Bournemouth pushed their ceiling quite a bit higher in 2025/26. A sixth-place finish brought a club-record 57 points and, for the first time, European qualification. They only lost seven Premier League matches all season, which gives a fair idea of how stubborn Andoni Iraola’s final Bournemouth side became.
The strange part is how often they stopped just short of winning. Bournemouth drew 18 of their 38 matches, equalling the Premier League record for a single season. They still scored 58 goals, so this wasn’t simply a team shutting games down and settling for a point. Quite often, the margins just refused to fall their way.
Junior Kroupi supplied one of the season’s best individual stories. The teenager scored 13 times in 33 league appearances, finishing as Bournemouth’s leading scorer and setting a new benchmark for goals by a teenager in a debut Premier League campaign. That sort of breakthrough gives the attack another dimension going forward.
There’s a fairly obvious subplot for 2026/27. Marco Rose has replaced Iraola, while Europa League football adds another demand to a squad entering unfamiliar territory. Rather than simply watching Bournemouth’s league position, their win-to-draw ratio may tell us more. Turning a few of those tight games into victories would make last season’s sixth place feel far less like a one-off.
Supporters can follow Bournemouth results and player numbers through BetVictor’s wider football stats coverage. The Premier League betting section also offers the wider competition picture, with goals, clean sheets and Bournemouth’s record in close matches among the numbers worth keeping an eye on.
