The Premier League, often referred to as the English Premier League or the EPL, is the top level of the English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Football League. Seasons run from August to May with each team playing 38 matches.
Premier League: Top Scorers| 2021| Standings| Results
Top Scorers:
The Premier League ranks first in the UEFA coefficients of leagues based on performances in European competitions over the past five seasons as of 2021. The English top-flight has produced the second-highest number of UEFA Champions League/European Cup titles, with five English clubs having won fourteen European trophies in total.
| Rank | Player | Stat |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alan Shearer | 260 |
| 2 | Wayne Rooney | 208 |
| 3 | Andrew Cole | 187 |
| 4 | Sergio Agüero | 184 |
The race for the Premier League Golden Boot is typically competitive, with some of the best attackers in world football playing in the division.
A haul of over 20 goals is usually required to come out on top and there are plenty of candidates in the mix this season.
Goal is compiling the individual goal tallies for the highest-scoring Premier League players this season and you can check it out below.
2021:
Harry Kane won the Golden Boot after snatching a goal on the final day of the season against Leicester. He beats Mohamed Salah by a single goal.
The former England international finished marginally ahead of Arsenal’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Southampton’s Danny Ings, who each struck 22 times for their club.
Manchester City winger Raheem Sterling followed with 20 goals, with Salah, Kane and Sadio Mane among the chasing pack.
Standings:
| Team | P | W | D | L | +/- | PTS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BRE | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 3 | |
| 2 | AVL | None | 0 | 0 | None | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | BHA | 0 | 0 | None | 0 | None | 0 | |
| 4 | BRN | None | 0 | 0 | None | 0 | 0 | |
| 5 | CHE | 0 | 0 | None | 0 | None | 0 |
The Premier League is the most-watched sports league in the world, broadcast in 212 territories to 643 million homes and a potential TV audience of 4.7 billion people.
The English top-flight has produced the second-highest number of UEFA Champions League/European Cup titles, with five English clubs having won fourteen European trophies in total.
Results:
Brentford beat Arsenal by 2-0 in a very interesting match.
The competition was founded as the FA Premier League on 20 February 1992 following the decision of clubs in the Football League First Division to break away from the Football League, founded in 1888, and take advantage of a lucrative television rights deal
