2011–12 Premier League

English football season

Premier League

Season	2011–12
Dates	13 August 2011–13 May 2012
Champions	Manchester City 1st Premier League title 3rd English title
Relegated	Blackburn Rovers Bolton Wanderers Wolverhampton Wanderers
Champions League	Manchester City Manchester United Arsenal Chelsea (as Champions League winners)
Europa League	Tottenham Hotspur Newcastle United Liverpool
Matches played	380
Goals scored	1,066 (2.81 per match)
Top goalscorer	Robin van Persie (30 goals)
Best goalkeeper	Joe Hart (17 clean sheets)
Biggest home win	Manchester United 8–2 Arsenal (28 August 2011) Arsenal 7–1 Blackburn Rovers (4 February 2012) Fulham 6–0 Queens Park Rangers (2 October 2011)
Biggest away win	Manchester United 1–6 Manchester City (23 October 2011) Bolton Wanderers 0–5 Manchester United (10 September 2011) Fulham 0–5 Manchester United (21 December 2011) Wolverhampton Wanderers 0–5 Manchester United (18 March 2012) Norwich City 1–6 Manchester City (14 April 2012)
Highest scoring	Manchester United 8–2 Arsenal (28 August 2011)
Longest winning run	8 games[1] Manchester United
Longest unbeaten run	14 games[1] Manchester City
Longest winless run	12 games[1] Wolverhampton Wanderers
Longest losing run	8 games[1] Wigan Athletic
Highest attendance	75,627[1] Manchester United v Wolverhampton Wanderers (10 December 2011)
Lowest attendance	15,195[1] Queens Park Rangers v Bolton Wanderers (13 August 2011)
Total attendance	13,148,465[1][2]
Average attendance	34,601[1][2]
← 2010–11 2012–13 →

The 2011–12 Premier League (known as the Barclays Premier League for sponsorship reasons) was the 20th season of the Premier League since its establishment in 1992. The season began on 13 August 2011 and ended on 13 May 2012 with Manchester City sealing their first league title since 1968 with victory over Queens Park Rangers on the final day. The title was City's first Premier League success, making them the fifth club to win the Premier League in its 20-year history.^[3] City finished level on 89 points with Manchester United, but their goal difference was eight better than their local rivals', making it the first time the Premier League had been won on goal difference.

The league was contested by 20 teams, 17 returning from the 2010–11 season and three promoted from the Football League Championship. Championship winners Queens Park Rangers and runners-up Norwich City gained automatic promotion whilst Swansea City gained promotion through the Football League Championship play-offs beating Reading 4–2 in May 2011 becoming the first non-English team to play in the Premier League in the history of the division. All three promoted clubs avoided relegation for the first time since the 2001–02 campaign. The season was voted as the greatest Premier League season in the Premier League 20 Seasons Awards.^[4]

Contents

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  1 Season summary
  


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  2 Teams
  
  
  
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    2.2 Personnel and kits
    
  
  
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  3 League table
  


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  4 Results
  


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  5 Season statistics
  
  
  
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    5.1 Scoring
    
    
    
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      5.1.1 Top scorers
      
    
    
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      5.1.2 Hat-tricks
      
    
    
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      5.1.3 20,000th goal
      
    
    
    
    
  
  
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    5.2 Clean sheets
    
  
  
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    5.3 Discipline
    
    
    
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      5.3.1 Club
      
    
    
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      5.3.2 Player
      
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


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  6 Awards
  
  
  
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    6.1 Monthly awards
    
  
  
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    6.2 Annual awards
    
    
    
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      6.2.1 Premier League Manager of the Season
      
    
    
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      6.2.2 Premier League Player of the Season
      
    
    
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      6.2.3 Premier League Goal of the season
      
    
    
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      6.2.4 PFA Players' Player of the Year
      
    
    
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      6.2.5 PFA Team of the Year
      
    
    
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      6.2.6 PFA Young Player of the Year
      
    
    
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      6.2.7 FWA Footballer of the Year
      
    
    
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      6.2.8 Premier League Golden Boot
      
    
    
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      6.2.9 Premier League Golden Glove
      
    
    
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      6.2.10 Premier League Fair Play Award
      
