Albion Analytics: 2025 wrapped

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The best numbers from the last year.

Liam Tharme

Albion Analytics

2026-01-01T06:00+00:00

Danny Welbeck can look back on one of his finest calendar years in the Premier League. 📷 by James Boardman.

Brighton brought 2025 to an end with a 2-2 draw away to West Ham.

That result, with Albion twice coming from behind to earn a point, continued their impressive run against the east London side. It makes nine trips that Brighton have made to West Ham without defeat (W2, D7), with only Burnley hosting Chelsea and Arsenal more times (ten each) and failing to win any.

With the year wrapped up for Brighton, it makes for an apt time to review.

Fabian Hurzeler’s side played 45 matches across all competitions in 2025, impressively winning just under half (21), and drew as many as they lost (12), often showing resilience despite being a young team who are — once again — reinventing themselves.

Joao Pedro and Pervis Estupinan departed in the summer for Chelsea and AC Milan, respectively. 📷 by James Boardman.

The 2025 summer transfer window saw departures including 2024/25 top-scorer Joao Pedro, plus first team players Simon Adingra (Sunderland) and Pervis Estupinan (AC Milan), while youngsters Julio Enciso and Valentin Barco joined RC Strasbourg.

Ambitions to achieve a second season of European football rightly remain high, and the floor for Brighton has stayed solid this year, even with patchy form at times.

In the Premier League’s annual table (running from January 1 to December 31) they sit seventh on 58pts from 36 matches, a better return than 2024 — 45pts from 38 games, and their best return since earning 68 points out of 41 matches in 2023.

Across all competitions, Manchester City (87) were the only Premier League club to outscore Albion, who netted an incredible 85 goals, which included a 4-1 win away to Tottenham Hotspur on the final day of the 2024/25 campaign, as well as multiple big cup victories: 4-0 against Norwich in the FA Cup at the start of this year, and 6-0 drubbings of Oxford and Barnsley in August and September.

Though Albion end the calendar year six matches without a win (three draws, three defeats), there have been some excellent streaks of success in 2025. They won nine times in an 11-match run between January and March, including victories against Manchester United, Chelsea (twice), Bournemouth and Newcastle United — the final six games in that run were all wins.

Hurzeler’s side finished 2024/25 more strongly than any Brighton team before them in a Premier League season, only losing once in the final seven matches and taking 12 points from the final 15 available — with statement victories against Spurs and Liverpool in the last two matches earning and eighth place finish on 61 points.

Importantly, form at the Amex was much improved compared to 2024. Albion only tasted home defeat three times in the Premier League this year, winning nine times and drawing a further 7, which included a ten-game unbeaten run from mid-April to late November.

Only six Premier League teams took more than Brighton’s 34 home points in 2025 (they had 25 in 2024), while the Etihad Stadium (Man City), the Emirates (Arsenal), Anfield (Liverpool) and Villa Park (Aston Villa) were the only grounds harder to win at.

Bart Verbruggen saved a late penalty against Brentford to ensure we won 2-1, having been 1-0 down earlier in the contest. 📷 by Paul Hazlewood.

Perhaps the biggest strength of all was their capacity to recover in games. Brighton won nine times in 2025 from losing positions, the most of any Premier League team across all competitions (Villa were next-best with 8). Much of that owed to the sheer volume of goals from substitutes, as Albion scored a league-high 21 times in the final 15 minutes of games.

Similarly, the stamp of Hurzeler’s tactical identity is becoming clearer, with Brighton topping the charts for final-third regains (187, seven more than next-most Arsenal) and making the third-most tackles.

Danny Welbeck was the standout player of the calendar year, netting 12 goals in 34 appearances (clocking just over 2,000 minutes), the most of any Albion player — he hit double digits in 2024-25 for the first time as a Premier League attacker.

Danny Welbeck scored 12 Premier League goals in 2025. 📷 by Paul Hazlewood.

The New Years’ improvements will be to end the winless run and climb back up the table. While they go into 2026 in the bottom half (14th after their draw at West Ham), Brighton are as close to Chelsea in fifth as they are to Leeds United in 16th, so tight and competitive is mid-table this season.

Halfway into this Premier League campaign, Hurzeler’s side are bang-on for a 50-point season, currently having two fewer points than after 19 matches of 2024/25, a campaign they finished well.

History has it that Brighton start each calendar year well, losing the opening league match just once in the past 16 years (winning 8 and drawing 7), and not since 2016 when Wolves won 1-0 at the Amex. They will be keen to continue that trend when Burnley visit this weekend.