Premier League, 2025 (2024-25)

Premier League – Season Review 2024-25

The 2024-25 Premier League was the 33rd season in the competition’s history.

In manager Arne Slot’s first season in charge, Liverpool won their second Premier League title to equal Manchester United’s record of being England’s all-time top division champions for the 20th time.

The season ran from 16 August 2024 to 25 May 2025. A winter break, which was instigated in 2019-20, was removed and replaced by a longer summer break and longer intervals in games in the Christmas / New Year period.

The total attendance at the 380 games was 15,360,627: an average of 40,423 (a 4.68% increase on 2023-24).

A total of 1,115 goals were scored: an average of 2.93 per game and 131 fewer than the previous season.

This was the sixth season that the Premier League had featured the use of video assistant referees (VAR).

Semi-automated offside was introduced but, due to a delay in the testing process, wasn’t used for the first time until 12 April 2025 (Manchester City versus Crystal Palace).

This was the third season that teams were allowed to make five substitutions in a game. Additional substitutions could be made under the concussion protocol.

Liverpool clinched the title with four games left to play as Arsenal finished as runners-up for the third consecutive season.

Manchester City, Chelsea and Newcastle United also qualified for the UEFA Champions League. Aston Villa qualified for the UEFA Europa League while Nottingham Forest would enter European competition for the first time since 1983 in the UEFA Europa League.

FA Cup winners Crystal Palace would have filled the UEFA Europa League slot but were demoted to the UEFA Conference League for breaching multi-club ownership rules.

Manchester United finished in their lowest position (15th) since returning to the top division in 1975. They also lost in the Final of the UEFA Europa League to Tottenham Hotspur, who finished in their lowest position (17th) since returning to the top division in 1978.

For the second time in the history of the top division (previously 1997-98 in the Premier League), the three promoted teams were immediately relegated for a second consecutive seasons.

Southampton’s demotion was confirmed with a competition record equalling seven games to play. Leicester City became the first-ever top flight team to lose nine consecutive home games without scoring while, after their meteoric rise from League One, Ipswich Town were unable to survive in their first season in the Premier League since 2001-02.

In becoming the seventh manager to win the title in his first season in the Premier League, Liverpool’s Arne Slot was named League Managers’ Association Manager of the Year and the Premier League’s Manager of the Season.

The Reds’ Mohamed Salah was voted the Premier League’s Player of the Season and the Football Writers’ Association’s Footballer of the Year. His team-mate Ryan Gravenberch was named the Premier League’s Young Player of the Season.

Salah also equalled Thierry Henry’s competition record of winning the Golden Boot award for a fourth time, while fellow Egyptian Omar Marmoush won the Premier League’s Goal of the Season award (for Manchester City versus AFC Bournemouth on 20 May 2025).