LAGOS, Nigeria — As the Premier League season wrap up for 2024/25 on May 25, na time to unpack the highlights wey show as e don hot for di pitch. Over 1,091 goals don drop, making am di second highest ever for dis season after di record 1,246 goals for 2023/24.
Talk about goals, Egyptian star Mohamed Salah, he dey close to bag another Golden Boot, wey fit tie di record as him don net 28 goals after 37 games. Dis achievement fit position am as top scorer for four seasons. Inside di season, Salah also get 46 goal involvements, di highest for any 38-game Premier League season ever, just one behind di record of 47 set by players during 1992/93 and 1994/95 seasons.
Salah don score and assist in di same match 42 times, wey don see am surpass di previous record of 36 set by another legend in December. Another interesting stat be say, Brentford set history as di first team to score in di opening minute for three consecutive games. Dis no be small matter!
Inside di managerial side, Liverpool coach don join elite club as he dey among di fifth manager wey don win di Premier League in e first season after guiding di team to di title. Also, Premier League show say e dey diverse as five different clubs don win di title in di last 15 seasons, including Liverpool, Manchester City, and others. Talk about comebacks, we see a record 17% of games end as comeback wins, and we don get di joint-highest comeback wins of di season with 62.
As e dey stand, di 90th-minute drama dey very rampant, with 93 late goals don scatter net dis season, di second most ever recorded. For di first time, three Premier League clubs dey represent for major European finals, with Manchester United dey compete for UEFA Europa League and Chelsea getting ready to face Real Betis for di UEFA Conference League final on May 28. England dey bask under di glory as di top nation for UEFA coefficient rankings basi on di results of their clubs across di past five years.
Matter wey dey sweet be say, a total of 64 players don represent from different countries, including di first-ever player from Iraq and Uzbekistan to feature in di league. Also, 65 homegrown players don debut across 18 clubs, na dat one na di fourth highest since dem launch di Elite Player Performance Plan. Di Premier League stadiums don show face well, as dey manage to achieve 98.8% full capacity, matching di last season record. More than 33.9 million in di UK don tune in to watch live matches and di highlights on BBC’s Match of di Day, wey equal about 55% of di total TV audience.
Both di local and international followership don skyrocket, with di Premier League now de broadcasted to 189 countries globally, giving 900 million homes access to di matches. Statistics show that 1.87 billion people dey follow di Premier League worldwide.
