Our reviews of the 2025/26 Premier League programmes continue today as we take a look at the issue produced by Burnley. Read our full review of the Clarets’ issue below and click here to see all of the current season reviews.
For a club that previously claimed our Gold Award in 2017/18, this season’s Burnley programme is somewhat underwhelming. Featuring just 51 pages of content, many of which are rather sparsely filled, Turf struggles to justify its £4 cover price.
Design work throughout is functional but basic. Most pages feature black text on white backgrounds with the club’s familiar claret colour used sparingly in page headings and sidebars. A good example of the latter is an attractive Club History, which appears at the start of the programme and charts Burnley’s major honours, accompanied by images of the trophies they have won along the way.
The best feature in the programme is The 200 Club, in which club historian Shaun Borman looks at those players who have turned out on more than 200 occasions for Burnley. Alongside details of each player’s first and last appearances for the Clarets, there is a short biography that complies key facts about their time with the club.
In Behind the Lens, club photographers select some of their favourite images and tell the stories behind them, while Claret and You explores one supporter’s experience following Burnley, including their favourite moment watching the club.
Opposition coverage is limited, with four pages looking at the club’s honours, their most recent game, a Club Classic that highlights a notable match from the past, and pen-pics of the manager and key players. The programme also includes Memorable Moments, which recalls five meetings against the day’s opponents, and Pick N Mix, which spotlights five players who have represented both teams.
Elsewhere in the programme is a head-to-head record graphic and a look back at the last meeting between the clubs. This is a welcome addition, but also serves as an example of some of the programme’s design and layout shortcomings. The text is rather small and made more difficult to read by the use of white lettering on a coloured background. The feature is also separated from the main opposition section, disrupting the overall flow of content.
Club coverage includes columns from the manager and chairman, basic coverage of the club’s women’s and academy teams, and a couple of pages on Burnley FC in the Community. Match reports are handled well in Last Time Out, offering a detailed write-up of each game, as well as full line-ups for both sides and key match facts. Each issue also includes a four-page statistics section and a look ahead to Burnley’s next home fixture.
For a club with such a storied history, it feels as if Burnley’s programme is missing an opportunity in its lack of historical features – the kind of more in-depth articles that elevate the better programmes in the league. In the absence of such content, the Burnley issue feels rather perfunctory.