Finished 8th in the 2025/26 Premier League at 14-11-13. The 2026/27 Premier League season opens away at Chelsea on Sat Aug 29, 2026.
Data as of 2026-08-05 · results through the 2025/26 season
2025/26 finish
8th
53 points
Premier League
Record (W-D-L)
14-11-13
38 matches
Goals scored
52
10th most of 20
Goals conceded
46
3rd fewest of 20
Goal difference
+6
6th best of 20
Most-used starting XI
Premier League 2025/26 · 38 matches · most common formation 4-2-3-1 (33 of 38)
The eleven players with the most 2025/26 league starts, each shown in the line he most often started in, with his season start count. This is a record of last season, not a predicted lineup: team sheets come from the openfootball public-domain archive and cover the 2025/26 season in full. Rows follow the source team sheets, so a player used across several roles appears in his most common one.
Betting stats: goals, BTTS and clean sheets
Premier League 2025/26 · 38 matches · counts of what happened, not predictions
Record
Count
Rate
Over 2.5 goals
19 of 38
50%
Both teams scored (BTTS)
21 of 38
55%
Clean sheets
10 of 38
26%
Failed to score
9 of 38
24%
Draws
11 of 38
29%
Home record (W-D-L)
9-6-4
Away record (W-D-L)
5-5-9
Against the top five
Record vs the top-5 finishers of the 2025/26 Premier League
Opponent
Finished
W-D-L
Goals
Arsenal
1st
0-0-2
1-3
Manchester City
2nd
1-1-0
3-2
Manchester United
3rd
0-0-2
2-7
Aston Villa
4th
0-0-2
3-5
Liverpool
5th
1-0-1
2-3
All five
2-1-7
11-20
2026/27 opening fixtures
First five league fixtures · head-to-head is all Premier League meetings in our archive
Date
Fixture
Brighton W-D-L
Last meeting
Sat Aug 29
Chelsea v Brighton
5-4-9 in 18
Brighton 3-0 Chelsea
Sat Sep 12
Coventry City v Brighton
first PL meeting on record
Sat Oct 10
Sunderland v Brighton
1-1-0 in 2
Sunderland 0-1 Brighton
Sat Oct 24
Liverpool v Brighton
4-4-10 in 18
Brighton 2-1 Liverpool
Sat Oct 31
Manchester City v Brighton
3-3-12 in 18
Man City 1-1 Brighton
Closing form, 2025/26
Premier League · last ten matches · sequence LWWWDWLWLL (oldest first)
Date
Result
Venue
2026-05-24
Brighton 0-3 Man United
L
H
2026-05-17
Leeds 1-0 Brighton
L
A
2026-05-09
Brighton 3-0 Wolves
W
H
2026-05-02
Newcastle 3-1 Brighton
L
A
2026-04-21
Brighton 3-0 Chelsea
W
H
2026-04-18
Tottenham 2-2 Brighton
D
A
2026-04-11
Burnley 0-2 Brighton
W
A
2026-03-21
Brighton 2-1 Liverpool
W
H
2026-03-14
Sunderland 0-1 Brighton
W
A
2026-03-04
Brighton 0-1 Arsenal
L
H
Season history
Last six seasons, competition named on every row, from our own match archive
Season
Competition
Finish
W-D-L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
2025/26
Premier League
8th
14-11-13
52
46
+6
53
2024/25
Premier League
8th
16-13-9
66
59
+7
61
2023/24
Premier League
11th
12-12-14
55
62
-7
48
2022/23
Premier League
6th
18-8-12
72
53
+19
62
2021/22
Premier League
9th
12-15-11
42
44
-2
51
2020/21
Premier League
16th
9-14-15
40
46
-6
41
Squad
Current first-team squad · as of 2026-08-05
Show full squad (25 players)
#
Player
Position
Age
1
B. Verbruggen
Goalkeeper
23
23
J. Steele
Goalkeeper
35
3
Igor
Defender
27
5
P. Struijk
Defender
26
20
E. Cashin
Defender
24
20
Costinha
Defender
25
21
O. Boscagli
Defender
28
24
F. Kadıoğlu
Defender
26
29
M. De Cuyper
Defender
25
30
M. Svoboda
Defender
27
L. Vušković
Defender
18
10
H. Howell
Midfielder
17
13
J. Hinshelwood
Midfielder
20
17
C. Baleba
Midfielder
21
25
D. Gómez
Midfielder
22
26
Y. Ayari
Midfielder
22
27
M. Wieffer
Midfielder
26
30
P. Groß
Midfielder
34
33
M. O'Riley
Midfielder
25
10
G. Rutter
Attacker
23
11
Y. Minteh
Attacker
21
17
I. Osman
Attacker
21
19
C. Kostoulas
Attacker
18
22
K. Mitoma
Attacker
28
36
Z. Yohanna
Attacker
18
Injuries and availability
Current season
Not yet connected
No injury feed for the current season
StatusThis block stays empty rather than stale
Where these numbers come from
Results, tables, head-to-head and betting stats. Our own match archive of Premier League and Premier League finals through 2025/26, derived from final scores. Every block names its competition and window.
2026/27 fixtures. The openfootball public-domain fixture file (CC0 1.0).
Starting XI. openfootball 2025/26 team sheets (CC0 1.0); the construction is stated under the graphic.
Squad. API-Football (api-sports.io). Injury data for the current season is not yet in our data plan, so that block renders empty rather than out of date.
Information, not betting advice. This page reports what happened: results, goal counts and team-sheet history from stated sources over stated windows. The betting stats are counts of past outcomes. It contains no picks, no projections and no recommendations.