2014–15 Premier League

The 2014–15 Premier League (also known as the Barclays Premier League for sponsorship reasons) is the 23rd season of the Premier League, the top English professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1992. The fixtures were announced on 18 June 2014.^[5] The season started on 16 August 2014 and will conclude on 24 May 2015.^[6]
Manchester City came into the season as defending champions of the 2013–14 season. Leicester City, Burnley and Queens Park Rangers entered as the three promoted teams.
On 3 May 2015, Chelsea won the title with three games to spare after a 1–0 home win over Crystal Palace. It was their first league title since 2010, their fourth Premier League title and their fifth English league title overall.

Contents                                                  

• 1 Teams
  • 1.1 Stadia
  • 1.2 Personnel and kits
  • 1.3 Managerial changes
• 2 Results
  • 2.1 League table
  • 2.2 Result table
• 3 Season statistics
  • 3.1 Scoring
    • 3.1.1 Top scorers
    • 3.1.2 Hat-tricks
    • 3.1.3 Clean sheets
  • 3.2 Discipline
    • 3.2.1 Player
    • 3.2.2 Club
• 4 Awards
  • 4.1 Monthly awards
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Teams

A total of 20 teams will contest the league, including 17 sides from the 2013–14 season and three promoted from the 2013–14 Football League Championship.^[8] On 5 April 2014, Leicester City earned promotion from the 2013–14 Football League Championship after a ten-year absence from the Premier League.^[9] They were crowned champions after beating Bolton Wanderers on 22 April 2014.^[10] On 21 April 2014, Burnley earned promotion to the Premier League with second place following their win over Wigan Athletic.^[11] On 24 May 2014 Queens Park Rangers were the final team to be promoted after winning the 2014 Football League Championship play-off Final, 1–0 against Derby County at Wembley Stadium in London. The three teams replace Cardiff City, Fulham and Norwich City, who were all relegated to the Championship at the end of the previous season.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%E2%80%9314_Premier_League

Premier League

Season	2014–15
Champions	Chelsea 4th Premier League title 5th English title
Champions League	Chelsea
Matches played	349
Goals scored	893 (2.56 per match)
Top goalscorer	Sergio Agüero (22 goals)[1]
Best goalkeeper	Fraser Forster Simon Mignolet (13 clean sheets)[2]
Biggest home win	Southampton 8–0 Sunderland (18 October 2014)
Biggest away win	Swansea City 0–5 Chelsea (17 January 2015)
Highest scoring	Everton 3–6 Chelsea (30 August 2014)
Longest winning run	8 games[3] Arsenal
Longest unbeaten run	15 games[3] Chelsea
Longest winless run	13 games[3] Leicester City
Longest losing run	8 games[3] Newcastle United
Highest attendance	75,454[4] Manchester United 0–1 West Bromwich Albion (2 May 2015)
Lowest attendance	16,163[4] Queens Park Rangers 2–2 Stoke City (20 September 2014)
Total attendance	12,566,818[4]
Average attendance	36,008[4]
← 2013–14 2015–16 → All statistics correct as of 4 May 2015.

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