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James Barker

Sat 16 May 2026 8:10, UK

Brighton will be rubbing their hands together, as Leeds United have not won a single Premier League game on a Sunday this season.

Leeds may have secured their Premier League status for 2026-27, but Daniel Farke will be imploring his players to keep up the hunger in their final two games of the season.

Overall, it’s been a very impressive term at Elland Road, with Farke’s men now comfortably past the 40 point milestone and having reached an FA Cup semi-final.

As such, Leeds will want to finish the campaign strongly, but to do so, they will need to pass a tough test against European football-chasing Brighton on Sunday.

The Seagulls will be expected to beat the Whites, and if they weren’t already confident of doing so, some calendar-based evidence will surely have them feeling so now.

How poor is Leeds United’s Premier League record on a Sunday?

Whether it be the work of the footballing gods, or just unexplainable bad luck, every team has some form of unique trouble when playing against a certain side, in a specific venue or on a particular day of the week.

Unfortunately for Leeds, when it comes to Brighton, two of those three problems ring true.

Leeds have a poor recent record against Brighton, winning only once from their last 14 league meetings with the Seagulls.

That’s one part of the equation, the other lies in the very day of the week this latest renewal takes place on: Sunday.

Indeed, the Whites are winless from all six of their Premier League matches on Sundays this season, drawing their most recent four and losing their earliest two respectively.

That’s not the end of Leeds’ Sunday struggles in the Premier League though, as when we jump back to the Whites’ most recent top-flight campaign of 2022-23, it gets even worse.

Of the 12 league games Leeds played on a Sunday that year, they were only able to register one win, and that came in their very first of that campaign with a 3-0 victory over Chelsea at Elland Road under Jesse Marsch.

Leeds lost nine of those matches that season, drawing the other two, meaning the Whites have a grand total of one win, 11 defeats and six draws from their last 18 Premier League Sunday outings.

How have Brighton fared on Sunday’s this season?

So, we now know that Sunday’s don’t really work for Leeds when it comes to the Premier League, but do they for Brighton?

Well, they Seagulls have certainly had a much better time of things than the Whites this term, with only two defeats from their eight matches on the final day of the week this year.

Fabian Hurzeler’s men have three wins and three draws from their other six Sunday clashes, whilst their victories came against Man City and Nottingham Forest twice, with their losses at the hands of Everton and Crystal Palace respectively.

Leeds’ chances of victory don’t read particularly well then all things considered here, but perhaps Farke and his players can utilise the pressure that Brighton will be under to get the win to their advantage.