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

Bournemouth and West Ham United went into their matchday 12 meeting in vastly different form, with the hosts having lost their prior two games and the visitors having won each their prior two fixtures.

The Hammers looked set to make it three consecutive wins as they held a 2-0 lead at the break thanks to Callum Wilson's brace, but a second-half fightback saw the Cherries secure a dramatic 2-2 draw.

Here, Sports Mole looks at the head-to-head record and previous meetings between West Ham United and Bournemouth.

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 23

West Ham wins: 9

Draws: 10

Bournemouth wins: 4

West Ham and Bournemouth have faced each other a total of 23 times across all competitions, and it is the Hammers that marginally lead the overall head-to-head record, having posted nine wins to the Cherries' four, while there have also been 10 draws played out between the two clubs.

Their first two meetings took place back in February 1929 when West Ham beat Bournemouth - known then as Bournemouth and Boscombe - 4-2 over two legs in the fifth round of the FA Cup.

Sixty years then passed before they would butt heads again in the old Division Two, with a 1-1 draw at Bournemouth followed by West Ham winning 4-1 on home soil in the reverse fixture at Upton Park under former boss Billy Bonds.

Nine years later, shortly before the turn of the century, West Ham beat Bournemouth 2-0 in an EFL Cup third-round home tie courtesy of goals from Marc Keller and Frank Lampard - the only other EFL Cup meeting between these two teams took place in August 2024 when the Hammers claimed a narrow 1-0 second-round win thanks to an 88th-minute winner from Jarrod Bowen.

In the Premier League, West Ham and Bournemouth have faced each other 17 times, with the Cherries winning the first of those by a thrilling 4-3 scoreline at the London Stadium in August 2015 thanks to a Callum Wilson hat-trick.

Bournemouth accumulated 14 points from their first eight top-flight encounters with West Ham (W4 D2 L2), but since then they have failed to win each of their last nine league meetings with the Hammers, losing four of those - including two 4-0 defeats - and drawing each of their last five, including three by a 1-1 scoreline.

Their most recent encounter saw former Cherries hero Wilson strike a first-half brace to give the Hammers a healthy lead going into the break, only for goals from Marcus Tavernier and Enes Unal (who scored a 90th-minute equaliser in this fixture a year earlier) equalise for Bournemouth.