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


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  7 References
  

Season summary

Manchester City won the title in a tense finale, their first championship since 1968. City's local rivals Manchester United were the early pace-setters, leading the table until October when they drew at Liverpool allowing Manchester City to overtake them. The following week, City increased their lead to five points with a shock 6–1 away victory at Old Trafford, which they maintained until December, when they dropped points and their lead narrowed, but City remained in front until March, when a defeat at Swansea City saw them drop behind United. City's bad form continued for the next month while United went on a winning run, so that with six matches remaining United were eight points ahead of City and the title seemingly decided. However, United then faltered with a defeat and a draw in their next two games, while City won all three to narrow the gap to three points. City then beat United 1–0 at the City of Manchester Stadium to move back ahead of United on goal difference. Both sides won their penultimate matches to maintain the status quo.

Going into the final matches, which were played simultaneously, City were top of the league, ahead of Manchester United on goal difference. However, a Wayne Rooney goal away to Sunderland gave United the advantage. A 39th-minute goal from Pablo Zabaleta, his first of the season, put City back on top at half time. In a dramatic second half Djibril Cissé equalised for Queens Park Rangers in the 48th minute. Shortly after, Joey Barton of QPR was sent off for elbowing Carlos Tevez; on his way off the pitch, he kicked Sergio Agüero, attempted to headbutt Vincent Kompany and squared up to Mario Balotelli. Despite the numerical advantage, City went behind after Jamie Mackie gave QPR the lead in the 66th minute. As time wound down in both matches, it appeared that Manchester United would win the title with their victory over Sunderland. But Edin Džeko equalised for City in the 92nd minute. While United players waited on the field at Sunderland for a possible trophy presentation, Manchester City's Sergio Agüero scored the game winner in the 94th minute to clinch the title on goal difference.^[5][6] The 6–1 loss was even more important than it seemed at the time, because if the score had been 2–1 then both teams would have ended with identical records (points, goal difference, goals scored, win record, etc.) which by Premier League rules would have meant a play-off game at a neutral ground to decide the title.^[7]

For most of the season, Tottenham Hotspur were in third place, a couple of points behind the Manchester clubs, and there was much speculation as to whether Tottenham could mount a title challenge. However, from late February onward their season collapsed, starting with a 5–2 defeat to local rivals Arsenal, whom they had been 10 points ahead of before the game, and just four wins in their last 13 games condemned Tottenham to finishing a point below Arsenal, who finished third to join Manchester City and Manchester United in the UEFA Champions League,^[8] completing a strong recovery from a disastrous start to the season including an 8–2 defeat at Manchester United in August. Tottenham finished in the fourth and final Champions League slot but missed out on qualification for the competition because Chelsea's victory in the 2012 Champions League Final automatically entitled them to defend their title in the 2012–13 tournament at the expense of the lowest ranked team that would otherwise qualify for the competition through league position. This was the first time that this rule had been implemented in the Premier League, having been introduced by UEFA after Liverpool's controversial qualification for the 2005–06 UEFA Champions League. This consequently marked the first time that the club finishing fourth in the Premier League had not qualified for the tournament since the fourth qualifying spot was introduced in the 2001–02 season. Newcastle United finished fifth and qualified for the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League.^[9]Everton finished 7th, just above local rivals Liverpool. Despite finishing above them for the first time in seven years, it was Liverpool who claimed the final Europa League slot, by virtue of winning the 2011–12 Football League Cup.^[10]

Elsewhere in the league, QPR avoided relegation, despite losing to Manchester City; Bolton Wanderers could only draw at Stoke City, failing to overtake QPR, and therefore joining Blackburn Rovers and Wolverhampton Wanderers in being relegated to the Championship. For the second time in the Premier League's history, none of the three clubs promoted from the Championship in the previous season were relegated at the end of the season with the other two teams, Swansea City and Norwich City, finishing 11th and 12th respectively. The last time all three newly promoted teams stayed up (2001–02), Blackburn and Bolton were two of those teams.

Liverpool's Luis Suárez was found guilty of racially abusing Manchester United's Patrice Evra and was given an eight-match ban.

Teams

Twenty teams competed in the league – the top seventeen teams from the previous season and the three teams promoted from the Championship. The promoted teams were Queens Park Rangers, Norwich City (returning after a fifteen and six-year absence respectively) and Swansea City (returning to the top flight after twenty-eight years and playing in the Premier League for the first time ever). They replaced Birmingham City, Blackpool and West Ham United, ending their top-flight spells of two, one and six years respectively.

