Sunderland vs. West Ham United: Head-to-head record and past meetings

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 94

Draws: 25

Sunderland and West Ham United have faced each other a total of 94 times across all competitions and it is the Hammers who marginally lead the overall head-to-head record, as they have won 37 games compared to the Black Cats’ 32, while 25 draws have been played out between the two clubs.

71 of those matches have been league fixtures, and there has been very little to separate the two teams over the years with West Ham racking up 26 wins to Sunderland's 25, while the remaining 21 encounters ended as a draw, including their very first (0-0) back in April 1923 in the old Division One.

West Ham’s biggest league victory over Sunderland to date took place at Upton Park in October 1968 when Sir Geoff Hurst scored six goals in a thumping 8-0 win, and the Black Cats had to wait nine years to take revenge with their biggest win over the Hammers - a 6-0 home success.

Sunderland and West Ham have only ever butted heads four times in the FA Cup, with the Hammers winning third and fifth-round ties 1-0 in 1929 and 2001 respectively, either side of the Black Cats claiming a 3-2 fifth-round away win in a replay in 1992 after drawing the initial tie 1-1 on home soil.

In 1964, Sunderland won their first EFL Cup tie against West Ham by a 4-1 scoreline in the second round, but since then, they have drawn one and lost four of their last five encounters with the Hammers in the competition, most recently losing a third-round tie 2-1 at the Stadium of Light in 2010.

Since the Premier League was formed in 1992-93, Sunderland and West Ham have faced each other 31 times in the top tier of English football, and the Hammers (13) have the bragging rights in terms of wins over the Black Cats (eight).

Both teams have also briefly locked horns in the second tier in the 2003-04 and 2004-05 seasons, securing two wins each. Andy Reid scored a 90th-minute winner for Sunderland in a crucial 2-1 win in April 2005 en route to lifting the Championship title that season.

Before Sunderland's extended absence from the top flight, the two clubs locked horns in April 2017 when Fabio Borini netted a 90th-minute equaliser for the Black Cats in a 2-2 home draw with the Hammers, but that result was not enough to save David Moyes’s Black Cats from relegation.

The most recent meeting between Sunderland and West Ham took place at the London Stadium in January 2026, when Crysencio Summerville, Jarrod Bowen and Matheus Fernandes all scored first-half goals in a 3-1 victory.