Premier League 2025-26 Season — Championship, Relegation & Records Quiz

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The Premier League is the most-watched football league on the planet, broadcast in over 200 countries and followed by hundreds of millions of fans. The 2025-26 season has been another drama-packed campaign from August through to May. Test your Premier League knowledge across all 45 questions. For the full PL historical picture, visit our Premier League trivia article. Want to focus on individual stars? Try our Erling Haaland trivia and Jude Bellingham trivia quizzes.

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Easy Questions (Q1–Q15)

Easy

Premier League Foundations

1. Q: How many clubs compete in the Premier League?
   A: 20 clubs — the bottom three are relegated each season and replaced by three promoted clubs from the Championship.
2. Q: How many matches does each Premier League club play per season?
   A: 38 matches (playing every other club twice — once at home, once away).
3. Q: In which year was the Premier League founded?
   A: 1992 — it replaced the old First Division as England’s top flight.
4. Q: How many points are awarded for a win in the Premier League?
   A: Three points for a win, one for a draw, zero for a defeat.
5. Q: Which club has won the most Premier League titles?
   A: Manchester United, with 13 Premier League titles — all won under Sir Alex Ferguson between 1992-93 and 2012-13. Manchester City are second with 8 PL titles.
6. Q: Who is the Premier League’s all-time top scorer?
   A: Alan Shearer, with 260 Premier League goals for Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United.
7. Q: How many total matches are played in a Premier League season?
   A: 380 matches in total (20 clubs × 19 home games each).
8. Q: Which Norwegian striker set the Premier League single-season goals record with 36 goals in 2022-23?
   A: Erling Haaland of Manchester City.
9. Q: Which club won the very first Premier League title in the 1992-93 season?
   A: Manchester United, under manager Sir Alex Ferguson.
10. Q: How many clubs are relegated from the Premier League each season?
    A: Three clubs are relegated to the Championship each season.
11. Q: What is the iconic trophy awarded to the Premier League champion called?
    A: The Premier League Trophy — the distinctive gold and purple trophy with a crown on top.
12. Q: Which Liverpool and Egypt forward has been one of the Premier League’s most consistent top scorers since 2017?
    A: Mohamed Salah, who has won the Golden Boot multiple times since joining Liverpool.
13. Q: Pep Guardiola became Manchester City manager in which year?
    A: 2016 — he has since led City to multiple Premier League titles.
14. Q: Which club won four consecutive Premier League titles from 2020-21 through 2023-24?
    A: Manchester City, under Pep Guardiola — an unprecedented four in a row (2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24) before Liverpool broke the run in 2024-25.
15. Q: Which player holds the record for most Premier League assists in a single season?
    A: Kevin De Bruyne, who registered 20 assists in the 2019-20 Premier League season for Manchester City.

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Medium Questions (Q16–Q30)

Medium

Champions, Records, and Transfer Milestones

16. Q: Arsenal went the entire 2003-04 Premier League season unbeaten. How many games did they play and how many points did they finish with?
    A: 38 games — winning 26 and drawing 12 to finish with 90 points, famously known as “The Invincibles.”
17. Q: Which manager won the Premier League 13 times — a record for any PL manager?
    A: Sir Alex Ferguson, who won the Premier League 13 times with Manchester United between 1993 and 2013.
18. Q: What is the highest points total ever recorded in a Premier League season?
    A: 100 points — set by Manchester City in the 2017-18 season under Pep Guardiola.
19. Q: Which club was the heavy favourite to win the 2025-26 Premier League title before the season began — and who actually won it?
    A: Manchester City were pre-season favourites, bidding for a fifth consecutive title. However, Arsenal won the 2025-26 Premier League title with 85 points (26 wins, 7 draws, 5 defeats) — their fourth PL crown and first since their “Invincibles” era in 2003-04. City finished second on 78 points.
20. Q: Who won the 2025-26 Premier League Golden Boot, and who was the runner-up?
    A: Erling Haaland won the 2025-26 Golden Boot with 27 goals — his third Golden Boot in four seasons (also won in 2022-23 and 2023-24). Brentford’s Igor Thiago finished five goals behind in second place. Haaland is now one Golden Boot short of matching the all-time record of four held jointly by Thierry Henry and Mohamed Salah.

