14th | Manchester City 2013/2014
If it wasn’t for Steven Gerrard’s slip, this City probably wouldn’t have won the Premier League. But they did.
They scored 102 goals in the process but lost six times and conceded 37.
13th | Manchester United 2008/09
Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Carlos Tevez, Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs, Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic. Some Man Utd fans will try and tell you this 2008/09 side was the greatest in Premier League history.
It was pretty good - picking up 90 points and keeping a record 14 consecutive clean sheets. But incredibly with that strike force, they scored just 68 goals. Only one Premier League winning side scored fewer - United’s 1992/93 team.
12th | Manchester United 1999/2000
The good: 91 points, scored 97 goals and won the league by 18 points.
The bad: Conceded 45.
11th | Chelsea 2009/10
Carlo Ancelotti’s side scored an eye-watering 102 goals with an average of 3.58 goals per home game! But they only won the league by a point and lost six games in total.
10th | Manchester United 2006/07
We’re into the top 10 and this is the second-best Premier League winning Manchester United side.
A goal difference of 56 isn’t to be sniffed at as well as their 89 points.
9th | Arsenal 2003/04
SHOCKER: The Invincibles are only the ninth best title-winning side.
They may not have lost throughout the entire campaign but they did draw 12 - meaning 13 other Premier League winners won more matches.
They only scored 73 goals too, fewer than two-thirds of the teams to win the Premier League.
8th | Chelsea 2016/17
Once Antonio Conte switched to a 3-5-2 formation, there was simply no stopping the Blues.
They reached 93 points - the fourth highest in Premier League history - and won 17 of their 19 home matches.
They aren’t higher up the list because they conceded 33 goals, averaging 0.97 per home game and only scored 30 in their 19 away games.
7th | Manchester United 2007/2008
Statistically the best Man Utd side in Premier League history. They won the Champions League this season too.
Ronaldo was unstoppable and was backed up by Rooney and Tevez. While Ronaldo bagged 31, United’s tally of 80 goals was bettered by 10 other title winners.
But with Vidic and Ferdinand, they conceded just 22 goals and only seven at home all season.
They only beat Chelsea to the title by two points.
6th | Manchester City 2011/12
Agueroooooooooo.
If one of the performance metrics was based on drama, City would have earned the top score.
Instead, their 93 goals scored and winning 18 of their home matches see them make the top six in this table.
They were the only side to rely on goal difference to clinch the title and lost five matches away from home.
5th | Chelsea 2005/06
Jose Mourinho’s second consecutive title win with Chelsea was impressive - but not quite as good as his first.
They finished nine points clear of Man Utd and won 18 of their 19 home games. Like all good Mourinho sides, they were sound defensively and conceded just 22 goals, keeping 20 clean sheets.
4th | Chelsea 2004/05
In Mourinho’s first season, Chelsea picked up an impressive 95 points - a Premier League record at the time - and lost just once.
They kept 25 clean sheets - still a record - conceding just 15 goals.
Probably the only slight negative was their 72 goals scored - 15 fewer than Arsenal in second place.
3rd | Liverpool 2019/20*
We know, we know. Liverpool aren't Premier League champions *yet* but they will be as soon as football returns.
Insure4Sport used their average over a course of a 38-game season and Jurgen Klopp’s side are set to be the third best Premier League winning side.
They’re on course to get 107 points - seven more than any other winner. They also have a 100% home record and a higher away win percentage than any other side.
However, the Reds have conceded 0.8 goals per game at home and are projected to score fewer goals than six other Premier League title winning teams.
2nd | Manchester City 2018/19
A season after they became the Centurions, City posted a 98-point title winning campaign.
City won the league by a solitary point but did so by winning 32 matches for the second year in a row.
Talking of which…
1st | Manchester City 2017/18
Of course.
Excluding Liverpool’s 2019/20 season, this City side come out on top in 11 of the 24 metrics used.
One hundred points, 106 goals scored and 19 points clear of second.
Can anyone really argue that this City side is the greatest the Premier League has ever seen?
Well, Liverpool fans might have something to say if they end up getting more than 100 points…
THE FINAL TABLE
So, there we have it. Depending on how Liverpool finish the campaign, the previous three winners of the Premier League have been the three greatest. Does that tell us the league is becoming less competitive - or just the title winning sides are getting better?
Perhaps the most surprising find in the study is seeing Man Utd's treble winners down in 24th place - below even Leicester! Meanwhile, as many as EIGHT sides were statistically better than the unbeaten Arsenal.
And to further annoy United fans, only two of their 13 Premier League winning sides make the top 10. What they'd give to just have any Premier League winning team these days...
Check out the all time table of Premier League champions below:
