What's Different About the Premier League This Season? Five Trends We've Spotted in 2026-27 Analyst
We're just five matchdays into the 2026-27Premier Leagueseason, but some interesting patterns are already beginning to emerge. Here are five league-wide trends we've spotted.
OK, 'gone' might be an oversimplification. However you put it, the home win percentage in the Premier League is just 36.0% this season, the lowest rate in the competition's history.
It's even lower than in the COVID-affected 2020-21 campaign, when the majority of matches were played without fans in stadiums. Ithiel Piñero/ Data Analyst The fading importance of home advantage is part of a wider trend.
As you can see above, four of the six lowest home win rates in Premier League history have come this decade. Of course, teams would still much prefer to play at home than away, but the extent to which doing so provides an advantage appears to be falling.
So, where have all those home wins gone? The answer is that they're broadly becoming draws rather than away wins.
There have been 16 draws in the first 50 matches this season, meaning 32.0% of games have finished level. That's the highest draw percentage of any Premier League season.
Away wins are also fairly prevalent - 32.0% (16/50) is still the seventh-highest on record - but it's not as notable as the increase in draws. Matchday 4 of the Premier League was a good demonstration of this pattern.
Across the 10 matches, there was just one home win (Leeds' 4-1 win against Newcastle), while four of the other nine games finished level. Had Leeds drawn or lost against Newcastle, MD4 would have become just the fourth matchday in Premier League history not to feature a single home win, and the first since September 2000.
Scoring First No Longer a Guarantee of Success One reason why draws are at an all-time high could be because sides are struggling to hold onto leads this season. A team has scored first in 45 of the 50 Premier League games played so far, but only 29 of those sides have gone on to win.