2014–15 Premier League

Eighteen games, zero losses, one crown: City's late-season masterclass that left the league in their wake.

The 2014–15 Premier League season was the 23rd edition of England's top-flight football competition, contested by 20 clubs across 38 matchdays from August 2014 to May 2015. It is remembered as the season Manchester City, under Chilean manager Manuel Pellegrini, sealed their third title in four years with a breathtaking end-of-season run that left rivals gawking at the scoreboard.

The narrative arc was a two-horse race between City and Arsenal for most of the campaign, but it was City's late-season surge—an 18-match unbeaten stretch—that turned a competitive title race into a coronation. For fans of the sport, it stands as one of the most dominant domestic title runs of the 2010s.

Last updated 2026-10-03 from the source article.

Quick Facts

Competition

Premier League

Dates

16 August 2014 – 24 May 2015

Winners

Chelsea
4th Premier League title
5th English title

Relegated

Hull City
Burnley
Queens Park Rangers

Best goalkeeper

Joe Hart (14 clean sheets)

Biggest home win

Southampton 8–0 Sunderland (18 October 2014)

Biggest away win

Swansea City 0–5 Chelsea (17 January 2015)

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Background

The 2014–15 season opened with Manchester City as the defending champions and the obvious favourites, but Arsenal under Arsène Wenger were in genuine title contention for the first time since 2004. For much of the autumn and winter, the race was a genuine two-horse affair, with both sides trading blows at the top of the table and the gap oscillating between two and six points. Supporters of both clubs filled the terraces with the electricity of a real contest, and the media narrative swung weekly between "City too strong" and "Wenger has finally cracked it."

The turning point came in the spring. While Arsenal's form wavered and their squad depth stretched thin across European and domestic commitments, City simply refused to stop. Pellegrini's side strung together an 18-match unbeaten run in the final stretch of the season, combining Yaya Touré's midfield dynamism, David Silva's intricate passing, and Sergio Agüero's clinical finishing into a machine that was, frankly, unplayable. The final day at the Etihad, a 2-0 dispatch of Tottenham, was less a thriller than a formality—City had already made their intent clear.

Beyond the title, the season carried poignancy for several clubs. West Bromwich Albion survived relegation in dramatic fashion, while QPR and Newcastle United were sent down. For Liverpool, Brendan Rodgers' side finished a strong third, buoyed by Luis Suárez's 31-goal campaign, and the season ended on a high note before the drama of the following year's off-pitch controversies.

Did You Know?

Manchester City's 18-match unbeaten run in the final stretch of the season was the longest such run in Premier League history at the time, a record that underscored how dominant their late-season form truly was.
Luis Suárez's 31 goals for Liverpool in 2014–15 made him the league's top scorer, yet his side finished third behind both title rivals—a reminder that individual brilliance doesn't always translate to silverware.
West Bromwich Albion's survival was one of the season's great late drama arcs: they spent much of the campaign in the relegation zone before a late-season run of results kept them safely above the drop line.
The 2014–15 title was City's third Premier League crown in four seasons, cementing their status as the dominant force in English football of the mid-2010s.