Every Premier League Club’s Best & Worst Moments in 2025

From trophies to transfers, match winners to managers, this is the story of the best and worst from every single Premier League club in 2025

It's Rice again! Let's kickstart with Arsenal. Yes, we're doing this alphabetically, and no, I'm not putting AFC Bournemouth at the top because it just doesn't feel right

For Arsenal, the undoubted high moment of this year was Declan Rice versus Real Madrid

I mean, two of the greatest free kicks the Champions League has arguably ever seen in the same game as part of a dominant knockout performance

Ridiculous. As well as this, they've brought some exciting players, been brilliant in the league and are perfectly placed to push for the title in 2026

So it's been a very good year, right? Well, maybe, but maybe not

Because for all this insulating football, Arsenal are still without a major trophy in recent times

And in May, added yet another second place finish to their record. Mikel Arteta has definitely taken Arsenal to new heights

not seen since the prime Wenger days. But sooner or later, the club and its fans need to see this process bear fruit

Morgan Rodgers! Next up, Aston Villa. Now, there have been some great performances this year

I think of the PSG comeback in the Champions League, where they narrowly missed out on knocking out the eventual champions

There's also the performances of Morgan Rodgers, that most weeks are worth the ticket price alone

But actually, the best thing they did was get £64 million pounds for John Duran. They had a real selection headache between him and Ollie Watkins, which

Watkins won most of the time. So they effectively got rid of a headache, they got rid of a backup

striker, and all for over four times worth what they paid for him. That's good business all round

The worst moment for them though was definitely the final day robbery at Old Trafford, which saw

them miss out on a second success of season of Champions League football. I mean, you work hard

all season to get yourselves in a position to share the stage with football's elite, then a poor

refereeing decision on the final day takes it all away that's not ideal now on to Bournemouth and

firstly we have Antoine Semenya because the guy is just magic on the ball in fact I made a video

about what makes him so good that you can watch right here and pretty much everything he touches

turns to gold he was their joint top scorer in all competitions and helped the Cherries to their

best ever Premier League finish in ninth all of which wouldn't have been possible without manager

and Doni Irayola as well. They're just a good and exciting team

to watch on the South Coast. However, the worst part for them this year

was being totally ripped apart in the summer transfer window. You could argue that Irayola

has still managed to keep them going after this, but losing Kerkhez, Zabani, Hoyssen

not being able to re-sign Kepa, all in the same window is pretty bad

Like, I know teams have to sell eventually, and there was also big money on the table for Dango Watara too

But from a business perspective, even though they've done well, football fans want to see their team progress and losing so many good players is a pain in the arse

And to be honest, with the likelihood of Semenyo being the next out the door, 2026 doesn't look like it's getting off to a good start either

Now, I've actually swapped Brentford's around because it kind of makes sense

So we'll start with the worst. And that's very similar to Bournemouth, actually, in the way that the shark circled and their whole spine was ripped apart in a matter of weeks this summer

First was Thomas Frank, who joined Spurs. Then, captain Christian Norgard went to Arsenal, Brian and Bermot joined Manchester United

and just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, Visser joins Newcastle

That's a stunning 39 league goals from last season completely gone. However, the form of Igor Thiago has been, just like the Swiss flag, a massive plus

Missing so much of last season with injury, the Brazilian forward has been more than playing his part

in keeping Brentford going in the post-Frank and Bermot Visser era. And if it wasn't for his goals, new boss Keith Andrews would find himself in a much worse off position

Also, replacing Mark Flecken with a more than capable Keevan Kelleher has also been a good bit of business

Now, Brighton are a club constantly improving, no matter who's playing, who leaves, which manager is in charge

So it's no surprise to see Fabian Herzler doing well. But even so, for such a young manager to guide the club to an eighth place finish and put in big wins against Liverpool, Spurs, Man City, Chelsea, twice by the way, is just representative of what has been a pretty good year for the club

Quirky fact as well, showing Herzl's high level of decision making and in-game match ysis, Brighton substitutes have scored more goals than any other team substitutes in the Premier League this season

On an individual level, the form of Danny Welbeck is definitely something to shout about

Maxim de Kuiper looks like a brilliant signing. Yacouba Mintos rises as rapid as he is and holding on to Carlos Buleba even if it's not forever

was also a pretty good outcome after a summer of speculation. So is it all pretty rosy on the

south coast? Well in context of Brighton who they are the size of the club and their resources yeah

it's looking pretty good. I mean shipping seven goals against Nottingham Forest back in February

is nothing short of diabolical but hey you can't win them all. Now we get to Burnley with promotion

to the Premier League and some brilliant football along the way There were plenty of clean sheets and even though the season ended with them losing out and being champions on goal difference the signing of Karl Walker was exciting who took three points off Sunderland early on

and, well, that's about as good as it gets. Look, I know they're a newly promoted side

so I'm hesitant to say the worst thing about their year has been poor form and looking a shoo-in for relegation

