English Premier League Wiki | History, Facts, and Winners

December 21, 2020 By Sourav


English Premier League Wiki | History, Facts, and Winners

English Premier League wiki consists of its brief history, year-by-year winners list, Financial Stats, and Sponsors. The summary of Premier League records (Most Goals, Assists, and much more) is also here to cherish for which will end with some unknown and crazy facts about the league.

The English Premier League, our beloved EPL, is at the end of season 2018-19 where all the soccer fans around the world are now looking forward to having a great time with their favorite teams this season. The Red Devils, The Blues, The Gunners along with all the fan followers of other teams already started to buckle up their seat belts to cheer for their clubs. Where big teams like Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, and Tottenham are practicing hard to achieve their spot with the trophy, teams like Leicester City, the black horse of the 2015-16 season, are also preparing to give their best.

And, here goes the English Premier League wiki to sum up all the excitements, history, data, and stats to get going with the big expectation of the upcoming season. The EPL wiki is actually a cocktail of legendary history with a pinch of unknown facts to give it a modern twist. So let’s get started.

English Premier League Wiki

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The EPL, the top of the English football league system, is the primary football competition of England and Wales and is currently contested by 20 clubs. The league is estimated to be watched by around 4.7 billion people through television. Besides being the most-watched football league, EPL is also the costliest and the highest earned league in the whole world. Premier League is currently generating nearly €2.2 billion per year with the television rights where teams were estimated to have earned nearly £2,400 million per season as the revenue. Not only that, but the league also hosts the richest Premier League footballers who are among the top earners in the football world.

The amazing fact of the English premier league is that only 6 teams have got the chance to hold the cup since its inception in 1992 (Manchester United 13 times, Chelsea 5 times, Arsenal thrice, Manchester City twice, Blackburn Rovers and Leicester City once each), where 47 clubs have competed the league till now. Chelsea is the current champion of EPL as we all know the Blues secured their fifth EPL title in May 2017.

Brief History of English Premier League

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The basic principles for the inauguration of FA Premier League, currently the Premier League, called ‘The Founder Members Agreement’ was signed on 17 July 1991 by the top clubs in England and Wales. FA Premier League was established on 27th May 1992 as a limited company having its headquarter in Lancaster Gate. The very first season of the Premier League was inaugurated in 1992-93 where 22 teams had made their participation that year. The first-ever EPL goal was scored by Brian Deane of Sheffield United club in a breathtaking match against Manchester United.

One of the most significant stats of EPL is that the league is majorly dominated by the “Big Four” consisting of Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, and Liverpool. While talking about the domination by these four teams in the top four spots of the league almost every year till 2011, Former English football player Joseph Kevin Keegan once said: “This league is in danger of becoming one of the most boring but great leagues in the world.” But the modern age of EPL after 2011 has seen clubs like Manchester City and Tottenham broke the domination of the Big Four and marked their presence in the league, and who don’t know about the famous run by Leicester City in the 2015-16 season.

Most trophy holders of Premier League:

Club No Of Trophies Year of Trophy
Manchester United 13 1992–93, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2010–11, 2012–13
Chelsea 5 2004–05, 2005–06, 2009–10, 2014–15, 2016–17
Arsenal 3 1997–98, 2001–02, 2003–04
Manchester City 3 2011–12, 2013–14, 2017-18
Blackburn Rovers 1 1994–95
Leicester City 1 2015–16

The Premier League clubs held the UEFA Champions League trophy four times and secured the second spot five times since 1992. As a surprising recent fact, Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. and Huddersfield Town A.F.C will participate in the upcoming Premier League season 2017-18 as the 48th and 49th inductee of the league. Hull City, Middlesbrough, and Sunderland were relegated from the league and will not participate in the upcoming season.

Financial Stats of Premier League

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In this part of the English Premier League wiki, we tried to make a gist of the whole financial facts of EPL. Barclays was the main title sponsor of the league from 1993 to 2016 after which The FA announced it would not collaborate any further for title sponsorship to maintain a clean image of the Premier League. The current official match ball supplier is Nike who had a contract with EPL since 2000. EPL was awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for its outstanding contribution to international business in 2010.

