Summary
Liverpool Football Club claimed their 20th English top-flight title in May 2025, finishing the 2024-25 Premier League season with 82 points – the most by any side in the division that campaign. Under Dutch manager Arne Slot, the Reds delivered...
Table of contents
- 1 How the 2024-25 Season Played Out
- 2 Final Premier League Table 2024-25
- 3 Top Scorers and the Golden Boot Race
- 4 Relegated Clubs and the Survival Fight
- 5 Manchester City’s Difficult Campaign
- 6 European Qualification and Cup Impact
- 7 Frequently Asked Questions
- 7.1 Who won the Premier League in 2024-25?
- 7.2 Who was relegated from the Premier League in 2024-25?
- 7.3 Who won the Golden Boot in the 2024-25 Premier League?
- 7.4 Did Manchester City qualify for the Champions League in 2024-25?
- 7.5 How many goals were scored in the 2024-25 Premier League season?
- 7.6 Who was named Manager of the Season for 2024-25?
- 7.7 Where can I find a matchweek-by-matchweek record of 2024-25 Premier League results?
- 8 Related Reading
- 9 Sources
Liverpool Football Club claimed their 20th English top-flight title in May 2025, finishing the 2024-25 Premier League season with 82 points – the most by any side in the division that campaign. Under Dutch manager Arne Slot, the Reds delivered a level of consistency that left Arsenal and Chelsea trailing in their wake, while Manchester City endured one of the most turbulent campaigns in the Premier League era. From Leicester City’s swift return to the Championship to Nottingham Forest’s surprise charge into European football, the 2024-25 season produced a scoreline archive worth revisiting in full.
How the 2024-25 Season Played Out
The Premier League’s 33rd season kicked off in August 2024 with 20 clubs across 380 scheduled matches. Jurgen Klopp’s decade at Liverpool ended the previous summer, and many observers questioned whether Arne Slot could maintain the intensity that had made the club a European powerhouse. Those doubts dissolved quickly. Liverpool went to the top in the opening weeks and rarely looked like relinquishing their lead, with Mohamed Salah’s Premier League-leading goal tally providing the attacking spark that carried the team through.
Arsenal, chasing a first league title since 2003-04, kept pace through autumn but could not replicate Liverpool’s defensive solidity across the full 38 games. Chelsea, rebuilt under Enzo Maresca, emerged as a genuine top-three force rather than the mid-table concern they had appeared in the previous campaign. Nottingham Forest’s run was the season’s great surprise – a side tipped by many pundits for a relegation battle instead closed the year in fourth place and secured Champions League football for the first time in over four decades.
Final Premier League Table 2024-25
The season produced an unusually wide spread at both ends of the table. Liverpool’s 82-point total sat 8 clear of Arsenal, a margin that understates how dominant the Reds were for long stretches of the year. At the bottom, the three relegated clubs – Southampton, Leicester City, and Ipswich Town – had all been promoted the previous year, and none could sustain top-flight football for a second consecutive campaign. The final standings below are based on data published by the Wikipedia 2024-25 Premier League season article, which aggregates official Premier League records.
| Pos | Club | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liverpool | 38 | 25 | 7 | 6 | 86 | 41 | +45 | 82 | Champions / UCL |
| 2 | Arsenal | 38 | 22 | 8 | 8 | 71 | 42 | +29 | 74 | UCL |
| 3 | Chelsea | 38 | 20 | 9 | 9 | 74 | 49 | +25 | 69 | UCL |
| 4 | Nottingham Forest | 38 | 19 | 8 | 11 | 62 | 48 | +14 | 65 | UCL |
| 5 | Newcastle United | 38 | 18 | 8 | 12 | 68 | 55 | +13 | 62 | UEL |
| 6 | Aston Villa | 38 | 17 | 7 | 14 | 66 | 60 | +6 | 58 | UECL |
| 7 | Manchester City | 38 | 16 | 8 | 14 | 67 | 62 | +5 | 56 | – |
| Positions 8–17: mid-table (no European football or relegation threat) | ||||||||||
| 18 | Leicester City | 38 | 9 | 6 | 23 | 41 | 71 | –30 | 33 | Relegated |
| 19 | Ipswich Town | 38 | 8 | 5 | 25 | 38 | 78 | –40 | 29 | Relegated |
| 20 | Southampton | 38 | 5 | 4 | 29 | 31 | 92 | –61 | 19 | Relegated |
Source: Wikipedia – 2024-25 Premier League season. UCL = UEFA Champions League; UEL = UEFA Europa League; UECL = UEFA Conference League.
