League One has been full of records and talking points in 2025-26, and if you have been tracking the League One odds throughout the campaign, the market has told its own story. Lincoln City’s unbeaten run has been the headline act, but Cardiff City, Peterborough United, Reading’s Jack Marriott, and Bolton Wanderers have all had their own moments worth noting as the season heads into its final stretch.
Lincoln City’s record-breaking unbeaten run
Lincoln’s last defeat in League One came on 22 November 2025, a 3-2 loss at Wycombe Wanderers. Since then, Michael Skubala’s side have gone 22 matches unbeaten, which is a new club record, surpassing the previous best of 19 set by Danny Cowley’s League Two title-winning side in 2018-19. The run includes wins over every serious contender in the division.
Lincoln beat Cardiff 2-1 at the LNER Stadium in December, and then went to the Cardiff City Stadium on 7 March 2026 and won 2-0 in front of 27,280 fans, with Robert Street and Dom Jefferies scoring the goals to move Lincoln above Cardiff at the top of the table. They also put five past Peterborough United in a 5-2 win in January, coming from behind to score three times in a 15-minute first-half blitz.
Lincoln’s biggest wins of the season have been two 4-0 victories, at home to Northampton Town on 17 February and at home to Blackpool in February. Lincoln now sit on 84 points from 37 games, seven points clear of Cardiff in second, and 18 clear of Bolton in third, with nine games left to play. It would be their first season in the second tier since 1961.
The managerial merry-go-round
10 of the 24 clubs in League One have changed managers during the 2025-26 season, making it one of the most turbulent campaigns the division has seen for managerial stability. The changes began as early as September, when Wycombe dismissed Mike Dodds with the season barely six weeks old, and continued through to March when Northampton sacked Kevin Nolan with the club in 23rd place.
Some of the departures were high-profile by League One standards. Steve Bruce lasted just 11 league games at Blackpool before Ian Evatt replaced him in October, while Darren Ferguson’s third spell at Peterborough ended with the club bottom of the table. Luton Town, one of the division’s biggest clubs on paper, have had two different managers this season after Matt Bloomfield was replaced by former Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere in October.
Perhaps the strangest sequence involved Wigan and Exeter, who both announced managerial changes on the same day in February. Ryan Lowe was sacked by Wigan and replaced by Gary Caldwell, who departed Exeter to take the role, leaving both clubs without a permanent manager at exactly the same time.
Jack Marriott’s golden boot challenge
Reading’s Jack Marriott has been the division’s standout individual in front of goal, leading the League One scoring charts with 16 goals from 23 appearances. The 31-year-old signed for Reading on a three-year deal in August 2025 and has scored against almost everyone in the division, including a first EFL hat-trick on Valentine’s Day in a 3-2 home win over Wycombe Wanderers. His nine home goals and seven away goals represent the most balanced scoring record of any striker in the top six of the table, and his 0.82 goals per 90 minutes puts him first among all outfield players in the division.
Bolton’s attendance record
Off the pitch, Bolton Wanderers set the highest attendance of the League One season when 26,473 fans packed into the Toughsheet Community Stadium for their 0-0 draw with Bradford City on 22 November 2025. Bolton are currently third in the table and well placed for the play-offs, and that crowd figure underlines the level of support behind several of the bigger clubs in this division as the season reaches its final stretch.