This season’s Premier League top four have all demonstrated potential title-winning credentials up to this point, and combining their points total after 10 games results in the second-highest tally at this stage of this season.
2023/24 Premier League Top Four Have Second-Highest Combined Points After 10 Games
League leaders Tottenham sit atop the Premier League as we head into week 11, but they are being hounded by the leading pack who are breathing down their necks, ready to pounce at a chance to snatch top spot.
Just three points separates fourth-placed Liverpool and leaders Spurs, with last season’s champions and three-peat chasers Manchester City sandwiched in between along with runners-up Arsenal.
This season’s early leaders have amassed the second-most most points ever as a top four collective, with 2018/2019’s tally managing to hold onto the record, albeit by a solitary point.
Combine all their points and you get 97, so let’s compare that with recent seasons that have resulted in high totals.
2022/23 After 10 Games
1. Arsenal – 27
2. Manchester City – 26
3. Tottenham – 20
4. Brighton – 20
It is testament to the competitiveness of this season’s cohort that even unbeaten leaders Tottenham haven’t managed to reach Arsenal’s leading total of 27 – the sixth-best record after 10 games by a single team.
It is interesting to note that the recent trend of the Premier League being ultra-competitive has been evident over the past two years, with 2022/23’s top four total of 93 among the highest totals.
Points total: 93
2021/22 After 10 Games
1. Chelsea – 25
2. Liverpool – 22
3. Manchester City – 20
4. West Ham – 20
Points Total: 87
2018/2019 After 10 Games
1. Manchester City – 26
2. Liverpool – 26
3. Chelsea – 24
4. Arsenal – 22
If it wasn’t for 2018/19’s collective high-flyers, this season would’ve ranked comfortably at the summit for the most points after 10 games.
This particular campaign serves as a stark reminder of the false sense of hysteria an explosive start can spark. Manchester City and Liverpool would go on to finish on 98 and 97 points respectively.
As for Chelsea and Arsenal, who were firmly in the leading pack after 10 games, they finished 25+ points behind the top two.
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