The Premier League calendar year table of 2025: Aston Villa AHEAD of champions Liverpool… | OneFootball

Manchester City currently sit top of the Premier League calendar year table, but this is no procession.

Pep Guardiola’s side are level on points with Arsenal after 36 and 37 games respectively, but only goal difference separates the two clubs.

Slowly but surely Guardiola’s City closer to their old juggernaut selves, winning 24 of their 36 league matches in the calendar year of 2025.

However, seven defeats underline that this is still not the relentless, 100-point machine of their prime, demonstrating that the Premier League is a bit more competitive at the top these days.

In fact, we’ve almost seen a whole season’s worth of games in 2025, and the teams at the top are only on 77 points – a long way off the 90+ required to lift the Premier League trophy in recent years.

Arsenal, not this year’s Premier League title winners Liverpool, have been City’s most persistent challengers.

Mikel Arteta’s Gunners have lost just four of their 37 league games in 2025 and boast the best defensive record in the division.

Eleven draws, though, have prevented Mikel Arteta’s side from pulling clear, leaving them once again neck-and-neck rather than out in front – a familiar feeling when it comes to their title races in recent years.

Aston Villa are the standout story of the chasing pack. Unai Emery’s side sit third on 73 points, comfortably ahead of the rest and firmly established as contenders for Champions League qualification, if not the title. Their consistency across the calendar year has been striking.

Liverpool, by contrast, have slipped back into the pack. Fourth place and 68 points represents a very disappointing return for the side who cruised to the Premier League trophy so comfortably just seven months ago.

The Reds could be forgiven for being complacent as they tailed off after sealing the title last season, but they’ve been unable to regain their title-worthy form over the first half of the 2025-26 campaign.

Further back, there’s little separating Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Brighton, Newcastle and – surprisingly enough – Brentford and Everton, with just eight points separating those six sides from 5th to 10th in the 2025 table.

Manchester United and Tottenham famously endured spectacular implosions in the latter half of last season, ending up 15th and 17th ahead of meeting in the Europa League final. United’s negative goal difference tells its own story, while Spurs’ 20 defeats and 60 goals conceded underlines the scale of the task Thomas Frank facing in turning that ship around.

At the bottom end, West Ham’s struggles look increasingly terminal. Only Wolves have fared worse among ever-presents in the division.

The three newly-promoted sides, including Burnley, have all picked up more points than last season’s relegated trio, despite all playing two fewer games in England’s top flight this calendar year. They’ve proven much more competitive than last season’s sorry trio, all of whom sunk back down like a stone.

Here’s how the Premier League table stacks up over the course of 2025.