With Liverpool crowned English champions for the 20th time, Opta Analyst's Matt Furniss examines the key facts and stats behind the Reds' historic campaign.
Liverpool secured the 2024/25 Premier League title with victory over Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday.
Here, we run through the best stats behind their historic campaign.
Liverpool are now level with Manchester United for the most English top-flight league titles
Liverpool’s triumph might only be their second in the Premier League era, but they are now level with Manchester United again in terms of top-flight league titles overall.
Man Utd went two clear, 20 to 18, when they were last crowned champions in 2012/13, Sir Alex Ferguson’s last season in charge. Liverpool narrowed the gap to one with their 2019/20 league win.
By winning the Premier League this season, Liverpool have moved joint-first in the top-flight titles table for the first time since 2010/11, when Man Utd won their 19th.
Liverpool’s next task will be to move back ahead of their great rivals in the rankings. Should they do that next season, it would be the first time they have retained the title since 1983/1984.
Most English top-flight titles
| Club | No. titles |
| Liverpool | 20 |
|---|---|
| Man Utd | 20 |
| Arsenal | 13 |
| Man City | 10 |
| Everton | 9 |
| Aston Villa | 7 |
| Chelsea | 6 |
| Sunderland | 6 |
Liverpool won the title with four games left to play – only three teams have won it earlier
The Premier League title has been wrapped up for 2024/25 despite Liverpool still having league fixtures against Chelsea (A), Arsenal (H), Brighton & Hove Albion (A) and Crystal Palace (H) left to play.
It’s not the earliest in a season that a team has won the Premier League title, however.
Liverpool’s success in the COVID-hit 2019/20 season had them crowned champions with seven games remaining – the earliest title win in English top-flight history.
Two other teams have won Premier League titles sooner in the season than Liverpool this time around, with Man Utd’s 2000/01 success and Manchester City’s 2017/18 crown both coming with five games remaining.
Earliest PL title wins
| Season | Club | Date of title win | Games left |
| 2019/20 | Liverpool | 25/06/20 | 7 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000/01 | Man Utd | 14/04/01 | 5 |
| 2017/18 | Man City | 15/04/18 | 5 |
| 1999/00 | Man Utd | 22/04/00 | 4 |
| 2003/04 | Arsenal | 25/04/04 | 4 |
| 2012/13 | Man Utd | 22/04/13 | 4 |
| 2024/25 | Liverpool | 27/04/25 | 4 |
Arne Slot is only the fifth manager to lift the Premier League trophy in his first season in England
Arne Slot has joined an exclusive group of just five men to have won the Premier League title in their first season as a manager in England. The first of those came in 2004/05, when the self-proclaimed “special one” Jose Mourinho won the league with Chelsea.
He was joined by another Chelsea manager in 2009/10, when Carlo Ancelotti came over to England and picked up the title in his first season at Stamford Bridge, while compatriot Antonio Conte repeated that feat in 2016/17.
Sandwiched between those two was Manuel Pellegrini, who won the title with Man City in 2013/14 following a move to Manchester from Malaga.
Ferguson did win the inaugural Premier League title in 1992/93 with Man Utd, but he’d already been managing the club in the English top flight for six seasons beforehand.
Claudio Ranieri won the Premier League title with Leicester City in what was his first season at the club, but he’d previously been in charge of Chelsea for four seasons in the competition.
Slot is the fourth manager to win the English top-flight title in his first season as Liverpool manager, after Matt McQueen (1922/23), Joe Fagan (1983/84), and Kenny Dalglish (1985/86).
Managers who won the PL in their first season in England
| Manager | Club | Season |
| Jose Mourinho | Chelsea | 2004/05 |
|---|---|---|
| Carlo Ancelotti | Chelsea | 2009/10 |
| Manuel Pellegrini | Man City | 2013/14 |
| Antonio Conte | Chelsea | 2016/17 |
| Arne Slot | Liverpool | 2024/25 |
Only two managers have won the Premier League title at a younger age than Arne Slot
With this title win, Slot becomes the third-youngest manager to lead a team to a Premier League title behind Mourinho and Dalglish.
Mourinho won it twice at a younger age than Slot is now, doing so in his first two seasons as Chelsea boss in 2004/05 and 2005/06.