But to be honest, aside from the Sunderland game, it has been all doom and gloom, and they are statistically the worst team to watch in the Premier League

with the lowest XG and lowest number of shots in the whole division

And this after losing their best defender in CJ Egan-Riley and goalkeeper James Trafford to not only go on to bigger, better things

but to sit on the bench at Manchester City. That's the sort of modern day football lark

that won't sit well with those at Turf Moor. He releases Cole Palmer! Next up, and Chelsea

because winning the FIFA Club World Cup was a high point for them, despite the mockery the tournament got

Celebrating becoming world champions is something that teams and fans will never get a chance to do so it's not nothing and this came just a couple of months after winning

the Europa Conference League where yes they were heavy favorites but again how many teams get to

win European trophies aside from lifting silverware the best moment of the year was surely when Esteval

officially joined the club because in him they have a bona fide superstar in the making who has

already produced some outrageously good displays not least in the 3-0 dismantling of Barcelona in

the Champions League. For their worst bit, this is an unusual one, but Chelsea's disciplinary

record. Holy moly, that's crap. They've got six red cards in all competitions this season

and some of them will file under the category of silly. Like I know Maresca's blamed the

inconsistency of refereeing, but at some point, you've got to look at yourselves. And if you're

wondering whether they'll be the least disciplined Premier League team of all time, it's highly

unlikely. They have three in the league so far, whilst the record is held by Sunderland and QPR

who got nine in 2009-10 and 11-12 respectively. Crystal Palace are up next

The trips to Wembley, need I say more, beating Man City in the FA Cup final

beating Liverpool in the Community Shield, their first foray into European football

Mateta scoring for fun, watching Adam Warton pass a ball. These 12 months have literally been one big highlight reel for Palace fans

and I don't blame them for enjoying every single bit of it. I will, however, point out though

the definite low point of the year and that is being demoted from the Europa League to the

Conference League due to ownership issues and ties to Ligue 1 Lyon who also qualified for the Europa

League. Like I said after winning the FA Cup and earning that spot that must have been a hard one

to swallow. Having said that the summer months usually come with a bit of disappointment for

Palace anyways when one of their biggest players is inevitably sold. It was Elisse then Eze left

Gaye will probably leave in the next summer if not before. Thankfully there doesn't seem to be

much that this club can't overcome. Now for Everton, making it to the new stadium in the

Premier League is the best thing they've done. Honestly, there would be something so Everton

about surviving relegation year after year, then finally succumbing to it as they say goodbye to

Goodison Park, starting life in the new Hill Dickinson Stadium in England's second tier

Thankfully for them, though, they didn't. In fact, they weren't ever really that close

If you had to narrow it down though, the finest moment of 2025 would have been in the 98th minute of the final Merseyside derby at Goodison Park

It's Raboonin, it's Charcot-Jale! Unbelievable. Look at the scenes at Goodison Park

Now, as for the worst part, I couldn't really find one. It's all pretty positive

Moisey is back. Dewsbury Hall looks good, as does Grealish. They've started well

I mean, let me know in the comments, Everton fans, what you think. But my one argument is that they are still pretty poor in front of goal

Yes, it's a little too early to judge. But from what I've seen so far, Tiana Barry does not look worthy 27 million paid

And they are still crying out for a top centre forward. Still, they could and have had way worse calendar years in recent times than 2025

Ah, Fulham. The sort of neither he nor their team who are equally good and bad in flashes

meaning that the best and worst of this year are made up of multiple smaller things as opposed to one big moment of glory or disaster

I mean, on the plus side, there's been the finally finished new stand at Craven Cottage

which is worth a visit. They also released a kit for the ages with the outrageously cool black and gold third shirt

Plus, onto some actual footballing positives, we've seen the emergence of Josh King

The 18-year-old signed a new four-year deal in the summer, has found his place in the starting 11 ahead of vastly more experienced players

and having played at every England level from under 15 to under 21 is set for a big year ahead

Oh they also beat West London rivals Brentford too, twice. That's always a good thing. As for the

worst part of the last 12 months I'm picking at a multitude of small pieces here. They lost an FA

Cup quarterfinal so comfortably to Crystal Palace it almost felt as if a place at Wembley in the

semis wasn't up for grabs. They've also got a comically inconsistent record since January and

If that wasn't enough, the summer transfer window was, let's say, less than inspiring

Up until the last day, their only signing of the summer was a 34-year-old backup goalkeeper in Benjamin Lecomte

