Leeds United, Sunderland and Burnley have rare chance to join exclusive Premier League club
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Charlie Grace
Fri 26 September 2025 12:00, UK
The Premier League’s three newcomers have shot off to one of the best starts in league history for newly promoted teams.
It took only two games for all three promoted sides to get their first wins of the season, which is the first time that has occurred since 2016, when Burnley, Middlesbrough and Hull City all achieved the feat.
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Leeds, Burnley and Sunderland will hope to mirror the fortunes of the 2017-18 promoted sides, as opposed to the fate of the 2016-17 promoted sides, though, as Middlesbrough and Hull both were relegated back to the Championship after one season.
SeasonTeamsPointsSurvived1992-93Ipswich, Middlesbrough, Blackburn2522017-18Newcastle, Brighton, Huddersfield2132010-11Newcastle, West Bromwich Albion, Blackpool2122001-02Fulham, Blackburn, Bolton2032025-26Leeds, Burnley, Sunderland19–1998-99Nottingham Forest, M’boro, Charlton191The most points earned by newly promoted sides after five games (BBC)
When compared to last season’s promoted sides, this season’s group pale in comparison, particularly defensively.
When looking historically, Leeds, Burnley and Sunderland have made the fifth-best start of any promoted group in Premier League history.
If the three sides do stay up, they will become only the fifth newly promoted group in Premier League history to all survive, after 2021-22, 2017-18, 2011-12, 2001-02.
With the three newly promoted sides gaining traction, it means that three of the Premier League’s mainstays are now under threat.
Vitor Pereira has been backed by the Wolves hierarchy to turn their season around, but with no points from their opening six games, the Midlands club appears to be losing ground rapidly to their newly promoted rivals in the battle against the drop.
Finally, West Ham United have also started the season poorly, losing four of their first five Premier League games and conceding 13 goals already, the worst goals record in the league so far.