Most goals conceded in Premier League history: All-time single-season record

United secured the record for a 38-game season with time to spare, inexplicably managing to make Derby's doomed 2007/08 voyage seem like a pleasure cruise by comparison, but not content with that honour, they continued to invite every team to have their fill.

RadioTimes.com has rounded up the teams who have conceded the most Premier League goals in history, and you can see where the Sheffield United Class of '24 rank among the leakiest defences of the modern era.

Most goals conceded in Premier League history

5. Fulham (2013/14) – 85 (2.24 per game, 38 games played)

Fulham are the only team on this list not to finish bottom of the league in their miserable season.

Three managers – Martin Jol, Rene Meulensteen and Felix Magath – failed to steady the ship as the Cottagers went down in 19th place.

A low point of their season came during a 6-0 thrashing at the hands of Hull City to wrap up 2013. The game was level at half time, but half an hour later, David Stockdale had shipped six goals, with a patchwork centre-back duo of left-back Jan Arne Riise and midfielder Steve Sidwell unable to prevent a whitewash.

4. Derby (2007/08) – 89 (2.34 per game, 38 games played)

The honour of most goals conceded during a 38-game Premier League season belongs to Derby's Class of '08, formally the worst team in the history of the league.

They recorded just 11 points during the season and shipped a whopping 89 goals during the campaign under Billy Davies and Paul Jewell.

Derby scored just 20 goals during the campaign to post an all-time worst goal difference of -69, with Kenny Miller their top scorer on just four strikes.

The fans suffered a 6-0 thrashing at Liverpool, 5-0 rout at Arsenal, 5-0 hammering at home against West Ham, and somehow found the time to concede six goals on three separate occasions (twice at home) in their last 10 matches of the season.

3. Ipswich (1994/95) – 93 (2.21 per game, 42 games played)

Manager John Lyall – replaced by George Burley mid-season – oversaw Ipswich's horror-show season in 1994/95 as the Tractor Boys finished 21 points off safety in the third of three 42-game seasons.

Ipswich spent every week of the season in the four-team relegation zone from Week 9 onwards.

They conceded precisely four goals on seven occasions throughout the season and conceded almost 10 per cent of their season tally in a famous 9-0 drubbing at the hands of Manchester United

2. Swindon (1993/94) – 100 (2.38 per game, 42 games played)

The second season of the Premier League era saw a record set that would remain active all the way through to 2024. Swindon became the first – and still the only – team to concede 100 goals since the inception of the division.

Swindon conceded five or more goals in six games, including a 7-1 decimation by Newcastle.

Despite their gushing defence, Swindon actually stuck 30 points on the board during the course of the season, nowhere close to the lowest points total in history, even if adjusted to a 38-game season average.

That said, it's hard to offer too much praise to a team who lost 5-0 to Leeds on the final day of the season to hit the triple-digit milestone.

1. Sheffield United (2023/24) – 104 (2.74 per game, 38 games played)

We feel almost proud of them, they've done it – they've actually gone and done it.

Earlier in the campaign, Sheffield United fans endured three consecutive home defeats conceding five or more goals (5-0 to Aston Villa, 5-0 to Brighton, 6-0 to Arsenal in March 2024), on top of an 8-0 thrashing by Newcastle in September 2023.

They proceeded to concede at least two goals in 10 out of 11 games since that Arsenal thrashing, including 20 goals in their last six games to crash through the 100-goal floor and plumb new depths.

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