Get the lowdown on the important thing group, participant and supervisor data from the Premier League and test again right here all through the 2024-25 season.
Premier League Information: Contents
Group Information
••• Most Titles ••• Most Factors in a Season ••• Fewest Factors in a Season ••• Greatest/Worst Begins ••• Largest Wins ••• Longest Unbeaten Runs ••• Longest Shedding Runs •••
Participant Information
••• Most Targets ••• Most Appearances ••• Most Targets in a Season ••• Most Hat-Methods ••• Longest Scoring Runs ••• Quickest to 50 Premier League Targets ••• Oldest Gamers ••• Youngest Gamers •••
Supervisor Information
••• Most Titles ••• Most Video games ••• Oldest Managers ••• Youngest Managers
••• Earliest Sackings •••
Group Information
Most Premier League Titles
Manchester United have gained essentially the most Premier League titles, with their 13 crowns 5 greater than every other membership. In reality, all the opposite groups to have performed within the competitors since its 1992 inception have solely gathered 19 titles mixed.
Nevertheless, all 13 of United’s Premier League titles got here underneath the steering of Sir Alex Ferguson; since his retirement in 2013, they’ve not gained it as soon as and have as a substitute needed to watch rivals Manchester Metropolis grow to be the dominant drive since Pep Guardiola’s arrival in 2016.
Most Factors in a Season
Manchester Metropolis maintain the report for essentially the most factors gained in a single Premier League marketing campaign after they gained the 2017-18 title with a haul of 100 factors.
Had Gabriel Jesus not scored a stoppage-time winner on the ultimate day of the season, we might nonetheless be ready for a group to interrupt the 100-point barrier within the Premier League. Metropolis’s 32 victories that marketing campaign additionally set a brand new report, which they then replicated a 12 months later (albeit managing two factors fewer).
Earlier than Guardiola’s arrival on English shores, the report had belonged to his one-time nemesis José Mourinho, whose legendary Chelsea facet of 2004-05 gathered 95 factors.
Worst Group in Premier League Historical past
No group has ever gained fewer factors in a Premier League season than Derby County did in 2007-08, once they managed to tally simply 11. As such, they’re broadly thought-about to be the worst group within the competitors’s historical past, for apparent causes.
The 2023-24 marketing campaign wasn’t far off seeing a repeat of that stage of haplessness, although; Sheffield United might solely amass 16 factors as they had been relegated again to the Championship only a 12 months after incomes promotion.
Solely six groups have ever completed a Premier League season with fewer than 20 factors with out being dealt a factors deduction.
Greatest/Worst Begins to a Premier League Season
Chelsea’s run of 9 wins to start the 2005-06 season stays the very best begin to a marketing campaign in Premier League historical past. Earlier than their achievement, the report stood at six – it was a landmark they finally cruised previous.
Liverpool in 2019-20 went closest to equalling the Blues’ report. Within the season that lastly noticed them win a primary Premier League title, the Reds started with eight victories on the bounce earlier than being held to a 1-1 draw by Manchester United.
On the different finish of the dimensions, Crystal Palace began 2017-18 with seven defeats in a row to equal the report for the worst begin to a Premier League season, set eight years earlier. Their first 4 losses had been underneath Frank de Boer, who paid the value and was sacked. His successor Roy Hodgson then misplaced three on the trot as effectively however finally steered them to an Eleventh-place end.
Portsmouth had been the group they matched with that dreadful begin. Pompey, nevertheless, weren’t as lucky as Palace in the long term; they had been relegated (not helped by a nine-point deduction) and haven’t been seen again within the prime flight since.
Largest Premier League Wins
The largest win in Premier League historical past is 9-0 and it has occurred 4 occasions; Manchester United are the one group to win 9-0 greater than as soon as, whereas Southampton are the one group to lose 9-0 greater than as soon as.
United beat Ipswich and Saints by 9, and Southampton additionally misplaced by that scoreline to Leicester Metropolis; the latest 9-0 was inflicted on Bournemouth by Liverpool in August 2022.
There have been seven matches separated by an eight-goal margin, nevertheless.
Longest Premier League Unbeaten Runs
The report for the longest unbeaten run in Premier League historical past in fact belongs to Arsenal’s ‘Invincibles’, who went 49 video games with out defeat from Might 2003 to October 2004.
That run encompassed their exceptional 2003-04 title-winning marketing campaign, throughout which they didn’t lose a single match; they’re the one facet in Premier League historical past to go a full season with out shedding.
Liverpool virtually matched the Gunners’ unbeaten run just a few years in the past, however a shock 3-0 defeat at Watford in February 2020 noticed the Reds’ undefeated streak finish at 44.
Longest Premier League Shedding Runs
Sunderland misplaced 20 Premier League matches in a row between January 2003 and September 2005, which stays the longest shedding run within the competitors. Fifteen of these defeats got here within the last months of the 2002-03 season, which unsurprisingly culminated in relegation; they then misplaced 5 on the spin upon their return for the 2005-06 season.
Norwich Metropolis are the membership to go closest to equalling the report. The Canaries misplaced 16 in succession between March 2020 and September 2021.
Participant Information
Most Premier League Targets
Alan Shearer holds the report for essentially the most Premier League objectives with 260; it’s an accolade that’s belonged to him, astonishingly, since December 1993 when he went previous Teddy Sheringham within the competitors’s youth.
Shearer scored his final Premier League objective in 2006 and, following Harry Kane’s departure for Bayern Munich final 12 months, seems destined to retain his place atop the leaderboard for just a few extra years but not less than.
