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The 2018–19 Premier League was the 27th season of the Premier League, the top English professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1992, and the 120th season of top-flight English football overall. The season started on 10 August 2018 and concluded on 12 May 2019.[2][3] Fixtures for the 2018–19 season were announced on 14 June 2018. The league was contested by the top 17 teams from the 2017–18 season as well as Wolverhampton Wanderers, Cardiff City and Fulham, who joined as the promoted clubs from the 2017–18 EFL Championship. They replaced West Bromwich Albion, Swansea City and Stoke City who were relegated to the 2018–19 EFL Championship.[4]
Season | 2018–19 |
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Dates | 10 August 2018 – 12 May 2019 |
Champions | Manchester City 4th Premier League title 6th English title |
Relegated | Cardiff City Fulham Huddersfield Town |
Champions League | Manchester City Liverpool Chelsea Tottenham Hotspur |
Europa League | Arsenal Manchester United Wolverhampton Wanderers |
Matches played | 380 |
Goals scored | 1,072 (2.82 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Sadio Mané Mohamed Salah (22 goals each) |
Best goalkeeper | Alisson (21 clean sheets) |
Biggest home win | Manchester City 6–0 Chelsea (10 February 2019) |
Biggest away win | Cardiff City 0–5 Manchester City (22 September 2018) Brighton & Hove Albion 0–5 Bournemouth (13 April 2019) |
Highest scoring | Everton 2–6 Tottenham Hotspur (23 December 2018) Crystal Palace 5–3 Bournemouth (12 May 2019) |
Longest winning run | 14 matches[1] Manchester City |
Longest unbeaten run | 20 matches[1] Liverpool |
Longest winless run | 14 matches[1] Huddersfield Town |
Longest losing run | 9 matches[1] Fulham |
Highest attendance | 81,332 Tottenham Hotspur 1–1 Arsenal (2 March 2019)[1] |
Lowest attendance | 9,980 Bournemouth 2–1 Huddersfield Town (4 December 2018)[1] |
Total attendance | 14,508,981[1] |
Average attendance | 38,182[1] |
← 2017–18 2019–20 → |
Defending champions Manchester City won their fourth Premier League title, and sixth English top-flight title overall. They won their last 14 league games, finishing on 98 points, and retained the league title on the final day of the season. Liverpool finished runners-up with 97 points – the highest total in English top-flight history for a second-placed team.
Manchester City claimed the league title on the final day of the season with a 4–1 win at Brighton & Hove Albion, finishing on 98 points after a run of 14 wins.[5] Liverpool held a 7-point lead over Manchester City on 3 January,[6] but finished runners-up with 97 points – the fourth highest total in Premier League history and the highest in English top-flight history for a second-placed team, having lost only one league match all season – to eventual champions City.[7]
Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur claimed the other two Champions League berths, finishing in third and fourth place respectively. Tottenham were in third place for much of the season and were considered potential title challengers until a 1–2 loss to Burnley in February.[8] Chelsea would go on to win the season's UEFA Europa League, defeating Arsenal in the final 4–1. Arsenal had gone on a fourteen-game unbeaten run near the start of the season and began April in third place, but a run of four points in six matches saw them drop to fifth place, finishing outside of the Champions League spots.[9]
Manchester United's worst start to the season for 28 years and 3–1 loss to Liverpool led to the sacking of manager José Mourinho in December,[10] with former player Ole Gunnar Solskjær replacing him, initially as a caretaker. Solskjær was appointed permanently after an impressive run of results which culminated in United's away goals victory over Paris Saint-Germain in the UEFA Champions League,[11] but the team's poor form soon returned, and they eventually finished sixth after the team had won none of their final five league matches.[12] Newly promoted Wolverhampton Wanderers achieved their highest finish since 1980 by finishing seventh, having taken points off every team in the league except Liverpool and Huddersfield Town.[13] Their seventh-place finish was the highest for a newly promoted team since Ipswich Town finished 5th in the 2000–01 season.[14]
Huddersfield were the first team to be relegated, following their 0–2 defeat at Crystal Palace on 30 March 2019, coinciding with victories for Burnley and Southampton. They were relegated with six games remaining. This made Huddersfield the second team in Premier League history to be relegated before March ended, following Derby County in 2007–08.[15] Fulham joined them after a 1–4 defeat at Watford on 2 April, relegated with five games remaining.[16] Cardiff City were the final team to be relegated following a 2–3 loss at home to Crystal Palace on 4 May with one game remaining.[17]
The fastest goal in Premier League history was scored this season on 23 April by Shane Long in a 1–1 draw between his side Southampton and Watford after 7.69 seconds.[18][19] On 4 May 2019, Fulham's Harvey Elliott became the youngest ever Premier League player at 16 years and 30 days.[20] Tottenham Hotspur had a run of 28 games without a draw, the longest ever recorded from the start of a Premier League season.[21] Manchester City did not draw any of their final 30 matches.
