What Is the Most Common Score in Football and the Premier League?

·4 min read·By Denver

1-1 was the most common final score across 5,617 matches between March and September 2026, and in our Premier League sample too. Fans predicted it far less often than 2-1.

The short answer is 1-1. Of the 5,617 finished matches that players predicted on CalledItMate between 22 March and 30 September 2026, 542 ended 1-1 (9.6%), more than any other scoreline. In the 122 Premier League matches in the same sample, 1-1 came out on top as well, with 15 (12.3%).

Below are the full numbers, what fans predicted instead, and why the gap matters if you predict scores yourself.

The most common final scores in football

Scores are written home-away, so 1-0 is a home win and 0-1 is an away win. These were the seven most common results across the 5,617 matches:

  1. 1-1: 542 matches (9.6%)
  2. 1-0: 506 matches (9.0%)
  3. 2-1: 478 matches (8.5%)
  4. 2-0: 387 matches (6.9%)
  5. 0-1: 376 matches (6.7%)
  6. 1-2: 360 matches (6.4%)
  7. 0-0: 341 matches (6.1%)

No single score covers even one match in ten. That is the first thing to know about predicting exact scores: even the most common result misses about nine times out of ten.

If you ignore which side won, a 1-0 game (506 home wins plus 376 away wins, 882 matches) is more common than 1-1. As a single exact score, though, 1-1 leads.

What fans predict instead

Across the same matches, 971 players made 22,221 score predictions. Their favourite score was not 1-1 at all:

  • 2-1 was predicted 3,847 times (17.3% of predictions) and happened in 8.5% of matches
  • 1-1 was predicted 1,283 times (5.8%) and happened in 9.6% of matches
  • 1-0 was predicted 831 times (3.7%) and happened in 9.0% of matches
  • 0-0 was predicted 266 times (1.2%) and happened in 6.1% of matches

So the most common score in football is one of the least backed. Fans lean towards scores with a winner and a few goals, and away from tight, low-scoring results. We go through every scoreline in the scorelines football fans over- and under-predict, and the draw side of it in our draws study.

The most common score in the Premier League, in this sample

The Premier League part of the sample is much smaller: 122 matches that kicked off between 22 March and 20 September 2026 and were predicted on CalledItMate. The most common results were:

  1. 1-1: 15 matches (12.3%)
  2. 3-0: 12 matches (9.8%)
  3. 0-1: 11 matches (9.0%)
  4. 2-2: 11 matches (9.0%)
  5. 2-1: 10 matches (8.2%)

35 of the 122 matches (28.7%) were draws of some kind. With only 122 matches, the gap between 15 games of 1-1 and 12 games of 3-0 is a handful of results, so treat this as what happened in this sample rather than a rule about the league.

Fans made 1,339 predictions on those 122 games. 2-1 and 1-2 were joint favourites with 220 each (16.4% apiece), while 1-1 got 95 (7.1%). The same pattern as the wider data, then: the score that happened most was backed less than half as often as the favourite picks.

What this means if you predict scores

A few things follow from the numbers, none of them a guarantee:

  • Exact scores are hard. The single most common score ended fewer than one match in ten, so a run of misses is normal, not a sign you are doing it wrong.
  • Low scores are under-backed. 1-1, 1-0 and 0-0 all happened far more often than fans predicted them. If you always go 2-1, you are with the crowd, and you will rarely gain ground on it.
  • The result still matters most. Calling the right winner or a draw earns points even when the exact score misses. A draw is the least likely of the three outcomes, which is why the most accurate players in our draws study picked them least.

For a fuller walk through the thinking, read how to predict football scores, and if you mainly follow the top flight, see the Premier League prediction game.

How we counted

  • Window: matches that kicked off from 22 March to 30 September 2026 inclusive (UTC), finished, and have a recorded final score. Data read on 1 October 2026.
  • Excluded: internal test matches, house accounts run by CalledItMate, and duplicate accounts merged into another account.
  • Matches are the finished matches that received at least one score prediction, each counted once. Predictions are each player's final predicted score for a match, counted once each.
  • This is the same sample as our scorelines study, so the overall figures above match it exactly.
  • CalledItMate players are a self-selected group of football fans, and the competition mix follows the matches they chose to predict.

Want to put the numbers to work? CalledItMate is a free football prediction game: call the correct score before kick-off, then pick the next goalscorer and the next team to score while the match is live. There is nothing to stake, and the weekly winner takes a real cash prize (how the prizes work). Play free at calleditmate.com.

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