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

West Ham United and Nottingham Forest matched up in a Premier League relegation battle on gameweek 21 of the 2025-26 season, with the Tricky Trees emerging 2-1 victors.

The Hammers initially took the lead thanks to a Murillo own goal, but a Nicolas Dominguez header and late Morgan Gibbs-White penalty handed Sean Dyche's side a potentially crucial three points in the fight for survival.

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

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 124

West Ham wins: 49

Draws: 26

Nott'm Forest wins: 49

Regular opponents ever since their Second Division days in the early 20th century, West Ham United and Nottingham Forest have crossed paths on 123 occasions across all tournaments since their inaugural affair, a 1911 FA Cup clash.

The Hammers came up trumps 2-1 in that showdown, contributing to the 49 victories the London side boast in this competition, although their Nottinghamshire counterparts have similarly won 49 times in this matchup.

West Ham's 49th victory came on gameweek three of the 2025-26 Premier League season, when three goals in the final 10 minutes from Jarrod Bowen, Lucas Paqueta and Callum Wilson helped them claim their first three points of the campaign.

However, Nottingham Forest got their revenge and levelled the victories as they won 2-1 in the reverse fixture on gameweek 2-1, with goals from Dominguez and Gibbs-White handing the Tricky Trees a much-needed triumph.

Both Premier League meetings in 2024 also went the way of Forest, who followed up a 2-0 home victory in February of that year with a 3-0 triumph in November at the City Ground. The Reds then recorded a 2-1 victory at the London Stadium in the Premier League in May 2025.

Home is most certainly where the heart is for both sides in this fixture, as West Ham coincidentally prevailed in both of their showdowns in 2023 at the London Stadium, after losing 1-0 to the Garibaldi at the City Ground in August 2022.

In fact, before their most recent clashes in May 2025 and January 2026, which Forest won 2-1 on both occasions, the last away victory for either side in this fixture came during the 2011-12 Championship season, as West Ham demolished Forest 4-1 on the road, when Carlton Cole, Kevin Nolan and Winston Reid all helped themselves to goals.

Cup meetings have also been commonplace between the two clubs down the years, the most noteworthy of which was a 4-0 FA Cup semi-final win for Forest in the 1990-91 season, before the Garibaldi were beaten by Tottenham Hotspur in the final.

Current Forest hotshot Chris Wood is particularly fond of a goal against West Ham in the Premier League, netting eight versus the Irons in the competition, his best record against a single team.