BBC Sport have now ranked all 20 Premier League clubs on their start to the season.
Five rounds of league matches have been played so far.
With now an international break lasting three weeks.
Instead of having a fortnight international break in both September and October, they have swapped them for one longer one.
Premier League football returns on the weekend of Saturday 10 October.
BBC Sport posing and answering this question: ‘We are five matches into the league season and there is a long way to go in the campaign, but which teams have impressed so far and who have disappointed?’
BBC Sport asking their journalists to rate each of the 20 Premier League clubs out of 10 on their starts to the league season:
You can have your say in the comments at the bottom of the page.
Arsenal: 7
Aston Villa: 6
Bournemouth: 6
Brentford: 8
Brighton: 9
Chelsea: 6
Coventry City: 6
Crystal Palace: 5
Everton: 6
Fulham: 5
Hull City: 8
Ipswich Town: 5
Leeds United: 7
Liverpool: 6
Manchester City: 9
Man U: 4
Newcastle United: 6
Nottingham Forest: 5
Sunderland: 5
Tottenham Hotspur: 2
The BBC Sport explanation for 6 out of 10 for Newcastle United: ‘A mixed bag under new manager Matthias Jaissle. They impressed in a draw against Liverpool, won comfortably at Tottenham, but were also terrible in a loss at Leeds, although they responded well to beat Hull.’
I think it is on the mean side, so 6 out of 10 pitches Newcastle United in with Aston Villa who have picked up only half as many points as United, then also the same 6 out of 10 rating that Chelsea have got and who paid out fortunes for new players and were under no pressure to sell first choice players unlike NUFC.
Premier League table as at Monday 21 September 2026
As it happens, here at The Mag we asked NUFC fans on Sunday: How would you rate this Newcastle United start to the 2026/27 season (in all competitions)?
The seven matches played so far:
Newcastle 2 Liverpool 2
Newcastle 3 West Brom 2
Spurs 0 Newcastle 2
Newcastle 2 Bournemouth 2
Millwall 0 Newcastle 1
Leeds 4 Newcastle 1
Newcastle 2 Hull 1
So we asked Newcastle United fans to give us their approval rating out of 10 on how they think things have gone so far, compared to the situation Matthias Jaissle faced as the season kicked off.
These were the results, the percentage (to the closest whole number) of Newcastle United fans who chose each mark out of 10:
0 – 0%
1 – 0%
2 – 0%
3 – 0%
4 – 0%
5 – 4%
6 – 12%
7 – 45%
8 – 33%
9 – 5%
10 – 2%