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Timeline of English football

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1840s – 1850s – 1860s – 1870s – 1880s – 1890s – 1900s – 1910s – 1920s – 1930s – 1940s – 1950s – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – 1990s – 2000s – 2010s – 2020s

2020s

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2024 - 2023 - 2022 - 2021 - 2020

2024

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2023

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2022

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2021

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2020

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2010s

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2019 – 2018 – 2017 – 2016 – 2015 – 2014 – 2013 – 2012 – 2011 – 2010

2019

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2018

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  • Manchester City won the Premier League title earning the nickname "The Centurions", the first club to win the top flight title with 100 points. During the season, they broke multiple all-time Premier League and Top Division records. [5]
  • In EFL League One, the two offshoot clubs of Wimbledon, phoenix club AFC Wimbledon and Milton Keynes Dons, end the 2017–18 season with different fates: AFC Wimbledon survived while MK Dons were relegated to League Two. This meant that the 2018–19 season would be the first in which AFC Wimbledon would play in a higher division than MK Dons.
  • Chelsea won the FA Cup, beating Manchester United 1-0.

2017

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2016

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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 3rd tier.
  • Leicester City's Jamie Vardy became the first player to score in 11 consecutive appearances in Premier League history.
  • Defending champions Chelsea sacked manager José Mourinho in December while in 16th place and eventually failed to qualify for European football, for the first time in two decades, finishing 10th - the lowest position for a Premier League holder. This record stood for only one year, as Leicester City finished 12th the following season. Eden Hazard, the previous season's PFA Players' Player of the Year, did not score a league goal until late April.
  • Manchester United sacked manager Louis van Gaal despite winning the FA Cup, after a poor league season that saw the club miss out on next season's Champions League. Former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho was appointed in his place.

2015

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2014

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  • May 19: Louis van Gaal was confirmed as the manager of Manchester United. Former interim manager Ryan Giggs was named as his assistant, and confirmed his retirement as a professional football player at the age of 40, after nearly a quarter of a century during which he played 963 games and won an English record of 22 major trophies.[6]
  • Arsenal won the FA Cup, their first major trophy in 9 years.
  • Manchester City won their 4th top flight title.

2013

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2012

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2011

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2010

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2000s

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2009 – 2008 – 2007 – 2006 – 2005 – 2004 – 2003 – 2002 – 2001 – 2000

2009

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2008

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  • Portsmouth defeated Cardiff City 1–0 in the FA Cup final, winning the competition for the first time in 49 years, the longest gap between two FA Cup wins for the same club.
  • In early September, both Kevin Keegan and Alan Curbishley resigned from their Premier League management jobs at Newcastle and West Ham, respectively, citing boardroom interference in transfers. In the same week, Dimitar Berbatov completed a move to Manchester United against the wishes of the Tottenham Hotspur board. Manchester City were purchased by the Abu Dhabi United Group and on the same day broke the transfer record by purchasing Robinho of Brazil for £32million – slightly exceeding the £30.75million that their city rivals paid for Berbatov.
  • Three clubs started the Football League Two season with points deductions. Both Rotherham United and AFC Bournemouth began the season on -17 points after exiting administration without using a Company Voluntary Agreement. Luton Town started on -30 points after a 20-point deduction due to exiting administration without using a CVA and a 10-point deduction due to illegal agent payments during transfers. This 30-point deduction doubled the previous record for points deduction imposed on a club set in 2007.
  • Manchester United won the Premier League for the 10th time and overall 17th English League championship. It is also the tenth title for manager Sir Alex Ferguson (now the longest serving manager in English football with 22 years of unbroken service at the club) and Ryan Giggs, the only player to have collected title medals with all 10 of their championship-winning sides since 1993.
  • Tottenham Hotspur defeated Chelsea 2–1 after extra time in the first final of the Football League Cup to be held at the new Wembley Stadium.
  • Fabio Capello succeeded Steve McClaren as head coach of the England national football team.
  • The 2008 UEFA Champions League final was the first all-English club final in European Cup history, and after 120 minutes, Manchester United defeated Chelsea on penalties after a 1–1 draw in Moscow, Russia.
  • Leicester City were relegated to the third tier of English football for the first time in their 124-year history.
  • Aldershot Town won promotion to the Football League as Conference National champions, 16 years after the previous incarnation went out of business.
  • Hull City A.F.C. reached the top flight for the first time in their history defeating Bristol City F.C. 1–0 at Wembley Stadium in the play-off final.

