Weird Premier League stats
Twenty of the oddest facts in Premier League history.
Worked out from every result since 1993, then checked against outside sources by two separate checks. Under each one are the pages that confirm it, so you can check it too.
137 games without a 0-0
Tottenham went 137 league games without a goalless draw, and the 0-0s either side of the run were both at Brentford: April 2022 and New Year's Day 2026.
The same away fixture finished 0-0 at both ends of the run.
Thomas Frank was in a dugout for both 0-0s. In April 2022 he was Brentford's head coach, Ivan Toney hit the bar and then the post in added time, and Harry Kane cleared a Pontus Jansson header off the line. By New Year's Day 2026 Frank was back at Brentford as Tottenham's manager, and the Spurs fans sang "boring, boring Tottenham".
Read more: skysports.com · malaymail.com
- 0-0 at Brentford
- League game with a goal in it
- No. 2
12 months, bottom to top
Leicester were bottom of the Premier League on Christmas Day 2014 and top of it on Christmas Day 2015, then won the title.
The only club bottom on Christmas Day one year and top on the next.
In their first season back up, Leicester were bottom at Christmas, then won seven of their last nine to stay up. They started 2015/16 as 5000-1 shots for the title. On Christmas Day 2015 Claudio Ranieri bought every player and member of staff a little bell, a joke about the "dilly-ding, dilly-dong, wake up" he said when players weren't paying attention.
Read more: theanalyst.com · skysports.com
25 Dec 201425 Dec 20151st20thLeicester's MIRACLE 5000/1 Title Triumph | Greatest Premier League StoriesPremier League on YouTube Check it: Sky Sports · The Analyst
- No. 3
23 home games without beating United
Aston Villa beat Man United 3-1 at Villa Park in August 1995, then went 23 home league games without beating them until November 2022, when they won 3-1.
Same scoreline at both ends of a 27-year gap; the 1995 game was the 'you can't win anything with kids' match.
In 1995 United wore their grey kit, and David Beckham, on at half-time, scored their consolation with under ten minutes left. That night Alan Hansen said on Match of the Day "you can't win anything with kids", and United won the double. The 2022 game was Unai Emery's first in charge, and Jacob Ramsey scored, set up a goal and deflected United's in off himself.
Aug 1995Nov 2022- Villa win 3-1
- Home game without a win
Villa STUN United in Emery's first game! 😳 | Aston Villa 3-1 Man United | EPL HighlightsSky Sports Premier League on YouTube Check it: Sky Sports · 2022/23 results (football-data.co.uk, CSV)
- No. 4
2 9-0 defeats
Southampton lost 9-0 twice in 15 months: at home to Leicester in October 2019 and at Man United in February 2021.
There have been four 9-0s in the Premier League and Southampton were on the end of two.
Ralph Hasenhüttl was in charge both times. At a wet St Mary's, two days before the first anniversary of the helicopter crash that killed Leicester's owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Ryan Bertrand became the first top-flight player sent off after a VAR review. At Old Trafford, 19-year-old Alex Jankewitz was sent off within two minutes of his full debut, and Jan Bednarek scored an own goal and was sent off too.
Read more: sportinglife.com · fotmob.com
- Southampton v Leicester0-9Oct 2019
- Man United v Southampton9-0Feb 2021
Leicester score NINE goals against 10-man Southampton | Southampton 0-9 Leicester | EPL HighlightsSky Sports Premier League on YouTube - No. 5
21 goals in two away games
Reading lost 7-4 at Portsmouth on 29 September 2007 and 6-4 at Tottenham on 29 December 2007: the only 7-4 and 6-4 in Premier League history.
The same losing side, on the 29th of the month, three months apart.
At Fratton Park six of the goals came in the last 20 minutes and Benjani scored a hat-trick. David James saved a penalty from the Reading defender Nicky Shorey. At White Hart Lane Reading led 4-3 until Steed Malbranque equalised, and Dimitar Berbatov finished with four.
Read more: Portsmouth F.C. 7-4 Reading F.C. (Wikipedia) · skysports.com
- Portsmouth v Reading7-4Sep 2007
- Tottenham v Reading6-4Dec 2007
Highest scoring match in PL history! 😮 | Portsmouth 7- 4 Reading | 2007Sky Sports Premier League on YouTube - No. 6
4 days, two hoodoos gone
In four days of December 2013, Everton and Newcastle both won 1-0 at Old Trafford, after 20 and 19 Premier League visits there without a win.
