Weekend Football Stats Preview: 23–26 October 2026

It’s a weekend of big derbies: Barcelona host Real Madrid on Sunday night, and PSV take on Feyenoord in the Eredivisie. In all, eight leagues play 75 fixtures between Friday 23 and Monday 26 October, from the Premier League and the Championship to Serie A and the Scottish Premiership. For each fixture we’ve pulled both teams’ league record so far this season: how many of their matches went Over 2.5 goals, how many had both teams scoring, how many had a goal before half-time and, new this week, how many had a goal after the 75th minute. The figures cover every league match played up to 19 October 2026, and every half-time and full-time score has been checked against an independent results source.

Five fixtures that stand out

Barcelona v Real Madrid (Sun 25 Oct, 20:00 UK)

The two clubs’ La Liga matches have averaged 4.44 goals a game this season, joint-highest of the weekend with PSV v Feyenoord. Fifteen of their 18 matches went Over 2.5, and 15 of the 18 had a goal after the 75th minute, the weekend’s joint-best late-goal record. Eight of Real Madrid’s nine league games have had a late goal.

PSV v Feyenoord (Sun 25 Oct, 13:30 UK)

The other top-scoring match-up, at 4.44 goals a game. There’s been a first-half goal in all nine of PSV’s Eredivisie matches and in 8 of Feyenoord’s 9, and 15 of their 18 games went Over 2.5.

Hoffenheim v Bayer Leverkusen (Sun 25 Oct, 14:30 UK)

The best Over 2.5 record of the weekend: 11 of the two teams’ 12 Bundesliga matches, including all six of Hoffenheim’s. It’s also the only fixture of the 75 where every one of both teams’ matches has had a goal before half-time, and both teams have scored in all six of Hoffenheim’s games.

NEC Nijmegen v FC Groningen (Sun 25 Oct, 13:30 UK)

The best BTTS record: both teams have scored in 16 of these two sides’ 18 Eredivisie matches, 8 of NEC’s 9 and 8 of Groningen’s 9.

Augsburg v Union Berlin (Sat 24 Oct, 14:30 UK)

Every one of Augsburg’s six Bundesliga matches has had a goal after the 75th minute. With Union Berlin’s 4 of 6, the pair’s 10 of 12 matches equals Barcelona v Real Madrid for the weekend’s best late-goal record.

At the other end

• Athletic Club v Getafe has the weekend’s lowest figures on three counts: an average of 1.82 goals a game, 4 of 16 matches Over 2.5 and 5 of 16 with both teams scoring.
• Arsenal v Everton has the lowest first-half record: only 6 of the two teams’ 14 Premier League matches had a goal before the break.
• Angers v Lorient has the lowest late-goal record: 3 of 14 matches with a goal after the 75th minute.

Late goals: where the last 15 minutes have been busiest

Across the eight leagues, 320 of the 611 league matches played this season (52.4%) have had at least one goal after the 75th minute, and 432 of the 1,909 goals (22.6%) came then. The Bundesliga has had the highest share of matches with a late goal and the Scottish Premiership the lowest:

If you trade the closing stages, an alert on the score and the match clock, such as a game still level after 75 minutes, is a simple place to start. Our guides to using an in-play scanner to find late goals and 20 late-goal strategy examples go further, and the in-play tips page shows live matches.

How to read the tables

• “5/7 · 3/7” means 5 of the home team’s 7 league matches and 3 of the away team’s 7 matches, home and away games combined.
• 1st-half goal means at least one goal before half-time, stoppage time included.
• Goal after 75′ means at least one goal from the 76th minute on, stoppage time included. Disallowed goals don’t count.
• Avg goals is the average number of goals per game in each team’s matches, averaged across the two teams.
• Kick-off times are UK time from our fixture list on 21 October and can change. The clocks go back at 02:00 on Sunday 25 October, so Friday and Saturday times are BST and Sunday and Monday times are GMT.
• Samples are small. Bundesliga teams have played six league matches each and Premier League, Serie A and Ligue 1 teams seven, so treat these figures as a starting point, not a forecast. Check team news before you act on them.

Fixture by fixture

Premier League

Championship

Wolverhampton Wanderers and Portsmouth played each other on Tuesday 20 October, after our cut-off, so that match isn’t in their records below.

La Liga

Athletic Club play at Levante on Wednesday 21 October, after our cut-off, so that match isn’t in their record below.

Serie A

Bundesliga

Ligue 1

Eredivisie

Scottish Premiership

Finding these matches in FootyAmigo

FootyAmigo lets you turn numbers like these into your own pre-match and in-play alerts: for example, only matches where both teams have a high Over 2.5 record, or a first-half goals strategy limited to fast-starting sides. You can backtest a pre-match strategy against up to a year of past matches before you rely on it, track the hit rate of your in-play alerts, and get notified when a match fits your rules. For today’s picks, see our Over 2.5 goals, BTTS and first-half goals pages, and for league-wide trends, our 2026/27 goals, BTTS and first-half goals by league.

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Source: FootyAmigo’s fixture database and the Predictology match database, 2026/27 league matches played up to 19 October 2026, with every half-time and full-time score cross-checked against football-data.co.uk; goal times from FootyAmigo’s match events (SportMonks’ own events for six early-season matches). 18+ only. These statistics describe past matches and don’t guarantee future results. Footy Amigo is committed to supporting Responsible Gambling | www.gambleaware.co.uk