Spanish Media: Valencia Fail to Score in First Three La Liga Home Matches, Worst Start in Club History

A report from Super Deporte stated that Valencia have almost produced some historic negative records every season. Fans at Mestalla have continued to enter the stadium and take their seats as usual. It feels more like a traditional routine rather than something driven by emotion. What remains is mainly frustration and a sense of stagnation. Many people do not know how the current situation can be changed, and protests against the club's management no longer have the same impact as before.

At the same time, the team's performances on the pitch have made it seem that avoiding relegation this season could be very difficult. Regardless of the final outcome, this squad has created a historical statistic: Valencia had never previously started a La Liga season with three consecutive matches without scoring. Including stoppage time, Mestalla supporters have waited nearly 300 minutes without seeing a home goal. It is a long period, and it is the first time this has happened.

When they are young, people often dream of scoring in front of a packed home stadium and celebrating wildly. Valencia players would have had the same dream as they grew up. However, this time they failed to score in each of the first three league home matches in club history for the first time. The statistic is notable because the team's only goal so far came in the 3-1 victory over Deportivo La Coruna, when Sadiq took advantage of an opponent's mistake. In fact, last season the team collected seven points from its first nine available points. Even so, Valencia could not finish the first half of the season in a sufficiently comfortable position. The current situation is frustrating: one point from nine, no goals, and pressure from the matches ahead.

21st century

Valencia have never started a season this poorly in their first three home matches. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the team has averaged more than one goal per game in these matches in almost every season. In the first three home matches of the 2025/26 season, they have scored zero goals, while the figure was four goals in 2024/25. Most seasons were around this level, with 10 goals in 2000/01, nine in 2014/15, and eight in both 2006/07 and 2008/09. Over the past 26 years, the lowest figures before this came in the 1999/00 and 1997/98 seasons, when they scored only one goal.

Another point worth noting is that in the 2018/19 season, the year Valencia won the centenary cup title, the team scored only two goals in the opening rounds. At the time, Valencia's first half of the season was not particularly ideal, but a strong second-half recovery saw Marcelino Garcia Toral lead the team to a high point at the Benito Villamarin Stadium, where they not only won the Copa del Rey but also secured fourth place and qualification for the Champions League.