Burnley on brink of unwanted English home winless record
Burnley will set an English football record for the longest top-four-division run without a home league win if they fail to beat Portsmouth on 31 October, surpassing Sheffield Wednesday's 376-day mark.
Burnley will hold an unwanted English football record if they fail to beat Portsmouth at home in the Championship on Saturday, 31 October. The Clarets have not won a home league match since a 2-0 Premier League victory over Leeds United on 18 October 2025, meaning the Portsmouth fixture falls 377 days after that win.
The current benchmark belongs to Sheffield Wednesday, who went 376 days without a home league win between April 2025 and May 2026. A draw or defeat against John Mousinho's Portsmouth side would move Burnley past that mark and give them the outright record. The record covers teams in England's top four divisions and excludes clubs that left the English Football League and later returned, counting only winless runs completed while in one of those leagues.
Since beating Leeds, Burnley have played 21 home league matches without a win, drawing 10 and losing 11. Fifteen of those came in last season's Premier League, with the most recent six in this season's Championship. Their cup form at Turf Moor has been mixed: they beat Millwall in the FA Cup third round in January 2026, lost at home to Mansfield Town in the fourth round, and needed a penalty shootout to get past Notts County in this season's Carabao Cup first round.
The Portsmouth match therefore carries historical weight beyond the league table, with a single home result deciding whether Burnley replace Sheffield Wednesday in the record books.
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