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Top 20 Premier League Walkout Songs Ranked for 2026/27
Written by Lydia Reynolds
As Premier League players wait in the tunnel, a familiar opening note tells the crowd that the match is about to begin.
Some clubs use local anthems with generations of history behind them, others rely on film scores, pounding dance tracks or rock songs chosen because they create tension as the teams enter the pitch.
But which Premier League walkout song is the most popular?
We ranked the principal entrance track or final pre-kick-off anthem associated with every Premier League club in 2026/27. Hull City’s Eye of the Tiger takes first place, ahead of Brentford’s Hey Jude and Bournemouth’s Never Tear Us Apart.
The order measures the wider digital popularity of the music, rather than its importance to supporters, or any subjective ranking on our part!
Now, of course a global hit naturally attracts more streams than a traditional local song, even if the latter may have a much deeper connection with its club.
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How the Songs Were Ranked
Each song received points for three measures:
- Lifetime Spotify streams.
- Latest available daily Spotify streams.
- Views on the exact YouTube video embedded below.
The leading song in each category received 20 points, second place received 19 and the track in 20th received one.
The three scores were combined to produce a maximum of 60 points. Lifetime Spotify streams separated tied totals.
Several clubs use more than one piece of music. Where the Premier League anthem interrupts the entrance sequence, we selected either the literal tunnel track or the defining anthem heard immediately before kick-off, explaining the distinction in the relevant entry.
Premier League Walkout Song Ranking
| Rank | Club and Song | Spotify Total | Spotify Daily | YouTube | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hull City — Eye of the Tiger | 20 | 20 | 20 | 60 |
| 2 | Brentford — Hey Jude | 19 | 19 | 19 | 57 |
| 3 | AFC Bournemouth — Never Tear Us Apart | 18 | 18 | 17 | 53 |
| 4 | Ipswich Town — Insomnia | 17 | 17 | 18 | 52 |
| 5 | Manchester City — Right Here, Right Now | 16 | 16 | 16 | 48 |
| 6 | Tottenham Hotspur — Duel of the Fates | 15 | 14 | 15 | 44 |
| 7 | Liverpool — You’ll Never Walk Alone | 14 | 15 | 14 | 43 |
| 8 | Sunderland — Ready to Go | 13 | 13 | 11 | 37 |
| 9 | Manchester United — This Is the One | 12 | 12 | 7 | 31 |
| 10 | Coventry City — We’ll Live and Die in These Towns | 10 | 11 | 9 | 30 |
| 11 | Nottingham Forest — Mull of Kintyre | 11 | 10 | 5 | 26 |
| 12 | Fulham — Palladio | 7 | 6 | 13 | 26 |
| 13 | Crystal Palace — Glad All Over | 6 | 8 | 12 | 26 |
| 14 | Chelsea — The Liquidator | 9 | 7 | 8 | 24 |
| 15 | Arsenal — The Angel (North London Forever) | 8 | 9 | 6 | 23 |
| 16 | Aston Villa — Escape | 3 | 3 | 10 | 16 |
| 17 | Leeds United — Strings for Yasmin | 5 | 5 | 4 | 14 |
| 18 | Everton — Theme from Z-Cars | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 |
| 19 | Newcastle United — The Blaydon Races | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 20 | Brighton & Hove Albion — Sussex by the Sea | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
20) Brighton & Hove Albion — Sussex by the Sea
Brighton enter the pitch to Sussex by the Sea, a county song and regimental march written by the lawyer and composer William Ward-Higgs in the early 20th century.
At the Amex Stadium, the recording leads into the best-known section for supporters to sing. It also links the modern ground with the Goldstone years and the campaign to bring the club home.
Its modest streaming audience places it last, but few songs on our list have a stronger connection to the location and history of a club.
It presents Albion as the club of Sussex and links the modern stadium with a club identity going back decades.
19) Newcastle United — The Blaydon Races
Newcastle United moved The Blaydon Races into the final tunnel routine in November 2025, while the familiar tones of Mark Knopfler’s Going Home: Theme of the Local Hero now come on earlier in the build-up.
