Gameweek 1 Roundup: Arsenal and Manchester City Set the Early Pace

Gameweek 1 of the 2026-27 Premier League season is complete, and it was a round to remember for the hosts. Home teams won seven of the ten fixtures and scored 22 of the gameweek's 30 goals, with Leeds United at Nottingham Forest and Chelsea at Fulham the only visiting sides to take all three points. Newcastle United and Liverpool played out the round's sole draw, sharing the spoils at 2-2.

The results

• Arsenal 3-0 Coventry City
• Hull City AFC 2-0 Manchester United
• Ipswich Town 2-1 Sunderland AFC
• Everton 2-0 Crystal Palace
• Nottingham Forest 0-1 Leeds United
• Brentford 3-0 Tottenham Hotspur
• Manchester City 2-1 AFC Bournemouth
• Brighton & Hove Albion 4-0 Aston Villa
• Newcastle United 2-2 Liverpool
• Fulham 2-3 Chelsea

The stories of the round

Arsenal swept Coventry City aside 3-0 and, according to the Premier League table, sit top on 12 points with a +7 goal difference. Coventry's start could hardly make tougher reading: bottom of the table with four defeats, no goals scored and ten conceded.

Hull City AFC beat Manchester United 2-0 to climb to third, unbeaten with two wins and two draws. United, with one win, one draw and two defeats, are down in 13th on four points.

Brighton & Hove Albion's 4-0 win over Aston Villa was the biggest scoreline of the round. The Seagulls are fourth with 13 goals — more than any other side in the division, according to the Premier League table — while Villa are 19th with one point and a single goal to their name.

Brentford saw off Tottenham Hotspur 3-0, a result that leaves Spurs 17th: winless, and with no goals scored in four matches according to the table. Brentford themselves are sixth and unbeaten.

Manchester City edged AFC Bournemouth 2-1 to join Arsenal on 12 points, though they sit second on goal difference, +6 to Arsenal's +7. Bournemouth are 15th and still winless, with three draws and a defeat.

Chelsea's 3-2 win at Fulham was the round's highest-scoring fixture, lifting the Blues to fifth on seven points with back-to-back victories. Fulham are 18th with a single point and three straight defeats.

Elsewhere, Ipswich Town beat Sunderland AFC 2-1 to go ninth on six points, with the Black Cats 14th on four. Everton ran out 2-0 winners over Crystal Palace and are eighth and unbeaten, while Palace sit 16th with three defeats. Leeds United's 1-0 success at Nottingham Forest, one of only two away wins in the round, leaves them 11th and unbeaten, with Forest 12th on five points.

How the table stands

According to the Premier League table, Arsenal set the pace with four wins from four and 12 points, with Manchester City matching that return but second on goal difference. Hull City AFC, on eight, are the nearest challengers, with Brighton & Hove Albion and Chelsea a point further back on seven. At the other end, Coventry City are pointless, while Aston Villa and Fulham have one point apiece.

What about the fans?

FanTribe's community prediction data for Gameweek 1 was not available at the time of writing, so there is no fan-prediction scoreboard to accompany this roundup — the community's hits and misses will follow once the numbers are collated. No consensus bookmaker prices were compiled for any of the ten fixtures this round, which is why this review steers clear of odds and probabilities altogether. For now, the story is all on the pitch: goals for the hosts, two sides clear at the top, and plenty for the bottom five to ponder before Gameweek 2.