Premier League in Legends XI: 34 seasons, with the winner and runner-up of each.
Season
Winner
Runner-up
2025-26
Arsenal
Manchester City
2024-25
Liverpool
Arsenal
2023-24
Manchester City
Arsenal
2022-23
Manchester City
Arsenal
2021-22
Manchester City
Liverpool
2020-21
Manchester City
Manchester United
2019-20
Liverpool
Manchester City
2018-19
Manchester City
Liverpool
2017-18
Manchester City
Manchester United
2016-17
Chelsea
Tottenham Hotspur
2015-16
Leicester City
Arsenal
2014-15
Chelsea
Manchester City
2013-14
Manchester City
Liverpool
2012-13
Manchester United
Manchester City
2011-12
Manchester City
Manchester United
2010-11
Manchester United
Chelsea
2009-10
Chelsea
Manchester United
2008-09
Manchester United
Liverpool
2007-08
Manchester United
Chelsea
2006-07
Manchester United
Chelsea
2005-06
Chelsea
Manchester United
2004-05
Chelsea
Arsenal
2003-04
Arsenal
Chelsea
2002-03
Manchester United
Arsenal
2001-02
Arsenal
Liverpool
2000-01
Manchester United
Arsenal
1999-00
Manchester United
Arsenal
1998-99
Manchester United
Arsenal
1997-98
Arsenal
Manchester United
1996-97
Manchester United
Newcastle United
1995-96
Manchester United
Newcastle United
1994-95
Blackburn Rovers
Manchester United
1993-94
Manchester United
Blackburn Rovers
1992-93
Manchester United
Aston Villa
The icon eleven
The Premier League is the only league in the game: instead of a group stage and a knockout bracket, 20 teams play each other home and away across 38 rounds — the English format since 1995-96. There is no final: the title belongs to whoever finishes top of the table at the end of the season. That is why the perfect campaign in this competition is not a knockout scoreline but a 38-0 — winning all 38 rounds from start to finish —, the biggest perfect campaign in the game.
As in every competition in the game, the 100 doesn't belong to whoever had the single best campaign — it belongs to whoever dominates the competition's HISTORY. The card's season is only the one that shows it best, not the criterion itself. In the Premier League, that player is Alan Shearer.
The competition's all-time great
Alan Shearer — Blackburn Rovers 1994-95
260 goals — the competition's all-time record, and nobody close (Kane has around 213, Rooney 208) —, 3 Golden Boots, 1 Player of the Season award and the 1994-95 title with Blackburn Rovers, where he scored 34 goals that campaign. He also has a place in the competition's Team of the Decade and Team of the 20 Seasons. His closest rival is Thierry Henry, with more Golden Boots (4) and more titles (2) — but 175 goals against 260 is a gap nothing else makes up for, and 'the all-time top scorer' is the fact the competition itself cites first.
GK
Petr Čech — Chelsea 2004-05
The competition's all-time record holder for clean sheets — 202 —, with 4 titles and 4 Golden Gloves (a shared record). The card's season is the one with the record for fewest goals conceded in a single campaign: just 15.
RB
Gary Neville — Manchester United 1998-99
Eight Premier League titles with Manchester United — no defender in the competition's history has more.
CB
John Terry — Chelsea 2004-05
Five Premier League titles and 41 goals for Chelsea. The card is from the same 2004-05 season as fellow defender Petr Čech, the goalkeeping icon.
CB
Rio Ferdinand — Manchester United 2007-08
Six Premier League titles with Manchester United — the second of this eleven's two centre-backs, alongside John Terry, because no formation in the game lines up with only one. It is the tightest call in the whole eleven, and that deserves saying: Terry has five, and Serbia's Nemanja Vidić, the partner he formed that Manchester United defence with, has five too — a single title separates him from each of them. What breaks the tie is a stricter count than the sum: of those six titles, Ferdinand started for all of them, while Terry was a starter in four of his five. On the Arsenal side, Tony Adams lifted two — his other English championships came before 1992, when this competition did not yet exist, and this game always measures what a player did inside the competition, never outside it. None of the four left a scoring record in the Premier League that could break the tie.
LB
Ashley Cole — Arsenal 2003-04
Three Premier League titles, one of them the 2003-04 season — the only unbeaten campaign in the competition's history.
CDM
Roy Keane — Manchester United 1999-00
Seven Premier League titles with Manchester United, and a place in the competition's Team of the 20 Seasons — the competition's own historic select side.
CM
Frank Lampard — Chelsea 2004-05
Three Premier League titles and 177 goals — the competition's all-time record for a midfielder.
CAM
Kevin De Bruyne — Manchester City 2019-20
Six Premier League titles, 2× Player of the Season, and the competition's all-time SHARED record for assists in a single campaign: 20, tied with Thierry Henry (2002-03) — this eleven's striker icon — in this very card's 2019-20 season.
RW
Mohamed Salah — Liverpool 2024-25
Four Golden Boots (a shared record), two titles and 2× Player of the Season. The card is from the 2024-25 season, the one where the title came together with the Golden Boot — his more famous 2017-18 season, with 32 goals, misses out because that Liverpool side finished only 4th.
LW
Ryan Giggs — Manchester United 2007-08
Thirteen Premier League titles — the competition's all-time record — and 632 games played in the competition.
ST
Thierry Henry — Arsenal 2003-04
Four Golden Boots and 2× Player of the Season — both shared records in the competition —, 175 goals, and the 2003-04 season, the only unbeaten campaign in Premier League history.