2007

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  • Luton Town F.C. entered administration on November 22, thus incurring a 10-point deduction for the 2007–08 season.[7]
  • Steve McClaren was fired from his position as England manager after failing to qualify for the 2008 Euros – the first time in 24 years that England have failed to qualify for the European Championships.
  • Manchester United won the Premiership for the ninth time under Sir Alex Ferguson.
  • Chelsea won a cup double, claiming the FA Cup in the first final back at the recently completed Wembley Stadium. The match finished 1–0 with Didier Drogba scoring the only goal in the last minute of extra-time. Ryan Giggs set a new record for the most appearances in FA cup finals. However, he could not beat Mark Hughes' record for the most finals won by one player. The victory by Chelsea stopped Manchester United from winning the Double.
  • Leeds United entered administration on May 4 after a number of years struggling with the debt incurred by previous boards, thus incurring a 10-point deduction for the 2006–07 season, resulting in them being relegated to the third tier for the first time, but this was not the last of them. Two months later, on August 4, the club was sold without a C.V.A., as required by league rules.[8] As a consequence, Leeds were hit with the biggest point deduction yet in English professional football history (until Luton's 30 point penalty a year later), starting the 2007–08 League One season on -15.
  • Boston United entered administration in the final minutes of the league season to take a 10-point deduction in the 2006–07 season. They were relegated two divisions to the Conference North.
  • Chelsea became League Cup champions after defeating Arsenal 2–1 at the Millennium Stadium in Wales. This was also the last major English Cup Final to be played at the Millennium Stadium before the move back to Wembley Stadium after its completion.
  • The Arsenal women became the first and only English club to win the competition now known as the UEFA Women's Champions League, winning the UEFA Women's Cup Final against Swedish side Umeå 1–0 on aggregate.
  • American tycoons George N. Gillett Jr. and Tom Hicks pay £174.1m to take over Liverpool.
  • Alan Ball Jr., a member of England's World Cup winning team of 1966, died of a heart attack aged 61.

2006

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2005

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2004

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2003

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2002

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2001

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  • Manchester United became the fourth English club to win three successive league championships, following Huddersfield Town in the 1920s, Arsenal in the 1930s, and Liverpool in the 1980s.
  • Liverpool completed treble of the FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup.
  • David Rocastle, who had won a League Cup and two league championships with Arsenal as well as never being on the losing side in his 14 England appearances, died of cancer aged 33.
  • Paul Vaessen, who had famously scored the winning goal for Arsenal against Juventus at the Stadio Comunale in the second leg of a Cup Winners' Cup semi-final on 23 April 1980 (the first time an English club had beaten Juventus in Turin), died of a drug overdose at the age of 39. He was leading a troubled life since injury had resulted in his premature retirement from football in 1983 aged just 21. He was known as "a forgotten hero" as his death gained no media coverage at all, announcements of Paul's death in his local free newspaper omitted the fact that he had formerly been a footballer and merely labeled him a "local addict".
  • Coventry City suffered relegation from the Premiership after 34 successive seasons of top-flight football.
  • Fulham were promoted to the Premiership, becoming the first club since the Premier League's formation to make their way from Division Three (now League Two) to the top flight.
  • Stan Cullis, legendary former player and manager of Wolverhampton Wanderers, died aged 85.
  • Bertie Mee, managed of Arsenal's 1971 double-winning team, died aged 82.
  • Les Sealey, who had kept goal for Manchester United in their FA Cup triumph of 1990 and the European Cup Winners' Cup triumph of 1991, died of a heart attack aged 43.
  • Oxford United left the Manor Ground after 76 years and relocated to the new 12,500-seat Kassam Stadium (named after chairman Firoz Kassam) at Blackbird Leys, while Southampton ended 103 years at The Dell and moved into their new 32,000-seat St Mary's Stadium – which holds more than twice as many spectators compared to their old ground.
  • Manchester United broke the national transfer fee record twice – first by paying PSV Eindhoven £19million for Dutch striker Ruud van Nistelrooy, and then by paying Lazio of Italy £28.1million for Argentinian midfielder Juan Sebastián Verón.