21. Q: Blackburn Rovers won the Premier League in 1994-95. Who funded their title-winning campaign?
    A: Jack Walker, the local Blackburn businessman who bankrolled the club’s rise, with Alan Shearer leading them to the title under manager Kenny Dalglish.
22. Q: What is the fastest Premier League goal ever scored, and who scored it?
    A: Shane Long scored for Southampton against Watford in just 7.69 seconds in 2019 — the fastest goal in PL history.
23. Q: Which goalkeeper holds the Premier League record for most clean sheets in a single season?
    A: Petr Čech, who kept 24 clean sheets for Chelsea in the 2004-05 season, helping them win the league by 12 points.
24. Q: Leicester City famously won the 2015-16 Premier League title at odds of 5000-1. How many points did they finish with?
    A: 81 points — 10 points clear of Arsenal in second place, in one of the greatest sporting upsets of all time.
25. Q: Which winger holds the record for most assists in Premier League history overall?
    A: Ryan Giggs, with 162 Premier League assists across his career with Manchester United (1992-2014).
26. Q: How many times has Manchester United won the Premier League title?
    A: 13 times — all under Sir Alex Ferguson between 1993 and 2013.
27. Q: Erling Haaland’s record of 36 PL goals in 2022-23 broke whose previous record?
    A: He broke the jointly held record of 34 goals set by Andrew Cole (Newcastle, 1993-94) and Alan Shearer (Blackburn, 1994-95).
28. Q: Which player won the PL Golden Boot jointly in 2021-22 with Son Heung-min, both on 23 goals?
    A: Mohamed Salah — he and Son Heung-min both finished with 23 goals and shared the award in a historic joint Golden Boot.
29. Q: Mohamed Salah’s contract situation at Liverpool dominated headlines heading into 2025-26. What was the outcome?
    A: Salah signed a contract extension at Liverpool, committing to the club beyond his previous deal expiry, ensuring he remained one of the Premier League’s marquee attackers for the 2025-26 season.
30. Q: Which Premier League season saw the full introduction of VAR (Video Assistant Referee)?
    A: The 2019-20 season was the first full Premier League season with VAR implemented across all matches.

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Hard Questions (Q31–Q45)

