The biggest Premier League comebacks and collapses, 1992-93 to 2025-26
The deepest hole a Premier League winner has climbed out of is 13 points: Arsenal sat that far behind in the 1997-98 English Premier League on December 21, 1997, and won it by 1 point. The biggest lead lost: Newcastle United led the 1995-96 English Premier League by 12 points as late as January 22, 1996, and finished behind Manchester United. Every charted race since 1992-93 is ranked below; how the numbers are read is spelled out under the lists.
With four charted days left to play, Manchester City took first place in the 2013-14 English Premier League race for good on May 7, 2014, having led on 15 of the race's 268 charted days.
With five charted days left to play, Manchester City took first place in the 2023-24 English Premier League race for good on May 14, 2024, having led on 78 of the race's 283 charted days.
With six charted days left to play, Manchester City took first place in the 2018-19 English Premier League race for good on May 6, 2019, having led on 125 of the race's 276 charted days.
With seven charted days left to play, Manchester United took first place in the 1998-99 English Premier League race for good on May 9, 1999, having led on 93 of the race's 275 charted days.
With 13 charted days left to play, Manchester City took first place in the 2011-12 English Premier League race for good on April 30, 2012, having led on 174 of the race's 275 charted days.
With 14 charted days left to play, Manchester United took first place in the 2008-09 English Premier League race for good on May 10, 2009, having led on 124 of the race's 282 charted days.
With 14 charted days left to play, Manchester City took first place in the 2021-22 English Premier League race for good on May 8, 2022, having led on 168 of the race's 283 charted days.
With 14 charted days left to play, Chelsea took first place in the 2009-10 English Premier League race for good on April 25, 2010, having led on 204 of the race's 268 charted days.
With 20 charted days left to play, Arsenal took first place in the 2001-02 English Premier League race for good on April 21, 2002, having led on 47 of the race's 267 charted days.
With 22 charted days left to play, Arsenal took first place in the 1997-98 English Premier League race for good on April 18, 1998, having led on 56 of the race's 275 charted days.
How these lists are ranked
Everything on this page comes from the same season files the charts draw, with standings read as each day ended. All 34 charted Premier League races from 34 finished seasons enter: every title race from 1992-93 to 2025-26. Wild card races are not ranked; their story is the playoff cutoff, not first place. The 2026-27 season joins these lists when it ends. A team's comeback or collapse is counted once per season, at its deepest, whichever of its charted races it came in.
Biggest comebacks: the deepest deficit the eventual winner faced at the end of a charted day, in points behind that day's leader, dated to the first day it reached that depth. These are the same numbers the turning points on each race page state.
Biggest collapses: the largest lead over second place held at the end of a charted day by a team that did not finish first, dated to the last day the team still held that full lead. A comeback and a collapse read the same race from opposite ends, so they can disagree about one summer.
Latest deciding day ranks winners by how few charted days remained when they took first place for good, which is the day after the last one the winner ended behind or level with another club: a day it only shared the top is not a day it held first place for good, so a late tie pushes the date later. Races whose top two the standings cannot separate appear on none of these lists: the data cannot name a winner. Only finished seasons are ranked; every irregularity in the record is listed in the data notes.