The Premier League's scorigami drought, and when it might end

How this wait compares

A never-seen result means a home/away score the Premier League had never produced: an empty square on the home/away grid. The league has seen 60 of them, and they arrive in bursts with long gaps in between. Only two gaps have been longer than the current one:

• 2,786 days (2,874 matches), from West Ham 5–4 Bradford City on 12 February 2000 to Portsmouth 7–4 Reading on 29 September 2007.
• 2,043 days (2,072 matches), from Cardiff City 3–6 Liverpool on 22 March 2014 to Southampton 0–9 Leicester City on 25 October 2019.
• 1,097 days and counting (1,131 matches), since Sheffield United 0–8 Newcastle on 24 September 2023.

The current wait overtook the previous third-longest, the 1,009 days between Crystal Palace 0–7 Liverpool and that afternoon at Bramall Lane, on 29 June 2026. If nothing new happens before 28 April 2029 it becomes the second-longest, and after 11 May 2031 the longest.

New results are getting rarer

In a league's first season almost every result is new, and 1992/93 produced 31 of the 60. The rest have come more and more slowly: 18 between 1993/94 and 1999/2000, 4 in the 2000s, 5 in the 2010s and 2 so far in the 2020s. Eighteen of the 33 completed seasons since 1993/94 produced none at all, including seven in a row from 2000/01 to 2006/07.

That's because the common results filled in early. What's left are the extremes: eight- and nine-goal wins, ten-goal games, and big away wins, which is why every new result since 2014 has been an away win. For the empty squares most likely to go next, see where the next Premier League scorigami will come from.

The classic count stopped in 2013

Ignore which side was at home, so that 3–1 and 1–3 count as the same result, and the wait is far longer. The last brand-new scoreline either way round was West Brom 5–5 Manchester United on 19 May 2013, Sir Alex Ferguson's last match in charge. That's 4,877 days and 4,992 matches ago, well beyond the previous record of 2,932 days (Newcastle 8–0 Sheffield Wednesday in September 1999 to Portsmouth 7–4 Reading in September 2007).

When will it end?

Scorigami Watch gives every fixture odds of ending in a never-seen result, from a goals model of recent form. Tested on the ten seasons from 2016/17 to 2025/26, the model expected 3.3 never-seen results, about one every three seasons, and there were 3. By that measure a three-year wait is long but not unusual: gaps of several years are what one-every-three-seasons looks like. The model gave Matchweek 6 of 2026/27, on 10–12 October, a 1 in 190 chance of ending it.

When it does end, @pl_gami posts it within minutes of full time, the square fills in on the grid, and the counter at the top of this page starts again from zero.