Premier League Calendar Year Table 2025: Arsenal Pip Man City to Retain Alternative Title

Arsenal ended 2025 with a 4-1 home win over Aston Villa.

That result — which defied Arsenal’s poor recent record against Villa — ensured that the Gunners would start 2026 five points clear of Manchester City in the 2025/26 Premier League title race.

It also saw Arsenal finish top of the Premier League calendar league table for the second year in a row. Mikel Arteta’s men earned three more Premier League points than City during the calendar year of 2025.

However, City played two matches fewer than Arsenal and actually took more points per game — averaging 2.16 to the Gunners’ 2.13.

What is the Premier League calendar year table?

While actual Premier League seasons generally run from August to May, the Premier League calendar year table ranks teams based purely on their results from January 1 until December 31.

There are no prizes for finishing first. Therefore, a calendar year table can easily be disregarded as meaningless by critics.

However, it can also be argued that winning more points than any other team over a 12-month period is something that deserves some level of recognition.

2025 Premier League calendar year table

Team	MP	W	D	L	GD	Pts
1. Arsenal	39	24	11	4	41	83
2. Man City	37	25	5	7	48	80
3. Aston Villa	38	23	7	8	17	76
4. Liverpool	38	21	8	9	21	71
5. Chelsea	38	18	10	10	17	64
6. Newcastle	38	18	6	14	12	60
7. C Palace	37	16	11	10	8	59
8. Brighton	38	16	11	11	7	59
9. Everton	39	16	11	12	7	59
10. Brentford	38	17	7	14	11	58
11. Fulham	37	16	3	18	-4	51
12. Man Utd	38	13	11	14	-1	50
13. Bournemouth	38	12	13	13	0	49
14. Nott’m Forest	38	13	7	18	-7	46
15. Tottenham	37	11	6	20	-10	39
16. West Ham	38	8	10	20	-21	34
17. Wolves	38	8	5	25	-33	29
18. Sunderland	18	7	7	4	2	28
19. Leeds	18	5	5	8	-7	20
20. Burnley	19	3	3	13	-17	12
21. Leicester	19	3	2	14	-27	11
22. Ipswich	19	1	4	14	-31	7
23. Southampton	19	1	3	15	-33	6

Aston Villa above Liverpool

Despite winning the Premier League title in the 2024/25 season, Liverpool only finished fourth in the 2025 calendar year table.

Five points ahead of them was Aston Villa, who had won 11 games in a row in all competitions prior to Tuesday’s thrashing at the Emirates Stadium.

Negative goal differences for Man United and Tottenham

Of the 23 teams that competed in the Premier League during the year 2025, 11 recorded negative goal differences.

Among those 11 sides were two members of the so-called Big Six. Manchester United, who ended the year by drawing 1-1 at home to Wolves, conceded two goals more than they scored in 2025, while Tottenham finished 2025 on minus-10.

Arsenal were also top in 2024

They may not have been champions of England since 2004, but Arsenal topped the Premier League calendar year table in 2024 as well as in 2025.

Indeed, Arsenal have now finished first in the Premier League calendar year table seven times since Norwich City were the inaugural top team in 1992.

Full list of the Premier League calendar year table ‘winners’ (1992–2025)

Year	Top team	Points
1992	Norwich	41
1993	Man Utd	102
1994	Blackburn	91
1995	Man Utd	83
1996	Man Utd	78
1997	Man Utd	84
1998	Arsenal	79
1999	Man Utd	87
2000	Man Utd	95
2001	Leeds	81
2002	Arsenal	91
2003	Man Utd	91
2004	Arsenal	89
2005	Chelsea	101
2006	Man Utd	92
2007	Man Utd	81
2008	Chelsea	86
2009	Man Utd	95
2010	Man Utd	80
2011	Man Utd	87
2012	Man Utd	93
2013	Arsenal	82
2014	Man City	88
2015	Arsenal	81
2016	Chelsea	79
2017	Man City	98
2018	Man City	88
2019	Liverpool	98
2020	Liverpool	77
2021	Man City	110
2022	Man City	79
2023	Man City	93
2024	Arsenal	85
2025	Arsenal	83