Written by Geordie Ridley in 1862, the song recounts a journey from Newcastle to Blaydon and is etched in Tyneside culture.
Fair to say this ditty has little reach outside the region, explaining its low digital score rather than its popularity at St. James’ Park.
Moving it into the tunnel slot also gives the crowd a song it can perform, rather than simply listen to.
18) Everton — Theme from Z-Cars
Everton walk out to the Theme from Z-Cars, an arrangement of the traditional Liverpool folk tune Johnny Todd.
The club began using it during the early 1960s, and it became closely associated with the 1962/63 championship side.
Accounts of its origin as a club tune for the Blues vary, though its Merseyside folk roots give the tune an obvious local connection.
Everton preserved the tradition when the first team moved from Goodison Park to Hill Dickinson Stadium.
Its relatively small audience outside football leaves it 18th, despite more than six decades of matchday history for the Toffees.
17) Leeds United — Strings for Yasmin
Leeds use a sequence of songs rather than one uninterrupted anthem.
The teams emerge during Fanfare for the Common Man and Tin Tin Out’s Strings for Yasmin. The Premier League anthem follows before Marching on Together is played in full.
The arrangement prevents the league presentation cutting across the song that means the most to supporters.
For a strict walkout ranking, Strings for Yasmin is the most obvious entry, although its comparatively limited streaming audience places Leeds 17th.
Marching on Together, written for the 1972 FA Cup final campaign, is the song that really gets those Whites fans pumped up.
16) Aston Villa — Escape
Aston Villa’s players enter Villa Park to Escape, Craig Armstrong’s orchestral composition from the 1999 film Plunkett & Macleane.
The piece builds from a tense opening towards a powerful choral climax, making it ideal for the teams’ appearance.
The music contains no Villa or Birmingham reference; its relationship with the club comes from repeated use.
Other tracks, including Ozzy Osbourne’s Crazy Train, feature in the build-up, but Escape remains the clearest answer for the actual entrance. A stronger showing on YouTube offsets its smaller Spotify audience and lifts it to 16th.
15) Arsenal — The Angel (North London Forever)
Arsenal’s defining final pre-match anthem is Louis Dunford’s The Angel, commonly known as North London Forever. Released in 2022, it's an homage to Islington and the streets around Emirates Stadium.
The song spread among Arsenal supporters before entering the matchday build-up, with the recorded vocals lowered so the crowd can carry its closing refrain.
Its comparatively recent release limits its accumulated streams, but strong current listening takes Arsenal to 15th.
Unlike many adopted stadium songs, the link to the club, neighbourhood and supporter who wrote it is direct, making North London Forever a highlight of the matchday for fans who manage to get hold of Arsenal tickets.
14) Chelsea — The Liquidator
Chelsea enter Stamford Bridge to The Liquidator, a late-1960s reggae instrumental by Harry J Allstars.
That bouncy organ line and pauses allow supporters to add clapping and vocal responses, transforming the original recording into something unmistakably associated with the club.
Other British teams have used the track, but its association with Chelsea, shaped partly by the reggae, ska and youth subcultures in west London, proved especially durable through the 1970s and 1980s and into the 21st century.
Respectable Spotify totals are not enough to match the worldwide hits higher in the countdown, leaving it 14th. Its place at Stamford Bridge depends as much on the crowd’s timed responses as on the original recording.
13) Crystal Palace — Glad All Over
Crystal Palace have used Glad All Over by The Dave Clark Five since the record was a contemporary hit during the 1960s.
The track’s thumping rhythm and refrain make it natural for the terraces, and you’ll also hear it after Palace goals these days.
The song has a stronger YouTube audience than several tracks around it, but its Spotify figures keep Palace outside the top half. It finishes 13th with 26 points.
Palace using the track after goals, reinforces the association throughout the match rather than only during the walkout. It was this song that rang out around Wembley as the final whistle blew on their momentous FA Cup win in 2025.
