The 2011–12 Premier League ( known as the Barclays Premier League for sponsorship reasons ) was the twentieth season of the Premier League since its constitution 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 base Premier League success, making them the one-fifth club to win the Premier League in its 20-year history. [ 3 ] City finished level on 89 points with Manchester United, but their finish dispute was eight better than their local rivals ‘, making it the lone 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 runner-up Norwich City gained automatic promotion whilst Swansea City gained promotion through the Football League Championship play-offs beat Reading 4–2 in May 2011, becoming the first non-English team to play in the Premier League. All three promoted clubs avoided delegating for the first fourth dimension since the 2001–02 campaign. The season was voted as the greatest Premier League season in the Premier League 20 Seasons Awards. [ 4 ]
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Season compendious [edit ]
Manchester City won the style in a tense finale, their beginning championship since 1968. City ‘s local rivals Manchester United were the early pace-setters, leading the board until October when they drew at Liverpool allowing Manchester City to overtake them. The pursue 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 go narrowed, but City remained in front until March, when a frustration at Swansea City saw them drop behind United. City ‘s bad kind continued for the future month while United went on a fetching scat, so that with six matches remaining United were eight points ahead of City and the title apparently decided. however, United then faltered with a get the better of and a draw in their future three 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 remainder. Both sides won their penultimate matches to maintain the condition quo. Going into the concluding matches, which were played simultaneously, City were top of the league, ahead of Manchester United on finish dispute. however, a Wayne Rooney goal away to Sunderland gave United the advantage. A 39th-minute goal from Pablo Zabaleta, his beginning of the season, put City back on acme 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 numeric advantage, City went behind after Jamie Mackie gave QPR the leave in the 66th hour. 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 potential trophy presentation, Manchester City ‘s Sergio Agüero scored the game winner in the 94th hour to clinch the title on goal remainder. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The 6–1 loss was tied more crucial 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, acquire record, etc. ) which by Premier League rules would have meant a play-off plot at a impersonal ground to decide the title. [ 7 ] For most of the season, Tottenham Hotspur were in third base target, 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 base to join Manchester City and Manchester United in the UEFA Champions League, [ 8 ] Arsenal completed a solid recovery from a black originate to the season including their 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 rate team that would otherwise qualify for the rival through league position. This was the first meter that this principle had been implemented in the Premier League, having been introduced by UEFA after Liverpool ‘s controversial reservation for the 2005–06 UEFA Champions League. This consequently marked the foremost 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, equitable above local rivals Liverpool. Despite finishing above them for the first meter in seven years, it was Liverpool who claimed the final Europa League time slot, by virtue of winning the 2011–12 Football League Cup. [ 10 ] elsewhere in the league, QPR avoided delegating, despite losing to Manchester City ; Bolton Wanderers could merely draw at Stoke City, failing to overtake QPR, and consequently joining Blackburn Rovers and Wolverhampton Wanderers in being relegated to the Championship. For the irregular 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 temper with the other two teams, Swansea City and Norwich City, finishing 11th and 12th respectively. The survive 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 [edit ]
Twenty teams competed in the league – the top seventeen teams from the previous season and the three teams promoted from the Championship. The promote teams were Queens Park Rangers, Norwich City and Swansea City, returning to the top flight after absences of fifteen, six and twenty-eight years respectively. This was besides Swansea City ‘s beginning temper in the Premier League. They replaced Birmingham City, Blackpool and West Ham United, ending their top-flight spells of two, one and six years respectively. This was the first season in the Premier League era where a Welsh team competed and the first season where a Welsh team competed in the top flight of English football since the 1982–83 temper .
Stadiums and locations [edit ]
- ^[12] Molineux undergo renovation during the 2011–12 season. The season began with capacity limited to 24,259, but increased with the open of the buttocks of a two-tier fresh stand during September 2011 .
