Sunderland vs. Burnley: Head-to-head record and past meetings before Premier League clash

Attempting to do what no team has managed to do in the 2025-26 Premier League season so far, Burnley head to the Stadium of Light to tackle Sunderland on Monday night, in gameweek 24 of the campaign.

The Clarets are visiting a venue where the Black Cats have not lost a single top-flight game this season, claiming six wins and five draws from their 11 home matches, and Regis Le Bris's side are now the only team with their unbeaten Premier League home record still intact after Arsenal's loss to Manchester United last weekend.

However, Sunderland fell short on the road in last weekend's 3-1 defeat to relegation-threatened West Ham United, which plunged them into the bottom half of the Premier League table, but a win on Monday will keep them within touching distance of the European spots.

Meanwhile, Scott Parker's Burnley extended their unbeaten run in all tournaments to four games by drawing 2-2 with Tottenham Hotspur last weekend, although they will end the gameweek in 19th spot no matter what happens at the Stadium of Light, or indeed elsewhere.

Ahead of Monday's scrap, Sports Mole looks at the head-to-head records and previous meetings between Sunderland and Burnley.

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 122

Burnley wins: 40

Draws: 34

Sunderland wins: 48

Burnley and Sunderland have faced each other a total of 122 times across all competitions, with the Black Cats leading the overall head-to-head record having posted 48 wins to the Clarets 40, while 34 draws have been played out between the two clubs.

September 1890 was the first time these two teams butted heads, with Burnley securing a 3-2 away victory in the old Division One, the first of 77 meetings in this division up until 1969.

Burnley just edge the head-to-head record for this period with 30 wins to Sunderland’s 29. The Clarets’ biggest win in this fixture to date is their 6-0 home victory in October 1957, but the Black Cats went one better 31 years earlier when they scored seven in a 7-1 triumph on home soil.

Both teams also faced each other twice in the old Division Two between 1971 and 1980. Sunderland can out on top in six of those matches, including 4-3 and 5-0 home wins, while Burnley celebrated only two victories in this period, doing the double over the Black Cats in the 1972-73 season.

Since the EFL Championship was founded in 2004, Burnley and Sunderland have locked horns eight times in the second tier, and it was the team from Wearside who celebrated an early spell of success with three wins and one draw between December 2004 and April 2007, securing top-flight promotion in the latter year.

Burnley and Sunderland renewed acquaintances in the Championship in the 2022-23 and 2024-25 seasons, and both teams picked up five points across those four meetings (W1 D2 L1), including two goalless stalemates at Turf Moor.

Only seven times have Burnley and Sunderland faced off in the Premier League, and the Clarets edged ahead in the head-to-head record by claiming their third win at the beginning of the 2025-26 season, winning 2-0 at Turf Moor.

That victory extended both teams' unbeaten home records against one another in the top flight, with Burnley recording 3-1, 4-1 and 2-0 home wins, while Sunderland have won 2-1 and 2-0, and three draws making up the remaining results.