The imminent return of the Premier League has made us look through various facts, records and stats .
Will any of these stats be broken this season, its probably not likely but lets dive in.
Facts
The English Premier League started on 15th August 1992
Brian Deane of Sheffield United scored the first Premier League goal
Ryan Giggs holds the record for the most substituted player in the Premier League history at 134.
Shane Long scored the fastest Premier League goal in 7.69 seconds
Man City and Liverpool have won the most league matches at 32 in a single season
Chelsea hold the record for the fewest goals conceded in a season at just 15
Arsenal are the only team to go a full Premier League season without a defeat
Peter Crouch has scored the most headed goals at 53
Alan Shearer holds the record for the all time top scorer with 260 goals
Richard Dunne scored a record 10 own goals in Premier League history
Sadio Mane holds the record for the fastest Premier League hat-trick in 176 seconds.
No English manager has ever won the league title.
Arsene Wenger has managed the most games in the PL, a grand total of 828 games.
The Most PL title wins is Man Utd with 13
Most consecutive PL title wins is Man Utd with 3
The Fewest PL wins in a season is Derby County at 1
Most PL points in a season is 100 by Manchester City in 2017/18
Fewest PL points in a season is 11 by Derby County in 2007/08
The Most successful manager is Sir Alex Ferguson with 13 titles
Norwich City have been relegated the most times from the league (6)
West Brom and Norwich City have been promoted the most times (5)
The Highest attendance was 83,222 at Wembley for Tottenham v Arsenal
The Lowest attendance was 3,039 at Selhurst Park for Wimbledon v Everton
The biggest home win is 9 – 0, both by Man Utd against Ipswich and Southampton
The biggest away win is 9 – 0, by Leicester against Southampton
The Highest scoring match is 7-4 by Portsmouth against Reading
The player with the most appearances in th PL is Garteh Barry on 653
The player with the most consecutive PL appearances is Brad Friedel with 310
The player who played for most clubs was Darren Bent with 8
The oldest player was John Burridge at 43 years 162 days for Man City
The youngest player was Harvey Elliott at 16 years 30 days for Fulham
The most consecutive PL matches scoring a goal was Jamie Vardy with 11
Two players have scored Premier League penalties with both feet: Bobby Zamora and Obafemi Martins.
Goalkeeper Paul Robinson has scored, assisted and won a penalty in the Premier League
Paul Robinson also has more Premier League assists than any other keeper (5).
Eric Cantona was the first player to score a hat trick while playing for Leeds against Spurs in August 1992.
Mario Balotelli’s only assist in the Premier League was for Sergio Aguero’s title-winning goal vs QPR
Only two players have scored a hat trick of headers; Duncan Ferguson and Salomon Róndon.
6 Clubs have not been relegated : Man United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham and Everton.
The most amount of goals by one player in a game is 5, ironically 5 players have done this.
The most PL penalties scored is 56 by Alan Shearer
Alan Shearer and Wayne Rooney also have the most misses from the penalty spot with 11
The player who has been most substitued on is James Milner, 176 times.
The player who has been most substitued off is Theo Walcott, 157 times.
The goalie with the most PL clean sheets is Petr Cech with 202.
Sam Allardyce has manged the most PL clubs – 8, so far
The three promoted clubs avoiding relegation in a PL season has happened 3 times – hope
The three promoted clubs being relegated in a PL season has only happened once, surprising.
Chelsea went a staggering 86 games without losing at home – invincible
