Brentford have failed to win any of their four Premier League home games against Tottenham, with three consecutive draws being followed by a 2-0 defeat last season.
Tottenham have won their last four Premier League matches against Brentford and have only lost one in nine overall (W5 D3), a 3-1 defeat in May 2023.
Having won their first league game in five consecutive calendar years between 2020 and 2024, Brentford lost 3-1 at home to Arsenal on New Yearâs Day 2025.
Tottenham have lost their first league game in two of the last three calendar years (D1), including a 2-1 home loss to Newcastle in 2025. Theyâve not lost their opening league game in consecutive calendar years since 2008/2009.
Brentford are playing a London derby on New Yearâs Day in the league for a fifth time (W2 D1 L1) â they drew 0-0 with Fulham in 1994, beat Dagenham and Redbridge in both 2008 and 2011 in League Two and lost 3-1 to Arsenal last year.
Brentford have won eight of their last 12 Premier League home games (D2 L2), including four of the last five. Since the start of that 12-game run in April, only Man City (11), Aston Villa (10) and Arsenal (9) have won more Premier League home games than the Bees.
Tottenham Hotspur have played eight London derbies on New Yearâs Day in the league previously and only lost once (W5 D2), a 3-0 defeat to West Ham in 1983. In the Premier League, theyâve won both January 1st London derby games â a 1-0 win over Fulham in 2011 and 5-3 win over Chelsea in 2015.
Tottenham lost all four of their Premier League matches in January last season, one of three teams to do so, along with Wolves and Southampton. Theyâve lost 10 of their last 16 January games (W5 D1), with their last win coming against Thomas Frankâs Brentford in 2024.
Tottenham manager Thomas Frank is set to return to Brentford, a team he managed for 278 league games between 2018 and 2025. He is the first former Bees manager to return there for a league game since Mark Warburton in November 2020 with QPR (a 1-2 defeat), with Warburton also the last former manager to win at the Bees (4-3 with Nottingham Forest in August 2017).
Kevin Schade netted three times in Brentfordâs 4-1 win over Bournemouth last time out, as many goals as heâd netted in his previous 18 Premier League games. In doing so, he became the first German player to score more than one Premier League hat-trick.