Personnel and kits [edit ]
note : Flags indicate home team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
- 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]
- 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] Vidić missed the rest of the season and Patrice Evra assumed the captaincy of Manchester United.[19]
- 7 Queens 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 scandalmongering from November through February ) called Seitiro, featuring a change flame design. [ 20 ]
managerial changes [edit ]
League table [edit ]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
( C ) Champion; ( r ) Relegated
Notes: source : Premier League Rules for categorization : 1 ) points ; 2 ) goal dispute ; 3 ) issue of goals scored.Champion ; RelegatedNotes :
Results [edit ]
Season statistics [edit ]
Scoring [edit ]
- 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)
acme scorers [edit ]
| Player | For | Against | Result | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Manchester City | Tottenham Hotspur | 5–1[37] | 28 August 2011 |
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Manchester United | Arsenal | 8–2[38] | 28 August 2011 |
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Manchester City | Wigan Athletic | 3–0[39] | 10 September 2011 |
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Manchester United | Bolton Wanderers | 5–0[40] | 10 September 2011 |
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Newcastle United | Blackburn Rovers | 3–1[41] | 24 September 2011 |
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Chelsea | Bolton Wanderers | 5–1[42] | 2 October 2011 |
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Fulham | Queens Park Rangers | 6–0[43] | 2 October 2011 |
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Arsenal | Chelsea | 5–3[44] | 29 October 2011 |
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Newcastle United | Stoke City | 3–1[45] | 31 October 2011 |
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Blackburn Rovers | Swansea City | 4–2[46] | 3 December 2011 |
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Manchester United | Wigan Athletic | 5–0[47] | 26 December 2011 |
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Fulham | Newcastle United | 5–2[48] | 21 January 2012 |
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Arsenal | Blackburn Rovers | 7–1[49] | 4 February 2012 |
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West Bromwich Albion | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 5–1[50] | 12 February 2012 |
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Fulham | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 5–0[51] | 4 March 2012 |
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Liverpool | Everton | 3–0[52] | 13 March 2012 |
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Manchester City | Norwich City | 6–1[53] | 14 April 2012 |
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Liverpool | Norwich City | 3–0[54] | 28 April 2012 |
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Chelsea | Queens Park Rangers | 6–1[55] | 29 April 2012 |
- 4 Player scored four goals
20,000th goal [edit ]
On 21 December in a 2–1 loss to Arsenal at Villa Park, Marc Albrighton of Aston Villa was formally credited with the 20,000th finish scored since the formation of the Premier League in 1992. He was given £20,000 from league patronize Barclays to donate to a charity of his choice. He chose Acorns Children ‘s Hospice, who used to sponsor Aston Villa. [ 56 ]
clean sheets [edit ]
- Most clean sheets: 17[1]
- Manchester City
- Fewest clean sheets: 3[1]
- Blackburn Rovers
- Bolton Wanderers
- Norwich City
discipline [edit ]
club [edit ]
- 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 [edit ]
Awards [edit ]
monthly awards [edit ]
annual awards [edit ]
Premier League Manager of the Season [edit ]
newcastle United director Alan Pardew, 50, received the Premier League Manager of the Season. [ 72 ] Pardew was the inaugural Newcastle coach to receive the prize, and only the irregular Englishman after Harry Redknapp to do so .
Premier League Player of the Season [edit ]
The Premier League Player of the Season award was won by Vincent Kompany of Manchester City. [ 72 ]
Premier League Goal of the season [edit ]
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 prize since its origin .
PFA Players ‘ Player of the year [edit ]
The PFA Players ‘ Player of the year was awarded to Robin van Persie. [ 73 ]
PFA Team of the class [edit ]
PFA Young Player of the year [edit ]
The PFA Young Player of the year was awarded to Kyle Walker. [ 75 ]
The FWA Footballer of the year was besides awarded to Robin vanguard Persie. [ 76 ]
Premier League Golden Boot [edit ]
The Premier League Golden Boot prize went to Robin van Persie, who scored 30 goals .
Premier League Golden Glove [edit ]
The Premier League Golden Glove award was won by Joe Hart of Manchester City, who achieved 17 blank sheets .
Premier League Fair Play Award [edit ]
Swansea City won the Premier League Fair Play Award after finishing the 2011–12 Premier League top of the Fair Play Table. The prize for best behaved fans went to Norwich. [ 77 ]
References [edit ]
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