Stadiums and locations

London

Greater Manchester

Aston Villa

Blackburn Rovers

Everton

Liverpool

Newcastle United

Norwich City

Stoke City

Sunderland

Swansea City

West Bromwich Albion

Wolverhampton Wanderers

London teams:
Arsenal
Chelsea
Fulham
Queens Park Rangers
Tottenham Hotspur

Greater Manchester teams:
Bolton Wanderers
Manchester City
Manchester United
Wigan Athletic

Locations of the 2011–12 Premier League teams

Arsenal

Chelsea

Fulham

Queens Park
Rangers

Tottenham
Hotspur

Greater London Premier League football clubs

Bolton Wanderers

Manchester City

Manchester United

Wigan Athletic

Greater Manchester Premier League football clubs

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity[11]
Arsenal	London (Holloway)	Emirates Stadium	7004603610000000000♠60,361
Aston Villa	Birmingham	Villa Park	7004427850000000000♠42,785
Blackburn Rovers	Blackburn	Ewood Park	7004311540000000000♠31,154
Bolton Wanderers	Bolton	Reebok Stadium	7004281000000000000♠28,100
Chelsea	London (Fulham)	Stamford Bridge	7004424490000000000♠42,449
Everton	Liverpool (Walton)	Goodison Park	7004401570000000000♠40,157
Fulham	London (Fulham)	Craven Cottage	7004257000000000000♠25,700
Liverpool	Liverpool (Anfield)	Anfield	7004452760000000000♠45,276
Manchester City	Manchester	City of Manchester Stadium	7004474050000000000♠47,405
Manchester United	Old Trafford	Old Trafford	7004758110000000000♠75,811
Newcastle United	Newcastle upon Tyne	St James' Park	7004524090000000000♠52,409
Norwich City	Norwich	Carrow Road	7004271830000000000♠27,183
Queens Park Rangers	London (Shepherd's Bush)	Loftus Road	7004184390000000000♠18,439
Stoke City	Stoke-on-Trent	Britannia Stadium	7004277400000000000♠27,740
Sunderland	Sunderland	Stadium of Light	7004490000000000000♠49,000
Swansea City	Swansea	Liberty Stadium	7004205200000000000♠20,520
Tottenham Hotspur	London (Tottenham)	White Hart Lane	7004362300000000000♠36,230
West Bromwich Albion	West Bromwich	The Hawthorns	7004278770000000000♠27,877
Wigan Athletic	Wigan	DW Stadium	7004251330000000000♠25,133
Wolverhampton Wanderers	Wolverhampton	Molineux Stadium	7004278280000000000♠27,828[a]

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   ^ Molineux underwent redevelopment during the 2011–12 season. The season began with capacity limited to 24,259, but increased with the opening of the bottom of a two-tier new stand during September 2011.^[12]
   

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer[11]	Shirt sponsor[11]
Arsenal	Arsène Wenger	Robin van Persie	Nike	Emirates
Aston Villa	Alex McLeish	Stiliyan Petrov4	Nike	Genting Casinos
Blackburn Rovers	Steve Kean	Paul Robinson5	Umbro	The Prince's Trust[13]
Bolton Wanderers	Owen Coyle	Kevin Davies	Reebok	188BET
Chelsea	Roberto Di Matteo	John Terry	Adidas	Samsung
Everton	David Moyes	Phil Neville	Le Coq Sportif	Chang Beer
Fulham	Martin Jol	Danny Murphy	Kappa	FxPro
Liverpool	Kenny Dalglish	Steven Gerrard	Adidas	Standard Chartered
Manchester City	Roberto Mancini	Vincent Kompany	Umbro	Etihad Airways
Manchester United	Sir Alex Ferguson	Nemanja Vidić6	Nike	Aon
Newcastle United	Alan Pardew	Fabricio Coloccini	Puma	Northern Rock/Virgin Money1
Norwich City	Paul Lambert	Grant Holt	Erreà	Aviva
Queens Park Rangers	Mark Hughes	Joey Barton	Lotto	No sponsor7/Malaysia Airlines and Air Asia2
Stoke City	Tony Pulis	Ryan Shawcross	Adidas	Britannia
Sunderland	Martin O'Neill	Lee Cattermole	Umbro	Tombola
Swansea City	Brendan Rodgers	Garry Monk	Adidas	32Red
Tottenham Hotspur	Harry Redknapp	Ledley King	Puma	Aurasma3
West Bromwich Albion	Roy Hodgson	Chris Brunt	Adidas	Bodog
Wigan Athletic	Roberto Martínez	Gary Caldwell	MiFit	12BET
Wolverhampton Wanderers	Terry Connor	Roger Johnson	BURRDA	Sportingbet

