5 Popular Cross-Competition RequestABets to Look Out For

Ahead of the start of the 2024/25 season, we’ve taken a look at five popular Cross-Competition RequestABets featuring the Premier League, Championship, League One and League Two.

Manchester United will be keen to get back into the top four having finished third in the Premier League back in 2022/23 - Erik ten Hag’s side will be looking to take momentum from their recent FA Cup final win over Manchester City.

Ipswich Town will know that the 2024/25 Premier League season will be a challenging one following back-to-back promotions from League One to the top-flight under the management of Kieran McKenna. Last season, all three promoted sides were relegated back to the Championship.

Luton Town will be keen to finish in the top-six having experienced Premier League football for the first time in their history under Rob Edwards. The Hatters have managed to retain the majority of their squad from last campaign.

Birmingham City are firm favourites to win League One according to the bookmakers and have gone on a spending spree amassing over £10m.

Manchester City have managed to earn 90 points in two of their last three Premier League seasons.

Leeds United managed to finish on 90 points last campaign.

As previously mentioned, Birmingham City are favourites to be promoted and have signed a plethora of high quality individuals to play for them in the 2024/25 season such as Christoph Klarer, Willum Thor Willumsson, Emil Hansson, Alex Cochrane, Alfie May, Marc Leonard, Bailey Peacock-Farrell and Luke Harris.

Arsenal will be expected to be challenging Manchester City for the Premier League crown having finished as runners-up in back-to-back league campaigns.

Chelsea managed to vastly improve over the second half of last season’s Premier League campaign which resulted in them earning a sixth-place finish.

Burnley and Luton will be keen to make amends for their Premier League relegations last season. The Clarets have a manager in Scott Parker that has earned two promotions from the Championship with Fulham in 2019/20 and while managing Bournemouth in 2021/22. Meanwhile, Rob Edwards earned promotion with Luton in 2023 after winning League Two with Forest Green during the 2021/22 campaign.

Bolton have finished in the play-off places in each of the last two seasons, while both of Rotherham’s last two League One campaigns have resulted in promotion (2019/20 and 2021/22).

Doncaster Rovers will be aiming to take last season’s momentum into this campaign, as Grant McCann’s men sneaked into the play-off places in 2023/24 after going on a 10-game winning run. MK Dons were beaten play-off semi-finalists in League Two last season and will be aiming to fight for the automatic promotion places this time out.

Leicester City are expected to struggle in the Premier League this season having seen the departures of key players such as Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Kelechi Iheanacho, Harry Souttar, Dennis Praet and Mark Albrighton. The Foxes also have an impeding points deduction looming over them.

Plymouth Argyle avoided relegation by just one point in the 2023/24 season and will need Wayne Rooney to improve his managerial win percentage as the 38-year-old won just two of 15 matches in charge of Birmingham City last season.

Daniel Farke will be keen to maintain his excellent record as a manager in the Championship, as the German managed to win the league with Norwich City in 2018/19 and 2020/21.

Middlesbrough finished fourth in their first season under current manager Michael Carrick and even reached the League Cup semi-finals in 2023/24. The Boro missed out on the play-offs by just four points having found form towards the end of the season.

As mentioned above, Rotherham have a good record in League One as they have been promoted in each of their last two seasons in the division. On top of this, Steve Evans has earned eight promotions during his managerial career.

Leeds are expected to be in contention to win the league as they have a more settled squad at the start of the upcoming season than they did in 2023/24. As mentioned above, they also have a a manager with a proven track record of winning the Championship in Daniel Farke.

Luton and Bolton will be keen to finish in at least the play-off places - The Hatters finished as the best relegated Premier League side during the 2023/24 season and have retained the majority of their squad from last time out. Meanwhile, Bolton have finished in the League One play-offs in back-to-back seasons.

Birmingham are the firm favourites to win League One following their lavish summer spending spree of over £10m which has seen them acquire the likes of Alfie May who has 84 goal contributions in 204 League One matches.

MK Dons finished fourth in League Two last season and have made some impressive signings this summer, having acquired Tommy Leigh, Sam Sherring, Tom Carroll, Luke Offord, Joe Pritchard, Connor Lemonheigh-Evans, Laurence Maguire, Callum Hendry, Liam Kelly and more.

Doncaster finished fifth-place under Grant McCann last season and have made some interesting signings in the shapes of Jordan Gibson, Billy Sharp, Joe Sbarra, Harry Clifton, Tom Nixon, Ephraim Yeboah and more.

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