The 2025 calendar year delivers standout stories across Europe’s top five leagues, from record forwards to dominant champions. Using Opta data, the picture shows Arne Slot, Vincent Kompany, Hansi Flick
and Antonio Conte all winning league titles in their first full seasons, while Luis Enrique secures another treble with Paris Saint-Germain as 2026 approaches.
Across England, Germany, France, Spain and Italy, both established stars and emerging players hit new levels. League races stay competitive through the second half of 2025, yet several teams and individuals separate themselves through historic numbers, decisive goals and consistent performances that shaped every major competition.
Paris Saint-Germain complete a treble in 2024-25 that changes the scale of their recent dominance. PSG set a new points record for an 18-team Ligue 1 season with 84 points and also post the best points-per-game figure, 2.5, across Europe’s top five leagues during that campaign.
PSG’s honours list for 2025 stretches across every competition. The club add the Champions League, Ligue 1, Coupe de France, Super Cup, Trophee des Champions and Intercontinental Cup. That achievement makes PSG only the second top-flight European side to lift six trophies within a single year, matching Barcelona’s 2009 benchmark.
In Spain, the spotlight falls on Real Madrid and Kylian Mbappe rather than Hansi Flick’s Barcelona. Mbappe scores 59 goals in all competitions in 2025, equalling Ronaldo’s club record from 2013 and instantly establishing Mbappe among Real Madrid’s most prolific forwards across any era.
Mbappe’s first campaign brings another landmark. With 43 goals in all competitions during 2024-25, Mbappe becomes Real Madrid’s top scorer for a debut season. Barcelona still impress in attack under Hansi Flick, striking 169 goals in 60 games without Lionel Messi, but Mbappe’s output defines LaLiga’s narrative.
Premier League records drive Europe's top five leagues
The Premier League’s individual storylines revolve around Mohamed Salah and Erling Haaland, who deliver historic numbers. Salah ends the 2024-25 season with 47 goal involvements, from 29 goals and 18 assists, which equals the all-time Premier League record shared by Andrew Cole and Alan Shearer.
Salah then moves clear of Wayne Rooney in another major category. A few weeks later, Salah reaches 277 goal involvements for Liverpool in the competition, split between 188 goals and 89 assists. This becomes the highest total for contributions with a single Premier League club in league history.
Haaland also redefines scoring standards in England. The Norwegian reaches 100 Premier League goals in only 111 appearances, which is faster than any previous player. Haaland also records 200 goal involvements in Europe’s top five leagues from 165 matches, doing so more quickly than Kylian Mbappe, Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi.
Beyond those headline acts, the wider Premier League landscape remains fluid during 2025. Certain teams surge at different points, while others struggle for consistency. Yet when the year’s data is reviewed, Salah and Haaland dominate almost every attacking metric and shape most title and top-four discussions.
Bundesliga dominance in Europe's top five leagues
In Germany, Bayern Munich control the Bundesliga across the entire year. Bayern sit top of the league after every single matchday in 2025, covering all 34 rounds. No previous Bundesliga team has finished first on the table at the end of every matchday throughout a calendar year.
Bayern’s attack proves relentless, delivering 107 league goals, the highest tally in Europe’s top-five leagues. Harry Kane sits at the centre of that output. Kane scores 51 goals in all competitions during 2025 among Bundesliga players, a figure only bettered by Robert Lewandowski’s 58 in 2021.
Kane also hits a special efficiency landmark. The England captain reaches 100 Bundesliga goal involvements in just his 78th league appearance, which is the quickest any player has achieved that total since Opta began collecting such data for the competition in the 2004-05 season.
Serie A surprises influence Europe's top five leagues
Serie A provides one of 2025’s more unusual title stories. Antonio Conte leads Napoli to the 2024-25 Scudetto on the final day, collecting 82 points, which is the joint-lowest haul by Italian champions in a 20-team, three-points-per-win campaign since that system was introduced.
Napoli’s rise is especially striking given the previous year. They become the first club in a 20-team Serie A to win the title after finishing as low as 10th the season before, surpassing Conte’s Juventus side from 2011-12, which climbed from seventh place to champions during that earlier turnaround.
Scott McTominay plays a key role in Conte’s system. McTominay records 16 goal involvements, with 12 goals and four assists, matching the best figures for a debut Serie A season. Inter remain strong rivals during 2025, helped by Lautaro Martinez’s 15 league goals, which tie Riccardo Orsolini for the year’s highest tally.
Alongside these league stories, the year also belongs to emerging talent. Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal becomes one of only two players in Europe’s top five leagues to combine at least 20 goals and 20 assists in all competitions, with 21 of each. The other player to match that dual-threat output is Michael Olise.
Across Europe’s top leagues in 2025, new champions, record-breaking forwards and tactical shifts all leave clear evidence in Opta’s numbers. With Salah, Haaland, Mbappe, Kane and Conte’s Napoli shaping their competitions, the leading domestic races enter 2026 with established stars in form and several clubs already setting high benchmarks.