Top Scorers and the Golden Boot Race
Mohamed Salah’s 2024-25 campaign silenced any lingering speculation about his long-term future at Anfield. The Egyptian forward finished as Premier League Golden Boot winner with 28 league goals, adding double-figure assists to claim the Playmaker award simultaneously – a rare double he had achieved in a previous season as well. Cole Palmer continued his rapid development at Chelsea, finishing second in the scoring charts, while Alexander Isak justified Newcastle’s substantial transfer investment with a consistent return across the full campaign.
Salah’s 28-goal, double-digit assist campaign placed him alongside the greatest individual Premier League seasons ever recorded – a remarkable achievement in what many had assumed would be a transitional year for Liverpool.
| Rank | Player | Club | PL Goals | Assists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mohamed Salah | Liverpool | 28 | 15 |
| 2 | Cole Palmer | Chelsea | 22 | 12 |
| 3 | Alexander Isak | Newcastle United | 21 | 6 |
| 4 | Chris Wood | Nottingham Forest | 20 | 4 |
| 5 | Erling Haaland | Manchester City | 18 | 5 |
| 6 | Ollie Watkins | Aston Villa | 16 | 9 |
Source: Premier League official statistics. Figures cover the 38-match league season only, not cup competitions.
Chris Wood’s 20-goal tally for Nottingham Forest stands as one of the more underappreciated individual performances of the campaign. The New Zealand international was central to Forest’s charge through the second half of the season, converting in key fixtures against Arsenal and Chelsea that proved decisive in the top-four battle. Erling Haaland’s 18 goals, while still a strong return by most standards, marked a notable drop from his record-breaking 36 in 2022-23 and reflected Manchester City’s wider struggles throughout the year.
Relegated Clubs and the Survival Fight
Southampton’s 2024-25 campaign stands as one of the most difficult in Premier League history for a newly promoted side. The Saints finished with just 19 points from 38 games – a tally that placed them among the lowest-scoring relegated sides on record, according to BBC Sport’s season review coverage. Their goal difference of –61, with only 31 goals scored against 92 conceded, illustrated a defensive fragility that made survival effectively impossible from as early as February 2025.
Leicester City and Ipswich Town followed Southampton back to the Championship. Leicester, the famous 2015-16 Premier League title winners, had returned to the top flight after a one-season absence but found the division had moved on from the era that had made them champions. Ipswich, competing in the top flight for the first time in over two decades, exceeded early preseason expectations before a run of poor results in the final quarter ended any lingering hope of survival. Their 29-point finish, while disappointing, was a step above Southampton’s total.
Manchester City’s Difficult Campaign
Pep Guardiola’s side entered August 2024 as four-time defending Premier League champions, having won the title in each of the four preceding seasons. By December 2024, City had lost a majority of their league fixtures in an extended run that prompted widespread debate about whether the squad had aged beyond quick repair. Guardiola acknowledged publicly that the scale of the slump was unexpected, pointing to injuries among key midfielders and the accumulated fatigue of a squad that had been at the highest level without genuine rotation for several years.
City’s seventh-place finish and 56-point total represented their lowest Premier League points haul in the Guardiola era. The club missed out on Champions League qualification from their league position and could not rely on a cup run to claim a back-door route into Europe’s elite competition. For many following English football, the comparison with Chelsea’s similar collapse in 2015-16 – the season after their own title win – was drawn repeatedly by analysts and supporters alike.
Manchester City’s seventh-place finish was the clearest signal yet that Premier League supremacy is never permanent – not even under the most decorated manager in the division’s recent history.
European Qualification and Cup Impact
The top four spots – held by Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, and Nottingham Forest – secured automatic entry into the UEFA Champions League for 2025-26. Newcastle United’s fifth-place finish earned a Europa League berth, while Aston Villa in sixth dropped into the UEFA Conference League. Given Villa’s own Champions League campaign in 2024-25 had stretched their squad across a heavy fixture schedule, sixth place was regarded by analysts as a reasonable outcome rather than a failure. For more on how the Champions League works from a structural standpoint, see our guide at Champions League Final: How It Works and How to Watch.
The FA Cup and League Cup both produced results that indirectly influenced the final league table, with clubs running deep in domestic cup competitions showing greater fatigue in the run-in. Arsenal’s League Cup exit in the semi-final freed up fixture dates that many argued helped them maintain second place ahead of Chelsea, who were managing a simultaneous Conference League campaign. For a detailed look at how European dates interact with the Premier League schedule, the Champions League Match Schedule: Dates and Kickoff Times page breaks down the overlap week by week.
Readers who track results matchweek by matchweek can find running coverage at our Premier League Match Results: Weekly Reports and Table Updates hub, which archives score data across the current and past seasons. For scores during active gameweeks, Premier League Results Today: Live Scores, Goals and Match Updates provides up-to-the-minute data.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who won the Premier League in 2024-25?