The season saw two aviation incidents involving Premier League personnel. On 27 October 2018, Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha was killed in a helicopter crash outside the King Power Stadium, shortly after a 1–1 home draw against West Ham United. Almost three months later, on 21 January 2019, Cardiff City player Emiliano Sala, en route to join the club following his record signing from Nantes, died on board a Piper PA-46 Malibu aircraft that crashed off Alderney.[22]
Twenty teams competed in the league – the top seventeen teams from the previous season and the three teams promoted from the Championship. The promoted teams were Wolverhampton Wanderers (returning to the top flight after a six-year absence), Cardiff City and Fulham (both teams returning after a four-year absence). They replaced Swansea City, Stoke City and West Bromwich Albion, who were relegated to the Championship after their top flight spells of seven, ten and eight years respectively.
Match balls supplied by Nike, this season's version is the Merlin.
Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure |
Date of vacancy | Position in table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment |
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Arsenal | Arsène Wenger | Retired | 13 May 2018[94] | Pre-season | Unai Emery | 23 May 2018[95] |
Everton | Sam Allardyce | Sacked | 16 May 2018[96] | Marco Silva | 31 May 2018[97] | |
West Ham United | David Moyes | End of contract | 16 May 2018[98] | Manuel Pellegrini | 22 May 2018[99] | |
Chelsea | Antonio Conte | Sacked | 13 July 2018[100] | Maurizio Sarri | 14 July 2018[101] | |
Fulham | Slaviša Jokanović | 14 November 2018[102] | 20th | Claudio Ranieri | 14 November 2018[102] | |
Southampton | Mark Hughes | 3 December 2018[103] | 18th | Ralph Hasenhüttl | 5 December 2018[104] | |
Manchester United | José Mourinho | 18 December 2018[105] | 6th | Ole Gunnar Solskjær[lower-alpha 1] | 19 December 2018[106][107] | |
Huddersfield Town | David Wagner | Mutual consent | 14 January 2019[108] | 20th | Jan Siewert | 21 January 2019[109] |
Leicester City | Claude Puel | Sacked | 24 February 2019[110] | 12th | Brendan Rodgers | 26 February 2019[111] |
Fulham | Claudio Ranieri | 28 February 2019[112] | 19th | Scott Parker[lower-alpha 2] | 28 February 2019[112][113] |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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1 | Manchester City (C) | 38 | 32 | 2 | 4 | 95 | 23 | +72 | 98 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
2 | Liverpool | 38 | 30 | 7 | 1 | 89 | 22 | +67 | 97 | |
3 | Chelsea | 38 | 21 | 9 | 8 | 63 | 39 | +24 | 72 | |
4 | Tottenham Hotspur | 38 | 23 | 2 | 13 | 67 | 39 | +28 | 71 | |
5 | Arsenal | 38 | 21 | 7 | 10 | 73 | 51 | +22 | 70 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage[lower-alpha 1] |
6 | Manchester United | 38 | 19 | 9 | 10 | 65 | 54 | +11 | 66 | |
7 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 38 | 16 | 9 | 13 | 47 | 46 | +1 | 57 | Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round[lower-alpha 1] |
8 | Everton | 38 | 15 | 9 | 14 | 54 | 46 | +8 | 54 | |
9 | Leicester City | 38 | 15 | 7 | 16 | 51 | 48 | +3 | 52 | |
10 | West Ham United | 38 | 15 | 7 | 16 | 52 | 55 | −3 | 52 | |
11 | Watford | 38 | 14 | 8 | 16 | 52 | 59 | −7 | 50 | |
12 | Crystal Palace | 38 | 14 | 7 | 17 | 51 | 53 | −2 | 49 | |
13 | Newcastle United | 38 | 12 | 9 | 17 | 42 | 48 | −6 | 45 | |
14 | Bournemouth | 38 | 13 | 6 | 19 | 56 | 70 | −14 | 45 | |
15 | Burnley | 38 | 11 | 7 | 20 | 45 | 68 | −23 | 40 | |
16 | Southampton | 38 | 9 | 12 | 17 | 45 | 65 | −20 | 39 | |
17 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 38 | 9 | 9 | 20 | 35 | 60 | −25 | 36 | |
18 | Cardiff City (R) | 38 | 10 | 4 | 24 | 34 | 69 | −35 | 34 | Relegation to EFL Championship |
19 | Fulham (R) | 38 | 7 | 5 | 26 | 34 | 81 | −47 | 26 | |
20 | Huddersfield Town (R) | 38 | 3 | 7 | 28 | 22 | 76 | −54 | 16 |
Home \ Away | ARS | BOU | BHA | BUR | CAR | CHE | CRY | EVE | FUL | HUD | LEI | LIV | MCI | MUN | NEW | SOU | TOT | WAT | WHU | WOL |
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Arsenal | — | 5–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–3 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 4–2 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 |