2000

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1990s

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1999 – 1998 – 1997 – 1996 – 1995 – 1994 – 1993 – 1992 – 1991 – 1990

1999

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1998

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1997

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1996

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1995

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1994

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1993

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1992

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1991

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1990

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  • Liverpool won their eighteenth top-flight title.
  • England reached the semi-finals of the World Cup before losing to eventual winners Germany on penalties after a 1–1 draw. Manager Bobby Robson resigned after the competition to take charge of Dutch side PSV Eindhoven and was succeeded by Aston Villa manager Graham Taylor, who in turn was replaced by Czech coach Jozef Venglos – the first manager in the top flight of English football from outside of the British Isles.
  • English clubs were readmitted to European competition after a five-year ban arising from the Heysel Stadium disaster. First Division runners-up, Aston Villa, qualified for the UEFA Cup whilst FA Cup winners, Manchester United, qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup. Champions Liverpool were unable to compete in the European Cup because they had to serve an extra year of the ban.
  • Leeds United won the Second Division championship to end their eight-year exile from the First Division.
  • York City striker David Longhurst collapsed and died in his side's Fourth Division home fixture against Lincoln City at Bootham Crescent.
  • AFC Bournemouth director Brian Tiler, a former Aston Villa player, was killed in a car crash. Manager Harry Redknapp was also involved in the crash but survived.
  • Play-off finals became one-legged matches played at Wembley. In the Second Division, Swindon Town defeated Sunderland 1–0 but stayed in the Second Division after being found guilty of financial irregularities, with Sunderland being promoted in their place.
  • Manchester United won their first major trophy under the management of Alex Ferguson, defeating Crystal Palace 1–0 in the FA Cup final replay after drawing the first match 3–3.
  • Peter Shilton retired from international football at the age of 40, having kept goal a record 125 caps for the country.
  • Manchester United and Arsenal were, respectively, deducted one and two points, for a 21-man brawl involving their players on the pitch – the first and, so far, the only instance in English league history where a team was docked points for player misconduct.

1980s

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1989 – 1988 – 1987 – 1986 – 1985 – 1984 – 1983 – 1982 – 1981 – 1980

1989

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1988

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  • Liverpool wrapped up their seventeenth league title after losing just two league games in a 40-game season.
  • Wimbledon defeated Liverpool 1–0 to win the FA Cup in one of the most dramatic finals seen at Wembley. The triumph came at the end of Wimbledon's 11th season as a Football League club and only their second as First Division members.
  • Luton Town won the first major trophy in their history by defeating Arsenal 3–2 in the League Cup final.
  • Jackie Milburn, former Newcastle United striker, died of cancer at the age of 64.
  • Lincoln City, the first club to suffer automatic relegation from the Football League, regained their league status at the first attempt by clinching the Football Conference title.
  • Paul Gascoigne, 21-year-old Newcastle United midfielder, became England's first £2-million footballer when he signed for Tottenham Hotspur.
  • Shortly after Gascoigne's transfer, the national transfer fee record was broken again when Everton paid £2.2 million for West Ham United striker Tony Cottee.
  • Ian Rush returned to Liverpool after an unsuccessful season at Juventus in Italy for £2.8 million—the third time in the space of a few weeks that the record fee paid by an English club was broken.
  • Billy Bonds, the oldest outfield player in the Football League at 41, retired from playing with West Ham United.
  • Mark Hughes returned to Manchester United after two years away for a fee of £1.8 million.
  • Portsmouth were relegated to the Second Division a year after promotion.

