Shaw had a remarkable season, when he was trusted to start in defense in all 38 matches in the Premier League in the 2025-2026 season.
This statistic is even more impressive when he achieved that achievement after being mainly positioned as a left center-back in the early stages of the season, before Michael Carrick came to be head coach in January 2026 and Shaw switched to mainly playing as a left-back.
Luke Shaw is inherently a very sensitive player to injuries, absent from many matches for Man United. However, this season, Luke Shaw played very persistently when starting 38 matches in the Premier League for the team, including 25 matches playing 90 minutes.
Notably, Luke Shaw scored his first goal of the season impressively last weekend, opening the score in the last home game of the season, helping Man United defeat Nottingham Forest 3-2.
Before Luke Shaw, Man United only had 4 players on the field in all matches in a season in the Premier League. If you add the goalkeeper position, there are 3 more people who set this record.
As for players, Steve Bruce set a record for playing in the entire Premier League season 1992-1993. Later, Denis Irwin (1993-1994 season), Gary Pallister (1994-1995 season) equaled this record. All three defenders achieved that achievement in seasons with 42 matches, when the Premier League had up to 22 teams.
It was not until 25 years later that another Man United player repeated this feat, when Harry Maguire not only equaled the record in the 2019-2020 season but also played every minute in the Premier League campaign.
Andre Onana was the last goalkeeper to start in every match of a Premier League season for Man United, in the 2023-2024 season, while other goalkeepers achieving similar results were Peter Schmeichel (1992-1993) and David de Gea, who did so impressively in four different seasons (2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2021-2022 and 2022-2023).
