Premier League 2024/25: Complete Standings, Top Scorers & What They Mean for Next Season
June 23, 2026
The 2024/25 Premier League season is done. The dust has settled, the trophy has been lifted, and the numbers tell a story that will echo through the summer transfer window and deep into next season’s title race. Liverpool are champions. Mohamed Salah rewrote the record books. Three clubs go down. And the gap between the top seven and the rest has never felt wider – or more fragile.
Here is everything you need to know about the final standings, the golden boot race, and what it all means for 2025/26.
Liverpool Are Champions – And History Was Made
Arne Slot walked into one of the most scrutinised jobs in football when he replaced Jürgen Klopp at Anfield in the summer of 2024. Klopp had spent nine years building something extraordinary. What Slot did in his first season bordered on the extraordinary: he won the Premier League title.
Liverpool finished with 84 points – 25 wins, 9 draws, 4 defeats – and a goal difference of +45. More than a points tally, though, the title carried weight. It was Liverpool’s 20th English top-flight title, equalling Manchester United’s long-standing record. For a club whose identity is inseparable from its rivalry with United, the symmetry was everything.
The run that sealed it was the stuff of sporting legend. Liverpool went 26 matches unbeaten at one point in the season, a sustained stretch that turned a title race into a procession by the spring. Slot built on Klopp’s high-intensity foundations while adding tactical flexibility that opponents struggled to decode – pressing when needed, absorbing when smart.
What it means for next season: Defending champions enter the campaign with a target on their backs and a manager who now has a full pre-season and the experience of winning with this squad. If Liverpool’s squad depth holds up through injury and Champions League demands, they are the team everyone else has to plan around.
The Final Premier League 2024/25 Standings
Here is the complete final table:
| Pos | Club | Pts | W | D | L | GD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liverpool 🏆 | 84 | 25 | 9 | 4 | +45 |
| 2 | Arsenal | 74 | 21 | 11 | 6 | +38 |
| 3 | Manchester City | 71 | 21 | 8 | 9 | +28 |
| 4 | Chelsea | 69 | 20 | 9 | 9 | +27 |
| 5 | Newcastle United | 66 | 19 | 9 | 10 | +22 |
| 6 | Aston Villa | 66 | 19 | 9 | 10 | +19 |
| 7 | Nottingham Forest | 65 | 19 | 8 | 11 | +14 |
| 8 | Brighton | 61 | 17 | 10 | 11 | +9 |
| 9 | Bournemouth | 56 | 16 | 8 | 14 | +7 |
| 10 | Brentford | 56 | 15 | 11 | 12 | +3 |
| 11 | Fulham | 54 | 15 | 9 | 14 | -2 |
| 12 | Crystal Palace | 53 | 15 | 8 | 15 | -4 |
| 13 | Everton | 48 | 13 | 9 | 16 | -14 |
| 14 | West Ham | 43 | 12 | 7 | 19 | -18 |
| 15 | Manchester United | 42 | 13 | 3 | 22 | -23 |
| 16 | Wolves | 42 | 11 | 9 | 18 | -17 |
| 17 | Tottenham Hotspur | 38 | 10 | 8 | 20 | -16 |
| 18 | Leicester City ↓ | 25 | 6 | 7 | 25 | -39 |
| 19 | Ipswich Town ↓ | 22 | 5 | 7 | 26 | -44 |
| 20 | Southampton ↓ | 12 | 2 | 6 | 30 | -57 |
The Title Race: Arsenal, City, and a 10-Point Gap
The gap between first and second was 10 points. That number is the story of the season in miniature.
Arsenal (74 pts, 2nd) were relentless but not quite relentless enough. Mikel Arteta’s side finished 11 points clear of third place and would have been champions in most seasons. Their +38 goal difference was the second-best in the league. But they could not find the consistency to match Liverpool’s unbeaten run, and once Slot’s side opened a cushion in February, Arsenal’s occasional dropped points became fatal. For the third consecutive season, they finished as runners-up without lifting the trophy. The question around the Emirates is no longer “are they good enough?” – it is “when does good enough become great?”
Manchester City (71 pts, 3rd) had their most turbulent season in years. Pep Guardiola’s squad showed vulnerability in a way they have not since the early days of his tenure, losing 9 matches and slipping behind Arsenal on goal difference. Erling Haaland contributed 22 goals – still elite, but against the backdrop of his 36-goal debut season, the standard has shifted. City remain in the Champions League and retain enormous financial and tactical resources, but the aura of invincibility that defined 2021–2024 is cracked.
Chelsea (69 pts, 4th) surprised many. Enzo Maresca’s side were efficient, direct, and made the best of a deep squad built across multiple transfer windows. Cole Palmer (15 goals, 15 assists) was the creative heartbeat. Champions League football returns to Stamford Bridge.
Newcastle United and Aston Villa (66 pts each, 5th and 6th) finished level on points, with goal difference separating them. Both qualified for the Europa League. Villa’s second consecutive top-six finish under Unai Emery is no longer a surprise – it is a statement. Newcastle, with Eddie Howe continuing to build, are becoming one of the league’s reliable top-six fixtures.
Nottingham Forest (65 pts, 7th) were the story of the mid-table. Nuno Espírito Santo’s side secured European football – a remarkable achievement for a club that only returned to the Premier League in 2022.