Bournemouth | 1–2 | — | 2–0 | 1–3 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 4–2 | 0–4 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–3 | 2–0 | 1–1 |
Brighton & Hove Albion | 1–1 | 0–5 | — | 1–3 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–4 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 |
Burnley | 1–3 | 4–0 | 1–0 | — | 2–0 | 0–4 | 1–3 | 1–5 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 2–0 | 2–0 |
Cardiff City | 2–3 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–2 | — | 1–2 | 2–3 | 0–3 | 4–2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–5 | 1–5 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–3 | 1–5 | 2–0 | 2–1 |
Chelsea | 3–2 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 4–1 | — | 3–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 5–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 |
Crystal Palace | 2–2 | 5–3 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | — | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–3 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 0–1 |
Everton | 1–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | — | 3–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–6 | 2–2 | 1–3 | 1–3 |
Fulham | 1–5 | 0–3 | 4–2 | 4–2 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 2–0 | — | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 0–3 | 0–4 | 3–2 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 |
Huddersfield Town | 1–2 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | — | 1–4 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 |
Leicester City | 3–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–4 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 3–1 | — | 1–2 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 |
Liverpool | 5–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 4–1 | 2–0 | 4–3 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 5–0 | 1–1 | — | 0–0 | 3–1 | 4–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 5–0 | 4–0 | 2–0 |
Manchester City | 3–1 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 5–0 | 2–0 | 6–0 | 2–3 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 6–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | — | 3–1 | 2–1 | 6–1 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 |
Manchester United | 2–2 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–2 | — | 3–2 | 3–2 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 |
Newcastle United | 1–2 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 2–3 | 2–1 | 0–2 | — | 3–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 0–3 | 1–2 |
Southampton | 3–2 | 3–3 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 0–0 | — | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 3–1 |
Tottenham Hotspur | 1–1 | 5–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 4–0 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 3–1 | — | 2–1 | 0–1 | 1–3 |
Watford | 0–1 | 0–4 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | — | 1–4 | 1–2 |
West Ham United | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 4–2 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 0–2 | 3–1 | 4–3 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 0–4 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 0–2 | — | 0–1 |
Wolverhampton Wanderers | 3–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 4–3 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–3 | 0–2 | 3–0 | — |
Rank | Player | Club | Goals[114] |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang | Arsenal | 22 |
Sadio Mané | Liverpool | ||
Mohamed Salah | Liverpool | ||
4 | Sergio Agüero | Manchester City | 21 |
5 | Jamie Vardy | Leicester City | 18 |
6 | Harry Kane | Tottenham Hotspur | 17 |
Raheem Sterling | Manchester City | ||
8 | Eden Hazard | Chelsea | 16 |
9 | Callum Wilson | Bournemouth | 14 |
10 | Raúl Jiménez | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 13 |
Alexandre Lacazette | Arsenal | ||
Glenn Murray | Brighton & Hove Albion | ||
Paul Pogba | Manchester United | ||
Richarlison | Everton | ||
Gylfi Sigurðsson | Everton |
Player | For | Against | Result | Date | Ref |
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Sergio Agüero | Manchester City | Huddersfield Town | 6–1 (H) | 19 August 2018 | [115] |
