Arsenal Finally Top Table As North Bank Crowned Best Home Fan Experience In PL

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Arsenal Finally Top Table As North Bank Crowned Best Home Fan Experience In PL

The 2024/25 Premier League season was a hotbed for goals, with 1,115 scored across the 380 matches played. 

Considered by many as the best league in the world, the Premier League also features some of the most iconic stands in football. 

Manchester United’s Stretford End, Liverpool’s Kop Stand and Newcastle United’s Gallowgate End are known for galvanising the home team, elevating their performances, putting nerves into the opposition players, and giving their team that extra push to get over the line. 

So, it’s no surprise that these three stands, along with a host of others in the Premier League, are revered and even feared around the world.

The two stands in each Premier League stadium that house a goal usually vary in terms of size, steepness, fan passion and contribution to the overall atmosphere. 

Some fans believe that players are more inclined to score at a certain stand due to their support, and often, the statistics back this up.

So, following the conclusion of the 2024/25 Premier League, and ahead of the new season, Gambling.com have worked out which stadium stands (with a goal in front of it) had the best and worst home fan experiences last year.

The Kop

To do this, we delved into every Premier League game from last season and calculated how each stand across the 20 teams performed in terms of home and away team goals, with each team delegated both a ‘home’ and ‘away’ behind the goal stand. 

In cases where the away fans are not always housed directly behind one of the goals, the stand behind the goals closest to the away section was used.

For example, across the league, stands behind the goals that house home fans have had a higher percentage of home team goals than the stand that houses (or is closest to) the away fans. 

The only exceptions are the Etihad Stadium, London Stadium, Portman Road and St. Mary’s Stadium.

The Kop

London Stands: Mixed Fortunes On Home Soil

According to the study, Premier League clubs based in the capital are either freely bagging goals in front of their home fans or struggling to find the net. 

The highest-placed London club, Arsenal, only lost two games at home, while at the other end of the scale, West Ham missed the mark at home, winning only five games.

Despite the Gunners finishing runners-up for the third season in a row, their North Bank stand has the highest percentage of home team goals (82.61%) across the league, ahead of Forest’s Trent End (80%), the Etihad’s South Stand (80%) and the Kop Stand (79.31%).

The North Bank stand at Arsenal is known for its passionate atmosphere and loyal supporters. 

The stand is a tribute to the original North Bank at Highbury Stadium (Arsenal’s former ground). It also holds 11,200 seats, which is almost as many as the entirety of Bournemouth’s Vitality Stadium.

Surprisingly, Brentford's East Stand saw the most goals of any stand across the 24/25 PL season (41), with the Gtech Community Stadium also having the most goals overall (75). 

The Bees’ attacking flair and strong home form, with Mbeumo and Wissa bagging goals left, right and centre, means it isn’t a huge surprise that the Gtech tops the list of most goals overall.

West Ham and London neighbours Fulham struggled at their respective home grounds, with only 42.62% and 47.37% of goals there coming from the home team, respectively. 

West Ham had an especially difficult season, finishing in a lowly 14th place; however, with Graham Potter beginning to mould his squad, Hammers fans will hope to make the London Stadium a fortress next season.

Outside of London, Nottingham Forest and Liverpool had fantastic seasons, which were highlighted in their goal-scoring percentages and defensive solidity at home. 

Across all of the grounds as a whole, Anfield had the highest percentage of home team goals (72.41%), while Forest’s Trent End had the least amount of goals (15) and away team goals (3) in the division.

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Man City’s Etihad Fortress

Although Manchester City had a difficult season by their standards, their South Stand saw the most home team goals along with Newcastle’s Gallowgate End (24).

The South Stand is also officially the best ‘away’ stand for home fans in the league, with 80% of the goals scored by the home team in this end. This is the largest percentage by some distance - next is the Anfield Road Stand (65.52%) and Newcastle’s Leazes Stand (64%).

Despite their reactive struggles, the Etihad Stadium still proved to be a happy home for City as they scored the most home team goals (43) across the division.

On the other side of Manchester, United’s dismal season was highlighted by the fact that only 45.1% of the goals scored at Old Trafford were by them. 

United have definitely lacked an out-and-out goalscorer, with Amad Diallo and Bruno Fernandes topping their chart with just eight goals each.

Etihad Stadium

The Goals Dried Up At Home - And So Did Their Survival Hopes

The three relegated teams, Southampton, Ipswich Town and Leicester City, lacked the Premier League quality to compete and went down without really challenging for survival. 

Their lack of a goal-scoring threat, especially at home, proved pivotal in a hugely disappointing season for all three teams. 

It was no surprise that Ipswich Town (24.14%), Leicester City (30.61%) and Southampton (21.67%) had the lowest percentage of home goals scored in their stadiums last season.

Southampton barely avoided becoming the worst team ever in the Premier League, and their Northam Stand saw most of the action - but for all the wrong reasons for Saints fans. 

This stand saw the fewest home team goals (four or 17.39%) and the highest percentage of away team goals (82.61%) in the league. 

Their Chapel Stand had the most away team goals (28 or 75.68%).

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