Top Scorers: Salah’s Historic Golden Boot
The individual story of the season belonged to one man.
Mohamed Salah finished with 29 league goals, claiming the Golden Boot for the fourth time in his Premier League career and equalling Thierry Henry’s all-time record of four Golden Boots. At 32, in what many suspected might be his final campaign at Anfield, Salah produced the kind of numbers that belong to peak seasons. He also contributed assists at a rate that put him among the best playmakers in the division, not merely its top finishers.
Here are the top scorers for 2024/25:
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mohamed Salah 🥇 | Liverpool | 29 |
| 2 | Alexander Isak | Newcastle | 23 |
| 3 | Erling Haaland | Man City | 22 |
| 4 | Chris Wood | Nottm Forest | 20 |
| 5 | Bryan Mbeumo | Brentford | 20 |
| 6 | Yoane Wissa | Brentford | 19 |
| 7 | Ollie Watkins | Aston Villa | 16 |
| 8 | Matheus Cunha | Wolves | 15 |
| 9 | Cole Palmer | Chelsea | 15 |
| 10 | Jean-Philippe Mateta | Crystal Palace | 14 |
A few numbers here deserve closer attention.
Alexander Isak (23 goals) had the best season of his career and firmly established himself as one of Europe’s elite strikers. His hold-up play, movement, and clinical finishing made Newcastle’s attack function. Any summer window will bring speculation about his future; Newcastle’s ability to keep him is one of the defining questions for their 2025/26 ambitions.
Chris Wood (20 goals) and Bryan Mbeumo (20 goals) both finished level in fourth. Wood’s output was critical to Nottingham Forest’s European push – a striker of that efficiency at that age is one of the quiet stories of the season. Mbeumo’s 20 goals for Brentford represent a performance of genuine elite quality from a side that finished 10th and punched well above their squad value.
Erling Haaland (22 goals) remains a force of nature. In any other era, 22 goals would be headline news. In 2024/25, he finished third – a reflection of the quality around him more than any diminishment of his own.
The Relegation Battle: One Historic Collapse
Southampton were relegated with 12 points – the second-lowest points total in Premier League history. They won twice in 38 matches, drew six, and conceded at a rate that defied even the most pessimistic pre-season projections. It was a season-long collapse without a turning point: they were bottom from August and stayed there.
Ipswich Town (22 pts) returned to the Championship after a single season back in the top flight. Kieran McKenna kept them competitive in patches but the squad was simply not equipped for the quality differential. Their return to the Premier League was brief.
Leicester City (25 pts) went down at the end of a season marked by chaos off the pitch as much as struggles on it. The managerial carousel, the points deductions threat (which ultimately did not materialise), and the gutting of the squad that won the title in 2016 all combined. Leicester have now been relegated twice from the Premier League in three seasons.
What the Table Reveals for 2025/26
The top is genuinely open – within limits
Liverpool’s 10-point winning margin looks decisive but the underlying competition between Arsenal, City, Chelsea and Liverpool suggests four clubs capable of winning the title. Arsenal need to close the gap in the margins. City need to rediscover the consistency that made them dominant. Chelsea are building rather than peaking. Liverpool are defending champions with an increasingly settled manager.
The middle is the most interesting story
The 7th-to-12th group – Forest, Brighton, Bournemouth, Brentford, Fulham, Crystal Palace – are separated by only 12 points. These are clubs operating without the financial power of the top six but with enough tactical identity to beat anyone on a given day. How European football affects Forest next season (they will play Thursday nights, travel, and rotate), and whether Brighton can sustain their model after likely player sales, are two of the sub-plots worth tracking.
Manchester United’s crisis is structural
42 points and 15th place. Manchester United’s season was their worst in the Premier League era by points-per-game. The summer of 2025 will bring an overhaul – of recruitment, of staff, potentially of fundamental club philosophy. They avoided relegation by nine points, but the distance between them and the top four was 27 points. That is not a bad season. That is a broken structure.
Tottenham’s European route
Tottenham finished 17th – but qualified for the Champions League by winning the UEFA Europa League. It is one of the stranger achievements in recent English football: European glory while finishing second-bottom of the surviving clubs. What it means for 2025/26 is a squad that will play Champions League football while rebuilding a league position that does not reflect that ambition.
Three promoted sides with different stories
The three clubs coming up from the Championship – replacing Leicester, Ipswich and Southampton – will be announced after play-offs complete. What the relegated clubs’ seasons show is the brutal transition point: Southampton’s 12 points suggest a side that was never ready for the step up. Leicester’s case is different – they have the infrastructure and history, and a focused rebuild could return them sooner than most expect.
The Numbers That Defined the Season
The 2024/25 Premier League produced 1,115 goals across 380 matches – a rate of 2.93 goals per game, one of the highest in the competition’s modern era. Attacking football, high lines, and pressing intensity made for a season that was rarely dull.
Liverpool’s 26-match unbeaten run. Salah’s fourth Golden Boot. Southampton’s near-historic low. Forest in Europe. United’s implosion. Chelsea’s quiet overachievement. The season had more genuinely compelling narratives than most, and the standings reflect every one of them.
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