Records were broken and milestones were reached in another memorable year of sporting action – here are the key statistical achievements of 2025.
111
It took Manchester City striker Erling Haaland 111 games to reach 100 Premier League goals, a new record. He was also the fastest to score 50 Champions League goals, in 49 games, lowering the record by 13 in both cases.
– Haaland breaks record as fastest with 50 Champions League goals
1,000
Man City boss Pep Guardiola marked 1,000 games in management with his 716th win, 3-0 over Liverpool.
250
Mohamed Salah scored 250 Liverpool goals, only the third player to do so after Ian Rush and Roger Hunt. Salah won the 2024/25 Premier League Golden Boot with 29 goals.
15
Arsenal winger Max Dowman became the youngest ever Champions League player, aged 15 years and 308 days.
12
Southampton’s points total in the Premier League was just one more than Derby’s record low of 11 in 2007–08.
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How Southampton avoided the Premier League’s lowest points record
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100
Both automatic promotion winners in the Championship, Leeds and Burnley, achieved 100 points. Birmingham’s 111 in League One was an English league record.
60
Chelsea’s record points count as they won their sixth consecutive Women’s Super League title. Their winning margin of 12 was also a record and they won only their third ever domestic women’s treble.
0
England went through their World Cup qualifying campaign without conceding a single goal, scoring 22 as they won all eight games.
– England perfect in qualifying – now Tuchel has to make decisions
3
Sarina Wiegman won her third successive Women’s European Championship, giving England their second successive victory, despite the Lionesses leading by just four minutes and 52 seconds in their three knockout games.
£3 billion
Premier League clubs have set a new spending record for the summer transfer window. Liverpool initially spent £100 million on Bayer Leverkusen playmaker Florian Wirtz and then a British record £125 million for Newcastle striker Alexander Isak.
1
Bayern Munich’s Bundesliga title was the first major trophy of England captain Harry Kane’s career.
6
Rory McIlroy’s Masters victory in April made him the sixth man to win the modern Grand Slam career, joining Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods.
– Rory McIlroy admits Masters victory could be ‘highlight of my career’
15-13
The European Ryder Cup winning margin at Bethpage Black, the competition’s first away win in twelve years.
138*
Joe Root’s first innings score in the second Ashes Test in Brisbane, his first century in Australia in 30 Test innings.
16-0
Australia’s margin of victory in the Women’s Ashes.
11
Lando Norris became the eleventh different British winner of the Formula 1 driver’s title.
2
Norris’s margin of victory was the smallest since Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis Hamilton’s consecutive one-point victories in 2007 and 2008.
– How Lando Norris won the 2025 F1 title: McLaren conflict and holding off Max Verstappen, Oscar Piastri
8
Consecutive men’s grand slam tennis tournaments were won by Carlos Alcaraz or Jannik Sinner as they shared the four majors two apiece for the second year in a row.
6
Luke Littler won six of the eight televised PDC ranking events – the World Championship, UK Open, World Matchplay, World Grand Prix, Grand Slam of Darts and Players’ Championship – as the 18-year-old became world number one.
– The Luke Littler Effect: How ‘The Nuke’ Changed Darts the Way Tiger Woods Changed Golf
3
England won the Women’s Rugby World Cup for the third time, beating Canada in the final at Twickenham.
0
Gold medals for Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in September, with three silvers and two bronzes, putting them 21st on the medal list.
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