1987

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  • Everton won their ninth league title despite adversity, struggling with massive injuries all season but still managing to win the league by 11 clear points.
  • Lincoln City became the first English club to suffer automatic relegation from the Football League after the re-election system was scrapped. They were replaced by Conference champions Scarborough.
  • Arsenal became the first team to defeat Liverpool in a game in which Ian Rush had scored, by defeating them 2–1 at Wembley in the League Cup Final.
  • Liverpool were forced to play their first few games of the season away from home after a sewer collapsed below the Spion Kop terrace.
  • Ian Rush moved to Juventus, as agreed in his deal the previous summer.
  • Portsmouth were promoted back to the First Division after 29 years away.

1986

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  • Liverpool sold Ian Rush to Juventus of Italy for £3.2 million, but kept him for a season on loan.
  • Wimbledon were promoted to the First Division in only their ninth season as a Football League club.
  • Wimbledon, who had joined the Football League just nine years earlier, were promoted to the First Division, completing a four-year rise from the Fourth Division.
  • Swindon Town, Fourth Division champions, set a new Football League record of 102 points.
  • Wolverhampton Wanderers suffered a third successive relegation and fell into the Fourth Division but were saved from going out of business by a new takeover deal, as were Middlesbrough after being relegated to the Third Division.
  • West Ham United finished a club-best third in the league, just four points behind champions Liverpool.

1985

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  • Everton won their eighth league title with five league games to spare. They then took their foot off the gas, losing three of their last five matches but still setting a club record points total.
  • 39 spectators, most of them Italian, were trampled to death in rioting on the terraces of the Heysel Stadium at the European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus.[12] Despite the carnage, the match was played, and Juventus won 1–0. The tragedy resulted in a five-year ban on English clubs from European competition, with a six-year ban on Liverpool.
  • Everton established themselves as one of the strongest club sides in Europe after winning the league championship with four matches to spare and adding the Cup Winners' Cup to their trophy cabinet.
  • Anton Johnson was banned from football for life after it was revealed that he had illegally taken control of two football clubs (Southend United and Rotherham United) at the same time and had also mishandled the finances of both clubs.
  • Oxford United were promoted to the top flight after claiming the Second Division championship, just a year after winning the Third Division championship in 1984, becoming the only club to have won two consecutive championships on the way to the top flight.
  • A 14-year-old boy was crushed to death by a collapsed wall when Leeds United fans rioted during the last game of the Second Division season at Birmingham City, but media coverage and public attention of the tragedy were overshadowed as it occurred on the same afternoon as the Bradford City fire.
  • Harry Catterick, who managed Everton to league title glory in 1963 and 1970 as well as an FA Cup triumph in 1966, died from a heart attack while watching their FA Cup quarter-final win over Ipswich Town at Goodison Park.

1984

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1983

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  • Liverpool retained both the League Cup and league title.
  • Watford finished second in the league at the end of their first season in the First Division.
  • Bob Paisley retired after nine years as Liverpool manager. He finished on a high with the league championship and League Cup, bringing his tally of major prizes to an English record of 21. His successor was 62-year-old coach Joe Fagan.
  • Manchester United and England winger Steve Coppell retired from playing at the age of 28 due to a knee injury.

1982

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  • Liverpool won their thirteenth League championship and their second League Cup title.
  • Swansea City finished sixth in their first season as a First Division club, after having topped the league on several occasions.
  • Watford won promotion to the First Division for the first time in their history.
  • Bristol City declared bankruptcy and reformed under a new company, BCFC 1982.

1981

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  • Aston Villa won their first league championship in 71 years.

1980

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  • Liverpool won a second consecutive league championship.

1970s

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1979 – 1978 – 1977 – 1976 – 1975 – 1974 – 1973 – 1972 – 1971 – 1970

1979

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  • Danny Blanchflower's short-lived and unsuccessful reign as manager of Chelsea came to an end after the club suffered relegation to the Second Division.