12) Fulham — Palladio
Fulham’s entrance is an orchestral sequence. Steve Sharples’ Bolero builds anticipation before Escala’s version of Palladio supplies a sharper cue around the teams’ arrival.
Karl Jenkins composed the original piece, which has no lyrical or geographical link with Fulham. The official Escala performance scores well on YouTube and lifts the track to 12th, ahead of several songs with larger Spotify audiences.
The connection with Fulham comes entirely from repeated matchday plays, rather than lyrics, location or supporter authorship.
11) Nottingham Forest — Mull of Kintyre
Nottingham Forest supporters adapted Wings’ Mull of Kintyre around Nottingham, the City Ground and the River Trent during the club’s great period under Brian Clough.
The slow chorus allows the whole stadium to sing together immediately before kick-off. The ranking uses the original Wings recording for Spotify and the embedded Forest performance for YouTube, balancing the song’s commercial reach with its football context.
The anthem’s timing also connects it with the promotion, league title and European successes of the late 1970s.
10) Coventry City — We’ll Live and Die in These Towns
Coventry band The Enemy released We’ll Live and Die in These Towns in 2007. The theme of complicated relationship with a hometown took on particular meaning after Coventry City spent long periods playing outside the city.
The song has become increasingly prominent during the club’s revival and cup runs. A healthy Spotify audience takes it into the top ten, although its exact position around the Premier League presentation will be confirmed during Coventry’s first home match.
9) Manchester United — This Is the One
Manchester United walk out at Old Trafford to This Is the One by The Stone Roses.
The track’s Manchester roots are obvious, but its accelerating introduction also creates a natural build towards the appearance of the players.
Gary Neville is closely associated with selecting it during his time as captain, although other accounts of its introduction exist.
Strong Spotify performance carries United to ninth despite the selected YouTube video ranking lower.
8) Sunderland — Ready to Go
Sunderland’s players emerge to Republica’s lively Ready to Go, following the more ominous Dance of the Knights during the build-up. At the back-end of Britpop, the song became associated with the club around the opening of the Stadium of Light in 1997.
The title, tempo and explosive chorus make its adoption pretty much self-explanatory. Consistent Spotify listening places Sunderland eighth, although Can’t Help Falling in Love carries the deeper communal role elsewhere in the matchday.
Together, the songs evoke Sunderland’s move from Roker Park and the early days of the Stadium of Light at a club on the up.
7) Liverpool — You’ll Never Walk Alone
You’ll Never Walk Alone was written for the 1945 musical Carousel before Gerry and the Pacemakers took their version to number one in 1963.
Liverpool supporters, along with fans of other clubs, continued singing it after the record left Anfield’s pre-match chart countdown.
The anthem has become a message of solidarity during adversity as well as a football song, and its title appears on the Shankly Gates and club crest.
A large audience across every platform takes Liverpool to seventh. Few songs above it, however, are so completely rooted in a club’s badge, stadium and public identity.
6) Tottenham Hotspur — Duel of the Fates
Tottenham’s players appear to Duel of the Fates, composed by John Williams for Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.
Its choral opening and association with an approaching battle create a deliberately theatrical entrance.
The composition has no north London connection, but Spurs carried it from White Hart Lane into Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
The tune’s worldwide soundtrack audience places it sixth, above several songs with much stronger football origins. Spurs supporters may feel closer to Glory Glory Tottenham Hotspur or Can’t Smile Without You, but neither is the literal entrance cue.
5) Manchester City — Right Here, Right Now
Manchester City use Fatboy Slim’s Right Here, Right Now as the player entrance cue. The escalating arrangement and repeated phrasing suit the final moments before kick-off, even though the song has no Manchester connection.
Did you know that the main vocal sample comes from the 1995 movie, Strange Days as a line spoken by actress Angela Bassett?
Blue Moon remains City’s better-known supporter anthem and has a deeper relationship with the club.
Score-wise, Right Here, Right Now performs consistently across all three ranking measures, securing fifth place with 48 points.
