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Sunderland vs. West Ham: Head-to-head record and past meetings

Newly-promoted Sunderland begin their first Premier League season in eight years by welcoming West Ham United to the Stadium of Light for matchday one of the 2025-26 campaign on Saturday afternoon.

The Black Cats are still basking in the glory of their dramatic Championship playoff final victory over Sheffield United in May and head coach Regis Le Bris has since overseen the arrival of 11 new players this summer.

As for the Hammers, they are gearing up for their first full season under the tutelage of Graham Potter, who steered his team away from relegation and up to 14th in the top-flight table in the second half of 2024-25.

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

West Ham United's Dimitri Payet in action with Sunderland's Didier Ndong on October 22, 2016

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 92

Sunderland wins: 31

Draws: 25

West Ham United wins: 36

Sunderland and West Ham United have faced each other a total of 92 times across all competitions and it is the Hammers who marginally lead the overall head-to-head record, as they have won 36 games compared to the Black Cats’ 31, while 25 draws have been played out between the two clubs.

Seventy of those matches have been league fixtures and there has been very little to separate the two teams over the years, with West Ham winning 25 times and just one more than Sunderland’s 24, while the remaining 21 encounters ended as a draw, including their very first (0-0) back in April 1923 in the old Division One.

West Ham’s biggest league victory over Sunderland to date took place at Upton Park in October 1968 when Sir Geoff Hurst scored six goals in a thumping 8-0 win, while the Black Cats has to wait nine years before they celebrated their biggest win over the Hammers - a 6-0 home success.

Sunderland and West Ham have only ever butted heads four times in the FA Cup, with the Hammers winning third and fifth-round ties 1-0 in 1929 and 2001 respectively, either side of the Black Cats claiming a 3-2 fifth-round away win in a replay in 1992 after drawing the initial tie 1-1 on home soil.

In 1964, Sunderland won their first EFL Cup tie against West Ham by a 4-1 scoreline in the second round, but since then, they have drawn one and lost four of their last five encounters with the Hammers in the competition, most recently losing a third-round tie 2-1 at the Stadium of Light in 2010.

Since the Premier League was formed in 1992-93, Sunderland and West Ham have faced each other 30 times in the top tier of English football, and the Hammers boast more than twice as many wins (13) as the Black Cats (seven).

Both teams have also briefly locked horns in the second tier in the 2003-04 and 2004-05 seasons, securing two wins each. Andy Reid scored a 90th-minute winner for Sunderland in a crucial 2-1 win in April 2005 en route to lifting the Championship title that season.

The most recent meeting between Sunderland and West Ham took place in the Premier League in the April 2017 when Fabio Borini netted a 90th-minute equaliser for the Black Cats in a 2-2 home draw with the Hammers, but that result was not enough to prevent David Moyes’s Sunderland from avoiding relegation.

Previous meetings

Apr 15, 2017: Sunderland 2-2 West Ham United (Premier League)

Oct 22, 2016: West Ham United 1-0 Sunderland (Premier League)

Feb 27, 2016: West Ham United 1-0 Sunderland (Premier League)

Oct 03, 2015: Sunderland 2-2 West Ham United (Premier League)

Mar 21, 2015: West Ham United 1-0 Sunderland (Premier League)

Dec 13, 2014: Sunderland 1-1 West Ham United (Premier League)

Mar 31, 2014: Sunderland 1-2 West Ham United (Premier League)

Dec 14, 2013: West Ham United 0-0 Sunderland (Premier League)

Jan 12, 2013: Sunderland 3-0 West Ham United (Premier League)

Sep 22, 2012: West Ham United 1-1 Sunderland (Premier League)

May 22, 2011: West Ham United 0-3 Sunderland (Premier League)

Dec 05, 2010: Sunderland 1-0 West Ham United (Premier League)

Apr 10, 2010: West Ham United 1-0 Sunderland (Premier League)

Oct 31, 2009: Sunderland 2-2 West Ham United (Premier League)

Apr 04, 2009: West Ham United 2-0 Sunderland (Premier League)

Nov 23, 2008: Sunderland 0-1 West Ham United (Premier League)

Mar 29, 2008: Sunderland 2-1 West Ham United (Premier League)

Oct 21, 2007: West Ham United 3-1 Sunderland (Premier League)

Feb 04, 2006: West Ham United 2-0 Sunderland (Premier League)

Oct 01, 2005: Sunderland 1-1 West Ham United (Premier League)

Last 10 Premier League meetings