LONGEST ENGLISH UNBEATEN RUNS
Picture : Antoine Semenyo scored one of the two goals of Bournemouth to stop Manchester City's unbeaten run !
Longest unbeaten runs in English top division
Manchester City have just gone 32 games unbeaten in Premier League (23 wins, 9 draws). The run has been broken on 2 November with a defeat vs Bournemouth (1-2).
It’s new top-flight club record that surpassed the previous City’s similar streak of 30 games between April 2017 and January 2018.
The longest unbeaten run in English top-flight history overall is held by Arsenal between May 2003 and October 2004, with Arsène Wenger’s side going astonishing run of 49 matches without a Premier League defeat.
38 of these 49 games came in a single season (2003-04), as Arsenal’s “Invincibles” went an entire campaign without defeat – the only Premier League team to do so.
Before that, “Gunners” had another long streak of 30 games without a defeat in between December 2001 and October 2002, also under Wenger who is still the only coach in Premier League history to have secured 2 unbeaten runs of 30+ games.
The first ever team in English top division ro reach this mark, Burnley enjoyed it in their champion 1920-21 season. Curiously, their pioneer run came following a 4-match losing streak, with 3 of those coming in the opening 3 games of the campaign.
Chelsea, across their 40-game unbeaten run between 2004 and 2005, kept as many as 24 clean sheets.
Overall, there have now been 11 instances of teams going 30+ games unbeaten in English top-flight history, of which 6 have come in the Premier League era and 5 before its foundation.
| ENGLAND | 1888- | TOP | FLIGHT | |||
| LONGEST | UNBEATEN | RUNS | ||||
| Club | Games | W | D | From | To | |
| 1 | Arsenal | 49 | 36 | 13 | 07/05/2003 | 16/10/2004 |
| 2 | Liverpool | 44 | 39 | 5 | 12/01/2019 | 24/02/2020 |
| 3 | Nottingham Forest | 42 | 21 | 21 | 26/11/1977 | 25/11/1978 |
| 4 | Chelsea | 40 | 33 | 7 | 23/10/2004 | 29/10/2005 |
| 5 | Leeds | 34 | 19 | 15 | 26/10/1968 | 26/08/1969 |
| 6 | Manchester City | 32 | 23 | 9 | 10/12/2023 | 26/10/2024 |
| 7 | Liverpool | 31 | 23 | 8 | 04/05/1987 | 16/03/1988 |
| 8 | Burnley | 30 | 21 | 9 | 06/09/1920 | 25/03/1921 |
| 9 | Leeds | 30 | 20 | 10 | 09/05/1973 | 09/02/1974 |
| 10 | Arsenal | 30 | 25 | 5 | 23/12/2001 | 06/10/2002 |
| 11 | Manchester City | 30 | 26 | 4 | 04/04/2017 | 02/01/2018 |