4) Ipswich Town — Insomnia
Ipswich use Faithless’ Insomnia, selected after the club consulted supporters about Portman Road’s matchday music. The long, steady build-up and rousing peak make it an effective tunnel track.
Unlike the traditional Ipswich song Singing the Blues, Insomnia has no local or lyrical relationship with the club.
It sits fourth for lifetime and daily Spotify listening and third on YouTube, producing 52 points on our scoreboard. Its position demonstrates how strongly a classic dance track can perform even without a historic connection to the club using it.
3) AFC Bournemouth — Never Tear Us Apart
Bournemouth introduced INXS’ Never Tear Us Apart as a shared pre-match anthem during 2025/26.
Its slow opening develops into a chorus suited to raised scarves and collective singing, while the title represents the bond between the club, town and supporters.
A controversial choice among Cherries fans, the recording itself is enormously popular worldwide, taking third place here on Spotify and fourth on YouTube.
Bournemouth’s first home match will show whether this new-ish ritual keeps the same prominence in 2026/27.
2) Brentford — Hey Jude
Hey Jude followed Brentford from Griffin Park to the Gtech Community Stadium. Of course, there is no geographical link with The Beatles, and the appeal lies in that long closing refrain, which allows almost the entire ground to join in.
Long-serving announcer Peter Gilham is closely associated with establishing the tradition during Brentford’s lower-division years.
Second place in all three popularity categories gives Hey Jude 57 points and second place overall.
The song has accompanied Brentford matchdays in the lower divisions, through the stadium move and into the Premier League.
1) Hull City — Eye of the Tiger
The most popular Premier League walkout song for 2026/27 is Hull City’s Eye of the Tiger by Survivor.
The connection is route-one, as Hull are nicknamed the Tigers, while the opening guitar figure and the track’s sporting history make it a natural entrance cue.
Survivor recorded it for the 1982 film Rocky III, before it became a fixture at sporting events around the world.
It ranks first for lifetime Spotify streams, daily Spotify listening and YouTube views, earning the maximum 60 points.
Can’t Help Falling in Love may mean more to Hull supporters, but no other walkout recording in the league matches the digital reach of Eye of the Tiger.
Hull’s first home match against Manchester United will give us the clearest confirmation of its place within the Premier League entrance protocol.
Methodology
The ranking covers the principal entrance track or final pre-kick-off anthem associated with each club in the 2026/27 Premier League.
One representative Spotify recording was selected for each entry. The original or best-known commercial version was used for pop, rock, dance and soundtrack releases. For traditional songs, the most recognisable recording resembling the stadium version was selected.
The YouTube score relates only to the video embedded beneath each entry. Views from other official uploads, live performances, lyric videos and unofficial copies were not combined.
The table shows points rather than raw totals because streaming and view counters change continually, while the relative order is easier to maintain as a dated snapshot.
Where a representative track had no published daily Spotify figure, it was placed beneath tracks with a reported total. Those entries were then ordered by lifetime streams. Ties in the overall score were also settled through lifetime Spotify streams.
The song choices reflect matchday information available on 17 July 2026. Spotify and YouTube figures were collected on 20 July 2026 and will change over time.
This method measures digital reach, not stadium atmosphere, supporter approval or historical importance. It inevitably favours internationally successful recordings over regional songs and supporter adaptations.
What Is the Most Popular Premier League Walkout Song?
Hull City’s Eye of the Tiger leads the ranking with 60 points from a possible 60. Brentford’s Hey Jude is second on 57, followed by Bournemouth’s Never Tear Us Apart and Ipswich Town’s Insomnia.
Our listing does not make Hull’s track a more meaningful football anthem than You’ll Never Walk Alone, Sussex by the Sea or The Blaydon Races. We’ve simply ranked that Survivor track first as it has the largest combined Spotify and YouTube audience.
Whatever its position, each song performs the same essential job, rousing the stadium for kick-off as the build-up end and the players appear.
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