Pep Guardiola’s fifth league triumph – and our seventh in total – was a rollercoaster of emotions as we battled it out with Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal.
We’re only the second club to win the Premier League three years in a row and the fifth in the history of league football in England to do so.
We now face the prospect of battling to become the first club ever to win it in four consecutive seasons in 2023/24.
It also completes an historic three years of dominance across all Premier League categories, with our Elite Development Squad and Under-18s winning their respective leagues in 2020/21, 2021/22 and in this campaign.
In the end, we’ve sealed this year’s trophy with three games to spare and 85 points on the board. It’s only the third of our seven Premier League titles not to go to the final day.
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We have won 27 of our 35 matches so far, drawing another four.
The title was eventually confirmed on Saturday, when challengers Arsenal were beaten by Nottingham Forest.
Here we take a look at the statistics that make up our 2022/23 Premier League campaign and some of the milestones we hit along the way.
Longest winning run
Our 11 straight victories is the longest winning run in the Premier League this season.
We have won every match since a draw at Nottingham Forest in February. It is that form that has seen us overturn Arsenal’s advantage at the top of the table and claim the title.
In terms of unbeaten runs, we have now gone 13 games since we last suffered defeat in the league. That is our best run of the campaign, surpassing our run of 10 games at the start of the season without losing.
Home form
The Etihad has again been a fortress. We have won 16 of our 18 Premier League matches at our home so far this season, with just Chelsea on Sunday to go.
The November draw with Brentford and December draw against Everton are the only blemishes on an otherwise incredible home record.
Away from home we have won 11 of our 17 games, second only to Arsenal. However, our away record will be the best in the league if we’re able to beat Brighton and Brentford in the final week.
Goal difference and expected goal difference
With 92 goals from our 35 games, we are comfortably the league’s leading scorers ahead of Arsenal in second with 83. Our 31 goals conceded is the fewest, with Newcastle United second on 32.
That makes our goal difference of +61 the best in the league by a healthy margin. Arsenal, the next best, have a goal difference of +40.
Our dominance of the league is even more stark when you consider our expected goal difference.
This figure is the difference between the expected goals (xG) which we create and the chances we concede by the same metric. We have created a league-high total of 75.5 xG and conceded a league-best total of just 28.2 across our 35 league matches.
That is a difference of 47.3, much better than Newcastle United who have registered an expected goal difference of 28.8.
Shots on our goal
A major part of the reason we have conceded fewer goals than anyone else in the league is the lack of shots we have allowed on our goal.
Only 250 shots have been sent the way of our goal, 86 fewer than the next best in Arsenal. However, only 79 of those 250 have been on target and therefore a danger to our goal.
Stepping ahead
Since our last Premier League defeat in February against Spurs, we have trailed for just 10 minutes and 56 seconds in the league, doing so in the first half of an eventual 4-1 win over Liverpool in April.
In total, City have trailed for 228 minutes in the Premier League this season, the fewest of any team.
Ball dominance
As expected with a Pep Guardiola side, we have dominated the ball throughout the season. On average, we have had 65.3% possession.
That is almost five percent more than the side who come next, with Brighton & Hove Albion having the ball for 60.9% of the time.
Our 23,318 passes is 1343 ahead of Liverpool despite having played two games fewer than the men from Anfield, who have completed the second most with 21,795.
Rodrigo’s 2,877 passes leads the way for the Blues and is the second most in the Premier League.
That has led to 1252 touches in the opposition box and 555 shots on goal in total.
Haaland’s goals
Erling Haaland has scored the most goals in a single Premier League season in the competition’s history, with 36.
He surpassed the previous record of 34 with his finish in the May victory over West Ham United at the Etihad.
Earlier in the season the Norwegian became the quickest player to 20 Premier League goals ever, taking just 14 appearances to hit that figure.
He also became the first player in Premier League history to score a hat-trick in three successive home games and the quickest to four Premier League hat-tricks, hitting that landmark in 19 games, which was 46 matches fewer than Ruud van Nistelrooy.
De Bruyne’s creativity
Kevin De Bruyne again leads the assist rankings, having set up his team-mates on 16 occasions in the league alone. That places the Belgian five ahead of next best creator Bukayo Saka and Mo Salah, on 11.
He looks set to win that accolade for the fourth time having been the league’s most creative player in 2016/17, 2017/18 and 2019/20.
Our No.17 became the quickest man to 100 Premier League assists during the April victory over Southampton. He reached triple figures in just 237 games, a whopping 56 games faster than previous quickest Cesc Fabregas, who took 293 games.
He is just the fifth player in the Premier League era to achieve 100 assists.
Widely regarded as one of the finest midfielders in the world and now a five-time winner, De Bruyne’s place as a Premier League great is assured.
Ederson’s clean sheets
Ederson became the 17th goalkeeper to keep 100 clean sheets in the Premier League with the March shutout against Newcastle United.
Our Brazilian became the third quickest to the landmark, taking just 208 Premier League appearances.
He has won three Premier League Golden Glove awards during his stay at the Etihad and is now celebrating his fifth title.
In this campaign, he has kept 11 clean sheets. While he can still add three to that against Chelsea, Brighton and Brentford, he will not win a fourth Golden Glove in this campaign.
Guardiola’s home record
City’s excellent 4-1 home win over Liverpool in April saw manager Pep Guardiola chalk up another notable landmark, making it 100 Premier League home victories since the Catalan took charge in 2016.
Our defeat of Jurgen Klopp’s side meant that Pep recorded that notable century of home wins in just 128 games at the Etihad, the quickest time that memorable landmark has been chalked up.
He now has five Premier League titles to his name after just seven seasons in England. That is the second most of any manager to work in the Premier League, behind only Sir Alex Ferguson.
The boss’ 12th major honour at City further extends his legacy as the most successful manager in the Club’s history.
Five times
We have won the Premier League a total of seven times but many of our current squad have now won the trophy on five occasions.
Before this season, Sergio Aguero and Fernandinho were the only City players to have been involved in five triumphs.
However, now Kevin De Bruyne, Ederson, Phil Foden, Ilkay Gundogan, Aymeric Laporte, Bernardo Silva, John Stones and Kyle Walker have won five Premier Leagues with City.
Riyad Mahrez is also a five-time winner, the first African player to reach that landmark, having won one title with Leicester City before his four with City.
