The Theme Team League shall appear here. It is manually updated so won’t be updated as often as the main scoreboard – typically once a month.
28 September 2025 – The Sick-Bed of Cuchulainn keeps their luck of the Irish, adding another hit and slightly extending their lead.
| Pos | Team | Theme | Points |
| 1. | The Sick-Bed of Cuchulainn | The Irish | 78 |
| 2. | A Question of Sprouts | Sport | 69 |
| 3. | Play Ball! | Sports | 64 |
| 4. | Sportspeople I Think Might Die in 2025 United | Athletes | 60 |
| 5. | Elton Welsby’s Sporting Triangles | Sports types | 57 |
| 6. | Musical chairs | Musicians | 49 |
| 7. | CLOG POPPERS | Popsters | 45 |
| 8. | Complications from a fall | Dictators and other world leaders | 44 |
| 9. | Unpersons | Big Brother participants | 42 |
| 10. | Great Gig in the Sky | Musicians | 41 |
| =11. | LW’s Latest Hit | Music | 40 |
| =11. | Shake, Rattle, Roll Over and Play Dead | 50s/60s rock and pop | 40 |
| 13. | #1 Hits | UK chart toppers | 38 |
| 14. | Jaydead | J names | 37 |
| =15. | Pop goes the Wurzels | Popsters | 35 |
| =15. | Ruling The Afterlife | World leaders | 35 |
| =15. | Traded to the Saints | NFLers | 35 |
| =18. | 20 Crooners Croakin’ | Crooners | 34 |
| =18. | Windsor’s OBE | Order of the British Empire recipients | 34 |
| =20. | Assorted Alliterates | Alliterative names | 31 |
| =20. | Sudden Death | Football | 31 |
| =22. | Last surviving original band members III | As it says on the tin | 30 |
| =22. | Nature’s Way | Names found in nature | 30 |
| =22. | Punk is Dead | Punk musicians | 30 |
| =22. | The Talking Dead | TV hosts | 30 |
| =26. | Cardavers | Car names | 29 |
| =26. | Death to all but metal and Dame Shirley Bassey | Rockers and their nan | 29 |
| =28. | Six Feet Under the Dome | Congresscritters | 28 |
| =28. | There is nothing like a dame | Dames, without their boss this time | 28 |
| =30. | Dead Leaders | World leaders | 26 |
| =30. | Dieopics | Biopic subjects | 26 |
| =32. | Aaron Aardvark’s Alliteration Association | Alliterative names | 25 |
| =32. | One Ball Bigger Than The Other Two | Sports | 25 |
| =34. | 99 Not Out! | Prospective Sulu-ings | 24 |
| =34. | Complete Phallusies | Names with shlong slang in them | 24 |
| =34. | Hell to the Chief | World leaders | 24 |
| =34. | Once Shaggable, Now Baggable | Old ladies eyecatching in their heyday | 24 |
| =34. | St. Peter’s Warblers | Musicians | 24 |
| =34. | Vive la France… et la mort | The French | 24 |
| =40. | Dead… Or are they? | Conspiracies | 23 |
| =40. | militant leaders | Terrorists | 23 |
| =40. | No More Expenses | UK MPs | 23 |
| =40. | Old as Dirt 2 | Old musicians | 23 |
| =44. | Animals to the Afterlife | Animal names | 22 |
| =44. | Deutschland verabschiedet sich! | Germans | 22 |
| =44. | Laughing in the face of Death. | Funny people | 22 |
| =44. | Mmmmmmmm Drop | M names | 22 |
| =44. | snooker loopy c*NTS are we | Snooker | 22 |
| =49. | Decaying Orbit-uaries | Space types | 21 |
| =49. | Francis Of Wrestle-Easy 2025 | Wrasslers | 21 |
| 51. | Ashes to Ashes XII | Cricketers | 20 |
| =52. | Bibliogryphon’s Bookworm Food | Authors | 19 |
| =52. | Here’s Who You Could Have Won | Interesting oldies | 19 |
| =52. | Jocks Away | Scots | 19 |
| =52. | M6 Toll(ed) | Midlands | 19 |
| =52. | Space Wasters | Lice | 19 |
| =52. | The Gallifrey Regeneration Game | Doctor Who | 19 |
| =58. | A la vie, a la mort | French people | 18 |
| =58. | Formula Fatality | F1 | 18 |
| =58. | MST3K Massacre | MST3K subjects | 18 |
| =61. | Grappling with Mortality | Wrestlers | 17 |
| =61. | It’s time to meet the music | Muppet Show guest stars | 17 |
| =63. | Gray Panthers | Centenarians | 16 |
| =63. | Oscar Strikeouts | Oscar nominees | 16 |