Two long hoodoos ended in the same week, in David Moyes's first season at United.
Everton's winner came in the 86th minute against Manchester United, managed by David Moyes, who had left Everton that summer: Bryan Oviedo slotted in at the far post. That Saturday, Yohan Cabaye side-footed Newcastle's winner from the edge of the box on 61 minutes, and Alan Pardew said they'd been waiting 41 years.
Read more: nbcnews.com · toffeeweb.com
EvertonNewcastle- Visit without a win
- 1-0 win, Dec 2013
Old Trafford in December 2012, the season before both hoodoos ended.Photo: Stacey MacNaught, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - No. 7
2 hoodoos ended, both with no fans
In 2020/21, with no fans allowed in, Everton won at Anfield for the first time since 1999 and at Arsenal for the first time since 1996.
Two decades-long away hoodoos ended in the same season, both in empty stadiums.
At Anfield in February, Richarlison scored in the third minute, echoing Kevin Campbell's early goal in 1999, and Gylfi Sigurdsson's 83rd-minute penalty sealed it. The Arsenal win came on a Friday night in April, the week the club had set out to join the European Super League, with home fans letting off fireworks outside. Richarlison's cross went through Bernd Leno's legs and trickled over the line.
Read more: RTÉ · skysports.com
At LiverpoolAt Arsenal- Visit without a win
- Win with no fans in, 2021
Highlights: Liverpool 0-2 Everton | Reds beaten at AnfieldLiverpool FC on YouTube Check it: RTÉ · Sky Sports
- No. 8
5 2-1s in a row
Tottenham beat Man City 2-1 at White Hart Lane five meetings in a row, from March 2005 to May 2009.
Same fixture, same ground, same score, five seasons running.
The December 2007 one needed help: Pascal Chimbonda put Spurs ahead just before half-time off his arm while standing offside, and Jermain Defoe hit the winner on 83 minutes, a minute after City's Stephen Ireland was sent off. In May 2009 Defoe back-heeled the opener on the volley, and Robbie Keane won it with an 86th-minute penalty.
Read more: skysports.com · RTÉ
Tottenham v Man City, at home
- 2-1Mar 2005
- 2-1Apr 2006
- 2-1May 2007
- 2-1Dec 2007
- 2-1May 2009
White Hart Lane in October 2006, halfway through the run.Photo: Thedamo (English Wikipedia), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons - No. 9
5 1-1s in a row
Crystal Palace and Brighton drew 1-1 at Selhurst Park five league meetings running, from December 2019 to December 2023.
Five identical results in a derby, one a season.
In September 2021 Wilfried Zaha scored a penalty on his 400th Palace appearance, and Neal Maupay lobbed Vicente Guaita in the fifth minute of stoppage time; a win would have put Brighton top of the league for the first time. In December 2023 Jordan Ayew headed Palace in front in first-half stoppage time, and Danny Welbeck's header looped into the top corner on 82 minutes.
Read more: The42 · football365.com
Crystal Palace v Brighton, at home
- 1-1Dec 2019
- 1-1Oct 2020
- 1-1Sep 2021
- 1-1Feb 2023
- 1-1Dec 2023
Selhurst Park from the air in September 2023, between the fourth and fifth of the 1-1s.Photo: Arne Müseler, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons - No. 10
29 February 2020
Liverpool's 44-game unbeaten league run ended on 29 February 2020, a leap day, with a 3-0 defeat at Watford, who were relegated that season.
A run of more than a year ended on a date that comes round once every four years, by a side that went down.
Ismaïla Sarr scored twice in six minutes after half-time, then pounced on Trent Alexander-Arnold's poor back pass to set up Troy Deeney for the third. Liverpool had won 18 league games in a row, and a 19th would have been a Premier League record. Watford had started the day one off the bottom.
