Our exceptional performance and 2-0 win at Manchester City on Saturday made it two wins out of two at the start of the 2025/26 Premier League campaign.
Goals from Brennan Johnson and Palhinha secured the points a complete team display deserved at the Etihad as Thomas Frank made it two out of two, with two clean sheets, in the Premier League.
_How many times have we won our first two games of a Premier League season?_
### The answer is eight.
Inspired by Jurgen Klinsmann, we first did it in 1994/95, when the German striker scored in our opener at Sheffield Wednesday and followed it up with a flying volley against Everton - both memorably marked with his 'dive' celebration. We last did it at the start of the 2021/22 season - when we won our first three matches.
We had our best start to a Premier League season in 2023/24, but didn't win the opener - that was a draw at Brentford. We then won eight and drew two of our first 10 games. We were also unbeaten for the first 12 matches of 2016/17, but didn't win the first two games of what was the final season at the Lane - we won six and drew six of those 12. Meanwhile, we've only gone on to win our first four matches of a Premier League season on one occasion in 2009/10, and went on to finish fourth.
Of course, going back beyond the Premier League era, our best-ever start to a season remains an English football record - a season carved into the Club's history - the 1960/61 double-winning season when Bill Nicholson's wonderful team opened with 11 straight wins on the way to First Division title and FA Cup glory.
**Winning first two games | Premier League**
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_First five matches of those seasons..._
1994/95 - WWLWL - finished 7th2005/06 - WWDLD - finished 5th2009/10 - WWWWL - finished 4th2013/14 - WWLWW - finished 6th2014/15 - WWLDL - finished 5th2018/19 - WWWLL - finished 4th2021/22 - WWWLL - finished 4th
2025/26 - WW
**Best all-time starts to a season**
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_Stats since our first season in the Football League, 1908-09..._
16 matches unbeaten - 1960/61 - won 15 (including first 11), drew 1 (Division One)12 matches unbeaten - 1919/20 - won 11, drew 1 (Division Two)12 matches unbeaten - 1959/60 - won 6, drew 6 (Division One)12 matches unbeaten - 2016/17 - won 6, drew 6 (Premier League)10 matches unbeaten - 2023/24 - won 8 drew 2 (Premier League)
10 matches unbeaten - 1990/91 - won 6 drew 4 (Division One)