Alan Shearer in 1994-95, Thierry Henry in 2002-03, Cristiano Ronaldo in 2007-08 or Luis Suarez in 2013-14?

The debate around the best individual season ever enjoyed by a player in the Premier League has swirled for decades, and Mohamed Salah now has an entry of his own.

Salah wrote himself into the history books on the final day of 2024-25, volleying home as champions Liverpool salvaged a 1-1 draw against Crystal Palace at Anfield.

That means he tied the record for the most goals and assists combined in a single Premier League campaign, with 47, joining Andrew Cole in 1993-94 and Shearer the following season.

While Salah's haul came in a 38-game season, both Cole and Shearer needed 42 matches to hit that tally.

Salah had already equalled the record for a 38-game season as early as March 8, when a brace against Southampton took him to 44 goal involvements for 2024-25, tying Henry's return for Arsenal in 2002-03.

The Egyptian put an end to speculation surrounding his future by penning a new two-year contract with Liverpool in mid-April, then was among the scorers on their coronation day as they trounced Tottenham 5-1 at Anfield. 

While he, like many of his Liverpool team-mates, slowed down once the title was secured, he did not miss the chance to tie Cole and Shearer on Sunday.

Here, we run through the best statistics surrounding the Egyptian's historic season and ask what other records he managed to tie, as well as those he just missed out on.

Salah in the Premier League: How we got here

Salah's first spell in the Premier League was unspectacular, as he managed just two goals and one assist in 13 appearances for Chelsea between 2013 and 2015.

But after lighting up Serie A with Fiorentina and Roma, Salah returned with a point to prove when he linked up with Jurgen Klopp at Anfield, and he wasted no time in making an impact.

Salah scored 32 goals and provided 10 assists in his debut campaign with Liverpool in the Premier League in 2017-18. Following his spectacular run of form in 2024-25, he is the only player in the competition's history to record 40 or more goal involvements in two separate seasons.

While 2017-18 and 2024-25 have been Salah's most productive campaigns in red, his consistency across eight seasons in the competition has been remarkable.

Salah has never had fewer than 27 goal involvements in a single Premier League season, with his 2024-25 exploits ensuring he has surpassed Henry's record of seven straight campaigns with 25 or more goal involvements, set between 1999-00 and 2005-06, outright (now eight in a row for Salah).

In 2023-24, he had his worst scoring season with Liverpool, netting 18 Premier League goals as they finished third in Klopp's final campaign at the helm.

However, his 10 assists that season ensured he became the first player in Premier League history to score at least 10 goals and provide at least 10 assists in three successive campaigns, and, of course, he has extended that record in emphatic fashion this term, making it four in a row.

Salah turned 32 at the conclusion of last season, and his Liverpool future was called into doubt as he entered the final 12 months of his contract, but if anything, his levels have gone up further.

The story of Salah's season

Salah started as he meant to go on last August, with a goal and an assist as Liverpool beat Ipswich Town 2-0 in their first competitive game under Arne Slot.

He surpassed 300 goal involvements for Liverpool in that match, while he moved to nine goals on opening matchdays in the Premier League overall – a competition record.

The forward scored in Liverpool's first three games of the campaign, the third being a dominant 3-0 win over rivals Manchester United. Salah also had two assists in that match, as he became the first visiting player to record three goal involvements in two separate Premier League games at Old Trafford (also doing so in October 2021).

Salah was truly in his stride by the time Liverpool welcomed Manchester City to Anfield at the start of December, when he again scored and assisted in a 2-0 win for Slot's men.

Salah was involved in 14 Premier League goals in December (seven goals, seven assists), the joint-most by a player in one month in Premier League history, along with Suarez in December 2013 (10 goals, four assists).

At Newcastle, Salah both scored and assisted in the same Premier League game for the 37th time, overtaking Wayne Rooney (36) as the player to have done so most often.

By Christmas, he had 15 goals and 11 assists in the top flight, becoming the first player in Premier League history to hit double figures for both before December 25 in a season.

February's reverse fixture against City was the 10th game to see Salah register both a goal and an assist in the Premier League this season. He finished the season doing so in 11 matches; no other player had achieved that feat in any of Europe's top five leagues since 2014-15, when Lionel Messi also did so 11 times for Barcelona.

He also became the first player in Premier League history to both score and assist against the reigning champions in two matches within a single season.

Six goals and four assists saw Salah land the Premier League's Player of the Month award for February, having had one of his most productive months of the campaign.

No player has won the award more times in its history, with Sergio Aguero and Harry Kane the only other players to land it on seven occasions.

And though Liverpool endured a wobble in March, losing the EFL Cup final to Newcastle United and exiting the Champions League against Paris Saint-Germain, the Reds – and their Egyptian king – came roaring back in April.

They joined a list of just seven teams to have won the Premier League title with at least four games remaining on April 27, with Salah's goal in their rout of Tottenham being his 183rd for Liverpool in the competition.

With Salah since moving to 184 for the Reds, matching Sergio Aguero's tally for Manchester City, only Harry Kane (213 for Spurs) has scored more for a single club.

Salah only had two goal involvements in eight matches approaching the final day, and after he produced a glaring miss in a 3-2 loss at Brighton, it looked as though his opportunity to take a place in the history books had gone.

However, with just six minutes of the season remaining, Salah saw a volley deflect in off Maxence Lacroix to end with 47 goals and assists combined.

Which records did Salah miss out on?

At one stage in the spring, it looked as though Salah might smash the goal involvements record and seize a number of other landmarks, too.

Erling Haaland's high of 36 goals in a Premier League season (in 2022-23) looked to be within Salah's sights at one point, though he ultimately finished seven adrift of that mark.

Salah's own personal Premier League best of 32 goals, which he managed in 2017-18, was another figure he just fell short of.

He did, however, tie the record for most goals scored by a player aged 30 or older in a single Premier League season.

Chelsea icon Didier Drogba hit 29 under Carlo Ancelotti in 2009-10, a figure Salah equalled with his strike against Palace.

Salah had also previously threatened to trouble the record for most assists in a Premier League campaign – jointly held by Henry in 2002-03 and Kevin De Bruyne in 2019-20, with 20 apiece.

Salah was two short of that figure with 18. Eleven of those assists came on the road, meaning he tied Cesc Fabregas' record for most away assists in a Premier League season.

Fabregas' return also came in a title-winning campaign, with Chelsea in 2014-15.

Salah also tied Kevin Phillips in 1999-00 and Kane in 2022-23 for the most away goals in a single season, netting 16 times on his travels.

And the Egyptian became the first player in Premier League history to land the competition's Player of the Season award, win the Golden Boot and record the most assists, all within a single campaign.

Though Salah will be disappointed not to have made the goal involvement record his own outright, his remarkable exploits over the last 10 months have secured his place in the debate regarding the best individual season in Premier League history.