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#2 Manchester City (England)
The only Premier League team to garner 100 points in a season, Manchester City won 14 games on the trot to ward off a fierce challenge from Liverpool in 2018-19 to win their fourth EPL title. City fell to eventual finalists Tottenham Hotspur in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
City's performance in the Premier League this season has been indifferent, as the defending champions find themselves in third place, a whopping 14 points behind runaway league leaders Liverpool.
Since a pair of group stage exits in their first two appearances in the Champions League in 2011-12 and 2012-13, City reached the knockout round of the competition for the seventh straight year by topping a group containing tournament debutants Atalanta, Shakhtar Donetsk, and Dinamo Zagreb.
With 44 wins from 56 games in all competitions in 2019, City have won the most games of any European club to have played over 45 games in the year, while also averaging the highest win percentage (79%), highest goals per game (2.88), most clean sheets (28 of 56, 50%), and most titles during the year (4).
#1 Liverpool (England)
Despite winning their last nine league games and enduring just one league defeat all season, Liverpool fell short of their first English top-flight title in over three decades by a solitary point against Manchester City.
In the Champions League, Liverpool overcame a 3-0 first-leg deficit in the semi-finals against Barcelona before going to beat fellow Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur in the final to win their sixth title in the competition and their first since their 2005 triumph.
Liverpool have continued their good form this season, remaining unbeaten in 16 league games, winning 15. They lead closest challengers Leicester City by 10 points and defending champions Manchester City by 14 points, as the Anfield club look well on track to win their first league title in the Premier League era.
A 2-0 Matchday 6 win at Salzburg took the defending Champions League winners to the knockout round of the competition as group winners.
Liverpool's three defeats in 51 games in all competitions in 2019 are the fewest by any European club to have played over 45 games this year.
