Amazing stats from Premier League's opening weekend

After action, goals and excitement aplenty in every match, check out these incredible stats from the opening weekend of the 2024/25 Premier League season.

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Manchester United have more wins (22) and more points (70) from their opening matches of Premier League campaigns than any other side.

Joshua Zirkzee became the 15th Dutch player to score on his Premier League debut, with four of those doing so for United (Ruud van Nistelrooy, Alexander Buttner and Donny van de Beek).

IPS

0-2

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Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah became the outright leader for Premier League goals (nine) and goal involvements (14 – also five assists) on MW1 in the competition.

Salah has now both scored and assisted in 32 different Premier League matches, with only Wayne Rooney (36) doing so more in the competition’s history. 

Ipswich Town's Ali Al-Hamadi became the first player from Iraq to appear in the Premier League, with Iraq becoming the 124th country represented in the competition.

ARS

2-0

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Arsenal have won more points (52), more matches (17/19 – D1 L1) and scored more goals (56) than any other side in the Premier League in 2024.

Through Bukayo Saka and Kai Havertz, Arsenal had two players both score and assist in the opening match of a Premier League season for the first time. Indeed, prior to today, the last Arsenal player to score and assist on MW1 was Cesc Fabregas vs Everton in 2009/10.

EVE

0-3

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James Milner has now played in 23 different Premier League seasons, more than any other player in the competition’s history.

Milner's appearance under Brighton head coach Fabian Hurzeler, is the first time in Premier League history a player has played a match for a manager who is as many as seven years younger than him. Hurzeler was nine-years-old when Milner made his debut in 2002.

At 39 years and 39 days old, Everton’s Ashley Young became the oldest ever player to be sent off in a Premier League match.

Danny Welbeck has now scored in 16 different Premier League campaigns, with only six players ever netting in more (Ryan Giggs 21, Paul Scholes 19, Frank Lampard 18, plus John Terry, Jermain Defoe and Milner all 17).

NFO

1-1

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Chris Wood has now scored on MW1 of a Premier League season for three different sides (Leicester City, Burnley and Nottingham Forest). Only Teddy Sheringham (five) and Les Ferdinand (four) have done so more often in the competition’s history.

On what was his Premier League debut for AFC Bournemouth, 19-year-old Dean Huijsen won nine aerial duels against Nott’m Forest, the most by a player across MW1 this season and highest number by a teenager in a Premier League match in any of the last 10 campaigns.

NEW

1-0

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Southampton had 19 attempts, their most in a Premier League match without scoring since May 2022 against Brentford (also 19), while Newcastle United only had three shots in the match, their fewest in a Premier League victory since defeating Eddie Howe’s Bournemouth (1-0) with just two attempts in November 2015.

WHU

1-2

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Amadou Onana made a dream start to life at Aston Villa on Saturday as he scored inside four minutes of his debut against West Ham United, the ninth-fastest goal by a player on his maiden appearance for a club in the Premier League.

Jhon Duran has now scored six Premier League goals from only 616 minutes played in the competition, an average of one every 103 minutes; among players to have scored five+ Premier League goals. Only Erling Haaland (85) has averaged a better minutes-to-goals rate. 

Duran's goal v West Ham

BRE

2-1

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Brentford remain unbeaten in their opening match in all four of their Premier League seasons (W2 D2), the most campaigns a side has competed in without losing a MW1 fixture.  

Yoane Wissa became the first player to both score and assist in three consecutive Premier League matches since Manchester City’s Riyad Mahrez in December 2021.

CHE

0-2

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Chelsea’s starting XI – which didn’t feature a single player over the age of 26 – had an average age of 23 years and 180 days, the second youngest by a team on MW1 of a Premier League season, behind only Man City’s team in 2008/09 against Villa (22 years, 360 days)

Man City have won their opening Premier League match of the season in 13 of the last 14 campaigns, with the other encounter a 1-0 loss to Tottenham Hotspur in 2021/22.

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1-1

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Jamie Vardy scored his eighth MW1 goal in the Premier League, with only Salah (nine) netting more.

Only Sheringham (39y 133d) for West Ham against Blackburn Rovers has scored on MW1 at an older age in the competition’s history than Vardy, aged 37 years and 221 days.

Vardy's goal v Spurs