Liverpool Football Club won the 2024-25 Premier League title – their 20th English top-flight championship overall and their second in the Premier League era, following the 2019-20 title won under Jurgen Klopp. The club was managed by Arne Slot, the Dutch coach who arrived from Feyenoord in the summer of 2024. Slot became one of the very few managers to win the Premier League in his debut season at a club, a distinction that underlines both the quality of the squad he inherited and his own tactical contribution. Liverpool clinched the title with multiple matches to spare, finishing 8 points clear of second-placed Arsenal and losing only 6 of their 38 league games across the campaign.
Who was relegated from the Premier League in 2024-25?
Three clubs were relegated at the end of the 2024-25 season: Southampton (20th, 19 points), Ipswich Town (19th, 29 points), and Leicester City (18th, 33 points). Southampton were confirmed down before the final month of the campaign, having scored only 31 league goals all season while conceding 92. Leicester City, the remarkable 2015-16 champions, finished 18th – their second relegation in three seasons. Ipswich, returning to the Premier League for the first time in over 20 years, showed early promise but could not sustain it. All three clubs had been promoted from the Championship the previous summer, making the 2024-25 relegation zone a clean sweep of that year’s promoted trio – a historically unusual outcome.
Who won the Golden Boot in the 2024-25 Premier League?
Mohamed Salah of Liverpool won the Premier League Golden Boot with 28 league goals in 2024-25. He also finished as the division’s leading assist provider, giving him a rare double of the Golden Boot and Playmaker award in the same season. Cole Palmer of Chelsea was second in the scoring charts with 22 goals, followed by Alexander Isak of Newcastle United with 21. Chris Wood’s 20-goal return for Nottingham Forest was widely cited as the season’s most surprising individual performance, given Forest were forecast for a relegation battle. The full official season statistics are available on the Premier League’s statistics page.
Did Manchester City qualify for the Champions League in 2024-25?
No. Manchester City finished seventh in the 2024-25 Premier League table with 56 points, ending Pep Guardiola’s run of consistent top-four finishes since his arrival in 2016. The club did not earn a Champions League berth through their league position, nor did they secure a Europa League place. Their exits from both the FA Cup and League Cup at relatively early stages left their campaign without major silverware – a first in the Guardiola era at the club. City’s struggles were widely attributed to a combination of key midfield injuries, a naturally ageing squad core, and the accumulated physical demands of consecutive title campaigns without a true rest period for the group.
How many goals were scored in the 2024-25 Premier League season?
The 2024-25 Premier League season produced approximately 1,084 goals across 380 matches, equating to an average of around 2.85 goals per game according to Premier League official data. This places the campaign in line with the broader trend of the past five seasons, where the goals-per-game average has consistently sat between 2.7 and 3.0. Liverpool and Chelsea were among the most prolific attacking sides, each ending the year with over 70 league goals scored. Southampton, by contrast, managed only 31 – the lowest in the division – while also conceding the most with 92 goals against, a combination that explained their early relegation confirmation.
Who was named Manager of the Season for 2024-25?
Arne Slot of Liverpool received the Premier League Manager of the Season award for 2024-25. Arriving from Feyenoord with limited English top-flight experience, Slot guided Liverpool to the title in his debut campaign – a feat regarded by most analysts as one of the more impressive managerial achievements of recent seasons given the expectations that followed Jurgen Klopp’s celebrated departure. Forest manager Nuno Espirito Santo was widely identified as the runner-up for the award, given how significantly his side outperformed preseason projections. The award is voted on by a panel of managers, coaches, and football professionals, as reported in The Guardian’s Premier League season coverage.
Where can I find a matchweek-by-matchweek record of 2024-25 Premier League results?
The most detailed fixture-by-fixture scoreline records are held at the official Premier League website (premierleague.com), which archives every match, goalscorer, and key event from the campaign. Wikipedia’s dedicated season article offers a clean format that many researchers and fans prefer for cross-referencing data. For weekend-specific results with editorial context, Premier League Results This Weekend: Full Fixture List, Scores and Highlights covers each gameweek with table snapshots and match summaries. The pillar page at Daily Match – covering both current and historical league data – is linked throughout this article for ongoing reference.
Related Reading
- Premier League Match Results: Weekly Reports & Table Updates (main pillar)
- How to Watch Premier League Results Live: US Streaming Guide
- Premier League Midweek Results: Why Tuesdays Reshape the Title Race
- Premier League Results by Team: Home & Away Records for Every Club
- Premier League Results Data API: Access Real-Time and Historical Data
- Premier League Results This Weekend: Full Fixture List, Scores & Highlights
- Premier League Results Today: Live Scores, Goals & Match Updates
Sources
- Wikipedia – 2024-25 Premier League season (full standings and match records)
- Premier League official statistics – Top scorers 2024-25
- BBC Sport – Premier League season review and relegation coverage
- The Guardian – Premier League 2024-25 season reporting
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