Home form is one of the most important things in football and something that all coaches crave. If you can make teams fear coming to your stadium, your chances of victory grow massively.
Each home win breeds more confidence among the players and the fans, meaning the next victory just feels inevitable. Putting together a staggering sequence of triumphs on your own turf tends to be followed by a league title, but this is not always the case.
Here are the longest home winning runs in the history of the Premier League.
This winning home run from Tottenham came entirely during the 2016/17 Premier League season, which makes it surprising that they still were not able to win the league title.
Mauricio Pochettino’s side were beaten to the title by Chelsea. After a stuttering but unbeaten start to the season, the winning home run began with a 3-2 victory over West Ham United.
Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United would all lose at White Hart Lane during the rest of the campaign, but the run ended with their first ‘home’ game of the 2017/18 season. Chelsea rocked up to Wembley and won 2-1 with an 88th-minute Marcos Alonso winner, but it was Tottenham that finished above their London rivals that year.
Newcastle’s 14-game winning run started at the end of the 1994/95 campaign, signing off with a sixth-placed finish and a 3-2 victory over Crystal Palace.
They remembered how they got that win, as the Magpies then claimed all three points from the next 13 home games. Leeds United, Liverpool and Arsenal were all beaten by this Newcastle team featuring the legendary figures of David Ginola, Peter Beardsley, Les Ferdinand and Tino Asprilla among others.
The run came to an end, predictably, when Manchester United arrived in the northeast. Eric Cantona scored the only goal of the game and Man Utd would beat Newcastle to the title by four points.
Unai Emery’s Aston Villa side has caught many fans off guard during the 2023/24 season. Tipped by many in the summer to be a force, their slightly slow start to the season meant the discourse swiftly moved to other matters.
Now, though, they are mixing it in the top four of the Premier League and that is largely down to their ridiculous home form.
Having beaten Crystal Palace 1-0 at home in March 2023, Villa finished the…
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