Most Points in a Premier League Season: City's 100

The most points in a Premier League season is 100, set by Manchester City in 2017–18. They are the only team in English top-flight history to reach a century, which is why that side carries a single nickname: the Centurions.

The maximum any team could take from a 38-match season is 114, three points for every win. City’s 100 is the nearest anyone has climbed to that ceiling, and the 14-point gap between the two is the most instructive number in the record book. It shows what “the best league season ever measured” still leaves on the pitch.

The record: Manchester City, 100 points

Guardiola’s 2017–18 team finished 32–4–2: 32 wins, four draws, two defeats. The 32 wins were themselves an English top-flight record, as were the 100 points, the 106 goals scored, and the +79 goal difference. By almost every statistical measure it was the strongest league season English football had produced.

Look closely, though, and the imperfection is right there in the record. Two defeats, four draws, six of 38 matches that did not end in a City win. The points total set a new benchmark; it did not describe a flawless run.

What are the highest points totals in Premier League history?

City’s century sits at the top of a short list of genuinely dominant campaigns. These are the highest totals of the 38-game era.

Team	Season	Points	W–D–L
Manchester City	2017–18	100	32–4–2
Liverpool	2019–20	99	32–3–3
Manchester City	2018–19	98	32–2–4
Liverpool	2018–19	97	30–7–1
Chelsea	2004–05	95	29–8–1
Manchester City	2021–22	93	29–6–3

Two details stand out. Liverpool’s 97 in 2018–19 was the fourth-highest total ever recorded and won nothing, because City edged the same season on 98. In almost any other year, 97 points takes the title at a stroll. Second, even that Liverpool side, beaten only once all season, drew seven games. Losing rarely is not the same as winning always, which is exactly the distinction behind the longest unbeaten run in football.

Manchester United’s 92 points in 1993–94 sometimes appears near these lists, but it came in a 42-game season and belongs to the older format. Across 38 games, City’s 100 is the ceiling.

Why is 100 points still 14 short of the maximum?

The maths is fixed. Thirty-eight matches, three points per win, so a flawless campaign is worth 114 points. City reached 100, the highest anyone has climbed, leaving a 14-point gap to the top of the scale.

Those 14 points are not abstract. They are two defeats worth six points and four draws worth eight points of the available maximum, all of which the strongest league team on record still dropped. No team has ever won all 38 Premier League matches in a season. City managed 32 wins in their best year and could not add the other six. If the finest season in the competition’s history falls that far short of a perfect return, it gives a sense of how much distance a full clean sweep would require.

The takeaway

A hundred points was so far beyond anything the league had seen that it felt like a finished article. It was not quite that; it was the best answer yet to a simple question, how close can a team get to winning them all. After more than three decades of Premier League football, the honest reply is 100 points out of a possible 114. For the wider record book, see our guide to Premier League records, and for the season that went unbeaten without topping this points chart, invincible seasons in world football. Re-check the record after any title race that runs into the 90s, since City and Liverpool have both threatened it since 2018.