Dalglish led Blackburn Rovers to their one and only Premier League title in 1994/95 and was more than two years younger than Slot’s age on Sunday when he wrapped up the 2024/25 crown.
Youngest managers to win PL title
| Managers | Club | Season | Age when title confirmed |
| Jose Mourinho | Chelsea | 2004/05 | 42y, 94d |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jose Mourinho | Chelsea | 2005/06 | 43y, 93d |
| Kenny Dalglish | Liverpool | 1994/95 | 44y, 71d |
| Arne Slot | Liverpool | 2024/25 | 46y, 222d |
| Pep Guardiola | Man City | 2017/18 | 47y, 87d |
Van Dijk is the first Dutch player to captain a side to the English top-flight title
Virgil Van Dijk is the first player from the Netherlands to captain a side to the English top-flight title.
It’s only the second time that the Premier League has been won by a team whose manager and captain were from the same nation, after Arsenal in 2003/04 under a French head coach (Arsene Wenger) and captain (Patrick Vieira).
Van Dijk becomes the 12th different player to captain Liverpool to a top-flight league title, but the first non-British player to do so.
Liverpool top the Premier League rankings for goals, shots, shots on target and expected goals
The Reds have quite clearly been the best side going forward in the Premier League this season, as they lead the way for various attacking metrics, including goals, shots, shots on target and expected goals.
As things stand, they have scored 80 goals in the 2024/25 campaign – 14 more than the second-highest scorers, Man City (66).
They still need 20 more in their final four games to become just the sixth side to reach the 100-goal mark in a Premier League season, while their highest-scoring Premier League campaign remains 2013/14 (101).
Their Premier League shots tally stands at 591 this season – 40 more than any other side.
This is some distance off the seasonal record in the competition across recorded history (since 2003/04), with Chelsea’s 2009/10 side recording a sensational 834 shots in 38 games.
Slot’s side have scored in 33 of their 34 Premier League games this season.
If they score in each of their four remaining games, they’d become just the fifth team in Premier League history to score in at least 37 different matches after Arsenal (all 38 in 2001/02), Blackburn (37 in 1994/95), Chelsea (37 in 2009/10), Newcastle (37 in 1993/94) and Liverpool themselves (37 in 2021/22).
Liverpool will have been top for 234 days – 193 days longer than any other team in 24/25
On the final day of the Premier League season, Liverpool will have led the league table for 234 days in 2024/25.
Only four teams have finished a day top of the Premier League this season: Man City (41 days), Brighton (seven) and Man Utd (one) are the only other teams to have done it.
After the Reds won 2-1 against Brighton on 2 November, they overtook Man City in first place and have remained there ever since.
It’s still some way off the most days that a team has led the Premier League in a single season, set by Liverpool in 2019/20 (346 days), but that’s obviously skewed by the mid-season interruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
That record is followed by Chelsea’s effort in 2014/15, when they led the league for 274 days.
Every Liverpool player who has started a league game this season also did so last season
Much was said about Liverpool’s inactivity in the transfer market last summer, with Slot only bringing one player – Federico Chiesa – into the squad as a fresh face.
But the Italian has only played 33 minutes of Premier League action in 2024/25 as things stand, and has not started a single game.
Incredibly, they are the only team in the Premier League to have not had a single player start a game this season who didn’t also start a game for them in the 2023/24 campaign.
Only 16 players have played more than 600 league minutes for Liverpool this season, whereas 22 did so last season, though of course that could rise in their remaining games.
Salah close to all-time Premier League record
Mohamed Salah’s goal in the 5-1 victory over Spurs on Sunday took him to 46 goal involvements for this Premier League season (28 goals, 18 assists) and one off the all-time seasonal record by a player in the competition’s history.
He is now behind only Alan Shearer (47 in 1994/95) and Andrew Cole (47 in 1993/94) in the rankings, with both of those players having the luxury of a 42-game season in the early years of the Premier League.
Salah has already broken the individual record for a 38-game season, beating both Thierry Henry (44 in 2002/03) and Erling Haaland (44 in 2022/23), but with four games remaining, he could even go on to become the first player to reach the 50-mark for goal involvements in a single Premier League campaign.
