As of August 2024, Gareth Barry held the record for the most appearances in the English Premier League, with a career total of 653 games. The former midfielder played for a number of Premier League clubs, including Aston Villa, Manchester City, and Everton.

In the English Premier League, the Golden Boot is awarded to the player(s) who scores the most league goals throughout the season. Since the 1888/89 season, the year of the first top flight season in English football, 109 different individuals have been named "top goal scorer" over 127 seasons. In the 2024/25 season, Liverpool's Mohamed Salah won the Golden Boot for the fourth time in eight seasons. Manchester City's Erling Haaland was the top goalscorer in the previous two seasons, including his record-breaking tally of 36 goals in his debut season in 2022/23. Premier League records Current records are generally given in the context of the past three decades, as the total number of games was reduced from 42 to 38 per season in 1995 (in the Premier League's fourth season). In the Premier League era, Thierry Henry and Mohamed Salah have won the Golden Boot more times than anybody else, winning this accolade four times each. Alan Shearer, who won three consecutive Golden Boots in the 90s, is the Premier League's all-time top goal scorer, with 260 goals. Interestingly, Wayne Rooney, who is the Premier League's third-highest goal scorer of all time, never won a Golden Boot. All-time records Outside the Premier League era, Jimmy Greaves has been the top scorer in England more times than any other player, appearing at the top of the list six times between 1958 and 1969, during his career with Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspurs. Derby County's Steve Bloomer finished five seasons as the league's top scorer between 1895 and 1904. The highest ever tally in a single season was sixty goals, which was scored by Everton's Dixie Dean in the 1927/28 season. Greaves, Bloomer, and Dean are also the three top goalscorers of all time in the English league, with 357, 314 and 310 goals respectively. Players from Tottenham have been named top scorer more than players from any other club, appearing 13 times on this list. 20 different nationalities are represented here, and although the vast majority of players are English, there were 16 times where the top scorer in the First Division was Scottish. A much wider variety of nationalities has been represented in recent years, including in the 2018/19 season where it was shared between three players from different African nations.

Analysis of ‘English Premier League(2020-21)’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/rajatrc1705/english-premier-league202021 on 13 February 2022.

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Context

This dataset is a collection of basic but crucial stats of the English Premier League 2020-21 season. The dataset has all the players that played in the EPL and their standard stats such as Goals, Assists, xG, xA, Passes Attempted, Pass Accuracy and more! Do upvote if you like it!

Content

Inspiration

There are several directions you can take with this dataset: 1) Find out which team has the most aggressive defenders (or players for that matter) 2) Which team had more players in the top 10 most assists chart 3) Who were the players with most attempted passes 4) Which players had the most accurate passes excluding the goal keeper and the defenders 5) Defenders with most goals!! 6) Which nation had the most aggressive players? the possibilities are endless, create a notebook and explore them!

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As of 2024, Alan Shearer was the Premier League's all-time top scorer, with a career total of 260 goals. The former Newcastle United forward lifted the league title with Blackburn Rovers in 1995. Meanwhile, Harry Kane scored his 200th Premier League goal in early 2023, becoming Tottenham Hotspur's all-time top scorer in his last season at the club.

This dataset was obtained as part of my project to rate player performances in a game and use it to model game outcomes. I was looking for an open dataset which included important in-game stats for players but couldn't find one. Hence I ended up scraping data myself. Subsequently, it has been successfully used to predict player performances in future games and build an optimum fantasy league team. I would be updating the dataset monthly to include newer games of the current season.

The dataset includes 2 JSON files. One of the files describes in-game match stats for every match of the past 4 seasons (current season included) like player touches, passes, shots, yellow cards, saves etc. Some of the stats are available as aggregate stats for the entire team and some of them are player specific. Second, file describes general match outcomes like the full time and half-time score etc.

Data snapshot --

{
  "1190174":{
    "13":{
      "team_details":{
        "team_id":"13",
        "team_name":"Arsenal",
        "team_rating":"7.30714285714286",
        "date":"11/08/2017"
      },
      "aggregate_stats":{
        "fk_foul_lost":"9",
        "won_contest":"16",
        "possession_percentage":"70",
        "total_throws":"21",
         .............
       },
      "Player_stats":{
        "Petr Cech":{
          "player_details":{
            "player_id":"6775",
            "player_name":"Petr Cech",
            "player_position_value":"1",
            "player_position_info":"GK",
            "player_rating":"5.78"
          },
          "Match_stats":{
            "good_high_claim":"1",
            "touches":"27",
            "total_tackle":"1",
            "total_pass":"20",
            "formation_place":"1",
            "accurate_pass":"16"
          },

This dataset could be used to predict player performances and how a particular player/team plays against another. Can a game outcome be modeled on the player composition of the participating teams? Are goals the most important factor that determines season outcomes or something other than historical goals be used to predict the future team performance in the league?

Explore the epic showdown between Messi and Cristiano: goals, assists, averages, and more. A deep dive into the stats that define their legacy.

As of April 13, 2025, Alan Shearer and Andrew Cole shared the record for the most goals and assists in a single Premier League season, with each notching up 47 goal contributions in 1994/95 and 1993/94 respectively. Meanwhile, Mohamed Salah holds the record in the 38-match era, breaking the record in 2024/25.

