Sunderland are winless in their last eight league games against West Ham (D4 L4), most recently a 2-2 draw in April 2017.

West Ham have lost just one of their last 17 Premier League games against promoted sides (W13 D3), going down 3-1 at Leicester in December last season.

This is the fourth time West Ham are starting a Premier League campaign against a promoted side, with the Hammers winning each of the previous three (v Barnsley in 1997-98, Wolves in 2009-10 and Cardiff in 2013-14).

As a Premier League side, Sunderland haven’t won their opening match in any of the last seven seasons (D4 L3), most recently losing 2-1 to Pep Guardiola’s Man City in 2016-17.

West Ham have lost their opening match of a Premier League season more times than any other side (16), with the Hammers also conceding more MD1 goals than anyone else (50).

Sunderland won just one of their last 14 Premier League matches between February and May 2017 (D2 L11), failing to score 11 times in that run and netting just five goals in total.

Sunderland lost their last three home league games in the 2024-25 Championship campaign (excluding play-offs), all by a 1-0 scoreline. They last lost four in a row at the Stadium of Light in September 2017, while they last lost four straight home league games without scoring in November 1976.

West Ham won their last two Premier League away games in 2024-25, the only time they won consecutively on the road last term. They last won three in a row in October 2021.

Sunderland’s Régis Le Bris will be the ninth Frenchman to manage a club in the Premier League. Just two of the previous eight have won their first ever match in the competition (D3 L3, excluding joint-tenures) - Arsène Wenger with Arsenal in October 1996 (2-0 v Blackburn) and Alain Perrin with Portsmouth in April 2005 (4-2 v Charlton).

Jarrod Bowen scored in each of his last four Premier League appearances in 2024-25. The last West Ham player to score in five in a row was Jesse Lingard in April 2021.