Manchester City claimed the league title on the last day of the season with a 4–1 win at
Brighton & Hove Albion, finishing on 98 points after a run of 14 straight wins.
Liverpool held a 7-point lead over Manchester City on 3 January, but finished runners-up with 97 points – the fourth highest total in Premier League history and the highest in English top-flight history for a second-placed team, having lost only one league match all season – to eventual champions City.
Chelsea and
Tottenham Hotspur claimed the other two Champions League berths, finishing in third and fourth place respectively. Tottenham were in third place for much of the season and were considered potential title challengers until a 1–2 loss to
Burnley in February. Chelsea would go on to win the season's
UEFA Europa League, defeating
Arsenal in the final 4–1. Arsenal had gone on a fourteen-game unbeaten run near the start of the season and began April in third place, but a run of four points in six matches saw them drop to fifth place, finishing outside of the Champions League spots.
Manchester United's worst start to the season for 28 years and 3–1 loss to Liverpool led to the sacking of manager
José Mourinho in December, with former player
Ole Gunnar Solskjær replacing him, initially as a caretaker. Solskjær was appointed permanently after an impressive run of results which culminated in United's away goals victory over
Paris Saint-Germain in the
UEFA Champions League, but the team's poor form soon returned, and they eventually finished sixth after the team had won none of their final five league matches. Newly promoted
Wolverhampton Wanderers achieved their highest finish since 1980 by finishing seventh, having taken points off every team in the league except Liverpool and
Huddersfield Town. Their seventh-place finish was the highest for a newly promoted team since
Ipswich Town finished 5th in the
2000–01 season. Huddersfield were the first team to be relegated, following their 0–2 defeat at
Crystal Palace on 30 March 2019, coinciding with victories for
Burnley and
Southampton. They were relegated with six games remaining. This made Huddersfield the second team in Premier League history to be relegated before March ended, following
Derby County in
2007–08. Fulham joined them after a 1–4 defeat at
Watford on 2 April, relegated with five games remaining.
Cardiff City were the final team to be relegated following a 2–3 loss at home to Crystal Palace on 4 May with one game remaining. The fastest goal in Premier League history was scored this season on 23 April by
Shane Long in a 1–1 draw between his side
Southampton and
Watford after 7.69 seconds. On 4 May 2019, Fulham's
Harvey Elliott became the youngest ever Premier League player at 16 years and 30 days. Tottenham Hotspur had a run of 28 games without a draw (20 wins, 8 losses), the longest ever recorded from the start of a Premier League season. Manchester City finished the season without a draw in any of their final
30 matches. The season saw two aviation incidents involving Premier League personnel. On 27 October 2018,
Leicester City owner
Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha was killed in a
helicopter crash outside the
King Power Stadium, shortly after a 1–1 home draw against
West Ham United. Almost three months later, on 21 January 2019, Cardiff City player
Emiliano Sala, en route to join the club following
his record signing from
Nantes, died on board a Piper PA-46 Malibu aircraft that
crashed off
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