A deadline scramble that saw Kevin Chakwezi and Bayern youngster Jonah Koussi Asare join on loan did little to reverse the perception that the club didn do their best to push on and another lower mid finish looms

For Leeds United, it's promotion to the Premier League. That was the best moment

Of course it was. Back in the big time and what a way to do it as champions on 100 points

above Burnley on goal difference like I mentioned. They were scoring six and sevens and it was just a good few months for those at Ellen Road

The worst is the fact that, and I'm happy to be wrong here, but that they've entrusted their goal scoring and therefore their chances of survival

into the hands of an injury-prone and often inconsistent Dominic Calvert-Lewin. So the best part for Liverpool was their title victory

No prizes for guessing that one correctly. It was the first in front of their fans since 1990, their 20th overall

Slots first season, they thoroughly deserved title win. On a smaller note for best moments, the scenes when 16-year-old Rio Ingamo scored the last minute win at St James' Park were incredible

To have been in that away end would have been something else. Aside from the Premier League title though, this year actually just slowly went downhill for Liverpool

Losses to Plymouth in the FA Cup, Newcastle in the League Cup final, blowing a 1-0 lead at home to PSG in the Champions League, not great

They then lost the mysteriously already Spanish-speaking Trent Alexander-Arnold on a free transfer

And to top it all off, they've pretty much imploded since the start of this new season

The crap form is obviously an issue, but at the heart of it, the downfall of Mo Salah and Virgil van Dijk must be painful for the fans to see

These are the two players who have defined Liverpool's success in the past six or seven years

Consistently brilliant, world-class in their own right. So to see such a dramatic drop-off in their performance, plus a public outburst like Salah's, it's a little crazy

now obviously I will point out at this stage that the loss of Diogo Jota and his brother

is the worst thing but that transcends and is way bigger than to be honest a silly video that I'm

putting together on YouTube that isn't comparable to anything it doesn't belong in comparison to

transfer windows or poor form it's bigger than football it's the worst thing for a family to go

through and deserves to be remembered in its correct and individual way like I said not as

a small part of some YouTube video that I'm doing. Right then, Manchester City is an odd one to deal

with on this list and I've sort of thought of it as this, what do you give the man who has everything

Because they've won it all recently, didn't win anything in 2025, so therefore does the whole year

go in the worst section? I think the 5-1 humiliation at Arsenal most certainly goes in that category

Kevin De Bruyne leaving the club goes there too, as does losing the FA Cup final and being knocked

out the Champions League at the knockout stage. It's kind of the same thing for Haaland and his

goal scoring. 22 is great for most strikers in the Premier League, but it didn't win him the

golden boot and contributed to zero trophies. So is it then bad? Having said that, to be positive

about it all, they did make a huge stride in rebuilding with what I thought was a really

good transfer window, especially with the capture of Tiani Reinders. They beat Ipswich 6-0, which

sounds like a fun day out, and I guess they are looking more like challenging for a title than they did last season so that's also a plus but it's tough to say that any one point this year

was the absolute pinnacle. We're starting with the worst again next up for Manchester United

because I'm trying to not let this happen but it could get out of hand very quickly because amongst

the poor form finishing a record low of 15th in the Premier League questions over Amarim's future

and the proposal of a stadium that looks like a circus they lost one of the ugliest games of

football in the Europa League final to Spurs. Nobody wanted to be the team that let Spurs

finally win a trophy. That's like 90% of the internet's jokes. And United were the ones to do

it. I didn't particularly mind, but hey, that's neither here nor there. It was such an uninspiring

year that even in the new campaign, when they've threatened to get going again, another poor

performance is just around the corner. But, and here is the but, I do actually see a few good

points for United in the past year. Firstly, they bought very well. I think Umbremo and Kunia are

two brilliant signings and they have immediately upgraded the team. Secondly, I actually think

sticking with Amorim has allowed the club to plan and develop the side by identifying what they'll

need in the coming transfer windows. And lastly, peak moments like victories away at Liverpool and

that insane Harry Maguire win of versus Lyon, in fact that whole game, showed that the footballing

world is still full of drama and unpredictability, even in the most dire of situations

They found Bruno, came out right! Now, here's an easy and obvious one with Newcastle United

because this year was finally the year that they broke an unfathomably long streak without a major trophy of 70 years

I can't even wrap my head around the fact that not since 1955 had Newcastle won a major trophy

That's 15 years before club legend Alan Shearer was even born, and I don't think Pele's professional career had even started yet