Match history for Messi against Premier League's 'BIG SIX' and many other statistics about the greatest rivalry in football history

Match history for Ronaldo against Premier League's 'BIG SIX' and many other statistics about the greatest rivalry in football history

As of 2025, Manchester United and Liverpool had won the English top-flight more times than any other team, with a total of 20 titles each. The league was most recently won by Liverpool in 2024/25, with coach Arne Slot guiding the Reds to success in his first season at the club. Which teams have been most successful in the Premier League era? The Premier League was founded in 1992, replacing the old First Division as the highest tier of English football. Since then, the league has reached new heights financially, having the highest revenue out of the Big Five leagues in Europe. Manchester United have won the most league titles since 1992, with a total of 13. However, local rivals Manchester City have dominated in recent years, winning the Premier League six times since 2018 alone. The other teams that have won the Premier League on more than one occasion are Chelsea, Arsenal, and Liverpool. What does the future hold for Manchester City? Manchester City’s dominance has sometimes called the Premier League’s competitiveness into question, with the club’s resources far exceeding most teams in the league. Overall, City had the second-highest revenue out of any club worldwide in 2023/24, with only Real Madrid generating more. However, uncertainty over the club’s 115 alleged breaches of Financial Fair Play rules and a difficult 2024/25 season mean that things may not be plain sailing for City from now on – welcome news to fans of Liverpool and Arsenal, who have narrowly missed out on titles in recent years.

As of 2023, Manchester City were the only team to ever win 100 points in a single Premier League season, achieving the feat in 2017/18. Meanwhile, Liverpool picked up 99 points to win their first ever Premier League title (and 19th First Division title) in 2019/20.

As of February 2025, the quickest goal ever scored in the Premier League was Shane Long's opener against Watford in April 2019, coming in just 7.69 seconds. The second-fastest goal was scored by Philip Billing, who scored 9.11 seconds into AFC Bournemouth's match against Arsenal in March 2023.

As of 2023, the youngest goal scorer in Premier League history James Vaughan, who scored against Crystal Palace while playing for Everton in 2005. At the time, the English forward was 16 years and 270 days old.

In 2023/24, Premier League clubs collectively generated over *** billion euros in revenue - significantly more than any other league in Europe's Big Five. This has been forecast to rise to around *** billion euros in the 2025/26 season. Which clubs have won the most Premier League titles? The Premier League is the highest tier of professional soccer in England. The clubs with the most English league titles are Manchester United and Liverpool, with each lifting the trophy on ** occasions. Liverpool won the league most recently in 2024/25 under Arne Slot. Which player has won the Premier League the most times? Given the Red Devils’ success in the Premier League, it is not surprising that the player who has won the Premier League the most times is a United club legend. Throughout his career, Ryan Giggs won the Premier League ** times. The next highest-ranked player was Paul Scholes, who also played for Manchester United.

As of February 2023, Petr Cech had kept more clean sheets than any other goalkeeper in the English Premier League, with a total of 202. After retiring from football in 2019, the former Czech international started a career in ice hockey.

Fabian Hürzeler is set to become the youngest permanent manager in Premier League history in 2024/25, being aged 31 years and 180 days when Brighton & Hove Albion start the season. When temporary appointments are also considered, the all-time record is held by Ryan Mason, aged just 29 years and 312 days when he took charge of Tottenham Hotspur against Southampton in 2021.

The aggregate attendance of the English Premier League, commonly referred to as the Premier League, has exhibited a gradual increase from 13 million attendees in 2009/2010 to approximately 15 million attendees in 2021/22. In 2020/21, the total aggregate attendance at the games fell to its lowest value throughout this period as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic . The Premier League The Premier League, currently consisting of 20 professional football clubs, constitutes the highest level of professional club football within the United Kingdom (UK). Alongside the so-called “Big-Five” leagues of Europe, which include the top-tier football leagues of England, Spain, Italy, Germany, and France; the Premier League is considered to be one of the most widely followed and well-known football leagues in the world. Revenue The Premier League was established in 1992 following the decision of the then first division of the English Football league to capitalize on a lucrative television rights deal. A decision that has led to the clubs within the Premier League consistently yielding the largest combined revenue of the ‘Big-Five’ leagues of Europe with the combined revenue of all 20 Premier League clubs projected to be around 6.2 billion euros in the 2021/22 season; over two billion euros more than the expected combined revenue of their counterparts in Spain and Germany, who rank second and third respectively. The 2020/21 season The 2020/2021 season, following a delay until the 12 September due to the postponement of the previous season's conclusion as a result of the impact of the COVID-19 containment measures culminated in Manchester City FC reclaiming their title from the defending champions, Liverpool FC. Leading to the club's third championship title within the last four seasons. In the 2021/22 season the Premier League bounced back from COVID-19 as the strongest attendance wise in the Big-Five with an average of close to 40 thousand spectators per match.

Manchester City generated more revenue than any other Premier League club in 2023/24, with the Citizens' total revenue amounting to 719 million British pounds. This was more than five times the revenue of the league's lowest-earning club. Meanwhile, Manchester United's revenue totaled 662 million British pounds.

Regarded as one of the greatest soccer coaches of all time, Josep 'Pep' Guardiola has managed some of Europe's most elite clubs, and won more trophies than most in the sport. As of 2024, Guardiola had won six Premier League titles, as well as the UEFA Champions League on three occasions.

Chelsea's signing of Enzo Fernández in January 2023 was the most expensive signing ever made by a club in the Premier League, costing around 121 million euros. Meanwhile, Moisés Caicedo's 116 million euro move to the Blues ranked fourth.