The last new English top-flight scoreline was in 1958

Every Premier League scoreline had happened before

The Premier League has produced 36 different final scores since 1992, and every one of them had already happened in the old First Division. Count home and away results separately and the Premier League has produced 60; 59 of those had happened before 1992 too.

Some of the precedents are a long way back. Sheffield United 0–8 Newcastle in 2023, the Premier League's most recent scorigami, had exactly one: Wolves 0–8 West Brom, on 27 December 1893. Crystal Palace 0–7 Liverpool in 2020 had three, the last Preston 0–7 Blackpool in 1948. Portsmouth 7–4 Reading, the Premier League's highest-scoring match, was the tenth 7–4 in top-flight history.

The one genuine first

Only one Premier League result had never happened in the English top flight: Southampton 0–9 Leicester City, on 25 October 2019, the first away 9–0 in 131 years. Before that, the last new home/away result was West Ham 2–8 Blackburn on Boxing Day 1963, 56 years earlier. The last six new results in top-flight history:

• West Brom 5–6 Grimsby, 30 April 1932
• Middlesbrough 10–3 Sheffield United, 18 November 1933
• Blackpool 8–4 Charlton, 27 September 1952
• Tottenham 10–4 Everton, 11 October 1958: the last brand-new scoreline either way round
• West Ham 2–8 Blackburn, 26 December 1963
• Southampton 0–9 Leicester City, 25 October 2019

What the Premier League hasn't seen

The old First Division produced 24 home/away results the Premier League never has. The most frequent are 9–2 and 6–5 (seven times each), away wins of 7–3 and 7–2 (six each) and 10–0 (five, the last Sheffield United 10–0 Burnley in 1929). The away 7–2 that the Premier League is still waiting for last happened on 3 September 1963, when Manchester United won 7–2 at Ipswich.

Then there are the extremes: two 12–0s (West Brom 12–0 Darwen in 1892 and Nottingham Forest 12–0 Leicester Fosse in 1909), Aston Villa 12–2 Accrington in 1892, whose 14 goals are still the most in a top-flight match, and the only 6–6, Leicester City 6–6 Arsenal on 21 April 1930. A Premier League 6–6 would be only the second since 1888.

How the game changed

Home sides won 56% of top-flight matches before the First World War, and 45.6% in the Premier League; away wins rose from 23% to 28.7%. Goals peaked between the wars at 3.28 a game, against 2.70 since 1992. Fewer lopsided results means fewer new ones: every new top-flight result but two came before 1960.

Explore it

Pick Top flight since 1888 in the grid's season menu to see all 51,380 matches on one grid, and every scoreline page now says how often it happened before the Premier League. The pre-1992 results come from James Curley's engsoccerdata, checked match for match against this site's Premier League results and against openfootball. For the Premier League's own scorigami drought, see when it might end.