5 best celebrations in the Premier League

Last Updated on 1 December 2025

From choreographed dances to cold, emotionless stares, the Premier League is packed with players who understand that football isn’t just about putting the ball in the net. It’s about what comes next.

These celebrations fuel crowd noise, spark internet debates, and, occasionally, trigger full-blown chaos.

Here are the top five goal celebrations defining Premier League football. The ones fans copy, rivals fear, and the cameras absolutely love.

5 – Jean-Philippe Mateta – The “BOOM”

Mateta celebrates every goal like he’s detonating TNT in a cartoon.

Arms out. Hands forward. BOOM, BOOM, BOOM.

It’s simple, silly and sensational. Most importantly, it brings the entire Selhurst Park in on the act. For the opposition it’s difficult to imagine anything worse than that celebration to your confidence. No celebration captures pure joy better. Kids copy it instantly, grown adults do it in the kitchen, and Palace fans live for it.

Most Premier League clubs have had to put up with it quite a bit, given only Mohamed Salah and Erling Haaland have scored more goals than Mateta in 2025.

4 – Alexander Isak – The humiliating finger wag

You know you’ve done something evil when your celebration is basically your way of telling the world that these defenders can’t handle you.

As far as Alexander Isak is concerned, it’s true. The Isak we saw at Newcastle United was too hot to handle for most teams, and he brought that finger wag out against top teams.

Doing it against his future employers, Liverpool, after scoring against Virgil van Dijk was massive. He also celebrated with it at the Emirates after scoring a powerful header.

It took some time but Isak’s done his famous celebration at Anfield, too, when he scored his first goal in the Carabao Cup. Liverpool fans will hope Isak can keep doing it, because it really is a cold, cold celebration.

3 – Cole Palmer – Ice cold

Talking about cold celebrations, it does not get colder than Cole Palmer’s pure disrespect. He just stands there after making a mockery out of the opposition, shivering with his hands.

It might be the most iconic celebration in world football after Cristiano Ronaldo’s SIUU. Every playground has kids doing it, even other players have copied it. In fact, it got to a point where Palmer had to copyright the celebration because many others claimed it.

2 – Viktor Gyokeres – The hand mask

In terms of pure aura, this one is definitely no.1.

Unveiled with his iconic celebration, Gyokeres has already had the pleasure of doing it in front of the Emirates Stadium on a number of occasions.

The best part is when the entire Emirates does it with Gyokeres. Ask any Arsenal fan and they will tell you the same thing, paying his release clause was worth it for the celebration alone.

1 – Erling Haaland – The zen meditation pose

There is nothing calm about the way Haaland scores goals. defenders are flung aside, goalkeepers cry internally, and then…he sits down.

Legs crossed. Hands open. Expression: “my soul is at peace while yours is shattered.”

It’s the perfect contrast. He celebrates like the world’s tallest yoga instructor after scoring like a Viking berserker.

You know your celebration is great and has ruffled some feathers when even opposition players bring it out just to mock you.