Premier League VAR Table 2026/27: All Decisions for Each Team This Season and Who Gains the Most
The ‘VAR table’ has shown which two Premier League teams are the ‘luckiest’ and ‘unluckiest’ in England.
The table is based on rulings from the Key Match Incidents (KMI) Panel, which reviews big Premier League decisions from Gameweeks 1 to 7.
This panel, made up of five people who take turns each week, started in 2022. They meet weekly to examine key moments in English top-flight games.
The KMI Panel looks at important decisions by checking what the referees and VAR did. It includes three former players or coaches, plus representatives from the Professional Game Referees and the Premier League.
The panel’s results are shared with the public one week after their meeting, which is about 10 days after the gameweek.
Right now, Manchester City, Arsenal, Brighton, and Chelsea lead this Premier League table.
Enzo Maresca’s team has won all seven matches so far, scoring 21 points, sitting three points ahead of last season’s champions, Arsenal.
But what if there were no referee or VAR mistakes?
Manchester City would still be top, but since the panel said Erling Haaland’s winning goal against Manchester United was wrongly allowed, City would have 19 points instead of 21, losing their perfect record. Their goal difference would also drop from +12 to +11. Arsenal would then be just one point behind in second place.
Brentford also benefit in the ‘VAR table,’ moving up from sixth to fifth. The panel felt a penalty should have been given to Brentford in their 1-1 draw against Leeds. We don’t know if they’d have scored, but the table shows how referee and VAR mistakes can affect standings.
Liverpool moves from fifth to fourth because the panel ruled that Nottingham Forest was wrongly awarded a penalty in their 2-2 draw at Anfield. If the penalty hadn’t been given, Liverpool would have won 2-1, earning two extra points and moving ahead of Chelsea.
In Gameweeks 6 and 7, the biggest controversy was Crystal Palace’s second goal in a 3-1 win against Nottingham Forest. The panel ruled, by a 3-2 vote, that the referee should have disallowed the goal for handball. But this didn’t change the table for Nottingham Forest since they still would have lost 2-1.
The Premier League said that so far this season, 89% of on-field decisions were correct (up from 86% last year), and after VAR checks, 98% were right.
Note: In the ‘VAR table,’ numbers in brackets show how many points a team gained or lost compared to the real Premier League standings, not their position changes.
Sometimes, the panel finds the referee’s call was wrong, but VAR still upholds that call. This is because VAR only overturns decisions if the referee’s mistake is ‘clear and obvious.’
For example, with Crystal Palace’s second goal, the panel said the referee was wrong but VAR was right to let the goal stand because the footage didn’t clearly prove a handball.
In the VAR table, these are counted as errors by both referee and VAR together.
This table works like goal difference: if a team gets an incorrect decision against them, they get -1; if they benefit from a wrong call, it’s +1.
If a team has one wrong decision for them and another against in the same match, their score is zero.
At the moment, Brighton are the unluckiest Premier League team, having three more wrong decisions against them than for them. Sunderland are the luckiest, with four more incorrect decisions in their favor.
Any wrong decision against a team can come from either the referee or VAR, not necessarily both.
The other six Premier League teams have an error difference of zero, meaning they’ve had just as many incorrect decisions for as against.