Jan 201929 Feb 2020- Unbeaten
- 3-0 defeat at Watford
WATFORD 3-0 LIVERPOOL EXTENDED HIGHLIGHTS | SARR & DEENEY GOALSWatford FC on YouTube Check it: CNN · 2019/20 results (football-data.co.uk, CSV)
- No. 11
33 points each
Wolves in 2003/04 and Norwich a year later had identical records: 7 home wins, no away wins, 33 points, 77 conceded, relegated. Only goals scored differed.
Two newly promoted clubs, back to back, matching on every column but one.
Wolves' seven home wins included a 1-0 over league leaders Manchester United in January 2004, when Kenny Miller took advantage of a Wes Brown slip for his first Premiership goal. Norwich went into the last day of 2004/05 outside the bottom three, needing a first away win of the season at Fulham to stay up. They lost 6-0.
Read more: skysports.com · molineux.news
P W D L F A Pts Away wins Wolves 2003/04 38 7 12 19 38 77 33 0 Norwich 2004/05 38 7 12 19 42 77 33 0 - No. 12
0 away wins, 1999/00
Coventry finished 14th in 1999/00 without winning a single away game: 12 wins at Highfield Road, none anywhere else.
A mid-table finish built entirely at Highfield Road.
Gordon Strachan's side beat title-chasing Arsenal 3-2 at Highfield Road on Boxing Day 1999, with goals from Gary McAllister, Mustapha Hadji and Robbie Keane, a teenage £6m signing from Wolves. Their last away league win before that season came at Sheffield Wednesday in April 1999, and the next at Southampton in August 2000.
Read more: coventrytelegraph.net · 2000-01 Coventry City F.C. season (Wikipedia)
1999/00 W D L Home 12 1 6 Away 0 7 12 
Highfield Road, Coventry's home until 2005, on a match day in January 1997.Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - No. 13
2 4-3s in a row
Liverpool beat Newcastle 4-3 at Anfield in April 1996 and again in March 1997, both times with a stoppage-time winner.
Two 4-3 wins in consecutive seasons, both decided in stoppage time.
In 1996 Kevin Keegan's Newcastle led 3-2 until Stan Collymore scored twice, the winner in the 92nd minute after John Barnes and Ian Rush played one-twos on the edge of the box, leaving Keegan slumped over the advertising hoardings. A year later Kenny Dalglish's Newcastle came back from 3-0 down at half-time to 3-3, and Robbie Fowler headed in Stig Inge Bjørnebye's cross.
Read more: skysports.com · skysports.com
Apr 1996Mar 1997Kick-offHalf-timeFull time- Liverpool
- Newcastle
Liverpool 4-3 Newcastle United. AGAIN! | Premier League RETRO HIGHLIGHTS | 1997 | Liverpool FCLiverpool FC on YouTube - No. 14
9 months from 9-1 to 1-0
Wigan lost 9-1 at White Hart Lane in November 2009, then won there 1-0 on their very next visit, in August 2010.
From a 9-1 hammering to a 1-0 win on the same ground, nine months later.
Wigan arrived having lost 4-0 at home to Blackpool and 6-0 to Chelsea in their first two games, while Spurs had just reached the Champions League for the first time. Ten minutes from time Hugo Rodallega's weak shot slipped through Carlo Cudicini, and Younes Kaboul headed wide from close range in stoppage time.
Read more: aljazeera.com · thenationalnews.com
Tottenham v Wigan, at home
- 9-1Nov 2009
- 0-1Aug 2010
Hugo Rodallega, who scored Wigan's winner, taking a corner three weeks later, in September 2010.Photo: Maskell.jesse, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons - No. 15
1 5-5 ever
The only 5-5 in Premier League history was Sir Alex Ferguson's last game, at West Brom on 19 May 2013, after United led 5-2.
A manager's 1,500th and final game produced a scoreline that has happened once.
Romelu Lukaku, on loan from Chelsea, came off the bench at half-time and scored a hat-trick, the last in the 86th minute. "I was waiting for some Fergie time at the end," said Robin van Persie. Afterwards Ferguson shared a bottle of 2003 Chateau Pontet Canet with West Brom manager Steve Clarke, who said: "He said it was a good year."
