Burnley are on the verge of setting an unwanted English football record if they fail to secure a victory against Portsmouth in their upcoming home fixture on Saturday, October 31.
The Winless Streak and Current Record
The Clarets have failed to win a home league match since defeating Leeds United 2-0 in the Premier League on October 18, 2025. This extended run places them just one day shy of the current record.
Sheffield Wednesday presently hold the record for the longest duration a club in the top four divisions of English football has gone without a home league victory. The Owls endured a 376-day winless run at home stretching from April 2025 to May 2026.
Burnley’s upcoming Championship fixture against John Mousinho’s Portsmouth side arrives 377 days after their triumph against Leeds. If the team fails to defeat Pompey, they will claim the outright record.
This statistic exclusively tracks teams while competing in England’s top four tiers and excludes clubs that dropped out of the English Football League and subsequently returned.
Match Record and Cup Results
Across the 12-month period following the victory over Leeds, Burnley have contested 21 home league fixtures. The sequence comprises 15 matches from the previous Premier League campaign and six fixtures in the current Championship season.
Throughout these 21 games, the team has recorded 10 draws and suffered 11 defeats. Cup competitions at Turf Moor during this timeframe yielded mixed outcomes, including an FA Cup third-round victory over Millwall in January 2026 followed by a fourth-round defeat against Mansfield Town. Additionally, the Clarets overcame Notts County in a penalty shootout during the first round of this season’s Carabao Cup.
Source: BBC Sport
