Best stats of the season

A bumper edition of the best stats and facts from the 2015/16 Premier League season.

Leicester became the first first-time winners of the top-flight since Nottingham Forest in 1977/78.

As of 15 May, Leicester have been top of the league for 147 days. Prior to this season, they had been top for just 13 days in total.

Only four Premier League champions have won the title by a greater margin of points than Leicester City have this season (10) – Manchester United in 1999/2000 (18), Chelsea 2004/05 (12), Arsenal 2003/04 and Manchester United 2012/13 (11).

Leicester have the lowest possession figure of any Premier League champion since 2006/07 (42.4 per cent).

Wes Morgan became the third outfield player in Premier League history to play every minute of a title-winning season (after Gary Pallister in 1992/93 and John Terry in 2014/15).

Jamie Vardy became the first Premier League player to score in 11 consecutive appearances in Premier League history.

Sergio Aguero scored his 100th Premier League goal in the match versus Newcastle in April. Aguero reached this milestone in just 147 apps; only Alan Shearer (124 appearances) reached this landmark in fewer games.

Aguero became the first South American to score 100 goals in Premier League history.

Aguero has now scored against 27 of the 29 different Premier League teams that he has faced in the competition.

Liverpool became the first team to win away in the Premier League at 50 different grounds.

Mesut Ozil has created more chances (146) than any other player in a single Premier League season (since 03/04).

Ozil recorded 19 assists this season – only Thierry Henry (20 in 2002/03) has recorded more in a Premier League season.

Heurelho Gomes became the first goalkeeper in Premier League history to save a penalty twice in two separate Premier League games.

Harry Kane has scored more goals in a Premier League campaign than any other Spurs player (25).

Kane became the first English player to be top scorer in a Premier League season since Kevin Phillips in 1999/2000.

Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea lost to nine different Premier League opponents this season before his dismissal, the same number they lost to in the whole of his three-and-a-bit season first spell.

Despite this, Chelsea set the longest unbeaten run of any Premier League team this season, going 15 games without a loss (W7 D8) between December and March under Guus Hiddink.

West Brom’s Jonathan Leko became the first player born in 1999 to make a Premier League appearance (16y 344d). He also became the first player from that year to assist a Premier League goal.

Modou Barrow became the first Gambian to score a Premier League goal in March, meaning 95 different nationalities have now scored in the PL.

Marcus Rashford was exactly the same age that Wayne Rooney was (18y 120d) when he scored his first Premier League brace, by scoring twice against Arsenal in February.

Rashford became the …

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