Wayne Rooney may have scooped the awards as player of the year and Didier Drogba won the golden boot, but no-one was more successful across the board than the Chelsea and England midfielder.

Lampard's 22 goals set a new record of scoring from central midfield and in the 10 categories such as assists, passes and tackles which go to decide the Premier League's Actim Index, Lampard was among the top 10 players in no less than eight of them.

And just as remarkably, the 31-year-old did not pick up a single caution or red card during the entire season.

Other statistics for the season saw one of the highest points tally required in Premier League history to qualify for Europe - Liverpool's 63 points has only been good enough for seventh position while in 2004 the Reds finished fourth with 60.

Chelsea also rewrote the record books with 103 goals, six better than Manchester United in 1999/00, and scoring 9.5% of all the Premier League goals during this season.

Carlo Ancelotti's side became the first top-flight team in England since Tottenham in 1962/63 to score 100 league goals or more in a season - Spurs scored 111 that season but in a 42-game campaign rather than 38.

Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore said: "Congratulations to Chelsea for winning this season's Barclays Premier League, they have done it in style with a record goals tally that could well stand the test of time.

"The highlight of the campaign for me has been the fact that you could not predict any match. It started like a firecracker with no draws on the opening weekend and plenty of goals. From there on in it has gone on with points being more evenly spread and plenty of excitement.

"The title race going to the final day is always what we'd want at the beginning of a season. We have seen Tottenham, Manchester City, Aston Villa and Liverpool show the shape of things to come as they have battled over fourth place, a contest that went to penultimate game.

"Newly promoted clubs, Birmingham and Wolves, have more than held their own, with solid campaigns and more than a couple of upsets. That shows the strength in depth of the League and why we believe competitiveness has increased."

There were 32 goalless draws (8% of matches) compared to 42 last season (11%), the lowest number of goalless draws across all of the major leagues in Europe.

Before this year, only 10 sides had scored 80 goals or more in one a Premier League season but Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal all managed it in this campaign, the first time Chelsea have scored more than 80.

Tottenham shared the goals around most with 19 different players scoring, and it is the first 38-game season where more than five players have scored more than 20 goals: Lampard, Drogba, Rooney, Darren Bent and Carlos Tevez.