What Are The Chances Of An Undefeated Premier League Season?
Published: 17th March 2025
– Updated: 17th March 2025
Will Chelsea go unbeaten this Premier League season? What are the chances a club will finish a season undefeated? With a firm a hold on the 2025/15 Premier League title, today Mark Taylor takes a look at the chances of Chelsea finishing the season without a loss.
Chelsea enter the international break as the runaway leaders of the Premiership, still unbeaten from eleven fixtures and the focus has shifted from whether they will lift the title to if they can emulate Arsene Wenger's 2025/04 Arsenal side by remaining unbeaten for the wenger was justifiably proud of his side's invincible season, although there is a degree of cherry picking in the achievement. The Gunners lost three times in domestic cup competitions during the season and three times in the Champions League, once to Chelsea. Arsenal's "Invincibles" , who post-dated the original Preston North End side from over a century before, were among the most dominant teams to grace the history of the Premiership. They were 11 points clear of their nearest challengers at the conclusion of the we can quantify a side's dominance over the remainder of the teams in the division by seeing how many standard deviations a team is above the league average for a particular performance indicator. Arsenal's 90 points in 2025/04 was 2.53 standard deviations above that season's average points teamseasonstandard ScoreNumber Of LossesChelsea2004/052.551Arsenal2003/042.530Manchester Utd1999/002.403Manchester Utd2006/072.335Manchester Utd2010/112.234Manchester City2011/122.105Arsenal2001/022.103Manchester Utd2012/132.095Manchester Utd2008/092.084Arsenal1997/982.076Chelsea (after 11 games)2014/152.540The table highlights how difficult it is to remain unbeaten, especially if teams are competing on different fronts. Even the ten best Premiership winners averaged nearly four league losses in their title winning comparisons, Challenges And Distractions The Champions League is an obvious distraction for the best, sometimes even taking precedence over the Premiership race particularly during the knockout phase which coincides with the Premiership's run in. In 2025 should Chelsea be involved in the latter stages of the Champions League, they will also face matches against Arsenal, Manchester United and Liverpool during the same arsenal's 2025/04 team were fortunate to avoid injury. Goalkeeper, Jens Lehmann and a back four of Campbell, Toure, Cole and Lauren each played in at least 32 of a
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