Premier League Preview: Title Odds & Top 4 Predictions For 2025/26 Season

Premier League Predictions and Picks for the 2025/26 Season!

As the 2025/26 Premier League season approaches, fans and bettors alike are gearing up for another action-packed campaign featuring top-tier clubs, high-stakes rivalries, and emerging talent across the pitch.

With a fresh set of title contenders, transfer shake-ups, and updated futures odds, the new season promises plenty of intrigue from Matchweek 1 through the final whistle in May.

In this Premier League season preview, WagerTalk Premier League betting expert Kevin Dolan breaks down key storylines, betting markets, and statistical trends to watch—all leading up to expert picks and predictions for the Premier League title, top four race and relegation battle.

Premier League Title Winner Prediction: Chelsea (+1000)

Understandably, Liverpool go in as the betting favorites for this season after both winning the title with a double-digit lead last year, as well as bringing in some extra firepower for this season also, spending 220 million euros on bringing over young Florian Wirtz and Hugo Ekitike from Germany.

Their main challengers for the 2025/26 campaign in terms of the bookmakers’ odds come from the runners-up in each of the last three seasons, namely Arsenal, who will finally look to snap their 20+ year title drought with a victory in 2025/26.

Mikel Arteta has left no stone unturned in that pursuit either, bringing in two of Arsenal’s most expensive five transfers ever this summer in Viktor Gyokeres and Martin Zubimendi.

Champions in six of the last eight years, Manchester City, make up this season’s third-betting favorites, but many people see this City dynasty in decline, with high-profile players such as Kevin de Bruyne and Kyle Walker leaving the club over the summer.

Fourth favorites for the title are Chelsea, and at odds of upwards of 10/1 at the time of writing, which has been bet down from 16/1 earlier in the summer, the Blues might offer the best value for those looking to bet the outright winner market.

Chelsea have continued to spend heavily across the summer, and in Enzo Maresca, have a coach in his second season at the club that can finally implement his own style from the transitional one he inherited last season.

Chelsea finished the season strong last year, banking 23 points across their final eleven games, and ranked 2nd in both goals allowed and defensive xGA from March 1st on.

If Maresca can start this season like he finished off the last one, then Chelsea look like good value at the current odds to potentially win it all.

Premier League Top Four Prediction: Chelsea (-175) and Brighton (+2000)

Again, this is a market that correlates strongly to the above outright winner market, and because we are so high on Chelsea to outperform expectations and potentially win it all this season, getting them at a current price of -175 to finish inside the top four presents compelling value also.

Outside of the Blues, we believe Brighton might be worth a shot also at a best price of +2000 right now.

The Seagulls have strengthened down their left-hand side, bringing in Maxim De Cuyper and the young Tom Watson from Sunderland, along with adding the highly-talented 18-year-old forward Charalampos Kostoulas from Greece also.

With no team in the Premier League averaging more goals per game than Brighton managed from February 1st on last season, the Seagulls could well be an outside dark horse to claim one of those top four spots this season.

Premier League Relegation Prediction: Burnley (-300) and Wolves (+300)

The three newly promoted teams of Burnley, Sunderland, and Leeds unsurprisingly make up the three favorites to go immediately back down this season at the betting window, but where does the value lie?

In our opinion, Burnley are rightly installed as outright favorites to go down this season, as their defense was so instrumental to their success last year, allowing them to concede an almost unbelievable 16 goals all season.

However, with goalkeeper James Trafford now at Manchester City, that defense is about to be tested at a whole other grade, and with Burnley ranking all the way down in 6th in terms of goals scored at home last season, that coming against Championship-level defenses.

Also, we’re not sure Burnley will be able to make up enough of a difference at the other end in order to stay up.

The other team that looks like value to go down this season are Wolves at a current price of +300. Opta’s supercomputer has Wolves finishing in 17th spot this season.

This is just one place above the drop zone, and with the amount of departures Wolves have continually had to endure, bringing in very little on the other side, the loss of players such as Matheus Cunha to Manchester United might be the final straw in Wolves’ survival hopes this season.

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