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List of English football champions Football League First Division (1888–1992) Premier League (1992–present) Leicester City celebrate winning the 2015–16 Premier League Country England Founded 1888 Number of teams 24 winners Current champions Manchester City (2023–24) Most successful club Manchester United (20 championships) The English football champions are the winners of the top ...
In turn, the champions of these three leagues would be promoted to the National League. The closure of Chester City during the later stages of the 2009–10 season was the first mid-season closure of a club in the division since Newport County in the second half of the 1988–89 season; on both occasions, the records of both clubs were expunged.
This is a list of football clubs that compete within the leagues and divisions of the men's English football league system as far down as Level 10 (Step 6), that is to say, six divisions below the Premier League/English Football League. Also included are clubs from outside England that play within the English system (suitably highlighted).
The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, it is the oldest football league in the world, and was the top-level football league in England from its foundation until 1992, when the top 22 clubs split from it to form the Premier League.
West Bromwich Albion 12–0 Darwen (First Division, 4 April 1892) [59] Nottingham Forest 12–0 Leicester Fosse (First Division, 21 April 1909) [59] Record away win: Port Vale 0–10 Sheffield United (Second Division, 10 December 1892) Record away win in top flight: Southampton 0–9 Leicester City (Premier League, 25 October 2019) [60]
The top tier in English football today is the Premier League, replacing the Football League First Division for the 1992–93 inaugural season. Since the 1888–89 season, the first year of top flight football, three players have scored over 300 goals with a further 25 players scoring over 200 goals. In total 256 players have all scored 100 ...
First season in top division First season in Premier League Seasons in top division Seasons in Premier League First season of current spell in top division No. of seasons of current spell in Premier League Top division titles Most recent top division title Arsenal [v 1] [v 2] 2nd: 1904–05: 1992–93: 108: 33: 1919–20 (99 seasons [v 3]) 33: ...
Shankly won promotion to the First Division and the club's first league title since 1947. The club was promoted back into the First Division in 1962 and won it in 1964, for the first time in 17 years. In 1965, the club won its first FA Cup. In 1966, the club won the First Division but lost to Borussia Dortmund in the European Cup Winners' Cup ...