six fixtures. 

The Tigers person shown they are susceptible of defending heavy and causing plentifulness of problems for absorption sides, including beating Manchester United and drafting with Chelsea. 

Meanwhile, Ipswich's spot has travel successful the last third, wherever the Tractor Boys person scored 9 goals, including precocious winners against some Crystal Palace and Fulham. 

Although Hull's attacking troubles, with conscionable six goals scored, and Ipswich's antiaircraft issues, with 12 goals conceded, volition beryllium concerns, their awesome starts to the play person fixed them each almighty platforms to physique from arsenic the run progresses.