Read more: skysports.com · planetfootball.com
19 May 2013Kick-offHalf-timeFull time- West Brom
- Man United
10-goal THRILLER in Sir Alex Ferguson's final game as Man Utd manager! | West Brom 5-5 Man Utd | Sky Sports Premier LeagueSky Sports Premier League on YouTube - No. 16
3 own goals in one game
All three of Charlton's goals in their 3-1 win at Sunderland in February 2003 were Sunderland own goals, two by Michael Proctor and one by Stephen Wright.
Charlton scored three and none of them was by a Charlton player.
Mark Fish's weak shot went in off Stephen Wright after 24 minutes. Five minutes later Thomas Sorensen saved from Chris Powell and the ball went in off Michael Proctor, and three minutes after that a Claus Jensen corner went in off Proctor too. The defeat sent Sunderland to the bottom of the table.
Read more: news.bbc.co.uk · skysports.com
Michael Proctor in a Sunderland shirt at Jody Craddock's testimonial in 2014.Photo: vagueonthehow, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Check it: Michael Proctor (footballer) (Wikipedia) · Squawka
- No. 17
30 visits without a win
Newcastle haven't won a league game at Anfield since April 1994: 30 visits, 25 defeats and 5 draws.
Their only Premier League win there came in the first meeting, 32 years ago.
Rob Lee and Andy Cole scored in that 2-0 win on 16 April 1994. Two of the defeats since were the 4-3s of 1996 and 1997, when Newcastle scored three times at Anfield and lost to a late winner both times.
Read more: newcastleunited.com · themag.co.uk
Apr 1994Jan 2026- Newcastle win
- Visit without a win
Anfield from the air in July 2023.Photo: Arne Müseler, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons Check it: Flashscore · 2025/26 results (football-data.co.uk, CSV)
- No. 18
31 visits without a win
Everton haven't won a league game at Stamford Bridge since November 1994: 31 visits in a row, the last in December 2025.
Both clubs have been in the Premier League every season since, so this is an unbroken run.
Everton were bottom of the table when Joe Royle took over that November. His first three games were Liverpool, Chelsea and Leeds, and he won all three without conceding a goal; Paul Rideout's goal in the 39th minute settled it at Stamford Bridge. Rideout also scored the winner in that season's FA Cup final.
Read more: obstructedview.org · 1994-95 Everton F.C. season (Wikipedia)
Stamford Bridge from the air in September 2023.Photo: Arne Müseler, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons Check it: Chelsea FC · 2025/26 results (football-data.co.uk, CSV)
- No. 19
8 games, eight home wins
All eight Premier League games on Saturday 28 October 2000 were home wins, with the away sides scoring three goals between them.
Eight games, eight home wins, and the visitors scored three goals between them.
At Highbury, Manchester City's Danny Tiatto was sent off for a second booking just before half-time, and Ashley Cole scored from the free kick seconds later; City barely tested John Lukic, Arsenal's third-choice keeper. At Old Trafford, Teddy Sheringham scored a hat-trick between the 45th and 55th minutes against Glenn Hoddle's Southampton, his first since December 1994.
Read more: skysports.com · John Lukic (Wikipedia)
- Arsenal v Man City5-0
- Aston Villa v Charlton2-1
- Chelsea v Tottenham3-0
- Ipswich v Middlesbrough2-1
- Leicester v Derby2-1
- Man United v Southampton5-0
- Sunderland v Coventry1-0
- West Ham v Newcastle1-0
Highbury in May 2000, five months before Arsenal's 5-0 win over Manchester City.Photo: Johnmaxmena2, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons - No. 20
3 penalties, one game
Justin Kluivert scored a hat-trick of penalties for Bournemouth at Wolves on 30 November 2024, the first in Premier League history.
Three spot-kicks by one player in one game had never happened before in the Premier League.
Evanilson won all three, the first player to win three penalties in one Premier League game. Toti Gomes brought him down after 58 seconds, and José Sá gave away the other two after being tackled on back passes ("two crazy penalties", said Gary O'Neil). At half-time Sá went into the stands to argue with fans and was dragged away by goalkeeping coach Neil Cutler.
Read more: espn.com · skysports.com
Kluivert's penalties3'18'74'Kick-offHalf-timeFull timeKluivert and Evanilson make Premier League HISTORY | Wolves 2-4 AFC BournemouthAFC Bournemouth on YouTube Check it: ESPN · Sky Sports
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