| =65. | Apology Accepted | Star Wars | 15 |
| =65. | Kiwi fruit sundae | New Zealanders | 15 |
| =65. | Old As Dirt | Centenarians | 15 |
| =68. | BOBBING FOR APPLES | Bobs and Roberts | 14 |
| =68. | Fill the Century or die! | Not everyone that makes 99 makes it to 100 | 14 |
| =68. | Ready For My Closed Lid, Mr. DeMille | Ladies of cinema | 14 |
| =68. | Sad Last Days | National Enquirer “near death”s | 14 |
| =68. | Stars on Hice | Names with “hi” in them | 14 |
| 73. | MAGA Hit List | Trump non-fans | 13 |
| =74. | It’s a Small World | Disney | 12 |
| =74. | Just One More Death | Columbo guest stars, with and without Alzheimer’s | 12 |
| =74. | Lego Element 4651445 | Those with Lego depictions | 12 |
| =74. | sid and marty coffin | Sid and Marty Krofft | 12 |
| =74. | The Survivors | Last survivors | 12 |
| =79. | Hispanics and Lati-no’s | Hispanics | 11 |
| =79. | IT’S A COP-OUT 2025 | Coppers | 11 |
| =79. | Last Christmas | Christmas-associated celebs | 11 |
| =79. | No Mr Bond Villain, I Expect You To Die!!! | Bond villains | 11 |
| =79. | Stay Golden | Golden Girls actors | 11 |
| =79. | The Golden State Strikes Back | Californians | 11 |
| =85. | And the nominees are… dead! | Oscar nominees | 10 |
| =85. | And the SPOTY Winner is… dead | SPOTY winners | 10 |
| =85. | Apollogies For Still Living | Astronauts | 10 |
| =85. | ARTHUR’S THEME | World leaders | 10 |
| =85. | Boom, Boom, Out go the lights | Blues and beat musicians | 10 |
| =85. | Can’t Think of a Music Pun | Musicians | 10 |
| =85. | D Ceased | D Names | 10 |
| =85. | DCAU Demises | DC Animated Cinematic Universe | 10 |
| =85. | Dead And Dusted 2 | 70s musicians | 10 |
| =85. | Fatal Exceptions | Survivors | 10 |
| =85. | Foreword by The Grim Reaper | Authors | 10 |
| =85. | God’s Gonna Gettem | G names | 10 |
| =85. | Goodnight, Seattle | Frasier alums… I’m listening | 10 |
| =85. | Nobel Notables | Nobel laureates | 10 |
| =85. | Poor Little Ghoul | US charttoppers | 10 |
| =85. | She’s a Dead Skate, Charlie Brown | Ice skaters | 10 |
| =85. | Thanks for being a Sport | Sportspeople | 10 |
| =85. | Wheel meet again | Motorsport | 10 |
| =103. | Drop Dead Diva | Extravagant women | 9 |
| =103. | KICKING BUCKETS INSTEAD OF BALLS | Footballers | 9 |
| =103. | Lullabye-bye of Broadway | Broadway | 9 |
| =103. | Nature’s Way 2 | Names found in nature | 9 |
| =103. | Rushing to Tim Horton’s for Maple Donuts | Canucks | 9 |
| =103. | The Fat Lady’s singing… | Opera | 9 |
| =103. | They think it’s all over | Scottish football | 9 |
| =110. | batstarlord of the whotreklock | Nerd shows | 8 |
| =110. | Same Bat Time, Same Bat Channel | Batman | 8 |
| 112. | Slippery Soap | Soap actors | 7 |
| =113. | Buying Max Yasgur’s Farm | Folkies | 6 |
| =113. | Turn Off That Telly and Go to Bed! | US TV | 6 |
| =115. | Clinging on for a 99 | Not everyone that makes 98… | 5 |
| =115. | Comedy Cremations | Comedy actors | 5 |
| =115. | Fireball’s Play Your Cadavers Right | Gameshow hosts | 5 |
| =115. | Jane’s Antique Wrinklies | Old ladies | 5 |
| =115. | Last of The Summer Winos | Last of the Summer Wine | 5 |
| =115. | Ncuti Bang Bang | Doctor Who | 5 |
| =115. | OAPs (Old American Politicians) | Most of Washington these days | 5 |
| =115. | Pennsylvania Pushes Up the Daisies | The Keystone State | 5 |
| =115. | Saturday Night Dead | Saturday Night Live | 5 |
| =115. | The Retched pong of Brit sit-com | British sitcoms | 5 |
| =115. | Waiting for Ugo | Midlands footballers | 5 |
| 126. | Fiona’s 1922 | 1922 babies | 4 |
| =127. | …and its goodnight from him | Rons, Ronalds, Ronnies etc. | 0 |
| =127. | 2025 Exit Draft | Sport | 0 |
| =127. | 90s vs 90s | Nonagenarians and 1990s personalities | 0 |
| =127. | All Death Is Consolation | Artists | 0 |
