During the 2009/10 season, five players increased their scoring tally to 100 or more goals to join the previous 15 in the English Premier League hall of fame.

Now, the total of centurions is 20.

Ryan Giggs, Wayne Rooney and Paul Scholes (all Manchester United), Louis Saha (Everton) and Nicolas Anelka (Chelsea) have all joined the selected list that now reads:

Alan Shearer 260
Andy Cole 187
Thierry Henry 174
Robbie Fowler 163
Les Ferdinand 150
Teddy Sheringham 147
Michael Owen 147
Frank Lampard 129
Jimmy F. Hasselbaink 127
Dwight Yorke 123
Robbie Keane 119
Nicolas Anelka 116
Ian Wright 113
Dion Dublin 111
Ryan Giggs 108
Emile Heskey 108
Wayne Rooney 106
Paul Scholes 101
Louis Saha 101
Matthew Le Tissier 101

Nine players in this list, Owen, Lampard, Keane, Anelka, Giggs, Heskey, Rooney, Scholes and Saha, are still active and will be looking to add to their total in the coming season.

Other items in the English game that created more records and feats last season:

Mexico international forward Christian Benitez signs for Birmingham for a club record fee of £9m from Santos Laguna.

Wolves capture striker Kevin Doyle from Reading for £6.5m, a record sum for the Midlands club.

Michael Chopra leaves Sunderland for Cardiff City, who pay a club record sum of £4m.

Darren Bent, of Tottenham, joins Sunderland for a club record fee of £10m that could rise to £15m, depending on his number of appearances. The deal exceeded the £9m the Black Cats had paid Hearts for goalkeeper Craig Gordon in 2007.

After a 3-3 draw against hosts Sweden in the semi-finals of the UEFA Championship, England U-21 advance after winning the penalty shoot-out 5-4. England triumph from the deadly spot for the first time since Euro '96.

Championship side Cardiff mark the official opening of their new ground, the Cardiff City Stadium, with a 0-0 draw against Celtic.

The 2-0 victory by Celtic in Russia against Dinamo Moscow in the second leg of the third qualifying round match of the Champions League, is the Bhoys' first away win in the continent in 23 matches.

In the Community Shield match, Chelsea beat Manchester United 4-1 on penalties after a 2-2 draw to break the ice after five successive losses from the spot.

Arsenal beat Everton 6-1 at Goodison Park to equal the biggest open-day victory in the history of the Premier League.

The son of famous Danish goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel, Kasper, joins Notts County from Manchester City for a club record fee of £800,000.

Liverpool's 31 match unbeaten home league record, stretching back to December 2007, is dented by Aston Villa, who emerge victorious at Anfield 3-1.

Qualification for the World Cup finals is cemented by England following a 5-1 massacre of Croatia at Wembley. This is England's record eighth successive victory. Rooney's 25th goal for his country takes him ahead of Geoff Hurst's total in the all-time scoring list.

The England women's national team are trounced 6-2 by Germany in the European Championship final in Finland.

Portsmouth become the worst Premier League starters after going seven matches without gaining a single point.

Peter Crouch scores his 16th goal for England in 17 starts in the final World Cup qualifier against Belarus, 3-0 at Wembley. Crouch nets a double.

After their 1-0 win at CSKA Moscow in the Champions League group phase, Manchester United equal Ajax's record run of 14 away matches without defeat set between 1994 and 1997.

The 1-2 loss at Anfield to Lyon makes it Liverpool's worst run without a win since 1987 when they also went four matches on the trot without a victory.

Stoke 'Lane' win

At White Hart Lane, Tottenham lose 0-1 to Stoke for the Potters' first win at the Spurs' lair since 1975.

The staggering 9-1 win by Tottenham over Wigan at White Hart Lane sees the Spurs equal a Premier League record of scoring nine in a game set by Manchester United at Old Trafford in 1995 over Ipswich. Striker Jermain Defoe, who scored a nap-hand, becomes only the third player to hit five in one match in the Premier League after Alan Shearer and Andy Cole.

The 1-9 collapse of Wigan is the club's worst league result since they lost to Bristol Rovers in a 6-1 reverse in 1990.

Manchester United's 23-match unbeaten run at home in the Champions League is shattered by Turkish side Besiktas after their 1-0 triumph.

The seventh consecutive draw obtained by Manchester City (1-1) at Hull is a new Premier League record.

The final total of seven points from their group in this year's Champions League leaves Liverpool with their worst outcome in the competition.