Eden Hazard | Chelsea | Cardiff City | 4–1 (H) | 15 September 2018 | [116] |
Mohamed Salah | Liverpool | Bournemouth | 4–0 (A) | 8 December 2018 | [117] |
Roberto Firmino | Liverpool | Arsenal | 5–1 (H) | 29 December 2018 | [118] |
Diogo Jota | Wolverhampton Wanderers | Leicester City | 4–3 (H) | 19 January 2019 | [119] |
Sergio Agüero | Manchester City | Arsenal | 3–1 (H) | 3 February 2019 | [120] |
Sergio Agüero | Manchester City | Chelsea | 6–0 (H) | 10 February 2019 | [121] |
Gerard Deulofeu | Watford | Cardiff City | 5–1 (A) | 22 February 2019 | [122] |
Raheem Sterling | Manchester City | Watford | 3–1 (H) | 9 March 2019 | [123] |
Lucas Moura | Tottenham Hotspur | Huddersfield Town | 4–0 (H) | 13 April 2019 | [124] |
Ayoze Pérez | Newcastle United | Southampton | 3–1 (H) | 20 April 2019 | [125] |
(H) – Home team
(A) – Away team
Rank | Player | Club | Clean sheets[126] |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Alisson | Liverpool | 21 |
2 | Ederson | Manchester City | 20 |
3 | Kepa Arrizabalaga | Chelsea | 14 |
Jordan Pickford | Everton | ||
5 | Hugo Lloris | Tottenham Hotspur | 12 |
6 | Martin Dúbravka | Newcastle United | 11 |
7 | Neil Etheridge | Cardiff City | 10 |
Kasper Schmeichel | Leicester City | ||
9 | David de Gea | Manchester United | 7 |
Łukasz Fabiański | West Ham United | ||
Ben Foster | Watford | ||
Vicente Guaita | Crystal Palace | ||
Rui Patrício | Wolverhampton Wanderers |
Award | Winner | Club |
---|---|---|
Premier League Manager of the Season | Pep Guardiola[157] | Manchester City |
Premier League Player of the Season | Virgil van Dijk[158] | Liverpool |
Premier League Goal of the Season | Andros Townsend[159] | Crystal Palace |
PFA Players' Player of the Year | Virgil van Dijk[160] | Liverpool |
PFA Young Player of the Year | Raheem Sterling[161] | Manchester City |
FWA Footballer of the Year | Raheem Sterling[162] | Manchester City |
PFA Fans' Player of the Year | Eden Hazard[162] | Chelsea |
PFA Team of the Year[163] | ||||||||||||
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Goalkeeper | Ederson (Manchester City) | |||||||||||
Defenders | Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) | Aymeric Laporte (Manchester City) | Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool) | Andrew Robertson (Liverpool) | ||||||||
Midfielders | Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) | Fernandinho (Manchester City) | Paul Pogba (Manchester United) | |||||||||
Forwards | Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) | Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) | Sadio Mané (Liverpool) | |||||||||
Pos | Team | Total | High | Low | Average | Change |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Manchester United | 1,415,471 | 74,556 | 74,400 | 74,498 | −0.6% |
2 | Arsenal | 1,138,072 | 60,030 | 59,493 | 59,899 | +1.0% |
3 | West Ham United | 1,108,375 | 59,988 | 56,811 | 58,336 | +2.6% |
4 | Tottenham Hotspur | 1,030,111 | 81,332 | 29,164 | 54,216 | −20.2% |
5 | Manchester City | 1,028,477 | 54,511 | 53,307 | 54,130 | +0.6% |
6 | Liverpool | 1,006,668 | 53,373 | 50,965 | 52,983 | −0.1% |
7 | Newcastle United | 971,297 | 52,242 | 48,323 | 51,121 | −1.7% |
8 | Chelsea | 768,297 | 40,721 | 38,593 | 40,437 | −2.0% |
9 | Everton | 736,815 | 39,400 | 38,113 | 38,780 | 0.0% |
10 | Leicester City | 605,161 | 32,149 | 30,558 | 31,851 | +0.8% |
11 | Cardiff City | 596,844 | 33,082 | 29,402 | 31,413 | +55.8%1 |
12 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 589,572 | 31,436 | 30,130 | 31,030 | +9.7%1 |
13 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 578,085 | 30,682 | 29,323 | 30,426 | +0.1% |
14 | Southampton | 572,640 | 31,890 | 27,077 | 30,139 | −2.1% |
15 | Crystal Palace | 483,644 | 25,789 | 24,738 | 25,455 | +1.6% |
16 | Fulham | 463,051 | 25,401 | 22,008 | 24,371 | +22.5%1 |
17 | Huddersfield Town | 440,822 | 24,263 | 17,082 | 23,201 | −3.5% |
18 | Burnley | 390,148 | 21,741 | 18,497 | 20,534 | −0.7% |
19 | Watford | 380,297 | 20,540 | 17,301 | 20,016 | −1.1% |
20 | Bournemouth | 200,107 | 10,986 | 9,980 | 10,532 | −1.0% |
League total | 14,503,954 | 81,332 | 9,980 | 38,168 | −0.3% |
Updated to games played on 1 December 2019
Source: World Football
Notes:
1: Team played last season in the Championship
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