With just a few hours remaining in 2025, we look ahead to the new year and the major Premier League records that we may see broken in 2026.
That’s it. Another year in the bank.
2025 began with Arsenal winning and it ended with Arsenal winning. Sadly for them, there wasn’t quite enough winning in between to end their Premier League title drought, though Gunners fans will be hopeful the new year brings a change of luck in that respect.
The signs look pretty good for Mikel Arteta’s side, but Arsenal winning their first Premier League title for 22 years will be by no means the only notable narrative to keep an eye on in 2026.
Here, we’ve identified seven major Premier League records that may well tumble in 2026.
Fewest Points in a Premier League Season
Wolverhampton Wanderers ended 2025 on a relative high. Following a dismal start to the 2025-26 season, they wrapped up the year with a commendable – and deserved – point at Old Trafford.
However, even taking that 1-1 draw with Manchester United into account, Wolves are on track to take the most unwanted record of them all.
Since 2007-08, Derby County have been infamous for only managing to earn 11 points over the course of the season, and that remains the record low for a single campaign.
For a while last season, many thought Southampton would be the ones to finally give Derby a reprieve from such an association, but they ultimately accumulated 12 points.
Considering it took 17 years for another team just to get fewer than 16 points in a single season, Derby would’ve been forgiven for thinking there’d never be another challenger to their record.
But Wolves have reached the halfway point of 2025-26 with just three points; it’s a pretty handy marker because it makes the maths rather simple. Essentially, Rob Edwards’ men are on course to win just six points this term.
They are averaging a measly 0.16 points per game, which is obviously even less than Derby (0.29) in 2007-08.
Could the point at Old Trafford be the start of a moderate improvement? If it isn’t, Derby’s class of 2007-08 may finally know peace.
Most Defeats in a Premier League Season
Not to labour the point, but Wolves are on course for an all-timer of a season – in the bad sense, obviously.
We’ve summarised what they need to do to avoid breaking Derby’s points record, but there’s also the matter of most defeats in a single campaign. Again, the Rams also come into focus here.
While posting that meek haul of 11 points in 2007-08, Derby suffered 29 defeats. It’s actually only a shared record for most losses in a single Premier League season, though there’s a small caveat.
Ipswich Town also suffered 29 defeats during the 1994-95 Premier League campaign, but that was a 42-game season so had more matches in which to reach that total than Derby did.
With that in mind, then, Derby’s 29 defeats is the record for a 38-game Premier League season; all but three PL campaigns have required teams to play 38 matches.
Wolves are well on their way to that marker. If their second half of the season is to match their first half, they’d suffer 32 losses as they’ve already been beaten 16 times.
A few teams have come close to breaking this record recently. Huddersfield Town (2018-19) and Sheffield United (2023-24) each lost 28, while Watford (2021-22) suffered 27 defeats. It’ll take something astonishing to prevent Wolves at least entering the conversation.
Most Goals by a Player in a Premier League Season
Erling Haaland currently holds the record for the most goals scored in a Premier League season, netting 36 in his first campaign in England in 2022-23. The Manchester City striker broke a competition record that had been shared by Andrew Cole and Alan Shearer for 28 years.
Now, three seasons later, Haaland is on course to challenge his own record. With 19 goals from Man City’s first 18 games of the 2025-26 campaign, the Norwegian is two goals off the Premier League record for most scored at the turn of the year within a season – that is also a record he already holds from his exceptional 2022-23 season (21).
Man City have 20 matches remaining in 2025-26, starting with a New Year’s Day trip to Sunderland, and Haaland needs 18 more goals to eclipse his record-breaking 36 from his debut Premier League campaign.
While it’s very unlikely he’ll find anywhere near enough goals to break the all-time top-flight seasonal record set by Everton’s Dixie Dean (60) in 1927-28, he could become the first player to surpass 36 goals in a single English top-flight campaign since Ron Davies in 1966-67 (37).
Most Premier League Appearances Ever
When a serious injury restricted James Milner to just four Premier League outings in 2024-25, the likelihood of him managing to stick around long enough to break the competition’s all-time appearances record looked lower than it’d been for years.