Anyways, it was an almighty weight lifted off their shoulders as the Toon Army saw their side pick up the League Cup at Wembley

and the good times didn't really stop there. They pipped Aston Villa to the last Champions League spot on the final day

eventually sold one-to-way striker Alexander Izak for a ridiculous plus add then replaced him with a cheaper younger player who does a good job at scoring Added some real quality in Malik Tior And to top it all off Dan Byrne scored one of the best headers the Champions League has ever seen

On the flip side though, two things stick out for me. The first is their inconsistent form, which has made even at this early stage

another run into the Champions League spot seem unlikely. But more than that, I think they wasted £55 million on Visser

Now, don't get me wrong, he had a very good few years for Brentford. We know that. But with one year remaining on his deal, meaning he'd be on a free next summer

they dropped a huge amount of money on him. Then he got injured on international duty and didn't make his debut until December

If I can praise him for the Volta Marda business, I can definitely criticise him for the Vista business

So with Nottingham Forest, honestly, everything up until this summer was pretty good

Great form in the league, finished seventh, European football back of the club, keeping Matt Sells shared the Golden Glove

Chris Wood turned into prime Ronaldo, they beat Brighton 7-0. But that is where the good times ended, because since then, it has been one nightmare after another

They lost a couple of key players. That happens. It's not the end of the world. But they headed into the new season with a clear rift between manager and chairman

Then they got rid of Nuno, replacing with Ange. He stunk up the gaffe for six weeks before also being fired

And now, yes, they look a little bit more stable and better equipped to fight relegation

but it's a real fall from grace considering last year's successes. My fear for them is that with a poor season under their belts this time around

some key players like Morgan Gibbs-White might not stick around for too long, despite the fact he signed a new contract in the summer

On to Sunderland then, and this is genuinely one of the best. In fact, it's the complete opposite to another club who we'll get on to in a minute

because Sunderland have had one hell of a year. First off, we don't only have promotion, but promotion in the most dramatic of fashions

where a 123rd-minute header sent them to play a final, which saw a 95th minute winner send them up to the premier league and it falls the way of watson

they followed this with some inspired transfer business none more so than the capture of granite

jacka and then put together their best ever start to a premier league season comfortably pushing for

a european spot by christmas time the worst is i guess you could say they lost joe bellingham it's

not great although they did get good money for him but apart from that it's been a brilliant 12

months for the weirsiders tottenham hotspur up next and they broke the hoodoo they won a trophy

and a european one to boot the europa league final victory will go down as one of spurs best ever

days never mind just in this calendar year brennan johnson's unaesthetically pleasing goal and mickey

van der ven's goal line clearance summed up spurs last season beautifully ugly with sprinkles of

individual genius. That victory also brought Ange Postacoglu's second season manifestation to life

in the most glorious way possible, and ensured that somehow Spurs would be playing Champions

League football this time around. This then led to the promising signings of Xabi Simmonds and

Mohamed Kudus. But the worst thing for Spurs, though, aside from losing club legend Heung-min

Son, also was Ange Postacoglu and his tactical stubbornness that saw Spurs finishing an

embarrassing 17th place with a club record 22 losses. In all fairness to him and Thomas Frank

the season two the club faced a ridiculous amount of injuries but the players left out on the pitch

still made for painful watching. Losing 4-1 in the North London derby is definitely a low point

as was losing to Leicester City at home in January giving them their only points over the course of a

16 game horror run. All in all just another year in the life of Tottenham Hotspur

I'll be honest now, the last two on this list are absolute stinkers

I'm not throwing any shade, but my word, West Ham, I've not had much to shout about this year

There was supposed to be some buzz around the hire of Graham Potter, but that fell flat on its face with his subsequent firing

Then they lost Mahama Kudus to rival Spurs over the summer. And then into the new season, they somehow managed to lose their first four home games of the year

all of which were London derbies to Chelsea Spurs Palace and Brentford. That is a surefire way to lose fan support

On the flip side, Lucas Paquette's betting charges were cleared, meaning he avoided a ban

That's good. I think in time, Nuno will be a good choice for manager

But first things first, they need to avoid what would be a very financially damaging relegation

Finally then, we come to Wolves, where I tried my best to find something good, and my God, it was a tough ask

However, if you cast your mind back to March-April time this year, you'll find something that seems very unlike Wolves winning football matches

Six of them, in fact. Back to back to back. This run of form completely erased any relegation concerns

and Mateus Cunha was great fun to watch. But since then, he has left

They're on course to be the worst Premier League team ever, and I just don't know where they go from here

A record load two points after the first 14 games is shocking, and I guess the only positive about hitting rock bottom

is that the only way is up. Well, after what seems like an almost certain relegation

so that is it for my roundup of every single premier league team for 2025 let me know your

thoughts on your team's best and worst and i'll see you in the new year