1978

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  • Newly promoted Nottingham Forest won the league title and League Cup for the first time in their history. As of 2021–22, they remain the last newly promoted club to become league champions.
  • Liverpool became the first British club to retain the European Cup by defeating FC Bruges 1–0 at Wembley, thanks to a Kenny Dalglish strike.

1977

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  • Liverpool established themselves as one of Europe's finest sides by retaining the league title and joining the list of European Cup winners.

1976

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  • Liverpool won the league championship for a record ninth time, ending manager Bob Paisley's two-year quest to bring a major trophy to Anfield.

1975

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  • Derby County, in Dave Mackay's first full season as manager, won their second league title in four years, adding to the 1972 championship which had been won by Mackay's predecessor, Brian Clough.
  • Carlisle United, who had topped the 1974–75 First Division after three games, were relegated after failing to put together a consistent run of good form in their first season as a top-division club.
  • Manchester United were promoted back to the First Division one season after losing their top-flight status.
  • Aston Villa re-established themselves as a top English side by winning the League Cup and gaining promotion to the First Division in the same season.

1974

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  • Liverpool won the FA Cup for a second time after an emphatic victory over Newcastle United.
  • Manchester United were relegated to the Second Division for the first time since the 1930s. Their fate was sealed when former player Denis Law scored the winning goal for Manchester City at Old Trafford with his final touch in league football. However, Birmingham City's victory would have condemned United to relegation regardless of the outcome of their game.

1973

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  • The Football League announced that three clubs, instead of two, would be relegated from the First and Second Divisions from the end of the 1973–74 season onward, with three clubs being promoted to the Second and Third Divisions. The four-up, four-down system between the Third and Fourth Divisions would continue.
  • Hereford United ended their first season as a Football League club by winning promotion from the Fourth Division.

1972

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  • Leeds United won the FA Cup for the first time, adding it to their growing list of honors.

1971

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1970

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  • Everton won the league title, finishing one point short of the record.

1960s

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1969 – 1968 – 1967 – 1966 – 1965 – 1964 – 1963 – 1962 – 1961 – 1960

1969

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  • Leeds United won the first league championship in their history.

1968

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  • The blue half of Manchester also celebrated after Manchester City won the league championship for only the second time in their history.

1967

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  • Goalkeeper Harry Gregg left Manchester United after 10 years, during which he established himself as one of the best goalkeepers in the English game, but with no medals to show for it: he had missed the 1963 FA Cup final due to injury and had not played enough games to qualify for a medal when United won the league in 1965 and 1967.
  • Coventry City, managed by Jimmy Hill, won the Second Division championship and were promoted to the First Division for the first time in their history.

1966

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1965

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1964

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  • Liverpool won the league championship to claim their first major trophy under the management of Bill Shankly.
  • West Ham won the FA Cup, claiming the first major trophy in their history.

1963

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1962

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1961

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1960

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1950s

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1959 – 1958 – 1957 – 1956 – 1955 – 1954 – 1953

1959

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1958

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1957

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1956

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1955

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1954

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1953

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1952

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1951

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  • Tottenham Hotspur win the First Division for the first time in their history, only a season after their promotion.

1950

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1940s

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1949

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  • Portsmouth win their first league title, 10 years after winning the FA Cup.

1948

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1947

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  • After a close three-horse title race, Liverpool win the first post-war league championship.
  • Charlton Athletic win the FA Cup, their first and only major trophy to date.

1946

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  • Football League North (Wartime – Joint Division One League with Football League South)
  • Champions: Sheffield United
  • Derby County become the first team to win the FA Cup after losing a game when two-legged games are introduced for one season only.
  • League football resumes following the end of the Second World War.
  • The Football Association end their boycott of FIFA, paving the way for England to play in World Cup matches.

1930s

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1939

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  • The Football League is abandoned three games into the new season after the outbreak of the Second World War
  • Portsmouth beat Wolverhampton Wanderers 4–1 in the FA Cup final.

1938

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  • Manchester City become the first and only defending Champions to be relegated.
  • Barcelona won the World Cup for the first time ever

1937

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1936

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  • Sunderland A.F.C. win their sixth league championship.
  • Founding Football League members, Aston Villa and Blackburn Rovers are relegated to the second division.