Premier League is currently holding the spot of the highest revenue football league in the world while having nearly €2.48 billion as total club revenues. The English Premier League has some of the richest football clubs in the world while Deloitte listed seven Premier League clubs in their top 20 list of “Football Money League”. Recently Sky and BT paid a total of £5.136 billion as the renewal fee for their TV rights for the next three seasons till 2018-19, which also makes the league the highest-earning league of the world in the category of Television rights.

Favorite Footballers and Managers of Premier League

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Sir Alex Ferguson holds the record for being the longest-serving manager of EPL while coaching Manchester United straight 21 seasons since the inception of the league. The longest-serving current manager is Arsène Wenger who is in charge of Arsenal since 1996. Ryan Giggs holds the current most appearances record with his 632 match playing experience in the Premier League, and also holds the record for most Premier League trophy with his 13 titles for Manchester United.

Alan Shearer holds the record of most English Premier League goals with 260, and also jointly holds the record for most goals scored in a season (34) with Andrew Cole. Thierry Henry holds the record of most Premier League Golden Boot with his 4 awards. Harry Kane of Tottenham Hotspur is the current golden boot holder of the premier league. Recently Paul Pogba’s transfer from Juventus to Manchester United made the record for the highest transfer fees ever paid with £89 million.

Top Goal Scorers of English Premier League:

Rank Footballer Goals Apps Ratio
1 Alan Shearer 260 441 0.59
2 Wayne Rooney 198 460 0.43
3 Andrew Cole 187 414 0.45
4 Frank Lampard 177 609 0.29
5 Thierry Henry 175 258 0.68
6 Robbie Fowler 163 379 0.43
7 Jermain Defoe 158 468 0.34
8 Michael Owen 150 326 0.46
9 Les Ferdinand 149 351 0.42
10 Teddy Sheringham 146 418 0.35

Crazy Facts of Premier League

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In this segment of English Premier League Wiki, we tried to unfold some hidden and crazy side of EPL. Like the fact of Mario Balotelli’s only Premier League assist was for Sergio Aguero’s league-winning score against QPR. As a crazy fact to know, only three players scored a goal, provided one assist, and scored one own-goal in EPL in a single match, do you know who are they? Amazingly it is Wayne Rooney, Gareth Bale, and Kevin Davies. The highest goal scorer of Premier League Alan Shearer not only holds the record of the most penalty scored (56) but also holds the record for most penalty misses (11) in the league.

Anyone will be surprised to know that a player scored in 47 different EPL matches without losing any; yes it’s the marvelous James Milner. And, Gordan Strachan is the player to score a hat-trick in English Premier League born before 1960. You will be more surprised if we told you a club won 34 points from a losing position which is also the same point they have earned in total in the time of their relegation seven years later. Do you know which club? Yes, it is Newcastle United. One of the interesting facts about the underdog of season 2015-16, Leicester City, is that they have spent around 140 days in the bottom of the English Premier League table without being relegated in the season 2014-15.

Premier League Amazing Facts

Footballers have an added advantage of header goals if they had more height than their fellow players. The tallest man of EPL Peter Crouch already proved that fact. He has scored a total of 50 header goals in the league, more than 16 teams playing the EPL. Not only the players but the managers also have some crazy records in the premier league, like Terry Connor who has been in the charge of 10 EPL games without winning any. The greatest manager at the theatre of dreams, Sir Alex Ferguson, who is not even from England, has won 12 Premier League titles.

Conclusion of English Premier League Wiki

380 matches of each season of the premier league give us the adrenalin rush like we never get anywhere else. The whole world is now looking forward to witnessing some marvelous matches of the upcoming season. They now also expecting breathtaking performances by Paul Pogba, Harry Kane, and many more. So keep your eyes on our site to get the English Premier League match highlights, predictions, fixtures, and just everything about EPL. And don’t forget to let us know about anything else you want to add to this English Premier League Wiki in the comment box below. Happy reading!

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