Milner’s 2024-25 was a nightmare. His initial injury was deemed to be “stable”, he said, after a blow to his knee in training, but his hamstring “reacted” a few days later during an August 2024 match against Arsenal.
A knee operation and knee reconstruction followed. While frustrating, he was only expected to be out until December, but during the surgery, he suffered nerve damage that left him unsure “if I could walk normally again, never mind play football”.
Thankfully, he made his comeback on the final day of the 2024-25 season before being handed a one-year extension to his contract at Brighton, and he’s managed to make 10 league appearances this term.
His most recent, in Tuesday’s 2-2 draw at West Ham, took him to 648 Premier League appearances, meaning he is just five behind Gareth Barry (653) for the record.
If he plays in each of Brighton’s next five games, Milner will go level with Barry on 31 January against Everton. This would give him the chance of breaking the record a little over a week later on 8 February at home to Crystal Palace.
Either way, with that horror injury a thing of the past, time is on his side regardless of him turning 40 this coming Sunday.
Youngest Premier League Goalscorer
Max Dowman may not have been able to break the record for youngest player to appear in the Premier League, making his debut 54 days older (15 years, 235 days) than teammate Ethan Nwaneri (15y 181d) had been, but Arsenal’s latest prodigy could yet become the competition’s youngest goalscorer.
Dowman turned 16 on New Year’s Eve; the current record holder for youngest Premier League goalscorer is James Vaughan (16y, 270d).
Nice and simple, then: Dowman has 269 days from Wednesday (31 December) to break Vaughan’s record. That gives him until Saturday 26 September 2026.
Of course, the fact there’s obviously no Premier League football in June and July immediately reduces the time available to him, while it’s also worth noting he’s expected to miss all of January after being ruled out for two months with ankle ligament damage in early December.
Clearly, it’s not a given that Dowman will break this particular record. After all, he has only made two Premier League appearances this term.
But the talent he’s shown during his fleeting first-team outings is enough for us to suggest he’s at least got a chance, and we’ll take that considering it’s a record that’s stood since April 2005.
Most Assists in a Premier League Season
Rayan Cherki and Bruno Fernandes share the lead atop the Premier League assists chart this season with seven apiece. Although hardly a record-breaking pace at the halfway point of the season, it’s one to keep an eye on nonetheless.
Our focus here will be on Cherki, because he’s assisted seven times in just 644 minutes on the pitch in 2025-26 as we head into the new year – that’s less than half the playing time of Man Utd captain Fernandes (1,477).
With Manchester City still having 20 Premier League games to play this season, there are 20 opportunities for Cherki to rack up the 14 assists he needs to surpass the competition record of 20 in a season. That marker was set by Thierry Henry in 2002-03 and matched by Kevin De Bruyne in 2019-20.
On a minutes-per-assist basis, Cherki is creating goals more frequently than any other player in Premier League history. His average of 92 minutes per assist in 2025-26 is faster than anyone to have 5+ assists in a Premier League campaign, eclipsing Cesc Fàbregas (111 minutes) in 2016-17.
But how likely is it that Cherki sets a new record of 21 assists in a season? As we said before, he needs 14 over a maximum 20 possible appearances.
Six players have assisted 14+ goals over a 20-game spell in Premier League history before now: Fàbregas (October 2019) and Mesut Özil (December 2015) both managed to assist 16 in 20 appearances, while Dennis Bergkamp (September 2002), Henry (May 2003), Fàbregas (December 2014) and De Bruyne (October 2022 and October 2017) managed 15 assists inside 20-game spells.
Most Last-Minute Winners in a Premier League Season
As we head into 2026, there have already been 16 Premier League games decided by a last-minute winning goal in 2025-26.
With 186 matches coming before 1 January 2026 this season, that means 8.6% of Premier League games in 2025-26 have been decided by goals scored in the 90th minute or later; it’s the greatest proportion seen in a Premier League campaign.
The record tally for a Premier League campaign is 27 (7.1%), set in 2023-24. That means we need just nine of the remaining 194 games in 2025-26 to be won by a goal in the last minute or added time to set a new record.
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