The home crowd roars, the players know every blade of grass, and the visitors face a long trip. But does playing at home still make a difference in the Premier League?

Home wins still outnumber away wins, but the size of the gap changes from season to season. In 2025/26, hosts won 162 of 380 games, while visitors won 114. The remaining 104 were draws.

Premier League home advantage: what the results say

We counted league results in TotalOdds' season archives, from 2019/20 to 2025/26. Each completed season contained 380 matches. These figures show the percentage won by the home and away sides; draws make up the rest.

  • 2019/20: 45.3% home wins, 30.5% away wins.
  • 2020/21: 37.9% home wins, 40.3% away wins.
  • 2021/22: 42.9% home wins, 33.9% away wins.
  • 2022/23: 48.4% home wins, 28.7% away wins.
  • 2023/24: 46.1% home wins, 32.4% away wins.
  • 2024/25: 40.8% home wins, 34.7% away wins.
  • 2025/26: 42.6% home wins, 30.0% away wins.

The 2025/26 season archive shows the latest completed campaign and its results. The gap between home and away win rates widened from about 6.1 percentage points in 2024/25 to 12.6 in 2025/26. That is a recovery from one season to the next, not proof of a permanent trend.

The season away teams had the edge

The exception in our seven-season sample was 2020/21: away sides won 153 games, nine more than home teams. Much of that season was played without crowds during pandemic restrictions. The results alone cannot tell us how much of the difference was caused by missing supporters, travel or other factors.

Does every team benefit at home?

No. Champions Arsenal won 15 of their 19 home league games in 2025/26 and 11 of 19 away. Their 5-0 home win over Leeds was one example of that strong record.

Tottenham went the other way: they won three league games at home and seven away. An overall league pattern is useful context, but it does not describe every club or guarantee the next result.

The verdict

Home advantage has not disappeared from the Premier League results in this sample. Hosts won more often than visitors in six of the seven completed seasons, although the margin varied considerably. For a closer look, explore the Premier League season archives and the current league table.

Method: TotalOdds counted each completed league result once. Percentages are wins divided by 380, rounded to one decimal place. Comparing result shares describes an aggregate pattern; it does not isolate the causal effect of venue or account for differences in team strength.

Cover: Fulham v Everton in May 2025, used as an illustrative file photograph. Photo: Timmy96 / Wikimedia Commons, CC0.