In its 33-year history, the Premier League has been won by some truly great sides boasting some of the competitions best-ever players.
But there are great Premier League-winning sides and players – and then there are the exceptional ones.
Here, we run through some of the most impressive team and individual achievements for English top-flight champions since 1993.
Most points by Premier League champions
1 | Manchester City 2017/18 | 100 |
2 | Liverpool 2019/20 | 99 |
3 | Manchester City 2018/19 | 98 |
4 | Chelsea 2004/05 | 95 |
=5 | Manchester City 2021/22 | 93 |
=5 | Chelsea 2016/17 | 93 |
In claiming their third Premier League title – their first under Pep Guardiola – in 2017/18, Manchester City became the competition’s first centurions, winning 32 of their 38 games and hitting the 100-point mark thanks to Gabriel Jesus’ stoppage-time winner at Southampton on the final day of the season. One of the greatest teams the game has ever seen, that City side – which also won that season’s EFL Cup – boasted the likes of Ederson, Kyle Walker, Fernandinho, Kevin De Bruyne and Sergio Aguero.
Liverpool almost equalled Man City’s incredible feat as they were crowned Premier League champions for the first time two seasons later, also racking up 32 victories as they finished 18 points ahead of second-placed City under Jurgen Klopp. Front three Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane accounted for more than half of the Reds’ league goals that term – while Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold featured in every game.
The intervening campaign saw City go close to repeating their own trick as they retained their crown with 98 points, Riyad Mahrez joining the starts of the previous season and Aguero scoring 20+ Premier League goals for the fifth year running.
Prior to City’s historic 100-point 2017/18 campaign, Chelsea had held the record for the most points in a Premier League season for 13 years – Jose Mourinho’s Blues lost just once as they racked up 95 points in 2004/05, securing the club’s first top-flight title for half a century. Helped by the likes of Petr Cech, John Terry, Claude Makelele, Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba, the West Londoners had the title wrapped up in April.
And City and Chelsea have both enjoyed 93-point Premier League title triumphs, the former under Guardiola in 2021/22 and the latter under Antonio Conte in 2016/17.
Most goals scored by Premier League champions
1 | Manchester City 2017/18 | 106 |
2 | Chelsea 2009/10 | 103 |
3 | Manchester City 2013/14 | 102 |
4 | Manchester City 2021/22 | 99 |
5 | Manchester United 1999/2000 | 97 |
By the time they brought up 100 points on the final day of the 2017/18 season, City had already broken the record for the most goals in a Premier League campaign. Aguero top-scored with 21, while Raheem Sterling found the net 18 times and Jesus (13) and Leroy Sane (10) also finished on double figures.
City had previously broken the 100-goal barrier en route to the title in 2013/14, while they fell one short of triple figures in 2021/22 – when they claimed their second of a record four straight Premier League crowns.
Carlo Ancelotti’s Chelsea, though, were the first Premier League side to rack up 100 goals in a season, Drogba accounting for almost a third of their 102 in 2009/10 – when they broke Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United’s record of 97, set a decade earlier.
Fewest goals conceded by Premier League champions
1 | Chelsea 2004/05 | 15 |
=2 | Manchester United 2007/08 | 22 |
=2 | Chelsea 2005/06 | 22 |
3 | Manchester City 2018/19 | 23 |
=4 | Manchester City 2021/22 | 26 |
=4 | Arsenal 2003/04 | 26 |
=5 | Manchester City 2017/18 | 27 |
=5 | Manchester United 2006/07 | 27 |
The Premier League had never seen the like of Mourinho’s 2004/05 Chelsea side, who strolled to the title conceding just 15 goals in the process – at a miserly average of 0.39 per game.
Mourinho’s Blues were similarly stingy in retaining their crown in 2005/06, letting in 22 goals – a mark equalled by Ferguson’s Man United two years later.
And it should come as little surprise that Guardiola’s City feature heavily on this list – they posted a Premier League-record goal difference of 79 in that legendary 2017/18 season.
Most goals scored by a player for Premier League champions
1 | Erling Haaland (Man City 2023/24) | 36 |
2 | Alan Shearer (Blackburn Rovers 1994/95) | 34* |
3 | Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United 2008/09) | 31 |
4 | Thierry Henry (Arsenal 2003/04) | 30 |
=5 | Mohamed Salah (Liverpool 2024/25) | 29 |
=5 | Didier Drogba (Chelsea 2009/10) | 29 |
*42-game season
Arguably no player has ever had as impactful a debut Premier League campaign as Erling Haaland in 2023/24. The Norwegian lived up to his prolific reputation by winning the Golden Boot with 36 goals in 35 games, surpassing Alan Shearer and Andy Cole’s joint record of 34.
Shearer, like Cole, scored his then record-equalling 34 goals in a 42-game season, firing Blackburn Rovers to their only Premier League title.
Cristiano Ronaldo and Thierry Henry are the only other players to bag 30 or more goals in a Premier League-winning side, the latter doing so far Arsenal’s unbeaten ‘Invincibles’ under Arsene Wenger.
Most clean sheets for Premier League champions
1 | Petr Cech (Chelsea 2004/05) | 24 |
2 | Edwin van der Sar (Manchester United 2008/09) | 21 |
3 | Ederson (Manchester City 2021/22) | 20 |
4 | Ederson (Manchester City 2020/21) | 19 |
=5 | Joe Hart (Manchester City 2011/12) | 17 |
=5 | Petr Cech (Chelsea 2009/10) | 17 |
Chelsea’s infamously robust defence of 2004/05 sat in front of Cech, undoubtedly one of the finest goalkeepers ever to don the gloves in the Premier League – his record of 24 clean sheets has stood for over two decades. The Blues’ go-to back four that season comprised Paulo Ferreira, Ricardo Carvalho, captain Terry and William Gallas.
No top-flight ‘keeper has kept more than 21 clean sheets in a campaign since then, with Manchester United’s Edwin van der Sar doing so en route to the title in 2008/09 – behind a first-choice defence of John O’Shea, Rio Ferdinand, Nemanja Vidic and Patrica Evra.
