2024/25 Premier League season review

Liverpool won the 2024/25 Premier League with 84 points, ten clear of Arsenal, in Arne Slot's first season in charge. The title was settled with four games to spare and was the club's 20th league championship, equalling Manchester United's record.

Mohamed Salah scored 29 league goals and set up 18 more, and was named Player of the Season. In Fantasy Premier League he scored 344 points, the highest total in the game's history, and Lovro Budišin from Croatia won the game with 2,810.

You can replay the season here with a £100m squad picked from 358 players across all 20 clubs, or read on for how it unfolded.

A new man at Anfield

The season began with Liverpool under new management. Jürgen Klopp had stepped down at the end of 2023/24, and Arne Slot took over. Manchester City started as champions for the fourth year running, chasing a fifth straight title, and Erik ten Hag was still in charge at Manchester United after their FA Cup win.

Leicester City, Ipswich Town and Southampton came up from the Championship. Elsewhere, Steve Cooper started the season at Leicester, Julen Lopetegui at West Ham and Russell Martin at Southampton. None of the three made it to the end of the campaign.

The league changed too. Semi-automated offside technology was used for the first time, and the mid-season winter break was scrapped in favour of a longer summer break.

City's start suggested little would change at the top. Erling Haaland scored seven goals in his first three games.

How Liverpool pulled away

Liverpool and City swapped first place through September and October, but Liverpool went top on 2 November and were never caught. City's challenge collapsed soon after. A 4-0 home defeat by Tottenham on 23 November was the heaviest home loss of Pep Guardiola's managerial career, and it was the fifth defeat in a row in all competitions, the first time reigning champions had lost five straight since 1956.

Slot's side kept winning. On 22 December they won 6-3 at Tottenham, the highest-scoring game of the season, and they led the table through the winter. A setback came in March, when Newcastle beat them 2-1 at Wembley in the League Cup final.

The title was confirmed on 27 April 2025, with four games to spare, when Liverpool beat Tottenham 5-1 at Anfield. It was their second Premier League title and their 20th English league championship, equalling Manchester United's record. They eased off afterwards, becoming the first champions not to win any of their next four league games, and lifted the trophy on 25 May after a 1-1 draw with Crystal Palace.

Mohamed Salah drove the whole campaign. He scored 29 league goals and made 18 assists, 47 goal involvements in all, a record for a 38-game Premier League season. He won the Golden Boot for the fourth time, along with the Playmaker award, the Premier League's Player of the Season and a record third PFA Players' Player of the Year. Ryan Gravenberch, moved into a deeper midfield role by Slot, was Young Player of the Season, and Slot became the fifth head coach to win the league in his first season.

Cup winners and the race for Europe

Behind Liverpool, the European places went to the final day:

• Arsenal were runners-up for the third season in a row, on 74 points.
• Manchester City finished third and went without a domestic trophy for the first time since 2016/17.
• Chelsea clinched fourth by beating Nottingham Forest on the last day.
• Newcastle took the last Champions League place on the final day, ahead of Aston Villa, having already won the League Cup.
• Nottingham Forest, third for much of the season, finished seventh and took a Europa League place.

The cups ended three long waits:

• Crystal Palace beat Manchester City 1-0 in the FA Cup final on 17 May. Eberechi Eze scored after 16 minutes and Dean Henderson saved a penalty from Omar Marmoush. It was the first major trophy in Palace's history, and Oliver Glasner became the first Austrian coach to win the competition. Palace were later moved down to the Conference League under UEFA's multi-club ownership rules, and Forest took their Europa League place.
• Newcastle United beat Liverpool 2-1 at Wembley in March to win the League Cup, their first major trophy in decades.
• Tottenham finished 17th in the league but beat Manchester United 1-0 in the Europa League final in Bilbao on 21 May, with Brennan Johnson scoring. It ended a 17-year wait for a trophy and took them into the Champions League.

United's own season was the worst in their Premier League history. Erik ten Hag was sacked on 28 October, and Ruben Amorim took charge from 11 November, but United finished 15th.

