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Who tops the Premier League table for the 2016 calendar year?

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 03:  Diego Costa (C) of Chelsea celebrates scoring his team's first goal with his team mates during the Premier League match

Leicester City may have clinched the Premier League title in May, but it's Chelsea who top the table for the 2016 calendar year.

Claudio Ranieri's side pulled off one of the biggest surprises in football history to take the crown last season, while defending champions Chelsea finished a turbulent campaign in 10th place.

However, the overall table for January to December tells a very different story for both sides. 

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Image: Leicester are some way off the top of the overall 2016 table after a poor second half of the year

Premier League leaders Chelsea are currently five points clear in our table for 2016, meaning they are guaranteed to finish as the calendar year's top side, even if they slip up against Stoke in their final game of the year on New Year's Eve. 

But the Foxes are down in eighth place for the calendar year after their dismal start to the 2016/17 campaign, with a 17-point gap to the Blues highlighting the two sides' changing fortunes.

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Tottenham are second in the table after breaking their own record of points in a calendar year following their 4-1 win at Southampton on Wednesday - and they are sure to finish ahead of Arsenal, with the two north London sides not playing again until New Year's Day.

Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool are just below Spurs for the calendar year, although they do rank top for goals scored over the last 12 months, having netted 86 times. The Reds have one more chance - against Manchester City on December 31 - to further boost their tally.

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Premier League table for the 2016 calendar year

Pos Team P W D L F A GD Pts
1 Chelsea 38 23 10 5 78 37 41 79
2 Liverpool 38 21 10 7 87 49 38 73
3 Man Utd 38 21 9 8 56 38 18 72
4 Tottenham 37 20 11 6 69 33 36 71
5 Arsenal 37 19 12 6 71 37 34 69
6 Man City 38 20 9 9 73 42 31 69
7 Southampton 38 18 9 11 52 40 12 63
8 Leicester 38 17 11 10 55 42 13 62
9 West Ham 38 15 10 13 60 61 -1 55
10 Everton 38 12 12 14 49 50 -1 48
11 West Brom 38 11 13 14 41 47 -6 46
12 Bournemouth 38 13 7 18 49 64 -15 46
13 Stoke 38 11 10 17 43 68 -25 43
14 Sunderland 38 10 11 17 46 59 -13 41
15 Swansea 38 11 7 20 47 72 -25 40
16 Watford 37 10 8 19 38 60 -22 38
17 C Palace 37 6 9 22 45 68 -23 27
18 Burnley 19 7 2 10 21 29 -8 23
19 Newcastle 19 5 5 9 25 31 -6 20
20 Middlesbrough 19 4 6 9 17 22 -5 18
21 Norwich 19 4 2 13 17 35 -18 14
22 Hull 19 3 4 12 16 41 -25 13
23 A Villa 19 2 3 14 12 42 -30 9

Manchester United were pipped to the final Champions League qualification place by Manchester City on goal difference at the end of last season and the arrivals of Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola as managers of the respective clubs in the summer have done nothing to separate the sides in our 2016 table.

City are again relying on their higher number of goals scored so far to edge out their rivals but New Year's Eve fixtures could yet see them swap places.

At the other end of the 2016 table, it is no surprise to see Aston Villa rooted to the bottom, with just two wins from their 19 top-flight games before relegation.

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