Matter of stats | Winning run continues in first home game of a Premier League campaign

Our convincing 4-0 victory against Everton at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday has extended our winning sequence in terms of the first home match of a Premier League season.

Heung-Min Son's double, Yves Bissouma's thunderbolt and Cuti Romero's header to mark his 100th appearance for the Club saw us home and made it four wins on the trot on our return to N17, a run going back to 2021 - all with clean sheets.

It's quite a contrast to the early years of the Premier League era. Indeed, we lost our first home games of the first two Premier League seasons in 1992 and 1993 and we'd reached one win in seven when fortunes started to turn around in 1999.

A 3-1 win against Newcastle at the Lane in 1999 set us on our best unbeaten run of eight years, a run coincidentally ended by Everton in 2007.

However, since 2012, we've only lost twice in our first home game of a season - Chelsea in 2017, and Everton again in 2020 - stretching the sequence to two defeats in 13 and, as already stated, four wins on the trot on Saturday.

First home game - quick stats

- We won only one of our first seven opening home matches after the Premier League era kicked-off in 1992/93
- Our first back-to-back wins were 3-1 victories against Newcastle in 1999 and Ipswich in 2000
- Our best unbeaten sequence is eight games between 1999-2006
- We've won six of our last seven first home games, with the only loss in that run against Everton in 2020
- We've now won four on the trot - Manchester City, Southampton, Manchester United and Everton - all with clean sheets

First home game - the results

92/3 - 0-2 v Coventry - 19 Aug 92
93/4 - 0-1 v Arsenal - 16 Aug 92
94/5 - 2-1 v Everton (Klinsmann 2) - 24 Aug 94
95/6 - 0-1 v Villa - 23 Aug 95
96/7 - 1-1 v Derby (Sheringham) - 21 Aug 96
97/8 - 0-2 v Man United - 10 Aug 97
98/9 - 0-3 v Sheff Wed - 22 Aug 98
99/0 - 3-1 v Newcastle (Iversen, Ferdinand, Sherwood) - 9 Aug 99
00/1 - 3-1 v Ipswich (Anderton, Carr, Ferdinand) - 19 Aug 2000
01/2 - 0-0 v Villa - 18 Aug 01
02/3 - 1-0 v Villa (Redknapp) 24 Aug 02
03/4 - 2-1 v Leeds (Taricco, Kanoute) - 23 Aug 03
04/5 - 1-1 v Liverpool (Defoe) - 14 Aug 04
05/6 - 2-0 v Middlesbrough (Defoe, Mido) - 20 Aug 05
06/7 - 2-0 v Sheff Utd (Berbatov, Jenas) - 22 Aug 06
07/8 - 1-3 v Everton (Gardner) - 14 Aug 07
08/9 - 1-2 v Sunderland (Jenas) - 23 Aug 08
09/10 - 2-1 v Liverpool (Assou-Ekotto, Bassong) - 16 Aug 09
10/11 - 0-0 v City - 14 Aug 10
11/12 - 1-5 v City (Kaboul) - 28 Aug 11
12/13 - 1-1 v WBA (Assou-Ekotto) - 25 Aug 12
13/14 - 1-0 v Swansea (Soldado) - 25 Aug 13
14/15 - 4-0 v QPR (Adebayor, Chadli 2, Dier) - 24 Aug 14
15/16 - 2-2 v Stoke (Chadli, Dier) - 15 Aug 15
16/17 - 1-0 v Palace (Wanyama) 20 Aug 16
17/18 - 1-2 v Chelsea (OG) - 20 Aug 17
18/19 - 3-1 v Fulham (Kane, Moura, Trippier) - 18 Aug 18
19/20 - 3-1 v Villa (Kane 2, Ndombele) - 10 Aug 19
20/21 - 0-1 v Everton - 13 Sep 20
21/22 - 1-0 v City (Son) - 15 Aug 21
22/23 - 4-0 v Southampton (Dier, Kulusevski, Sessegnon, OG) - 6 Aug 22
23/24 - 2-0 v Man United (Sarr, OG) - 19 Aug 23
24/25 - 4-0 v Everton (Bissouma, Romero, Son 2) - 24 Aug 24

First home game - the sequence

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