Hard

Obscure Records and 2025-26 Season Context

31. Q: Which club holds the record for the most Premier League wins in a single season?
    A: Manchester City, who won 32 matches in both the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons.
32. Q: The “Big Six” clubs in the Premier League are typically listed as which teams?
    A: Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, and Tottenham Hotspur — the six clubs with the largest global followings and financial resources.
33. Q: What is the biggest victory margin ever recorded in a Premier League match?
    A: 9-0 — both Manchester City vs Watford (August 2019) and Leicester City vs Southampton (October 2019) ended 9-0, the joint-record margin in PL history.
34. Q: How many clubs have won the Premier League title since its formation in 1992?
    A: Seven clubs — Manchester United, Blackburn Rovers, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City, Leicester City, and Liverpool.
35. Q: Which Premier League goalkeeper holds the record for most clean sheets in the competition’s history?
    A: Petr Čech, with 202 Premier League clean sheets across his career at Chelsea and Arsenal.
36. Q: Which club suffered the most goals conceded in a single Premier League season?
    A: Ipswich Town conceded 93 goals in the 1994-95 season — winning only 4 games and suffering 29 defeats before being relegated.
37. Q: What transfer fee did Erling Haaland cost Manchester City when he signed from Borussia Dortmund in 2022?
    A: Approximately £51 million — remarkably low given his impact, made possible by a release clause in his Dortmund contract.
38. Q: Which Premier League club holds the record for the longest unbeaten home run in the league?
    A: Chelsea were unbeaten at Stamford Bridge for 86 consecutive home Premier League matches between March 2004 and October 2008.
39. Q: Which club went an entire home campaign unbeaten during their 2019-20 title-winning season?
    A: Liverpool — they went the entire home league campaign at Anfield without losing a match, contributing to their historic first PL title.
40. Q: Which French-coached club supplied key players — Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira, Robert Pires — who formed the spine of Arsenal’s “Invincibles” 2003-04 season?
    A: There was no single club — all three were French internationals brought together by Arsène Wenger’s French-scouting network. Henry came from Juventus, Vieira from Juventus (via France), Pires from Marseille.
41. Q: Ipswich Town were promoted to the Premier League in which season ahead of 2024-25?
    A: 2023-24 — after winning the Championship, Ipswich returned to the Premier League for the first time since 2002, setting up their 2024-25 top-flight campaign.
42. Q: Which three clubs were relegated from the 2025-26 Premier League season?
    A: West Ham United, Burnley, and Wolverhampton Wanderers were all relegated to the EFL Championship. West Ham’s relegation was confirmed on the final day of the season, finishing below 17th-placed Tottenham Hotspur on goal difference.
43. Q: Which player won the 2024-25 Premier League Golden Boot?
    A: Mohamed Salah won the 2024-25 Golden Boot with 29 goals, tying Thierry Henry’s all-time record of four Premier League Golden Boots. Salah also claimed the Playmaker award with 18 assists, contributing to Liverpool’s title-winning campaign under Arne Slot.
44. Q: Manchester City’s 100-point season (2017-18) included a record for goals scored. How many goals did they net that season?
    A: 106 goals — City also set records for most wins (32), most points (100), and most goals in a Premier League season, making it the most dominant title-winning campaign in PL history.
45. Q: Arsenal’s unbeaten PL season record of 49 consecutive matches without defeat (cross-season) was eventually ended. Which club ended it and when?
    A: Manchester United ended the run — beating Arsenal 2-0 at Old Trafford in October 2004 in the infamous “Battle of the Buffet” match, after which Arsenal players famously threw pizza at Sir Alex Ferguson.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many Premier League titles has Manchester City won?

Manchester City have won 8 Premier League titles as of the end of the 2025-26 season — all under Pep Guardiola except for the 2011-12 and 2013-14 titles. Their most remarkable run was four consecutive titles from 2020-21 through 2023-24, a feat unmatched in the Premier League era. Manchester United remain the all-time PL record holders with 13 titles.

Who holds the Premier League all-time scoring record?

Alan Shearer holds the all-time Premier League scoring record with 260 goals, scored for Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United across his career from 1992 to 2006. He also held the record for most PL goals in a single season (34 in 1994-95) until Erling Haaland broke it with 36 goals in 2022-23.

When was the Premier League founded?

The Premier League was founded in 1992 as a breakaway from the old Football League First Division. The inaugural season was 1992-93, which Manchester United won under Sir Alex Ferguson. The formation allowed clubs to negotiate their own television rights deals, transforming English football’s finances.

What is the Premier League’s record points total in a single season?

Manchester City set the Premier League record with 100 points in the 2017-18 season under Pep Guardiola. They won 32 of their 38 matches, setting multiple records including most wins, most goals (106), and highest points total in a single Premier League season.

Who won the 2025-26 Premier League title?

Arsenal won the 2025-26 Premier League title with 85 points — their fourth PL crown and first since the “Invincibles” season in 2003-04, ending a 22-year wait. Mikel Arteta’s side finished seven points clear of Manchester City (78 pts) in second. Arsenal also reached the Champions League Final, losing to PSG on penalties in Budapest on May 30, 2026.

Has any team gone unbeaten for a full Premier League season?

Yes — Arsenal’s “Invincibles” of 2003-04 went the entire 38-game Premier League season without losing a single match, winning 26 and drawing 12 to finish with 90 points. No other team has matched this feat in the Premier League era, and it remains one of football’s most celebrated achievements.

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