Yes. Once. Just the one time in the history of English football.
Manchester City hit 100 points in the 2017-18 season, and to this day, nobody else has come within touching distance. They call that squad "the Centurions" and honestly, the name fits. What Pep Guardiola's lot did that year wasn't just winning a league title - it was putting everyone else to shame.
How City got to 100
Here's the thing about that final point. City went into the last day of the season sitting on 97. They'd already wrapped up the title weeks earlier, beating every other side in the division at least once. But Guardiola being Guardiola, he wanted the ton.
Southampton away. St Mary's bathed in May sunshine. The match was a proper slog - 0-0 deep into stoppage time. Wesley Hoedt had hit the bar for the Saints. Raheem Sterling rattled the woodwork. It looked like City would fall agonisingly short.
Then, 94th minute. Kevin De Bruyne floated one over the Southampton defence, Gabriel Jesus ran onto it, and chipped Alex McCarthy with the coolness of a man ordering a pint. Guardiola sprinted onto the pitch like he'd scored it himself.
"100 points - 50 points at home and 50 points away. It's massive," Guardiola said afterwards, barely containing himself. "You cannot imagine. The record will be broken but it will be difficult."
Nearly eight years on, he's still right about that last bit.
The numbers that made the Centurions
Look, I've covered English football for three decades. I've seen title-winning sides come and go. But the stats from 2017-18 are genuinely obscene:
- 100 points - five more than Chelsea's previous record of 95 set in 2004-05
- 32 wins - more than any team in English top-flight history
- 106 goals - breaking Chelsea's Premier League record of 103
- +79 goal difference - eight better than the old record
- 19-point winning margin - absolutely humiliating for everyone else
- 18 consecutive league wins - a run that stretched from late August to late December
City were only behind in matches for 153 minutes across the entire campaign. Let that sink in. 38 games, and they spent roughly two and a half hours chasing the game. That's it.
The players who made it happen
De Bruyne ran the show. 16 assists in the league - more than anyone else - and performances that had rival fans wondering what he'd look like in their colours. Sergio Aguero bagged 30 goals in all competitions despite sharing minutes with Gabriel Jesus. David Silva orchestrated everything with that quiet brilliance of his.
And Vincent Kompany marshalled a defence that conceded just 27 league goals. The Belgian would later describe that season as the foundation for everything City achieved after.
Phil Foden was there too, picking up a medal at 17 years and 350 days old - the youngest Premier League champion ever. Barely old enough to buy a pint, already a centurion.
Who came closest since?
Liverpool fell one point short in 2019-20. One. Ninety-nine points, 32 wins to match City's record, and Anfield going absolutely mental when they finally won the title after 30 years. But that final point eluded them.
Before that, Liverpool pushed City all the way in 2018-19, finishing on 97 points - enough to win the league in any other season. Except City matched them stride for stride and finished on 98.
Chelsea had held the record at 95 points since José Mourinho's first title in 2004-05. Nobody at Stamford Bridge saw City coming.
Will anyone do it again?
Guardiola himself reckons we won't see it in his lifetime. "No other team is going to win four straight Premier League titles and hit 100 points," he said back in February 2025 when Liverpool were chasing another title.
Maybe that's the point. The 2017-18 season wasn't just about talent or money or tactics. It was about everything clicking at exactly the right moment - De Bruyne at his devastating best, a squad with no weak links, and a manager obsessed with perfection.
The streets of Manchester turned blue on that May Monday when the open-top bus parade wound through Deansgate. Tens of thousands packed the route to celebrate with Guardiola's centurions. They knew they'd witnessed something that might never happen again.
So yes, someone has got 100 points in the Premier League. Exactly one team, one time, under one manager. And until someone proves otherwise, the Centurions stand alone.
