head record and past meetings

Submitted by daniel on Thu, 14/08/2025 - 13:58

Burnley boss Scott Parker faces another Tottenham Hotspur reunion on Saturday, as the Clarets visit North London for the opening weekend of the Premier League season.

The former Spurs midfielder led the visitors to a century of Championship points with record-breaking defensive numbers last season, although his side agonisingly missed out on the title to fellow 100-pointers Leeds United.

The Clarets are yet to take to the field competitively this term, but Thomas Frank's side have UEFA Super Cup wrongs to right, having suffered a painful penalty shootout loss to Paris Saint-Germain in midweek.

Here, Sports Mole takes an in-depth look at the head-to-head record and previous meetings between the two sides.

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings:Â 125

Tottenham Hotspur wins:Â 55

Draws:Â 28

Burnley wins:Â 42

Saturday's 2025-26 Premier League opener will mark the 126th different competitive meeting between Tottenham Hotspur and Burnley, who first collided all the way back in 1906 - a 2-0 FA Cup triumph for the capital club.

That was the first of 55 wins Spurs have picked up in this fixture, although Burnley are not all that far behind with 42 successes of their own, and the two clubs have played out 28 draws down the years.

However, the bulk of the Clarets' successes came during the 20th century, and Tottenham have unsurprisingly dominated this fixture in more recent times, earning seven victories from their last eight head-to-heads with the Lancashire club.

The Lilywhites enter Saturday's tie on a four-match winning streak against Burnley, whom they dispatched 2-1 during the closing stages of the 2023-24 Premier League campaign, a result that sent the Clarets crashing back down to the second tier.

Tottenham had also stridden to a 5-2 thumping of Burnley at Turf Moor earlier that season - as well as a 1-0 triumph in the FA Cup - and their last reverse at the hands of the Clarets came under Antonio Conte in February 2022.

Burnley also got the better of Spurs at home in February 2019 and May 2010, but the Clarets have never beaten Tottenham on their travels in the Premier League, losing seven of eight such fixtures and drawing the other.

Outside of league action, Burnley and Tottenham memorably contested the 1962 FA Cup final - where Spurs defended their title courtesy of a 3-1 success - and the 2008-09 EFL Cup semi-finals, where a second-leg Clarets comeback was for nought in a 6-4 defeat.

Among the documented scorers in this fixture, no man enjoyed Tottenham vs. Burnley more than Jimmy Greaves, who found the back of the net 15 times in games between the Lilywhites and the Clarets.

Last 20 meetings

May 11, 2024: Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Burnley (Premier League)

Jan 05, 2024: Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Burnley (FA Cup)

Sep 02, 2023: Burnley 2-5 Tottenham Hotspur (Premier League)

May 15, 2022: Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Burnley (Premier League)

Feb 23, 2022: Burnley 1-0 Tottenham Hotspur (Premier League)

Oct 27, 2021: Burnley 0-1 Tottenham Hotspur (EFL Cup)

Feb 28, 2021: Tottenham Hotspur 4-0 Burnley (Premier League)

Oct 26, 2020: Burnley 0-1 Tottenham Hotspur (Premier League)

Mar 07, 2020: Burnley 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur (Premier League)

Dec 07, 2019: Tottenham Hotspur 5-0 Burnley (Premier League)

Feb 23, 2019: Burnley 2-1 Tottenham Hotspur (Premier League)

Dec 15, 2018: Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Burnley (Premier League)

Dec 23, 2017: Burnley 0-3 Tottenham Hotspur (Premier League)

Aug 27, 2017: Tottenham Hotspur 1-1 Burnley (Premier League)

Apr 01, 2017: Burnley 0-2 Tottenham Hotspur (Premier League)

Dec 18, 2016: Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Burnley (Premier League)

Apr 05, 2015: Burnley 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur (Premier League)

Jan 14, 2015: Tottenham Hotspur 4-2 Burnley (FA Cup)

Jan 05, 2015: Burnley 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur (FA Cup)

Dec 20, 2014: Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Burnley (Premier League)

Last 10 Premier League meetings