Coventry vs. Hull City: Head-to-head record and past meetings

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 54

Draws: 14

Coventry City and Hull City have played against each other a total of 54 times across all competitions and it is the Tigers who marginally lead the head-to-head record, having posted 22 wins to the Sky Blues' 18.

February 1920 was the first time that these two teams met in the old Division Two, with the Tigers claiming a narrow 1-0 away win. Coventry responded by registering three wins and one draw in the next four games, but Hull then enjoyed an eight-match unbeaten run over the Sky Blues (W6 D2) between 1922 and 1949.

Hull also boast the biggest winning margin between these two clubs after they thrashed Coventry 5-0 on home soil in the old Division Three in January 1952. Coventry's biggest win in this fixture came in the same division 11 years later when they put the Tigers to the sword 4-0, courtesy of a hat-trick from Ron Hewitt.

The two teams have locked horns 20 times in the Championship since the competition's rebrand in 2004, and there has been little to separate them over the years.

Hull have won seven, drawn seven and lost six of those encounters with Coventry, winning the very first by a 2-0 away scoreline in September 2005, before the Sky Blues won each of the next three meetings by an aggregate score of 5-1.

Since then, Hull have largely dominated this fixture, losing just three of the last 16 head-to-head meetings. However, since March 2023, five of the last seven games between the two teams have ended as a draw, with both Championship encounters in the 2025-26 season ending goalless. Still, Coventry went on to win the title and Hull secured promotion via the playoffs.

A total of five domestic cup games have taken place between Coventry and Hull, with the Sky Blues prevailing in four of those (L1). Their most recent cup win was by a 3-0 aggregate scoreline in the second round of the League Cup between September and October 1995.

The latest meeting came in the second round of Premier League fixtures during the 2026-27 season where the two newly-promoted sides came head to to head at Coventry Building Society Arena.

The away side snatched a late winner from Liam Millar after the Canadian was played through by Mohamed Belloumi who was able to slot home a cool finish to hand the Tigers their 22nd win over Coventry City.