Tottenham Hotspur 9β1
Wigan Athletic (22 November 2009)[1] Chelsea 8β0 Wigan Athletic (9 May 2010)
Biggest away win
Everton 1β6 Arsenal (15 August 2009) Wigan Athletic 0β5 Manchester United (22 August 2009) Portsmouth 0β5 Chelsea (24 March 2010) Burnley 1β6 Manchester City (3 April 2010)
Highest scoring
Tottenham Hotspur 9β1 Wigan Athletic (22 November 2009)[1]
The 2009β10 Premier League (known as the Barclays Premier League for sponsorship reasons) was the 18th season of the
Premier League since its establishment in 1992. A total of 20 teams competed in the league, with
Chelsea unseating the three-time defending champions
Manchester United, scoring a then Premier League record 103 goals in the process.[4][5] The season began on 15 August 2009 and concluded on 9 May 2010.[6] Prior to each opening week match, a minute's applause was held in memory of
Sir Bobby Robson.
Nike provided a new match ball β the T90 Ascente β for this season.
Barclays sponsored the league.
The race for the title went to the final day of the season with Chelsea one point ahead of Manchester United; Chelsea's 8β0 win over
Wigan Athletic was enough to secure their first title since 2006, despite Manchester United's 4β0 defeat of
Stoke City.[7] The title win came in Chelsea manager
Carlo Ancelotti's first season at the club and he followed this up a week later by securing Chelsea's first FA Cup and League double with a win over Portsmouth at Wembley. Chelsea striker
Didier Drogba won the
Golden Boot award as the league's top goalscorer for the second time[8] The victorious Chelsea side were noted for their attacking style of football: the team averaged 2.71 goals per game, scoring a Premier League record 103 goals for the season, compared to the average of 1.89 when they won the title in the
2004β05 and
2005β06 seasons.[9]
In February 2010,
Portsmouth became the first club to go into
administration whilst a member of the Premier League.[10] They were docked nine points, and two months later they were the first team of the season to be relegated.
Hull City and Premier League debutants
Burnley were relegated alongside them.
This season was the last of a three-year domestic television rights deal agreed in 2006. Television rights continue to provide a large portion of Premier League clubs' revenue. However, on 19 June 2009, the Premier League annulled its contract with Ireland-based broadcaster
Setanta Sports after the company failed to pay an instalment to the league with speculation mounting that the company would enter administration. As a result, Setanta Sports' share was bought by United States-based broadcasters
ESPN, while
Sky Sports continue to hold four of the six 23-live match packages.[11] In the United States, the
Disney-owned network is making use of sibling-network
ESPN2 to televise early Saturday matches and Monday matches. This was possible due to Setanta Sports' financial troubles, which required their USA-based North America division to sell its rights to those games back to Fox Sports International, who in turn sublicensed them to
ESPN. Setanta continues to broadcast a reduced number of matches in Ireland. In Australia, most games are available live on
Fox Sports. Sentanta Sports USA operations ceased on 28 February, and
Fox Soccer Plus replaced Sentanta as a pay service the following day.
On 31 January 2010, Sky Sports broadcast the match between
Arsenal and
Manchester United in
3D. The 3D broadcast was shown at nine
pubs in London,
Manchester,
Cardiff, Edinburgh and
Dublin, making the match the first sports event to be televised in 3D to a public audience anywhere in the world.[12][13]
Chelsea won the league by a point over second placed
Manchester United on 9 May 2010, with an 8β0 win at home to
Wigan Athletic. They won despite Manchester United's 4β0 win against Stoke. The title win came in Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti's first season with the club. Portsmouth were the first team to be relegated on 10 April 2010, followed by
Hull City and
Burnley.[14][15][16]Fulham's manager
Roy Hodgson was voted manager of the year by the
League Managers Association.[17] The season saw Liverpool, runners-up the previous season and considered one of the established 'Big Four', finish outside the top four for the first time since 2004β05 leaving them unable to compete in the
UEFA Champions League for the first time since the 2003β04 season. Tottenham Hotspur finished with their best point total at the time in the Premier League era, finishing in fourth place on 70 points, earning their first ever berth into the Champions league.
Source:
Premier League (C) Champions; (R) Relegated Notes:
^Since Manchester United
won the
League Cup and then qualified for the Champions League, their spot in the Europa League was passed down to the 6th-placed team. The 6th-placed Aston Villa was coincidentally also the League Cup runners-up.
