Ten of the best matches in Premier League history

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Watch highlights from these epic Premier League encounters and vote for your favourite

The Premier League Archive is the home for the most iconic and unforgettable moments in the competition's history.

Premier League fans now have access to the entire library of Premier League matches since the competition began in 1992. You can watch three, eight or 20-minute highlights of any match from 1992/93 to 2024/25, with full-match replays also available.

To celebrate the full launch of the Archive, we've picked out 10 of the greatest matches ever, and we want you to vote for what you think is the single best match in Premier League history. 

Man City 3-2 QPR, 2011/12

Arguably the match that produced the Premier League's most iconic moment ever. Manchester City entered the final day top of the table and needing to only match the result of second-placed Manchester United in order to win their first-ever Premier League title. But with Man Utd winning at Sunderland, Man City found themselves 2-1 down at home to Queens Park Rangers in second-half stoppage time. The rest is history. 

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Newcastle 4-4 Arsenal, 2010/11

This remains the only match in Premier League history in which a team came from FOUR goals down at half-time to draw. Arsenal were 4-0 up at St James' Park after 26 minutes, and it remained 4-0 until the 68th minute. After that, Newcastle produced perhaps the greatest comeback we've ever seen. 

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Chelsea 2-2 Spurs, 2015/16

Dubbed the "Battle of the Bridge", this London derby had it all. Chelsea rallied from two goals down to earn a draw that officially ended Tottenham Hotspur's title hopes and confirmed Leicester City as champions in a true fairytale season. Eden Hazard's wonder goal was the standout moment of this game that is equally as remembered for its collection of fiery moments. 

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Portsmouth 7-4 Reading, 2007/08

The highest-scoring match in Premier League history had 11 goals in a thriller at Fratton Park. Remarkably, EIGHT of the goals came in the second half, with a total of NINE different players getting on the scoresheet!

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Spurs 3-5 Man Utd, 2001/02

Trailing 3-0 at half-time, Sir Alex Ferguson's Man Utd produced a turnaround for the ages, scoring five second-half goals to win 5-3 at White Hart Lane. 

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Chelsea 4-3 Man Utd, 2023/24

Cole Palmer scored a hat-trick that included TWO second-half stoppage-time goals, scored in the 100th and 101st minutes as Chelsea came from 3-2 down to win 4-3 in one of the most chaotic finishes to a match ever. 

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Liverpool 4-3 Newcastle, 1995/96

Throwing it back to April 1996 and one of the most iconic moments of the early Premier League years, as Stan Collymore scored a stoppage-time winner for Liverpool in a seven-goal thriller between two of the best teams in the league at that time. 

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Man Utd 4-3 Man City, 2009/10

Michael Owen produced one of the most memorable Manchester derby moments, scoring a dramatic winner in the sixth minute of stoppage time at Old Trafford, after City's Craig Bellamy had levelled it at 3-3 in the 90th minute. 

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Man City 3-2 Aston Villa, 2021/22

Substitute Ilkay Gundogan struck twice as three Man City goals in less than six second-half minutes earned a remarkable 3-2 turnaround win over Aston Villa to seal a sixth Premier League title.

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Liverpool 4-4 Arsenal, 2008/09

Arsenal winger Andrey Arshavin scored FOUR times at Anfield in one of the best individual performances in Premier League history. But despite his fourth goal putting Arsenal 4-3 up in the 90th minute, Liverpool STILL had time to equalise through Yossi Benayoun in the third minute of stoppage time. 

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