BURNLEY — Jamie Vardy wheeled away in front of the Turf Moor crowd on Friday night with his first goal in English football since May 2025, and 52 minutes later Burnley were behind for good.
Wolves won 2-1 in the Championship, and the result stretched Burnley’s winless run at home to 21 league games. Sky Sports dates the drought to a 2-0 Premier League win over Leeds on October 18, 2025, and describes the run as the longest of its kind across England’s top four tiers.
The goal itself was the clean part. Jacob Bruun Larsen threaded a ball through in the 20th minute and Vardy, 39, swept it in. Then the mistakes started. Kyle Walker gave the ball away on the edge of his own area, and Fer Lopez, set up by Sean Neave, equalised in the 39th minute.
That was the story of the night, and manager Nicky Hayen did not dispute it. He said individual mistakes cost his side and that “it doesn’t help us,” Sky Sports reported.
Tawanda Chirewa needed 21 seconds. The substitute scored in the 72nd minute after a poor touch from Burnley’s Igor, and Sky says the shot went over goalkeeper Gregoire Coudert. The detail is less settled than the scoreline: Wolves’ own match report says Coudert deflected it into his own net, and credits Chirewa with a maiden Wolves goal.
Wolves manager Cesar Peixoto called it an important win but noted it was “only three points,” Sky reported. Wolves climbed to sixth, and by their own count it was their first win at Turf Moor in 16 years. It was Burnley’s fifth league defeat of the season.
None of the match coverage available on Saturday says how Burnley plan to end the run, and Sunday marks a full year since they last won at home.
