Arsenal secured their first title in 22 years on Tuesday after Manchester City were held to a 1-1 draw away to Bournemouth, and the final round of Premier League fixtures now arrives with far less drama at the top than the table usually delivers. The race for Champions League qualification is almost over, two relegation spots were locked in weeks before Gameweek 38, and the season’s last matches can feel underwhelming even before they begin.
Yet there is still something at stake. Tottenham Hotspur host Everton on Sunday, while West Ham United welcome Leeds United in a fight for 17th place that could decide survival in the division. A point would likely be enough for Tottenham because of their far superior goal difference, but West Ham would move to 39 points with a win — a total that would be the highest for any club finishing 18th since Blackpool in 2010-11. Only once since the turn of the century has a team gone down with more, when West Ham were relegated in 2002-03 with 42 points.
The rest of the picture is just as crowded. Three points separate eighth-place Chelsea from Fulham in 13th, and the current campaign has the smallest standard deviation of points after 37 games since 2019-20 at 15.6. Aside from Arsenal, second-placed Manchester City and Manchester United in third, the remaining 17 teams can still move at least one place in the table. Chelsea, Brentford and Sunderland could finish as high as seventh or as low as 12th, while Newcastle United, Everton and Fulham could rise to ninth or slip to 14th.
That congestion keeps Sunday relevant even if the title is gone. Liverpool, Bournemouth, Brighton and Hove Albion, Chelsea, Brentford and Sunderland are still fighting for some kind of European place, and there remains a very small possibility of an unprecedented play-off between Liverpool and Bournemouth for the final Champions League spot. It is a rare final day in which the trophy has already been decided, but the epl standings still have enough movement to keep several clubs guessing until the last whistle.