1935

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  • Arsenal win their third successive league title.

1934

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1932

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1931

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1930

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  • Sheffield Wednesday defend their league championship, winning their fourth league title.
  • Arsenal win their first ever major trophy, the FA Cup.
  • Everton are relegated for the first time, just two years after being crowned top flight league champions.

1920s

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1929

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1928

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  • Arsenal and Chelsea are the first clubs to play with shirt numbers on 25 August.
  • Dixie Dean becomes the first and only player to score 60 goals in one season in English football, helping Everton to win the top flight title.
  • Blackburn Rovers equal Aston Villa's record of six FA Cup wins.

1927

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  • Newcastle United win their fourth and last top-flight title to date.
  • FA Cup: Cardiff City 1 Arsenal 0
  • The FA Cup is won by a team outside England for the first time prompting it to become known as the FA Cup rather than the English Cup as previously.

1926

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  • Huddersfield Town become the first team to be the Football League champions three seasons in succession.

1925

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  • FA Cup: Sheffield United 1–0 Cardiff City
  • Sheffield United F.C. win the FA Cup, their last major trophy to this day. Runners-up: Cardiff City
  • The offside rule is changed: a player is now onside if a minimum of two (instead of three) opposing players are between him and the goal line.

1924

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  • Huddersfield Town win the league for the first time.
  • FA Cup: Corinthian 1-0 Blackburn Rovers
  • A major shock in the first round as five-time Cup winners, and First Division staple, Blackburn Rovers, are unexpectedly beaten by the amateurs of Corinthian F.C. at the Crystal Palace.
  • Newcastle United beat Aston Villa to win the FA Cup in what became known as the "Rainy Day Final" due to the weather and pitch conditions.

1923

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  • Liverpool win a second consecutive league championship, a fourth in total.
  • Bolton Wanderers defeat West Ham United 2–0 in the first FA Cup final to be held at Wembley. The match kicked off 44 minutes late due to overcrowding – there was an estimated 200,000 fans in attendance, and it was not until a police constable on a white police horse helped clear the pitch that the match took place. As a result, the match is now known as the White Horse Final.
  • Aston Villa centre-half Tommy Ball is shot dead by his neighbour in November thus becoming the only Football League player to have been murdered.[16]

1921

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1920

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1919

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  • Leeds City are expelled and dissolved by the football league after financial irregularities including the payment of players during the First World War. In its place, a new club is formed, Leeds United.

1915

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  • Everton win the final league title before league football is suspended because of the First World War.
  • FA Cup Final: Sheffield United 3–0 Chelsea.
  • Sheffield United F.C. win the FA Cup.

1914

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  • Blackburn Rovers win their second league title and their second in three seasons.

1913

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1912

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1911

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1910

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1900s

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1909

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  • The Charity Shield is inaugurated.
  • Manchester United win their first-ever FA Cup title.

1908

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1907

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1906

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1905

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1904

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1903

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1902

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  • Norwich City FC formed as an amateur club.
  • Sunderland A.F.C. win their fourth league championship.
  • J.H. Davies takes over near-bankrupt Newton Heath (L&YR) F.C. and changes its name to Manchester United.
  • Sheffield United win the FA Cup. Runners-up: Southampton.
  • Sheffield United 1–1 Southampton – (R) Sheffield United 2–1 Southampton.

1901

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1900

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  • Aston Villa win the league championship, their fifth title in seven years.
  • Sheffield United F.C finish second.
  • Sunderland finish third.
  • Leading Goalscorer Billy Garraty (Aston Villa): 27.
  • Brighton & Hove Albion are founded.

1890s

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1899

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1898

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  • Sheffield United F.C. secure the league title for the first and only time.
  • Sunderland finish second.
  • Wolverhampton Wanderers finish third.
  • Leading goalscorer: Fred Wheldon (Aston Villa), 21.
  • Portsmouth F.C. is formed.

