Wolverhampton Wanderers vs. Brighton & Hove Albion: Head-to-head record and past meetings after Premier League draw

Wolverhampton Wanderers continue their search for their first Premier League win of the 2025-26 season after an agonising late goal saw them held to a 1-1 draw by Brighton & Hove Albion on Sunday.

Vitor Pereira's men took the lead within seconds of the manager being sent off by referee Jarred Gillett for what seemed to be dissent, when Marshall Munetsi's volley was saved by Bart Verbruggen, only for the ball to rebound off the crossbar, onto the Seagulls goalkeeper, and into the back of the net.

The Old Gold, who lost their first five top-flight matches this season, held firm for the majority of the game but were eventually undone by a quick corner that culminated in Jan Paul van Hecke heading home an equaliser in the 86th minute.

Here, Sports Mole rounds up the head-to-head record and looks at the past meetings between Wolves and Brighton after Sunday's Premier League clash.

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 47

Wolves wins: 9

Draws: 17

Brighton wins: 21

After meeting infrequently during the 20th century, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Brighton & Hove Albion have regularly crossed paths since the turn of the millennium, either in the Premier League or the Championship.

There have now been a total of 47 competitive clashes between the Old Gold and the Seagulls, who boast the overall superiority with 21 wins compared to just a paltry nine for Wolves, while 17 other battles have ended honours even.

It was actually Wolves who prevailed in the first two head-to-heads - albeit two that were 10 years apart in 1969 and 1979 - but Brighton responded with a nine-game winning run and have largely had the better of the Old Gold in recent times too.

Indeed, Brighton have avoided losing each of their last seven Premier League contests with Wolves - including a 2-0 win at Molineux in May 2025 - although a 2-2 draw in October 2024 no doubt felt like a defeat, as Fabian Hurzeler's men went 2-0 up in the 85th minute before throwing that lead away in the dying embers.

Brighton had triumphed 3-2 in a League Cup clash just a few months beforehand, though, and the South Coast outfit have not been beaten by the Old Gold in the Premier League since December 2021, when Romain Saiss scored the only goal at the Amex.

However, Wolves were victorious in the fifth round of the 2023-24 FA Cup, where Mario Lemina's second-minute strike sent the Molineux men into the quarter-finals, but that 1-0 triumph represents their only success from their last nine battles with Brighton.

Furthermore, Wolves have never beaten the Seagulls by more than two goals, whereas Brighton achieved their most emphatic victory in this fixture to date in April 2023, slaughtering Wanderers 6-0 at home as Pascal Gross, Danny Welbeck and Deniz Undav all scored braces.

Most recently, the sides met once again in the top flight in October 2025, and with the Old Gold desperate for points, they took the lead at Molineux thanks to an own-goal from Bart Verbruggen, though they were denied their first victory in a tough season when Jan Paul van Hecke netted a late equaliser from a quickly-worked corner.