• ¹ Following Virgin Money's acquisition of Northern Rock on 1 January 2012, Virgin Money started to appear on the team's kits from 4 January 2012.^[14]


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  ² Malaysia Airlines appeared on Queens Park Rangers' home kit, with Air Asia appearing on their two away kits.^[15]
  


• ³ Aurasma is a subsidiary of Autonomy


• ⁴Stiliyan Petrov was Villa's captain until March, when he was diagnosed with acute leukaemia. Gabriel Agbonlahor was handed the captaincy in Petrov's absence.^[16]


• ⁵Chris Samba was previously Blackburn's captain. Following Samba's transfer to Anzhi Makhachkala, Robinson was handed the captaincy.^[17]


• ⁶On 7 December 2011, Vidić twisted his knee during United's Champions League clash at Basel and left the field on a stretcher.^[18] Vidic missed the rest of the season and Patrice Evra assumed the captaincy of Manchester United.^[19]


• ⁷Queens Park Rangers ran sponsorless until 12 September 2011

In addition, Nike had a new design for their match ball (white from August to October and March to May; high-visibility yellow from November through February) called Seitiro, featuring a modified flame design.^[20]

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position at departure	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Chelsea	Carlo Ancelotti	Sacked	22 May 2011[21]	Pre-season	André Villas-Boas	22 June 2011[22]
Aston Villa	Gérard Houllier	Resigned on grounds of ill health	1 June 2011[23]		Alex McLeish	17 June 2011[24]
Fulham	Mark Hughes	Resigned	2 June 2011[25]		Martin Jol	7 June 2011[26]
Sunderland	Steve Bruce	Sacked	30 November 2011[27]	16th	Martin O'Neill	3 December 2011[28]
Queens Park Rangers	Neil Warnock		8 January 2012[29]	17th	Mark Hughes	10 January 2012[30]
Wolverhampton Wanderers	Mick McCarthy		13 February 2012[31]	18th	Terry Connor	24 February 2012[32]
Chelsea	André Villas-Boas		4 March 2012[33]	5th	Roberto Di Matteo	4 March 2012[33]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Manchester City (C)	38	28	5	5	93	29	+64	89	2012–13 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2	Manchester United	38	28	5	5	89	33	+56	89
3	Arsenal	38	21	7	10	74	49	+25	70
4	Tottenham Hotspur	38	20	9	9	66	41	+25	69	2012–13 UEFA Europa League Group stage 1
5	Newcastle United	38	19	8	11	56	51	+5	65	2012–13 UEFA Europa League Play-off round
6	Chelsea	38	18	10	10	65	46	+19	64	2012–13 UEFA Champions League Group stage 1
7	Everton	38	15	11	12	50	40	+10	56
8	Liverpool	38	14	10	14	47	40	+7	52	2012–13 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round 2
9	Fulham	38	14	10	14	48	51	−3	52
10	West Bromwich Albion	38	13	8	17	45	52	−7	47
11	Swansea City	38	12	11	15	44	51	−7	47
12	Norwich City	38	12	11	15	52	66	−14	47
13	Sunderland	38	11	12	15	45	46	−1	45
14	Stoke City	38	11	12	15	36	53	−17	45
15	Wigan Athletic	38	11	10	17	42	62	−20	43
16	Aston Villa	38	7	17	14	37	53	−16	38
17	Queens Park Rangers	38	10	7	21	43	66	−23	37
18	Bolton Wanderers (R)	38	10	6	22	46	77	−31	36	Relegation to 2012–13 Football League Championship
19	Blackburn Rovers (R)	38	8	7	23	48	78	−30	31
20	Wolverhampton Wanderers (R)	38	5	10	23	40	82	−42	25

