Arsenal's Thierry Henry has once again finished as the English Premier League top scorer with 25 goals.

The Frenchman has won the Premier Golden Boot for the third time in four seasons.

Alan Shearer is the only other forward to claim the leading marksman prize for three seasons in the history of the Premiership as list below denotes:

2004-05 Henry (Arsenal) - 25

2003-04 Henry (Arsenal) - 30

2002-03 Van Nistelrooy (Man. Utd) - 25

2001-02 Henry (Arsenal) - 24

2000-01 Hasselbaink (Chelsea) - 23

1999-00 Phillips (Sunderland) - 30

1998-99 Hasselbaink (Leeds), Owen (Liverpool), Yorke (Man. Utd) - 18

1997-98 Sutton (Blackburn), Dublin (Coventry), Owen (Liverpool) - 18

1996-97 Shearer (Newcastle) - 25

1995-96 Shearer (Blackburn) - 31

1994-95 Shearer (Blackburn) - 34

1993-94 Cole (Newcastle) - 34

1992-93 Sheringham (Tottenham) - 22

Other events, records for 2004-05 read:

¤ The 1-2 upset to Chelsea in the League Cup at Old Trafford dents Manchester United's record of never losing a domestic semi-final during Sir Alex Ferguson's 19-year reign.

¤ At Easter Road Motherwell topple Hearts 3-2 to reach the League Cup final for the first time since 1955.

¤ Rangers defeat Dundee United 7-1 at Hampden Park to chalk up a record 30th League Cup final appearance.

¤ At Highbury, Manchester United beat Arsenal 4-2 to halt the Gunners' significant home record of 43 games without defeat that stretched back to May 2003.

¤ In Chelsea's 1-0 triumph at Blackburn, goalkeeper Petr Cech sets a new Premiership record of 781 minutes without conceding a goal, surpassing Manchester United's Peter Schmeichel's feat of 694 minutes.

English League record: Steve Death (Reading) 1,103 minutes (March to August 1979).

British record: Chris Woods (Rangers) 1,196 minutes (1986-87 season).

World record: Abel Resino (Atletico Madrid) 1,275 minutes (1990-91 season).

¤Alan Shearer's netting for Newcastle in the 1-1 draw at Manchester City takes his Premiership total to 250 goals.

¤ Following the 2-0 victory by Birmingham over Liverpool at St Andrews, the Blues complete the double on the Reds for the first time in 69 years.

¤ In the 5-1 victory over Crystal Palace by Arsenal at Highbury, the Reds field the first foreign 16-man squad in English football history. The squad featured six players from France, three from Spain, two from Holland and one from Cameroon, Germany, Ivory Coast, Brazil and Switzerland.

¤ At Stamford Bridge, Chelsea's goalkeeper Petr Cech claims an English League top-flight record of ten consecutive clean sheets in the 0-0 draw against Manchester City.

¤ At the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, flank player John Arne Riise nets after 43 seconds for Liverpool in the 2-3 defeat against Chelsea in the final of the League Cup for the fastest goal in the history of the competition.

Wolves' flood of draws

¤ Wolves' 1-1 draw with Leicester at the Walkers Stadium was the Black Country outfit's 20th league stalemate of the season. This tally eclipses the previous total of 19 set in the 1990-91 season. Boss Glenn Hoddle has presided over 14 of these draws during his 19 Championship games in charge.

¤ Following their 2-1 win over Hibernian at Hampden Park, Dundee United reach the Scottish Cup final for the first time since 1994.

¤ The monthly managerial award for March is won by Harry Redknapp for Southampton who becomes the first manager to win the accolade with different clubs in one season. In October, Redknapp had collected the prize as manager of Portsmouth.

¤ James Vaughan, Everton's debutant in the 4-0 win over Crystal Palace at Goodison Park, nets the last goal three minutes from time to become the youngest goalscorer in Premiership history at the age of 16 years 270 days.

¤ The Champions League semi-finals for the first time throw up an all-English affair between Chelsea and Liverpool, who made it to the last four of the competition after 20 years.

¤ In their surge up to The Championship, Hull City secure back-to-back promotions for the only time in the club's history, following the Tigers draw against Swindon Town at Kingston Communications Stadium.

¤ Defender John Terry becomes the first Chelsea player to win the PFA Player of the Year award.

¤ The PFA team selected contains eight England internationals: Gary Neville (Man. United), Ashley Cole (Arsenal), Terry (Chelsea), Rio Ferdinand (Man. United), Frank Lampard (Chelsea), Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Andrew Johnson (C. Palace) and Shaun Wright-Phillips (Man. City).

