Manchester City won the Premier League title for a third consecutive season after title rivals Arsenal lost to Nottingham Forest.

Pep Guardiola’s teams have won the title in five of the past six seasons.

They also have a shot at a treble, with the FA Cup and Champions League finals due next month.

Only Manchester United, 1998-99, City have already achieved the feat before – City face their derby rivals at Wembley on June 3, before taking on Inter Milan in Istanbul a week later, where they will seek their maiden Champions League title.

Man City will lift the trophy afterwards They play Chelsea on Sunday (16:00 BST).

Captain Ilkay Gundogan – who has scored four goals in his last two league games – said: “The Premier League is undoubtedly the most demanding and competitive league in the world, so that suffices to say that it is What a great achievement.

“Winning this trophy three times in a row and five times in six years is unbelievable. This quality and consistency helps sum up what Manchester City stand for and ensures the club will continue to strive for success.

“This is a season I will never forget.”

City won the title for the ninth time in the club’s history, eight points behind Arsenal on April 7, although they played one game less than Mikel Arteta’s leaders at the time.

This is the fourth time the team have failed to win the title after at least 28 Premier League games with a goal difference of eight points.

Only one team has ever scored 69 points from 10 games remaining – like Arsenal – and failed to win the title. That was Liverpool in 2018-19, They were one point behind Manchester City as they finished with 97 points.

But City, who have won 11 league games in a row – and conceded just two points from a possible 42 – overturned Arsenal and clinched the title with three games remaining.

City’s successors follow Huddersfield Town (1924-26), Arsenal (1933-35), Liverpool (1982-84) and Manchester United (twice under Sir Alex) , the fifth club in England to win successive top-flight titles in England, Ferguson (1999-2001 and 2007-09).

It is also the third time Guardiola has won three league titles in a row, having previously led Barcelona to La Liga from 2009-11 and Bayern Munich to the Bundesliga from 2014-16.

City have won the Premier League five times in six seasons, having last achieved it with Manchester United between 1996 and 2001, during which time they also won a treble of Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League.

United also won seven titles in nine seasons between 1993-2001; and five titles in seven seasons between 2007 and 2013 – so City’s current dominance is not unprecedented.

Before that, Liverpool enjoyed a similar period of league success in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Haaland’s firepower

City will round out their league campaign with away games to Brighton and Brentford before resuming their Treble bid.

They have achieved this in part due to Erling Haaland’s impressive goalscoring record since joining the team from Borussia Dortmund last summer.

The 22-year-old Norwegian has 52 goals in 48 appearances in all competitions, including a record-breaking 33 Premier League appearances with 36 goals.

Haaland is only the second player in the history of the English top flight to score more than 50 times in all competitions and the first in 95 years to do so.

He broke the Premier League single-season scoring record with his 35th goal at the start of March, putting him one ahead of Andy Cole and Alan Shearer – who have 34 goals in 42 games ball.

Financial expenses

won after three months City charged by Premier League After a four-year investigation, there were more than 100 breaches of its financial rules. The charges cover the period from 2009 to 2018, since the 2008 takeover by the Abu Dhabi Consolidated Group led by billionaire Sheikh Mansour, a member of the Abu Dhabi royal family.

They are accused of effectively falsifying their accounts and artificially inflating sponsorship and commercial deals over the years to allow them to spend more without breaching UEFA and Premier League rules.

City said they were “surprised by the allegations” but welcomed “a review of the matter by an independent committee to give impartial consideration” to their case, which City said was backed by “comprehensive and irrefutable evidence”. support.

City, who have consistently denied financial wrongdoing, said they “look forward to the matter being settled once and for all”.

The club has been referred to an independent committee which can impose penalties ranging from fines and deduction of points to expulsion from the Premier League. It’s unclear how long the process will take.