Statistics behind Liverpool PL win & some of the records they could still smash

Liverpool finally ended 30 years of pain when they were crowned Premier League champions on Thursday night.

Manchester City's defeat to Chelsea confirmed the Reds' long wait was over as they sealed their 19th league title and first since the 1989-90 season - before the advent of the Premier League.

Jordan Henderson and the rest of the Liverpool squad gathered together to watch the Chelsea-City match on television and the celebrations lasted until the early hours of Friday morning.

The Reds are now 23 points clear of closest challengers City with seven matches to go. The Reds have chalked up an astonishing 28 wins, two draws and only one defeat from their 31 matches so far this campaign, just some of the astonishing figures Liverpool have put up this season.

Sportsmail has collated some of the sublime statistics that have helped Liverpool climb back to the summit of English football

Worth the wait!

7 - Liverpool's title win is both the earliest (with seven games remaining) and the latest (by date - June 25th) in top-flight history.

The pandemic and three-month hiatus made sure that this will likely be a popular pub quiz question for years to come.

Sharing the load

Liverpool have scored 70 goals in their 31 games league games so far, with 16 players chipping in (plus two own goals...).

Mohamed Salah remains in contention for the Golden Boot where he currently trails current top scorer Jamie Vardy by two.

Talisman Trent

At just 21, Trent Alexander-Arnold is No 1 in the league this season in all of these categories:

The longest drought

This is the longest the Reds have gone between league title victories...

In the 30 years prior to 1990, Liverpool won the league title 13 times.

Their Premier League title win also means Liverpool have reclaimed the title as England's most successful club team from rivals Manchester United.

Three decades of stars

Liverpool have used 238 different players across 1,149 top-flight games since winning their last league title in 1990.

These men led the way for the last 30 years:

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The seven other teams to win a league title since 1990 are:

Where were they then? April 28, 1990 - When Liverpool last won the title

Only 5 members of Jurgen Klopp's squad had been born. Adrian, Andy Lonergan, Dejan Lovren, James Milner and Adam Lallana.

Klopp was a 22-year-old striker at Rot-Weiss Frankfurt and was finalising a move to Mainz, beginning an 18-year affiliation with the club which includes seven seasons as a manager.

Owner John W Henry had just failed in his first attempt to buy a sports team, the NBA's Orlando Magic. Henry had to wait another eight years to make his first outright purchase - baseball's Florida Marlins in 1999 for $158million (then £98m).

Neil Critchley, who took charge of two Carabao Cup matches in Klopp's absence this season before taking over the head coach role at Blackpool, was just 11-years-old. Klopp's assistant Pep Lijnders was seven.

Records still to break this season...