The Premier League club most impacted by VAR mistakes has been revealed

The winners and losers from VAR have been confirmed.

Over the course of the 2025/26 season, the Premier League have admitted to 25 incidents in which refereeing officials, and those assisting for VAR, made errors during matches.

Now after reviewing those errors, BBC Sport have ranked each club based on whether they gained or lost more from VAR mistakes this season.

Per their report, the ranking: "Takes into account three aspects: decisions wrongly changed on review - or where the referee incorrectly stuck by his call when at the monitor - and those that should have been fixed but were not."

One club clearly emerged as being the worst affected.

What is a confirmed VAR error?

Regularly throughout the season, the PGMOL's Key Match Incidents Panel (KMI) have met to review decisions made by Premier League officials.

The KMI panel is made up of former players, coaches, and representatives from the Premier League and Professional Game Match Officials (PGMO), who meet weekly to discuss decisions made the previous week, and conclude as and where errors are made.

It's important to note that while the KMI panel has admitted to officials making other "on-field" mistakes, not all of these were "clear and obvious" to justify the intervention of VAR.

Take the game between Manchester United and Burnley in January for example. Around the 27th minute, Lisandro Martinez had a goal ruled out, after on-field officials ruled he had fouled Kyle Walker before scoring.

On review, the KMI panel reached the decision that the goal should have stood, but that the mistake did not meet the threshold of a "clear and obvious error," meaning VAR was right not to intervene, even though the decision was incorrect.

Another strong example of a circumstance in which an official may make an on-field error that doesn't qualify as a VAR error, would be in failing to award a second yellow card.

According to official Premier League rules video technology is still not permitted to intervene on second yellow offences, a rule that is set to change ahead of next season.

The below list only includes examples where the KMI panel agreed that both the on-field decision, and action taken by VAR, were in error.

VAR's winners and losers

While champions Arsenal certainly benefitted from a good amount of VAR errors, with seven mistakes working in their favour — all while becoming the first club to go an entire campaign without receiving a red card or conceding a penalty — they weren't actually the biggest beneficiaries.

Eventual 10th-placed finishers Chelsea were the biggest winners, with four errors going in their favour, and zero going against them. Leaving the Blues with a positive score of +4 overall.

Andoni Iraola's Bournemouth also emerged with four errors in their favour, but with two going against them.

This is not to say the Gunners were not also very fortunate from the Premier League's video assistant model.

Arsenal saw three mistakes work in their favour, without a single error working against them, seeing them rise to second place in the BBC's table, behind only the Blues.

The most recent of these errors came in an absolutely pivotal match, just last month.

During the Gunners' close 1-0 victory over Burnley it was ruled by the KMI panel that matchwinner Kai Havertz should have received a red card.

Arsenal's title-rivals Man City took up more of a midtable position, gaining from one error but also losing out from one.

Their moment of good fortune also came at a pivotal moment.

In the Citizens' 3-3 draw at Everton during the title run-in, Bernardo Silva should have given away a penalty, but escaped without any such decision occurring.

At the bottom of the VAR table were Crystal Palace, with three mistakes coming at their expense, and none in their favour, leaving a net balance of -1.

Everton also saw three mistakes go against them, but saw one go in their favour.

The Toffees one moment of VAR luck came early in the season during a clash with Wolves, in which Iliman Ndiaye appeared to foul Hugo Bueno within the area but saw no penalty awarded.

Where does your club rank in the VAR winners and losers table?