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The '''2022–23 Premier League''' was the 31st season of the [[Premier League]] and the 124th season of top-flight English football overall. [[Fulham F.C.|Fulham]], [[AFC Bournemouth|Bournemouth]] and [[Nottingham Forest F.C.|Nottingham Forest]] were the three promoted clubs from the [[2021–22 EFL Championship]], replacing [[Burnley F.C.|Burnley]], [[Watford F.C.|Watford]] and [[Norwich City F.C.|Norwich City]].
Following [[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal]]'s defeat to Nottingham Forest on 20 May, [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]] officially secured a [[Three-peat|third consecutive]] Premier League title with three games to spare, becoming the second club after local rivals [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] to achieve the feat in the Premier League era. It was their ninth English title overall and their seventh since 1992.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.premierleague.com/news/3446899|title=Man City are 2022/23 champions after Arsenal defeat|publisher=Premier League|date=20 May 2023|access-date=20 May 2023}}</ref> Meanwhile, Arsenal broke the record of spending the greatest number of days, with 248, on top of the league in a top flight season without winning the title in English top flight history.<ref>{{
This season was also the first since [[2017–18 Premier League|2017–18]], and only the fourth Premier League season overall, where all three promoted teams at the start of the season avoided relegation.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.premierleague.com/news/3447125|title=Nottingham Forest secure Premier League safety|date=20 May 2023|access-date=20 May 2023}}</ref> This was also the first time since [[2014–15 Premier League|2014–15]] that the team 20th at Christmas ([[Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.|Wolverhampton Wanderers]]), managed to avoid relegation.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/wolves-julen-lopetegui-premier-league-29923302.amp |title=Inside Julen Lopetegui's Wolves revival as Premier League survival officially secured|publisher=The Mirror|first=Ben|last=Husband|date=8 May 2023|access-date=30 May 2023}}</ref>
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The 2022–23 season was the highest-scoring 38-game season in Premier League history, with 1,084 goals (with a 2.85 goals per match ratio, the best in the history of Premier League).<ref>{{cite news |title=Record set for goals in a Premier League season |url=https://www.premierleague.com/news/3490140 |publisher=Premier League |date=28 May 2023}}</ref> [[Erling Haaland]] broke the Premier League record for most goals scored by a player in one season with 36 goals.<ref>{{cite news |title=Haaland claims 2022/23 Golden Boot |url=https://www.premierleague.com/news/3486228 |publisher=Premier League |date=28 May 2023}}</ref>
It was also the second Premier League season in a row where over 15 millions fans attended matches and with total of 15,289,340 spectators a new competition record was set.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/premier-league-attendances-at-record-high-as-crowds-swell-across-the-pyramid-6nm7t8fn0 |title=Premier League attendances at record high as crowds swell across the pyramid |
==Season summary==
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