The Premier League table of 2024: Liverpool, Arsenal or Man City top?
Arsenal, Manchester City and Liverpool are miles ahead of everyone else in the Premier League calendar year table of 2024 as the likes of Manchester United and Tottenham lag a long, long way behind.
Arsenal and Liverpool have notched the same number of points in the year of 2024, although the Gunners have a comfortably better goal difference and have played one fewer game, with their match away to Brentford away to New Year’s Day.
Mikel Arteta’s men have the best goal difference since the turn of the year with a whopping +64 over their last 36 outings. They’ve got the best defensive record over that period and only Liverpool have scored more goals (92 to their 89) in 2024.
Both sides have been pretty relentless throughout the year, but a drop-off at the tail-end of the 2023-24 campaign cost Liverpool in last season’s title race, while a dip in form from Arsenal in the early months of 2024-25 leaves them going into the new year with ground to make up on Arne Slot’s table-topping Liverpool this time around.
Despite their shocking collapse in form in recent months, Manchester City have only picked up three fewer points this calendar year than Liverpool and Arsenal – which shows just how unfaltering they were in the run-in in the second half of last season as well as the early months of 2024-25.
Further back, Chelsea have comfortably made it into 2024’s Champions League spots, having shown great improvement towards the end of Mauricio Pochettino’s tenure before his successor Enzo Maresca has kept them going on that upwards trajectory.
Tottenham and Manchester United find themselves in the zone of midtable mediocrity over the past 12 months, while Aston Villa, Fulham and Bournemouth in particular have punched above their weight – although in truth, there isn’t a lot separating the sides from sixth down to fourteenth here.
Everton have the worst record of the 17 ever-present sides in the table, while none of last season’s relegated trio nor this year’s newly-promoted trio have pulled up any trees with their results.
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Here’s how the Premier League table of 2024 stacks up in full.
Note: The teams in bold are last season’s relegated three, while the teams in italics are this season’s promoted sides.
1. Arsenal – 85pts, GD 64 (Played 36)
2. Liverpool – 85pts, GD 50 (Played 37)
3. Man City – 82pts, GD 44 (Played 38)
4. Chelsea – 70pts, GD 26 (Played 37)
5. Newcastle – 63pts, GD 22 (Played 38)
6. Aston Villa – 55pts, GD -4 (Played 37)
7. Bournemouth – 53pts, GD 0 (Played 38)
8. Fulham – 52pts, GD 4 (Played 37)
9. Tottenham – 51pts, GD 13 (Played 37)
10. Man Utd – 51pts, GD -1 (Played 37)
11. Nottm Forest – 49pts, GD 0 (Played 37)
12. Crystal Palace – 48pts, GD -1 (Played 37)
13. Brighton – 45pts, GD -11 (Played 38)
14. Brentford – 44pts, GD -4 (Played 37)
15. West Ham – 42pts, GD -29 (Played 38)
16. Wolves – 34pts, GD -25 (Played 37)
17. Everton – 31pts, GD -16 (Played 36)
18. Ipswich – 15pts, GD -15 (Played 19)
19. Leicester City – 14pts, GD -20 (Played 19)
20. Burnley – 13pts, GD -16 (Played 18)
21. Luton – 11pts, GD -19 (Played 19)
22. Sheffield United – 7pts, GD -35 (Played 18)
23. Southampton – 6pts, GD -27 (Played 19)