| =127. | All these moments will be lost | Sci-fi actors | 0 |
| =127. | Alternative in Death – The Right Deadlihood Award | Recipients of the Alternative Nobel Prize | 0 |
| =127. | American As Apple Pie | Hispanics | 0 |
| =127. | And That’s a Rap | Rappers | 0 |
| =127. | BYE-BYE BORING BROADCASTERS 2025 | Broadcasters | 0 |
| =127. | Cadaverous Mofos | The Wire | 0 |
| =127. | Close Up: The Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest Musical | Australians | 0 |
| =127. | Come on Karma, Where’s the F@@king Justice | Evading justice for how long? | 0 |
| =127. | CRT to DOA | TV presenters | 0 |
| =127. | Dead Beats | Musicians | 0 |
| =127. | Dead Continent | Asians | 0 |
| =127. | Dey Do Die Don’t Dey Doh | Scousers | 0 |
| =127. | Disney Dizzies | Disney actors | 0 |
| =127. | Dr Who’s Next | Doctor Who | 0 |
| =127. | Dying Donkeys | US Democrats who ran for President | 0 |
| =127. | Dying of Pretentiousness | Snooty types | 0 |
| =127. | Dying Probably’s Twitter Page | People who showed on this showrunner’s Twitter feed | 0 |
| =127. | Easy as ABC | Alphabetical names | 0 |
| =127. | Easy Peasy Japanesey | Japanese people | 0 |
| =127. | Empty Chairs at Empty Tables | Entertainers | 0 |
| =127. | Everybody’s Dead Daves | Daves | 0 |
| =127. | From the Middle East to the Middle of the Ground | Middle East | 0 |
| =127. | Gone and Away | Soaps | 0 |
| =127. | Gone Solo | Surviving halves | 0 |
| =127. | Good Trouble | Activists | 0 |
| =127. | Hell’s Gender Neutral Toilets | T*RFs | 0 |
| =127. | He’s Not The Family Guy | Family Guy voices | 0 |
| =127. | Hits Of 36 Years Ago And Hits Today | 1987 UK Top 30 hits | 0 |
| =127. | Hole-in-one | Golfers | 0 |
| =127. | I Hear Voices | Voice actors | 0 |
| =127. | I Made the News Today, Oh Boy | Current events | 0 |
| =127. | In The Hole! | Golfers | 0 |
| =127. | Kiddyfiddler Harriers | Paedos | 0 |
| =127. | Kill Bills, Vol. 3 | Bills and Williams | 0 |
| =127. | Lt. Colonel Kilgore’s Ultimate Surf Party | Vietnam figures | 0 |
| =127. | Miss DEAD | Miss World, Universe, etc | 0 |
| =127. | Nice! | Jazz musicians | 0 |
| =127. | Nobel Loserettes | Ladies with Nobels | 0 |
| =127. | Norman Lear and All His Friends | Norman Lear and actors in his many sitcoms | 0 |
| =127. | Not going in a Black Cab | EastEnders | 0 |
| =127. | Passing of the Passed | Celebs the team runner passed by in the street | 0 |
| =127. | Peace, Love, and Death | 1960s counterculture figures | 0 |
| =127. | Perfect 10 | Celebs with 10 letters in their names | 0 |
| =127. | Players in The Player | Cameos in The Player | 0 |
| =127. | Rappers Delight | Rappers | 0 |
| =127. | Rolls Off The Tongue | Interesting names | 0 |
| =127. | Russian Box Players | Russians | 0 |
| =127. | Scrubber Out | Porn stars | 0 |
| =127. | Special:RandomInCategory/Living_people | The 20 best picks of 4000 randomly generated Wikipedia bios | 0 |
| =127. | Thank You For The Music | Musicians | 0 |
| =127. | The Big Brain Theory | Smart cookies | 0 |
| =127. | The Cabinet of the Grim Reaper | US cabinet members | 0 |
| =127. | The Dead Kennedys | Kennedy Center honorees | 0 |
| =127. | The Lord God Slayed Them All | Veterinarians | 0 |
| =127. | The Writing’s On The Wall | Singers | 0 |
| =127. | They Were the World | We Are the World alumni | 0 |
| =127. | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, DIE | Actors in TTSS adaptations | 0 |
| =127. | Trans Girls Hit squad’s hit list | T*RFs | 0 |
| =127. | Where are all the Garys and Simons? | Garys and Simons | 0 |
| =127. | Who Goes Before the 5-0 Arrives? | Under 50s | 0 |
| =127. | Wishing (I Had an Obituary of You) | 80s musicians | 0 |
| =127. | Yes, I Suppose | Hot Fuzz | 0 |