Three promoted clubs, three relegations

For the second season running, all three promoted clubs went straight back down, only the third time that had happened in English top-flight history. All three were relegated with at least four games to play, a first in the Premier League era:

• Southampton went down on 6 April after a 3-1 defeat at Tottenham, with seven games left and only 10 points, the earliest relegation in Premier League history. Russell Martin was sacked in December, and his successor Ivan Jurić left after 108 days.
• Leicester City were relegated on 20 April after a 1-0 home defeat by Liverpool. They failed to score in nine home league games in a row, a top-flight record. Steve Cooper was sacked in November and replaced by Ruud van Nistelrooy.
• Ipswich Town went down on 26 April after a 3-0 defeat at Newcastle.

West Ham and Everton also changed managers in January, appointing Graham Potter and bringing back David Moyes, and Wolves replaced Gary O'Neil with Vítor Pereira in December.

Surprises and disappointments

The biggest surprise was Nottingham Forest. Nuno Espírito Santo's side sat third for much of the season, beat Brighton 7-0 in February for the biggest win of the campaign, and qualified for Europe. Chris Wood scored 20 league goals, Matz Sels shared the Golden Glove, and Nuno was Manager of the Month three times.

Others who caught the eye:

• Bryan Mbeumo scored 20 league goals for Brentford.
• Morgan Rogers had eight goals and ten assists for Aston Villa in his first full Premier League season and was named PFA Young Player of the Year.
• Cole Palmer scored four goals in one half against Brighton in September.
• Justin Kluivert became the first player to score a Premier League hat-trick made up entirely of penalties, for Bournemouth against Wolves.

The disappointments were concentrated at the top end of the table. Manchester City lost their grip on the title by November, Manchester United had their worst Premier League season, and Tottenham finished 17th, rescued only by their European final. Leicester, champions nine years earlier, ended the season unable to score at home.

2024/25 in Fantasy Premier League

More than 11.5 million managers played Fantasy Premier League in 2024/25, the most in the game's history. The winner was Lovro Budišin, the first Croatian to win the game, who finished on 2,810 points, 23 ahead of Jack Brennan. He took the lead in Gameweek 31 and went into the final week 40 points clear. It was his fifth season playing, and he had never before finished inside the top 500,000.

The season belonged to Mohamed Salah. His 344 points were the most ever scored in the game, beating his own record of 303 from 2017/18. He also collected a record 55 bonus points and was given the captaincy a record 139.9 million times across the season. Bryan Mbeumo was second with 236 points.

A few other numbers stand out:

• Erling Haaland scored 63 points in the first five gameweeks, the most ever at that stage.
• The biggest single-match score was Cole Palmer's 25 points for his four goals against Brighton. Salah scored 29 in a double gameweek in Gameweek 24.
• The Assistant Manager chip was introduced in Gameweek 24 and played 4.9 million times in its first season.
• Ederson made four assists, the most ever by a goalkeeper in a single season of the game.

The PFA Team of the Year

The champions led the players' own Team of the Year with four Liverpool players, alongside three from Arsenal and two from Nottingham Forest. No Manchester City player made the side.

The season's other awards:

2024/25 quick answers

Who won the Premier League in 2024/25? Liverpool, with 84 points, ten ahead of Arsenal, in Arne Slot's first season. It was their 20th English league title.

Who was relegated in 2024/25? Ipswich Town, Leicester City and Southampton, the three promoted clubs.

Who was the Premier League top scorer in 2024/25? Mohamed Salah, with 29 league goals. He also had the most assists, 18.

Who was PFA Player of the Year in 2024/25? Mohamed Salah, for a record third time. Morgan Rogers was Young Player of the Year.

Who won the cups in 2024/25? Crystal Palace won the FA Cup, Newcastle the League Cup and Tottenham the Europa League.

Who scored the most FPL points in 2024/25? Mohamed Salah, with 344, the highest total in the game's history.

Who won Fantasy Premier League in 2024/25? Lovro Budišin, with 2,810 points.