Source: Premier League
Rules for classification:
1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹Chelsea won the Champions League and thus qualified for the group stage as defending champions, forfeiting their spot in the Europa League as FA Cup winners. This meant that Tottenham were to compete in the Europa League group stage, since, pursuant to the rules in effect at the time, only four clubs from the Premier League could play in the Champions League. Fifth-placed Newcastle United, who originally participated directly in the group stage, were pushed one round back.
²Liverpool won the League Cup and thus qualified for the Europa League third qualifying round.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home Away	ARS	AST	BLB	BOL	CHE	EVE	FUL	LIV	MCI	MUN	NEW	NOR	QPR	STK	SUN	SWA	TOT	WBA	WIG	WOL
Arsenal	—	3–0	7–1	3–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	0–2	1–0	1–2	2–1	3–3	1–0	3–1	2–1	1–0	5–2	3–0	1–2	1–1
Aston Villa	1–2	—	3–1	1–2	2–4	1–1	1–0	0–2	0–1	0–1	1–1	3–2	2–2	1–1	0–0	0–2	1–1	1–2	2–0	0–0
Blackburn Rovers	4–3	1–1	—	1–2	0–1	0–1	3–1	2–3	0–4	0–2	0–2	2–0	3–2	1–2	2–0	4–2	1–2	1–2	0–1	1–2
Bolton Wanderers	0–0	1–2	2–1	—	1–5	0–2	0–3	3–1	2–3	0–5	0–2	1–2	2–1	5–0	0–2	1–1	1–4	2–2	1–2	1–1
Chelsea	3–5	1–3	2–1	3–0	—	3–1	1–1	1–2	2–1	3–3	0–2	3–1	6–1	1–0	1–0	4–1	0–0	2–1	2–1	3–0
Everton	0–1	2–2	1–1	1–2	2–0	—	4–0	0–2	1–0	0–1	3–1	1–1	0–1	0–1	4–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	3–1	2–1
Fulham	2–1	0–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–3	—	1–0	2–2	0–5	5–2	2–1	6–0	2–1	2–1	0–3	1–3	1–1	2–1	5–0
Liverpool	1–2	1–1	1–1	3–1	4–1	3–0	0–1	—	1–1	1–1	3–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–2	2–1
Manchester City	1–0	4–1	3–0	2–0	2–1	2–0	3–0	3–0	—	1–0	3–1	5–1	3–2	3–0	3–3	4–0	3–2	4–0	3–0	3–1
Manchester United	8–2	4–0	2–3	3–0	3–1	4–4	1–0	2–1	1–6	—	1–1	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	3–0	2–0	5–0	4–1
Newcastle United	0–0	2–1	3–1	2–0	0–3	2–1	2–1	2–0	0–2	3–0	—	1–0	1–0	3–0	1–1	0–0	2–2	2–3	1–0	2–2
Norwich City	1–2	2–0	3–3	2–0	0–0	2–2	1–1	0–3	1–6	1–2	4–2	—	2–1	1–1	2–1	3–1	0–2	0–1	1–1	2–1
Queens Park Rangers	2–1	1–1	1–1	0–4	1–0	1–1	0–1	3–2	2–3	0–2	0–0	1–2	—	1–0	2–3	3–0	1–0	1–1	3–1	1–2
Stoke City	1–1	0–0	3–1	2–2	0–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–3	1–0	2–3	—	0–1	2–0	2–1	1–2	2–2	2–1
Sunderland	1–2	2–2	2–1	2–2	1–2	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–1	3–0	3–1	4–0	—	2–0	0–0	2–2	1–2	0–0
Swansea City	3–2	0–0	3–0	3–1	1–1	0–2	2–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–2	2–3	1–1	2–0	0–0	—	1–1	3–0	0–0	4–4
Tottenham Hotspur	2–1	2–0	2–0	3–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	4–0	1–5	1–3	5–0	1–2	3–1	1–1	1–0	3–1	—	1–0	3–1	1–1
West Bromwich Albion	2–3	0–0	3–0	2–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	0–2	0–0	1–2	1–3	1–2	1–0	0–1	4–0	1–2	1–3	—	1–2	2–0
Wigan Athletic	0–4	0–0	3–3	1–3	1–1	1–1	0–2	0–0	0–1	1–0	4–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–4	0–2	1–2	1–1	—	3–2
Wolverhampton Wanderers	0–3	2–3	0–2	2–3	1–2	0–0	2–0	0–3	0–2	0–5	1–2	2–2	0–3	1–2	2–1	2–2	0–2	1–5	3–1	—

Updated to match(es) played on 13 May 2012. Source: Premier League
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Scoring

• First goal of the season: Luis Suárez for Liverpool against Sunderland (13 August 2011)^[34]
  


• Last goal of the season: Sergio Agüero for Manchester City against Queens Park Rangers (13 May 2012).


