CITY WILL HAVE THEIR WORK CUT OUT TO BEAT THIS TITLE-WINNING CAMPAIGN

MANCHESTER CITY won their third Premier League title (also 2011-12 and 2013-14), with only Chelsea (5) and Manchester United (13) winning it more often in the competition’s history. CITY won 32 matches, the most in a single season, breaking the record held by Chelsea, who won 30 in 2016-17 – it is also a record in top-flight history.

CITY became the first team to win 100 points in a top-flight season.

PEP GUARDIOLA’S team won 16 away league matches, a joint top-flight record in a single season along with Spurs in 1960-61. CITY won the title with five games remaining, equalling the top-flight record set by Manchester United in 1907-08 and 2000-01 and Everton in 1984-85. THEY trailed for just 153 minutes in Premier League matches this season – the fewest by a side in a single campaign. CITY scored 106 goals this season; a record in a single Premier League season. The last top-flight side to score more in a season were Tottenham (111) in 1962-63. BETWEEN August and December 2017, Manchester City broke the record for most consecutive top-flight wins, winning 18 in a row and eclipsing the record set by Arsenal between February and August 2002 (14 wins in a row). CITY ended this season having spent 240 days at the top of the Premier League table – the sixth-most by a Premier League champion.

IN THEIR previous two Premier League title-winning campaigns combined, City only topped the table for 184 days overall (15 days in 2013-14 and 169 days in 2011-12). CITY’S 240-day total at the top of the league in 2017-18 is just one day fewer than Manchester United have spent at the top of the Premier League (in season) since Sergio Aguero’s goal won the title in May 2012 (241). AGAINST Swansea City in April, City registered 82.95 per cent possession – the most in a Premier League match since 2003-04 (when Opta began recording the data).

CITY ended 19 points ahead of second-placed Manchester United – the Premier League record points gap between first and second place at the end of a season, overtaking a gap of 18 points by Manchester United in 1999-2000.