In numbers: A record-breaking Premier League season
A record-breaking Premier League season concluded on Sunday with Manchester City champions again and more goals than ever before.
Here, we look at the season's key statistics.
4 – consecutive titles for Manchester City, the first time a Premier League team has achieved that feat.
91 – City’s winning points total.
2 – winning margin in points ahead of Arsenal.
6 – Premier League titles for Pep Guardiola with Manchester City, trailing only Alex Ferguson’s 13 with Manchester United.
1,246 – the season saw a record number of goals in the Premier League, beating the 1,222 in the inaugural 22-team campaign of 1992-93.
8 – Manchester United's eighth-placed finish was their lowest of the Premier League era.
66 – points for the three relegated teams combined, the lowest of the Premier League era – the previous record being 76 in 2018-19 – and fewer than the champions’ total for the seventh time in eight years.
27 – Erling Haaland’s goal tally as he won the Golden Boot for the second season in succession.
13 – Aston Villa striker Ollie Watkins led the league in assists.
16 – Arsenal’s David Raya kept the most clean sheets of any top-flight goalkeeper.
27 – points total that would have guaranteed survival, with Luton on 26 in the third relegation place – a record low, beating the 2020-21 season when Fulham finished 18th with 28.
104 – goals conceded by bottom club Sheffield United, a Premier League record – beating Swindon’s 100 in a 42-game season in 1993-94. Their goal difference of -69 equalled the record set by Derby’s 11-point season in 2007-08.
105 – yellow cards received by Chelsea, breaking Leeds’ record of 101 two years ago.
6 – players to play every minute of the league season. Arsenal and Wolves defenders William Saliba and Max Kilman


