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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 ...
The club won their first League Cup in 1987, but a year later failed to retain the trophy as outsiders Luton Town beat them in the final. [29] In 1989, Arsenal won their first league championship in 18 years, courtesy of Michael Thomas' last-minute goal against closest challengers Liverpool in the final game of the season. [30]
Goalkeeper Jens Lehmann kept ten consecutive clean sheets in the run-in to Arsenal's first UEFA Champions League final and the defence went 995 minutes until conceding a goal. [99] Arsenal were also the first British side to defeat Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund away from home, and both Milanese teams: Internazionale and Milan at the San Siro .
Arsenal's tally of 13 League Championships is the third highest in English football, after Manchester United (20) and Liverpool (19), [252] and they were the first club to reach a seventh and an eighth League Championship.
Arsenal won the League Cup in 1986–87, the Football League Centenary Trophy in 1988, two League title wins in 1988–89 and 1990–91, the FA Cup and League Cup double in 1992–93 and a second European trophy, the Cup Winners' Cup, in 1993–94. However, Graham's reputation was tarnished when it was revealed that he had taken kickbacks for ...
Both ended with 89 points, but Manchester City won the title with a superior goal difference, the first and only time that goal difference has decided the Premier League title. [3] Earliest title win with the most games remaining: 7 games, Liverpool [4] [note 1] Undefeated title win: Arsenal [5]
Arsenal missed out on the chance to regain top spot in the Premier League after suffering a surprise 2-0 home defeat to West Ham on Thursday.
The 1988–89 title race was the closest in the history of the First Division. [17] In the run-up to the Anfield match, Arsenal lost to Derby County and drew with Wimbledon; Liverpool won twice, 2–0 against Queens Park Rangers and 5–1 against West Ham United allowing them to overtake Arsenal with one game to play and take a superior goal difference. [14]