The most common scorelines in Premier League history

What is the most common score in the Premier League?

1–0. It has happened 2,324 times in 13,216 Premier League matches, 17.6% of them, or about one match in every six. Next come 2–1 (1,984, 15.0%), 2–0 (1,662, 12.6%) and 1–1 (1,521, 11.5%). Those four alone account for 56.7% of every Premier League match since 1992, and the ten most common cover 90.3%. Counting either team's goals first, the top ten as it stands:

1. 1
   1–0
   2,324 · 17.6%
2. 2
   2–1
   1,984 · 15.0%
3. 3
   2–0
   1,662 · 12.6%
4. 4
   1–1
   1,521 · 11.5%
5. 5
   0–0
   1,037 · 7.8%
6. 6
   3–1
   965 · 7.3%
7. 7
   3–0
   851 · 6.4%
8. 8
   2–2
   678 · 5.1%
9. 9
   3–2
   539 · 4.1%
10. 10
    4–0
    368 · 2.8%

Every scoreline has its own page, with every match, the clubs behind it and how often it has come up season by season: start with every 1–0 or browse every scoreline.

The most common home win, away win and draw

Home teams have won 45.6% of Premier League matches, away teams 28.7%, and 25.7% have been drawn. The most common home win is 1–0 (1,353 times, 22% of all home wins), ahead of 2–1 (1,151) and 2–0 (1,059). Away from home it's 0–1 (971, 26% of away wins), then 1–2 (833) and 0–2 (603): away wins are fewer, and tighter.

Draws are dominated by one score. 1–1 is 45% of all draws (1,521), 0–0 is 31% (1,037), 2–2 is 20% (678), and the high-scoring draws share what's left: 137 3–3s, 18 4–4s and a single 5–5.

Is 2–1 overtaking 1–0?

Slowly, yes. 1–0 was the most common score in 24 of the 34 completed Premier League seasons, 2–1 in nine and 2–0 once (2018/19). But 2–1 topped each of the last three, 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26. By era, 1–0's share has fallen from 18.8% of matches in the 1990s and 2000s to 16.5% in the 2010s and 15.7% since 2020, while 2–1 has stayed at about 15%.

The reason is goals. The Premier League averaged 2.62 goals a game in the 1990s and 2.59 in the 2000s, then 2.75 in the 2010s and 2.89 since 2020. More goals push results up the grid, away from 1–0 and 0–0 and towards 2–1, 2–2 and beyond.

How common is a 0–0?

Less and less. There have been 1,037 goalless draws in the Premier League, 7.8% of matches, about one in 13. In the 1990s it was 9.3%; since 2020 it's 5.8%. The record is 51 in 1994/95, a 22-club season of 462 matches. The fewest was 11, in 2023/24, out of 380.

And in the whole top flight since 1888?

The old First Division, from 1888/89 to 1991/92, was higher-scoring, at 3.07 goals a game over its 38,164 matches, and 0–0s were rarer: 6.5%. Even so, 1–0 was its most common score too (14.7%), just ahead of 2–1 (13.9%), with 1–1 (10.9%) edging 2–0 (10.8%). Put both eras together, 51,380 matches, and the order is 1–0 (15.4%), 2–1 (14.2%), 2–0 (11.2%), 1–1 (11.1%) and 3–1 (7.9%). The home page's top-flight grid shows the lot.

The other end

Of the Premier League's 36 scorelines, six have happened exactly once: 5–5, 6–4, 7–3, 7–4, 8–2 and 9–1. The rarest scorelines in Premier League history tells their stories, and what is scorigami? explains why football produces so few new ones.