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The Football League was renamed to the English Football League, with all of the leagues and cup competitions it organizes including "EFL" in their titles. Manchester United equaled Arsenal's record of 12 FA Cups. Leicester City won the top tier title of English football for the first time in history, just 8 years after their relegation to the ...
The 2008–09 season was the 129th season of competitive football in England. The Premier League started on 16 August 2008, while the Championship , League One , and League Two matches started on 9 August 2008.
The 2008–09 Premier League (known as the Barclays Premier League for sponsorship reasons) was the 17th season since the establishment of the Premier League in 1992. The season began on Saturday, 16 August 2008, [2] and ended on 24 May 2009. The fixtures were announced on 16 June 2008.
Worked as a teacher outside football. [159] 24 March 2008 – Ray Drinkwater, 76, former Queens Park Rangers goalkeeper. [160] 29 April 2008 – Gordon Bradley, 74, former Carlisle United wing-half who later became an American citizen, where he played for a number of teams including the New York Cosmos, and won one cap for the U.S. national team.
The English football champions are the winners of the top-level league in English men's football, which since the 1992–93 season has been called the Premier League. Following the codification of professional football by the Football Association in 1885, [ 1 ] the Football League was established in 1888, after meetings initiated by Aston Villa ...
Prior to this season, the history of Manchester City's performance in the English football league hierarchy since the creation of the Premier League in 1992 is summarised by the following timeline chart – which commences with the last season (1991–92) of the old Football League First Division (from which the Premier League was formed).
The season was notable for the return of the English league to the top of UEFA's official ranking list, overtaking La Liga for the period from 1 May 2008 to 30 April 2009. This followed the success of English clubs in the UEFA Champions League , with both champions Manchester United and runners-up Chelsea reaching the final .
3 – Argentine midfielder Éver Banega leaves Boca Juniors and joins the Spanish club Valencia for an estimated fee of €18 million.; 5 – Everton are knocked out of the FA Cup in the third round by Oldham Athletic, a team from Football League One (third division) as Huddersfield Town from the same division beat Birmingham City.