• Fastest goal of the season: 24 seconds – Andrea Orlandi for Swansea City against Wolverhampton Wanderers (28 April 2012)^[35]
  


• Largest winning margin: 6 goals^[1]
  
  
  • Manchester United 8–2 Arsenal (28 August 2011)
  
  
  • Fulham 6–0 Queens Park Rangers (2 October 2011)
  
  
  • Arsenal 7–1 Blackburn Rovers (4 February 2012)
  
  
  
  


• Highest scoring game: 10 goals^[1]
  • Manchester United 8–2 Arsenal (28 August 2011)
  
  


• Most goals scored in a match by a single team: 8 goals^[1]
  • Manchester United 8–2 Arsenal (28 August 2011)
  
  


• Most goals scored in a match by a losing team: 3 goals^[1]
  
  
  • Blackburn Rovers 4–3 Arsenal (17 September 2011)
  
  
  • Chelsea 3–5 Arsenal (29 October 2011)
  
  
  
  

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[36]
1	Robin van Persie	Arsenal	30
2	Wayne Rooney	Manchester United	27
3	Sergio Agüero	Manchester City	23
4	Clint Dempsey	Fulham	17
	Emmanuel Adebayor	Tottenham Hotspur	17
	Yakubu	Blackburn Rovers	17
7	Demba Ba	Newcastle United	16
8	Grant Holt	Norwich City	15
9	Edin Džeko	Manchester City	14
10	Mario Balotelli	Manchester City	13
	Papiss Cissé	Newcastle United	13

Hat-tricks

Main article: List of Premier League hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Edin Džeko 4	Manchester City	Tottenham Hotspur	5–1[37]	28 August 2011
Wayne Rooney	Manchester United	Arsenal	8–2[38]	28 August 2011
Sergio Agüero	Manchester City	Wigan Athletic	3–0[39]	10 September 2011
Wayne Rooney	Manchester United	Bolton Wanderers	5–0[40]	10 September 2011
Demba Ba	Newcastle United	Blackburn Rovers	3–1[41]	24 September 2011
Frank Lampard	Chelsea	Bolton Wanderers	5–1[42]	2 October 2011
Andrew Johnson	Fulham	Queens Park Rangers	6–0[43]	2 October 2011
Robin van Persie	Arsenal	Chelsea	5–3[44]	29 October 2011
Demba Ba	Newcastle United	Stoke City	3–1[45]	31 October 2011
Yakubu4	Blackburn Rovers	Swansea City	4–2[46]	3 December 2011
Dimitar Berbatov	Manchester United	Wigan Athletic	5–0[47]	26 December 2011
Clint Dempsey	Fulham	Newcastle United	5–2[48]	21 January 2012
Robin van Persie	Arsenal	Blackburn Rovers	7–1[49]	4 February 2012
Peter Odemwingie	West Bromwich Albion	Wolverhampton Wanderers	5–1[50]	12 February 2012
Pavel Pogrebnyak	Fulham	Wolverhampton Wanderers	5–0[51]	4 March 2012
Steven Gerrard	Liverpool	Everton	3–0[52]	13 March 2012
Carlos Tevez	Manchester City	Norwich City	6–1[53]	14 April 2012
Luis Suárez	Liverpool	Norwich City	3–0[54]	28 April 2012
Fernando Torres	Chelsea	Queens Park Rangers	6–1[55]	29 April 2012

• ⁴ Player scored four goals

20,000th goal

On 21 December in a 2–1 loss to Arsenal at Villa Park, Marc Albrighton of Aston Villa was officially credited with the 20,000th goal scored since the formation of the Premier League in 1992. He was given £20,000 from league sponsor Barclays to donate to a charity of his choice. He chose Acorns Children's Hospice, who used to sponsor Aston Villa.^[56]

