Man Utd's 51-year streak over, goal-shy Arsenal and Moyes a Champions League manager? Last season's most bonkers stats
STATS CRAZY Man Utd's 51-year streak over, goal-shy Arsenal and Moyes a Champions League manager? Last season's most bonkers stats
THE 2025-26 Premier League season has officially started.
Leicester, Ipswich and Southampton have handed over their shares to Leeds, Burnley and Sunderland.
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Kai Havertz managed nine goals in the Premier League - but no one reached ten for Arsenal
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Caoimhin Kelleher's penalty heroics made him a Liverpool record breaker
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Lamine Yamal has as many LaLiga titles as Cristiano Ronaldo
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And the Prem confirmed the new top flight got underway on Wednesday - 73 days before the next ball is kicked in the competition.
But that also means the 2024-25 campaign has finally reached its conclusion.
So what better time to reflect on some of the most bonkers stats of the season?
Here are some of our favourites...
For the first time in 101 years, no Arsenal player reached double figures for goals in the league.
Kai Havertz managed nine strikes, one more than Gabriel Martinelli and Leandro Trossard.
Arsenal missed out on the Premier League title to Liverpool.
And the Reds won the league despite adding just one player to their squad - and that man, Federico Chiesa, started just one match.
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Sticking with Liverpool, goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher now holds the record for the most penalty shootouts won (four) and most shootout penalties saved (six) in the club's history - despite only featuring for the Reds 67 times.
Jonny Evans' impending exit from Manchester United will mean the 2025-26 season is set to be the first since 1973-74 where the squad has no players who featured under Sir Alex Ferguson - a whopping 51 years ago.
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United's nightmare campaign saw them lose to Tottenham in all four of their meetings, including the Europa League final.
Incredibly, wins over the Red Devils accounted for 15 per cent of Spurs' victories across the season.
On the other end of the spectrum, Tottenham lost 22 Premier League matches.
That is the most defeats of any team in a 38-game Prem season who have avoided relegation.
The season, though, ended in glory for Spurs with the triumph in Bilbao, which means they now have more European trophies than Barcelona in the last nine years.
Barcelona lost in a barnstorming Champions League semi-final to Inter but did pip rivals Real Madrid to the LaLiga title.
Lamine Yamal was one of their standout players and at 17, he now has two LaLiga winner's medals - after making his debut aged 15 near the end of the successful 2022-23 campaign.
That is as many as Cristiano Ronaldo collected in his nine seasons with Real Madrid.
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Tottenham won the Europa League but domestically lost 22 league games
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Everton's form under David Moyes was enough for Champions League qualification
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Jonny Evans' departure marks the end of a 51-year streak for Manchester United
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Yamal delivered a staggering 43 goal involvements this season across all competitions, with 18 goals and 25 assists.
But his tally of nine LaLiga goals was beaten by Jorgen Strand Larsen (14), Jarrod Bowen (13), Kevin Schade (11) in the Premier League - and matched by Tomas Soucek, Harvey Barnes, Alex Iwobi and Iliman Ndiaye.
Back in England, Chelsea had the youngest average age of starting XI across the season at 24 years and 36 days.
Lastly, from David Moyes' return to Everton to the end of the season, the Toffees would have finished fourth and qualified for the Champions League.
And here are a few more Premier League belters from our friends at Opta...
Bryan Mbeumo's strike after 38 seconds against West Ham saw Brentford become the first team in Premier League history to score in the opening minute in three consecutive games.
Brentford 5-3 Wolves was the first ever Premier League match to produce eight different goalscorers, all of a different nationality.
Manchester City became the first reigning English top-flight champions to lose five games in a row in all competitions since Chelsea in March 1956.
At Wolves, Justin Kluivert became the first player in Premier League history to score a hat-trick of penalties, with teammate Evanilson also the first to win three spot-kicks in the same match.
Ruud van Nistelrooy became the first manager ever to win consecutive Premier League games that were for and against the same side (3-0 vs Leicester with Man Utd, 3-1 with Leicester vs West Ham).
West Ham 2-0 Leicester was the first ever Premier League game to see three players appear on their birthday (February 27 - Tomas Soucek, Alphonse Areola and Boubakary Soumare).
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Justin Kluivert scored a hat-trick of penalties against Wolves
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