Burnley are on the brink of an unwanted piece of English football history. If they fail to beat Portsmouth at home on Saturday, 31 October, the Clarets will hold the outright record for the longest run without a home league victory in any of England's top four divisions.

The current record belongs to Sheffield Wednesday, whose winless home run in the league stretched 376 days — from April 2025 to May 2026. Burnley's fixture against Portsmouth in the Championship falls 377 days after their last home league win, meaning the Clarets will surpass the Owls if they cannot claim three points against John Mousinho's side.

A barren run at Turf Moor

Burnley's last home league victory came on 18 October 2025, a 2-0 win over Leeds United in the Premier League. Since that result, they have gone 21 home league matches without a win — 15 in last season's Premier League and six so far in this season's Championship.

Those 21 matches have produced ten draws and 11 defeats. Not a single home league win in over a year.

It is worth noting that the record applies only to clubs that remained continuously within England's top four divisions throughout their winless stretch. Any side that dropped out of the English Football League and later returned does not qualify.

Cup results offer little comfort

Burnley did find some relief in cup football at Turf Moor. In January 2026, they defeated Championship side Millwall in the FA Cup third round. However, their home cup form offered no sustained boost — Mansfield Town knocked them out in the fourth round, also at Turf Moor, adding yet another home defeat to the tally.

In this season's Carabao Cup, Burnley edged past Notts County in the first round, though they required a penalty shootout to do so — hardly a convincing result.

The home encounter with Portsmouth on 31 October now looms as one of the most significant fixtures in Burnley's recent history — not for glory, but to avoid the unwanted distinction of holding England's longest home league winless record.