^Originally Portsmouth qualified for the third qualifying round of the
Europa League as the
FA Cuprunners-up, replacing the winners, Champions League-qualified Chelsea. However, they failed to apply for a UEFA licence. Therefore, Liverpool as the best placed team not qualified for the European competitions took their place.
^Portsmouth were docked nine points for entering administration.[27]
West Ham United 5β3 Burnley (28 November 2009)[34]
Manchester City 4β3 Sunderland (19 December 2009)[35]
Most goals scored in a match by one player: 5 goals β
Jermain Defoe for Tottenham Hotspur against Wigan Athletic (22 November 2009)[1]
Shortest time between goals: 50 seconds β
Robin van Persie (41'52") and
Cesc FΓ bregas (42'42") for Arsenal against Tottenham Hotspur (31 October 2009)[36]
Most own goals scored in a match by same team: 3 β Portsmouth (
Anthony Vanden Borre,
Richard Hughes and
Marc Wilson) against Manchester United (6 February 2010)[37] However, on 26 May 2010, the Dubious Goal Committee declared the second own goal by Richard Hughes as
Michael Carrick's goal.
Last goal of the season:
Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (Everton) against Portsmouth 93 minutes and 10 seconds (9 May 2010)[38]
Fewest times failed to score: 1 game β Chelsea against
Birmingham[39]
Most times failed to score: 17 games β Wolverhampton Wanderers[39]
Fewest goals conceded β Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur (12)
Away
Most wins β Manchester United (11)
Fewest wins β Hull City (0)
Most losses β Burnley (17)
Fewest losses β Manchester City (4)
Most goals scored β Arsenal and Chelsea (35)
Fewest goals scored β Portsmouth and Stoke City (10)
Most goals conceded β Wigan Athletic (55)
Fewest goals conceded β Manchester United (16)
Clean sheets
Most clean sheets β Manchester United (19)
Fewest clean sheets β Burnley (3)
Discipline
First yellow card of the season:
Bernard Mendy for Hull City against Chelsea, 45+1 minute and 30 seconds (15 August 2009)[41]
First red card of the season:
Sean Davis for Bolton Wanderers against Liverpool, 53 minutes and 57 seconds (29 August 2009)[42]
Card given at latest point in a game:
Barry Ferguson (red) at 90+5 minutes and 27 seconds for Birmingham City against Manchester City (1 November 2009)[43]
Most red cards in a single match: 3 β Portsmouth 1β1 Sunderland β 1 for Portsmouth (
Ricardo Rocha) and 2 for Sunderland (
Lee Cattermole and
David Meyler) (9 February 2010)[46]
Miscellaneous
Longest first half injury time: 8 minutes, 26 seconds β Stoke City against Chelsea (12 September 2009)[47]
Longest second half injury time: 10 minutes, 25 seconds β Hull City against Aston Villa (21 April 2010)[48]
Worst start to a Premier League season: 0 points from 7 games β Portsmouth (26 September 2009). Losing streak ended on 3 October 2009, with 1β0 victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers[49]
Most own goals in a season for a single team: 10 β Manchester United
Records
Chelsea broke the record for most goals scored in a season with 103 goals, becoming the first Premier League club to cross the century mark. The previous record of 97 goals was set by
Manchester United in the
1999β2000 season. The Blues also broke the record for the highest goal difference in a season with +71 goals. The previous record of +58 goals was set by Manchester United in the
2007β08 campaign. United equalled their own previous record during the 2009β10 campaign.
Chelsea scored seven or more goals in four league matches, a record for both the club and the Premier League, and in consecutive home fixtures achieved an aggregate score of 15β0, in their last two home matches of the season against
Stoke City and
Wigan Athletic, having already scored seven in home matches against
Sunderland and
Aston Villa.
Harry Redknapp, 63, received the
Premier League Manager of the Season for the first time in his career, as a result of leading Tottenham Hotspur to Champions League qualification. Redknapp winning Manager of the Season marked the first time a non-title winning manager received the award since
George Burley in the 2000β01 Premier League season.[65][66]
The Premier League Fair Play Award was given to
Arsenal, the team deemed to have been the most sporting and best behaved.
Sunderland occupied last place as the least sporting side[68]
Behaviour of The Public Fair Play League
The Public Fair Play League was again given to
Fulham for the third consecutive year.[69]
Premier League Merit Award
Chelsea collected the Premier League Merit Award for being the first team to score 100 goals in a Premier League season.
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