¤ Arsenal achieve their first double over Tottenham (4-3 at White Hart Lane and 1-0 at Highbury) since 1988-89 in the First Division (home 2-0, away 3-2).

¤ A novelty in this season's Scottish PFA Player of the Year award is the split vote for joint winners, Celtic striker John Hartson and Rangers' Dutch midfielder Fernando Ricksen.

Biggest sponsorship

¤ Chelsea sign the biggest sponsorship deal in British football, a £50 million five-year contract with electronics company Samsung.

¤ Everton return to European competitions for the first time since 1995. This will be the Toffees' first participation in the Champions League, having previously appeared in the European Cup.

¤ Jose Mourinho becomes the first manager to win the Premiership championship in his first season in charge. The Portuguese supremo leads Chelsea to their first top-flight title in 50 years, a fitting way to celebrate the London club's centenary season.

¤ Coventry end their 106-year stay at Highfield Road with a 6-2 trimming of Derby. Next season the Godiva City will move to a new £113 million, 32,500 capacity stadium, the Ricoh Arena. Named after the club's main sponsor, the new stadium is situated on the border of the city.

¤ Midland side Nottingham Forest become the first European Cup winners to be demoted to the third tier of its country's league, following their fall from League One to Two - 25 years after they lifted the trophy for the second time under the late Brian Clough.

¤ Following their 1-0 aggregate win over Chelsea, Liverpool reach a British record sixth European Cup/Champions League final.

¤ After receiving the Managerial award prize for April, Stuart Pearce goes down as the first Manchester City boss to claim such accolade.

¤ Sam Allardyce's Bolton reach Europe via the UEFA Cup for the club's initial bow in the continent in its 131-year history.

¤ Wigan, having only joined the Football League in 1978, continue with their meteoric rise by gaining promotion to the Premier League.

¤ The 7-0 thumping of Everton at Arsenal is a record win for the Gunners under Arsene Wenger and the worst defeat for the Toffees in the Premiership. It is also the heaviest loss in Everton's history since their 0-8 annihilation to Portsmouth in 1949.

¤ After the season's final matches, Chelsea claim two more records. The new champions amass a total of 95 points for the best ever in the Premiership and set a modern-era defensive record of 15 goals against (in 38 matches), bettering the 16 conceded by Liverpool (in 42 games) in 1978-79.

¤ Arsenal finish in the top two once more, prolonging their record of never ending a season lower than second for every entire campaign since Wenger took charge at Highbury in 1997-98.

Albion bury jinx

¤ The Christmas jinx - a drop from the Premiership since its very start in 1992-93 for every side that occupied rock bottom in this holiday period - is finally broken by Bryan Robson's West Bromwich Albion. They escape the drop even if they were last in the Premier in Yuletide.

¤ Southampton lose their top-flight status after 25 years, being among the founder members of the Premiership in 1992-93.

¤ Arsenal close gap on all-time FA Cup winners Manchester United to 11-10 in the first ever final to be decided by a penalty shoot-out (Gunners win 5-4). Jose Antonio Reyes of Arsenal becomes only the second player in history to be dismissed in an FA Cup final. The 0-0 draw scoreline after 90 minutes was last witnessed in the 1912 showdown between Barnsley and West Brom.

¤ On the very last day of the championship in Scotland, Rangers claim the title for a record 51st time.

¤ In Istanbul, Liverpool win the Champions League for the first time in 21 years, defeating Milan 3-2 on penalties after a 3-3 draw.

The remarkable comeback by the Reds is the first time in the history of the competition that a side managed to equal the score after being three goals behind.

Liverpool, who will now keep the trophy for winning it five times, stand third in the all-time winners list behind Real Madrid (9) and Milan (6).

Rafael Benitez becomes the first coach to win back-to-back major European trophies with different clubs after his UEFA Cup win with Valencia in season 2003-2004.

¤ In England's 2-1 win over US in Chicago, Manchester United's midfielder Kieran Richardson nets twice on his debut to equal the best scoring baptism by an England player, since Fred Pickering of Birmingham scored a hat-trick in the 10-0 mauling against the same US in New York in 1964.

¤ Nine of Everton's 13 losses in the Premiership have come against London sides, the last a 7-0 humiliation at Arsenal.

¤ Thierry Henry of Arsenal becomes the first player to claim Europe's Golden Shoe Award for two years in succession. Henry shares the honour with Uruguay's Diego Forlan of Villarreal who also scored 25 league goals.

¤ Michael Owen moves into fourth place with 32 nettings in the all-time England scorers list with his hat-trick in England's 3-2 victory over Colombia in New Jersey.