Clean sheets

• Most clean sheets: 17^[1]
  • Manchester City
  
  


• Fewest clean sheets: 3^[1]
  
  
  • Blackburn Rovers
  
  
  • Bolton Wanderers
  
  
  • Norwich City
  
  
  
  

Discipline

Club

• Worst overall disciplinary record (1 point per yellow card, 2 points per red card):
  
  • Chelsea: 77 points (69 yellow & 4 red cards)^[57]
    
  
  


• Best overall disciplinary record:
  
  • Swansea City: 43 points (39 yellow & 2 red cards)^[57]
    
  
  


• Most yellow cards: 69^[57]
  • Chelsea
  
  


• Most red cards: 9^[58]
  • Queens Park Rangers
  
  

Player

• Most yellow cards: 10^[58]
  
  
  • 
    Joey Barton (Queens Park Rangers)
  
  
  • 
    Lee Cattermole (Sunderland)
  
  
  • 
    Jason Lowe (Blackburn Rovers)
  
  
  • 
    Alex Song (Arsenal)
  
  
  
  


• Most red cards: 2^[58]
  
  
  • 
    Mario Balotelli (Manchester City)
  
  
  • 
    Joey Barton (Queens Park Rangers)
  
  
  • 
    Djibril Cissé (Queens Park Rangers)
  
  
  • 
    David Wheater (Bolton Wanderers)
  
  
  
  

¹ Retrospectively suspended for three matches, using video evidence.^[59]

Awards

Monthly awards

Month	Manager of the Month		Player of the Month
	Manager	Club	Player	Club
August[60][61]	Sir Alex Ferguson	Manchester United	Edin Džeko	Manchester City
September[62][63]	Harry Redknapp	Tottenham Hotspur	David Silva	Manchester City
October[64]	Roberto Mancini	Manchester City	Robin van Persie	Arsenal
November[65]	Harry Redknapp	Tottenham Hotspur	Scott Parker	Tottenham Hotspur
December[66]	Martin O'Neill	Sunderland	Demba Ba	Newcastle United
January[67][68]	Brendan Rodgers	Swansea City	Gareth Bale	Tottenham Hotspur
February[69]	Arsène Wenger	Arsenal	Peter Odemwingie	West Bromwich Albion
March[70][71]	Owen Coyle	Bolton Wanderers	Gylfi Sigurðsson	Swansea City
April[72]	Roberto Martínez	Wigan Athletic	Nikica Jelavić	Everton

Annual awards

Premier League Manager of the Season

Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew, 50, received the Premier League Manager of the Season.^[73] Pardew was the first Newcastle manager to receive the award, and only the second Englishman after Harry Redknapp to do so.

Premier League Player of the Season

The Premier League Player of the Season award was won by Vincent Kompany of Manchester City.^[73]

Premier League Goal of the season

The Goal of the Season award was given to Papiss Cissé of Newcastle United for his second goal in their 2–0 victory against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on 28 April, becoming the first player for the club to win the award since its inception.

PFA Players' Player of the Year

The PFA Players' Player of the Year was awarded to Robin van Persie.^[74]

PFA Team of the Year

Hart Walker Kompany Coloccini Baines Silva Touré Parker Bale Van Persie Rooney PFA Team of the Year[75]

Goalkeeper: Joe Hart (Manchester City)
Defence: Kyle Walker (Tottenham Hotspur), Vincent Kompany (Manchester City), Fabricio Coloccini (Newcastle United), Leighton Baines (Everton)
Midfield: David Silva, Yaya Touré (both Manchester City), Scott Parker, Gareth Bale (both Tottenham Hotspur)
Attack: Robin van Persie (Arsenal), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United)

PFA Young Player of the Year

The PFA Young Player of the Year was awarded to Kyle Walker.^[76]

FWA Footballer of the Year

The FWA Footballer of the Year was also awarded to Robin van Persie.^[77]

Premier League Golden Boot

The Premier League Golden Boot award went to Robin van Persie, who scored 30 goals throughout the season.

Premier League Golden Glove

The Premier League Golden Glove award was won by Joe Hart of Manchester City, who achieved 17 clean sheets.

Premier League Fair Play Award

Swansea City won the Premier League Fair Play Award after finishing the 2011–12 Premier League top of the Fair Play Table. The award for best behaved fans went to Norwich.^[78]

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