Footie facts and Soccer stats - 33 nuggets of info that tell the story of the Premier League season

27 May 2015 14:50

Chelsea won the Premier League with three games to spare, while Hull, Burnley and QPR were relegated into the Championship. Here are some more highs, lows, figures and records from the 2014-15 season:

The season began in August with a British record transfer fee taking Angel Di Maria from Real Madrid to Manchester United for £59.7 million, eclipsing the £50 million Chelsea paid to Liverpool for Fernando Torres in 2011. Di Maria went on to complete 90 minutes only seven times in the Premier League this season.

It was Chelsea who dominated the Premier League and became Champions, topping the table for 274 days of the season - a record in a single Premier League campaign, beating the old mark of 262 days set by Manchester United in the 1993-94 season.

Only four managers defeated Jose Mourinho's Chelsea in all competitions this season and they all had surnames beginning with P: Pardew, Parkinson, Pochettino and Pulis.

Jose Mourinho has lost only two Premier League games by three goals (3-0 vs Middlesbrough in 2006, 3-0 vs West Brom in 2015) and James Morrison played for the opposition in both.

Chelsea captain John Terry became only the second outfield player to play every minute of every game for a team to win the Premier League. The first was Gary Pallister for Manchester United in the 1992-93 season.

John Terry also became the highest scoring defender in Premier League history with 39 goals after scoring against Liverpool. The goal took him one ahead of former Everton defender David Unsworth.

Leighton Baines became the defender with the most Premier League assists ever with 46 after he set up Steven Naismith in Everton's 1-1 draw with Manchester City at Goodison Park. The record was previously held by Graeme Le Saux.

Peter Crouch scored his fifth headed goal of the campaign and a Premier League record 47th in total as Stoke City hammered Liverpool 6-1 on the final day of the season. The goal took Crouch one ahead of the previous record holder Alan Shearer.

Newcastle United forward Sammy Ameobi scored only eight seconds after coming on as a substitute against Tottenham Hotspur, registering the fastest goal as a substitute recorded in the Premier League.

Diego Costa reached 10 Premier League goals in his first nine appearances; the only player to reach double figures in fewer games is Mick Quinn (6).

Sadio Mane's hat-trick for Southampton against Aston Villa took only 2 minutes and 56 seconds, the fastest ever in the Barclays Premier League. It smashed the previous record of 4min 33sec set 21 years ago by Liverpool striker Robbie Fowler.

Sergio Aguero was the top scorer in all competitions amongst Premier League players this term (32) as well as winning the Premier League golden boot (26).

Robbie Fowler (twice) and Chris Sutton are the only players to reach 20 goals in a Premier League campaign at a younger age than Tottenham's Harry Kane did this season.

Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney became the first player to score 10+ goals in 11 successive Premier League seasons.

Swansea became only the third team in Premier League history to beat both Arsenal and Manchester United home and away in the same season (along with West Ham United in 2006-07 and Chelsea in 2009-10).

Leicester City became the first club to overturn a two-goal deficit against Manchester United in the Premier League when they came from 3-1 down to beat United 5-3 at the King Power Stadium in September.

Leicester City spent 140 days of the season at the bottom of the table, longer than any side in Premier League history without being relegated.

For the second successive season and only the third time in the Premier League era, the team bottom of the table at Christmas stayed up (West Brom 2004-05, Sunderland 2013-14, Leicester City (2014-15).

Relegated Hull have never won a Premier League fixture in May (D4 L9).

George Boyd became the 4th player to play for two relegated teams (Hull and Burnley) in the same Premier League season (along with Mark Robins in 1994-95, Steve Kabba in 2006-07 and David Nugent in 2009-10).

Everton midfielder Gareth Barry became the first player to pick up 100 yellow cards in the Premier League era.

Sunderland received 94 yellow cards, a record in a single Premier League season.

Sunderland's Lee Cattermole equalled the Premier League record of collecting 14 yellow cards in a single season (Oliver Dacourt, Mark Hughes, Paul Ince, Robbie Savage and Cheik Tiote are the other players to do so).

Steven Gerrard lasted just 38 seconds before being sent off after coming on as half-time substitute for Liverpool during their 2-1 defeat to Manchester United at Anfield.

Crystal Palace have now won two league games at Anfield. Alan Pardew played in the first (1991) and managed them in the second (2015).

Liverpool ended the season with 52 goals, the same number that Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge scored between them in 2013-14.

Aston Villa scored 31 league goals this season. Their lowest ever in a single league campaign before this season was 36 in Division Two in 1969-70.

West Ham have now ended their last 23 top-flight seasons with a negative goal difference.

Queens Park Rangers defender Richard Dunne became the first player to reach double figures for own goals in Premier League history (10).

QPR became the first team to lose their first 11 away matches in a top-flight season since Liverpool in 1953-54.

Sunderland's total of nine 0-0 draws is the joint-most by a team in a 38-game season.

Manchester City were the only side not be involved in a 0-0 draw in the Premier League this season.

Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart collected the Premier League Golden Glove award for a record fourth time, having previously won the honour in 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13. He kept 14 clean sheets this season, one ahead of Liverpool's Simon Mignolet, Southampton's Fraser Forster and Swansea City's Lukasz Fabianski.

And so the sun sets on another season... 380 games have been played, 975 goals have been scored.

(Stats and facts provided by Opta).

Source: DSG