Everton break an amazing Premier League record following their meeting with Aston Villa.

After a difficult 2023–24 season in which they had many reasons to celebrate,

The Toffees are the first premier league club currently with most bad season start.

Everton would have preferred a more successful beginning to the new league year.

Everyone at the club would have been hopeful that a better season was in store this time around after weathering the strain of securing survival despite two point sanctions for breaking Premier League financial rules.

After all, Everton would have placed 12th last season—just one point outside of the top half of the table—if those point deductions had not occurred.

They also did worse than anyone else in the Premier League in terms of underachieving their predicted goals (40 goals from 54.9 xG),

indicating that they could have finished even higher on the scoreboard with some improved finishing.

And yet, 2024–25 has started off quite poorly.

Everton is off to its poorest start in a Premier League season and its worst start to a top-flight league season in 66 years after Saturday’s 3-2 loss at Aston Villa.

Everton began the season with disappointing losses to Brighton and Tottenham,

losing 3-0 and 4-0, respectively.

This was followed by an embarrassing, and possibly very damaging,

surrender to Bournemouth.

Everton led 2-0 in the 87th minute of that match before giving up three goals in the final minute to lose 3-2,

shattering the Premier League record for the latest lead by two goals in a game that a side has lost.

Then, in the early evening kickoff on Saturday,

Everton lost 3-2 at Villa Park,

making history as the second club in the Premier League to lose two straight games after leading by two goals.

The outcome validated Everton’s worst start to a season since their six-game losing streak in 1958–59.

Additionally, this is just the third occasion in the club’s history that they have begun a season with as many losses as their opening four games (they previously lost five in 1926–27).

They have recovered from losing their first four games in both of their prior experiences,

so at least that should be encouraging for them.

They did not, however,

go down to the bottom three of the premier flight in 1926–1927; just two teams were relegated during that season.

If they are to wriggle out of this predicament,

they will require a more substantial recuperation this time.

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