Most Premier League Appearances
With 653 Premier League appearances to his title, Gareth Barry has performed extra video games within the competitors than every other participant. Barry represented Aston Villa, Manchester Metropolis, Everton and West Brom throughout his lengthy profession, taking part in for the final time within the prime flight in 2018.
James Milner was the one lively participant within the prime 20 going into the 2024-25 season (second, 634) – however the 38-year-old Brighton midfielder might quickly surpass Barry having gone past Ryan Giggs (632) a season earlier.
Most Premier League Targets in a Season
The Norwegian arrived in England with large expectations on his shoulders and he had no downside assembly – and arguably surpassing – them as he fired Manchester Metropolis to a historic treble.
Beforehand, the report had belonged to Shearer, who scored 34 objectives in 1994-95, although that was in a 42-game season moderately than a 38-game one.
Previous to Haaland, Mohamed Salah had scored essentially the most objectives in a single 38-game Premier League season, netting 32 occasions for Liverpool in 2017-18.
Most Premier League Hat-Methods
Sergio Agüero scored 12 hat-tricks as a Premier League participant, greater than anybody else within the competitors’s historical past – one forward of Shearer.
If he stays in England lengthy sufficient, although, this seems to be one other report Haaland can have his sights set on. Regardless of solely taking part in two seasons within the Premier League, the Man Metropolis talisman already has six hat-tricks to his title.
That’s greater than the likes of Ruud van Nistelrooy, Robin van Persie and Andrew Cole already.
Longest Premier League Scoring Runs
Vardy’s exceptional scoring streak got here throughout Leicester Metropolis’s iconic Premier League title-winning season, with the striker’s whole of 24 objectives seeing him play an instrumental function of their success.
Earlier than him, Van Nistelrooy had held the report (10 video games) since August 2003 – he and Vardy are the one two to achieve double figures for successive scoring appearances.
Quickest to 50 Premier League Targets
Erling Haaland reached 50 Premier League objectives in astonishingly fast trend, needing simply 48 matches. He might have endured a 16-game barren run earlier than his fiftieth objective and nonetheless have taken the report, that’s how a lot faster than anybody else he obtained to the milestone.
Andrew Cole had held the report for a whopping 28 years earlier than Haaland; he reached 50 Premier League objectives in his sixty fifth match, one faster than Alan Shearer.
Oldest Premier League Gamers
Unsurprisingly, it’s a listing that’s dominated by goalkeepers, with the eight oldest Premier League gamers ever all working between the sticks.
Teddy Sheringham holds the report for the oldest outfielder to characteristic within the Premier League; he was 40y, 272d outdated when he confronted Man Metropolis for West Ham in December 2006.
Youngest Premier League Gamers
Arsenal’s Ethan Nwaneri is the youngest participant to ever seem within the Premier League. He was 15 years, 181 days outdated when he got here off the bench for the Gunners away to Brentford in September 2022.
He’s the one participant underneath the age of 16 to play within the competitors and smashed the report beforehand held by Harvey Elliott, who had been 16y, 30d outdated when he first appeared for Fulham in Might 2019.
Supervisor Information
Most Premier League Titles
Sir Alex Ferguson is the supervisor with essentially the most Premier League title wins, having guided Manchester United to 13 throughout his glittering spell in cost at Previous Trafford.
When he retired in 2013, no different supervisor had gained greater than three. After all, issues have modified a good quantity since then with Pep Guardiola having fun with a moderately fruitful time in England, although Ferguson remains to be away from him by seven.
Most Premier League Video games Managed
Arséne Wenger holds the report for essentially the most Premier League matches managed, remarkably with all 828 of these video games in command of the identical group: Arsenal.
The Frenchman, who retired in 2018, overtook Sir Alex Ferguson (810) throughout his last season and can maintain on to the report for some time but – although David Moyes isn’t too far behind on 697 after leaving West Ham on the finish of 2023-24. If he will get again into work quickly, he could possibly be only some years away from surpassing Wenger.
Oldest Premier League Managers
He stepped down in February 2024 after a troublesome run of type and was changed by Oliver Glasner. Whereas not past the realm of risk, it appears unlikely Hodgson will return to Premier League administration.
It’s additionally troublesome to think about Hodgson’s report being damaged anytime quickly given he was practically 5 years older than the second-oldest supervisor to take cost of Premier League sport (Sir Bobby Robson – 71 years, 192 days).
Youngest Premier League Managers
Aged 29 years, 312 days outdated when he was caretaker supervisor for Tottenham for the primary time in April 2021, Ryan Mason is the youngest person to handle a group in a Premier League sport.
He’s the one particular person in Premier League historical past to be supervisor for not less than one match whereas underneath the age of 30, with the subsequent youngest being Attilio Lombardo, who was 32y, 67d outdated when taking up a shock caretaker player-manager function at Crystal Palace in March 1998.
New Brighton boss Fabian Hürzeler gained’t break Mason’s report, however he’ll slot in forward of Lombardo when he takes cost of the Seagulls for the primary time; he’s 31 and gained’t flip 32 till subsequent February.
Earliest Premier League Supervisor Sackings
Simply 9 days into the 2004-05 season, Southampton dismissed Paul Sturrock as their supervisor – that’s the earliest right into a Premier League marketing campaign {that a} coach has left their submit.
He’s the one supervisor to final lower than 10 days right into a season, with the subsequent shortest run into a brand new season belonging to Peter Reid, who was proven the door by Manchester Metropolis simply 12 days into the 1993-94 season.
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