Having won eight of their nine home league games against West Ham between 1996 and 2005, Leeds are now winless in their last four against the Hammers at Elland Road (D2 L2).
West Ham have won four of their last six league games against Leeds (D1 L1), as many as they had in their previous 37 (D12 L21).
West Ham lost 3-0 at promoted side Sunderland on the opening weekend this season. They’ve not lost consecutive league games against promoted sides within the same season since December 2017 (vs Brighton and Newcastle).
In their last spell in the Premier League between 2020-21 and 2022-23, Leeds United’s only home Friday night game was also against West Ham in December 2020, losing 2-1. In front of supporters, the last time Leeds hosted a top-flight Friday night game was in April 1994 against Newcastle, drawing 1-1 thanks to a Chris Fairclough goal.
Leeds’ 2-1 defeat against Spurs in their last home game ended their 23-game unbeaten league run at Elland Road (W18 D5). They last lost consecutive home league matches in May 2024.
Leeds are averaging 13 shots per game in the Premier League this season, the highest rate by a promoted side since Leeds themselves in 2020-21 (13.7). However, their conversion rate is just 6.7%, their lowest on record in a league season (since 2013-14).
Only Wolves (58%) have been losing for a higher percentage of their Premier League games than West Ham (48%) this season, while the Hammers have been winning for just 3% of their games, the lowest of any side. 65% of the time they’ve been winning in 2025-26 was against current manager Nuno Espirito Santo when he was manager of Nottingham Forest in a 3-0 win in August.
With just four points in eight Premier League matches, this is West Ham’s worst ever start to a Premier League season, while in the top-flight they last had as few as four after eight games in 1988-89 (also 4), eventually finishing 19th and being relegated.
Having created 10 chances across his first three Premier League games this season, Leeds’ Anton Stach has created just four more in his last five appearances.
Nuno Espirito Santo is winless in all three of his Premier League matches as West Ham manager so far (D1 L2). The last manager to fail to win any of his first four in charge was Manuel Pellegrini in September 2018.