The Albion records broken during the 2024/25 Premier League season

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Albion Analytics take a look at the records that were broken in 2024/25.

Liam Tharme

Albion Analytics

2025-05-31T06:00+01:00

Diego Gomez was our final substitute to score in the Premier League during the 2024/25 campaign - our 15th of the season. 📷 by James Boardman.

Albion’s eighth season as a Premier League club has been one of their best ever.

An eighth place finish with 61 points is only bettered by 2022/23 (6th and 62 points), making for three top-half placings in the past four years and going some way to fulfil the long-term club ambition of becoming a sustainable top-ten team.

Progress and success can be measured in ways beyond points and league position — dive a little deeper and Albion set some important club records this campaign.

Albion's three goal-scorers at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium were 24-years-old or younger. 📷 by James Boardman.

With an average age of 25.7, this is the youngest Brighton team in any Premier League season, while only Chelsea (24.5) fielded younger starting XIs on average this term. Considering Albion were the fifth-oldest team in 2018-19 (27.4 avg age), it is some progression five years on.

Of the club’s 13 youngest starting XIs in the Premier League, ten have been this season, with the youngest-ever fielded in the 4-0 away win at Southampton — Adam Webster (30) and Kaoru Mitoma (27) were the only players aged over 24 in that lineup. Hurzeler’s final-day starting XI that won 4-1 away to Tottenham was the second-youngest, including a midfield four and front two where the oldest player was 23-year-old Simon Adingra.

Hurzeler spoke of a German idiom in a press conference recently, “'Throw them in the ice water', so in the cold water they have to swim, find a way to deal with it. We are really impressed with how my young squad work together, how they find a way to win Premier League games.”

The best manifestation of that was Brighton’s ability to recover matches this campaign. They earned 23 points from losing positions, tied with Liverpool for the most in the division, and eight more than the club’s previous best (15 in 2023/24).

Relying on comebacks can be slightly problematic, but Hurzeler’s side showed resilience especially against the league’s top teams. They recovered four points against Manchester City, beat Liverpool in their final home game after being behind twice, earned draws from losing positions in both matches versus Arsenal, and recovered home and away against Tottenham Hotspur to turn 2-0 and 1-0 deficits in 3-2 and 4-1 wins.

That was fundamental to Brighton having their best season against ‘Big Six’ opponents, earning 24 points — over three times as many as last season — and returning an impressive seven wins, three draws and only two defeats from matches against those opponents. In fact, Albion only lost nine times all season, with only Liverpool and Arsenal (both four) defeated less, while it betters the previous club record of fewest defeats from 2021/22 (11).

Carnage in front of the North Stand after Carlos Baleba scored a late winner against West Ham. 📷 by Simon Roe.

There were three match-winning goals scored beyond the 90th minute (91:55 by Carlos Baleba versus West Ham; 97:19 by Joao Pedro versus Fulham; 94:25 by Joao Pedro versus Manchester United), the most by a Brighton team in a Premier League season — and all were scored in-front of the North Stand.

The significance of that Fulham winner was it being Brighton’s fourth league win in a row, part of a longer sequence where they won six straight matches across all competitions (including 2-1 FA Cup victories over Chelsea and Newcastle) — it was their longest winning run as a top-flight club.

Arguably the most impressive and overlooked record from this season, for which Hurzeler deserves significant credit, is how Brighton’s substitutes have changed games. Only Fulham (17) have had more goals scored by substitutes this term than Brighton (15), while there have been seven Brighton goals in 2024/25 that have seen one substitute assist another — forget club records, that is the most by any team in a single Premier League campaign.