The rarest scorelines in Premier League history

7–4: Portsmouth v Reading, 29 September 2007

Eleven goals, the most in any Premier League match and still the only time the league has seen eleven in a single game. It is also the only 7–4 on record, so its square on the grid shows a single 1.

6–4: Tottenham v Reading, 29 December 2007

Exactly three months after Fratton Park, Reading were on the wrong end of another record: the only 6–4 in Premier League history. The two highest-scoring matches of the 2007/08 season were both Reading defeats, and they are the only games of that season with ten or more goals.

9–1: Tottenham v Wigan Athletic, 22 November 2009

Ten goals, and the only time a Premier League side has scored nine and still conceded. Every other nine-goal performance in the league's history has come with a clean sheet: four 9–0 wins.

8–2: Manchester United v Arsenal, 28 August 2011

The only 8–2, and the only time Arsenal have conceded eight in a Premier League match. It was only United's third league game of the 2011/12 season.

7–3: Arsenal v Newcastle, 29 December 2012

Sixteen months later Arsenal were on the right side of a ten-goal game: the only 7–3 the Premier League has produced.

5–5: West Brom v Manchester United, 19 May 2013

The only 5–5, and the only Premier League draw with more than eight goals. It was Sir Alex Ferguson's last match in charge of Manchester United, and it remains the last time the league produced a final score it had never seen before, counting results without regard to venue. 4,990 matches have been played since without a new one.

A pattern in the one-offs

All six arrived within six years of each other, between September 2007 and May 2013, and four clubs appear twice: Reading (7–4 and 6–4), Tottenham (6–4 and 9–1), Manchester United (8–2 and 5–5) and Arsenal (8–2 and 7–3).

Nearly unique: the two 8–1s

8–1 has happened twice, nine years apart: Nottingham Forest 1–8 Manchester United on 6 February 1999, and Middlesbrough 8–1 Manchester City on 11 May 2008, the final day of that season.

Rarer still when you count home and away

Split by venue, eleven results have happened exactly once. The list includes the two biggest away wins in Premier League history, Southampton 0–9 Leicester City (2019) and Sheffield United 0–8 Newcastle (2023), plus Crystal Palace 0–7 Liverpool (2020). All three are recent, which is why the home/away view is where new scorigamis keep appearing. Every one-off, big win and high-scoring game is listed on the records page.