1897

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  • Aston Villa capture their third league title and the FA Cup to win the second Double in English football.
  • Sheffield United finish second.
  • Derby County finish third.
  • Leading goalscorer: Steve Bloomer (Derby County), 22.

1896

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1895

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1894

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  • Aston Villa win their first league championship. Later that year though their former captain Archie Hunter dies aged just 35.
  • Formerly St Mark's West Gorton and Aldwick Association FC are renamed Manchester City.

1893

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1892

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1891

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  • Everton win their first league championship.
  • Luton Town become the south of England's first professional club in August – paying the entire team 2/6 (two shillings and sixpence) plus expenses.
  • The penalty kick is introduced.
  • Assistant referees are first introduced as linesmen.

1890

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  • Luton Town player Frank Whitby becomes the first professional player in the south of England on 15 December, earning five shillings per week.

1880s

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1889

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1888

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1887

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1886

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1885

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1884

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1883

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1882

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1880

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  • St. Mark's (West Gorton) are formed in Manchester.

1870s

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1879

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1878

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  • First floodlit football match played at Bramall Lane, Sheffield on 14 October 1878 in front of an attendance of 20,000.
  • Newton Heath LYR Football Club was formed by the Carriage and Wagon department of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway depot at Newton Heath (later known as Manchester United Football Club).
  • St. Domingo's FC is formed, later changing its name (in November 1879) to Everton.

1876

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1875

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1874

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1873

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  • The Calthorpe football club is formed, as the first club in Birmingham playing solely to the Association laws.

1872

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1871

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1870

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1860s

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1867

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1865

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1863

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1862

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  • Notts County, the oldest professional football club in the world, is formed.

1850s

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1857

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1840s

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1849

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  • Official referees appear for the first time in a football match in Cheltenham, two on the pitch and one in tribune.

1848

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1846

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  • A time limit on length of play is first introduced and first described in Lancashire.[20]

1845

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1842

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  • First use of referee. During a match in Rochdale, between the Bodyguards club and the Fearnaught club[20]

1820s

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1823

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  • First description of a pass comes from Suffolk.[21][22] In this Moor describes a team ball game with goals in which a player who can not advance further "throws the ball [he must in no case give it] to some less beleaguered friend more free and more in breath than himself". Although this description refers to throwing, Moor tells us that the game was at other times a football one: "Sometimes a large football was used; the game was then called 'kicking camp'."

1790s

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1796

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See also

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References

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  2. ^ "Man United win EFL Cup over Newcastle." Sky Sports. 1 March 2023.
  3. ^ "Haaland breaks PL Golden Boot record" BBC Sports. 28 May 2023.
  4. ^ "Statement from Roman Abramovich". chelseafc.com. 2 March 2022. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
  5. ^ Man City break multiple Premier League records following Centurions season. MCFC Editorial. 13 May 2018.
  6. ^ "Man United's Giggs ends glittering career". BBC Football. 19 May 2014. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
  7. ^ "Luton suffer 10-point deduction". BBC Sport. 22 November 2007. Retrieved 25 November 2007.
  8. ^ "Leeds hit with 15-point penalty". BBC Sport. 4 August 2007. Retrieved 4 August 2007.
  9. ^ "Lerner set to complite Villa deal". news.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
  10. ^ "Injury forces Shearer retirement". BBC News. 22 April 2006. Retrieved 6 January 2010.
  11. ^ "Football legend George Best dies". BBC News. 25 November 2005. Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
  12. ^ a b On This Day – 29 May 1985 BBC Online – news.bbc.co.uk
  13. ^ Guardian Unlimited – "Excited Scotland fans"
  14. ^ BBC Scotland (RealVideo)
  15. ^ "History of Match of the Day". BBC News. 14 February 2003. Retrieved 6 January 2010.
  16. ^ Cowan, Mark (6 May 2010). "The star Villa player shot dead by neighbour". Birmingham Mail. Archived from the original on 8 May 2010. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
  17. ^ Moffitt, Dominic (8 May 2021). "The team of 21: How Burnley won the league 100 years ago". LancsLive. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
  18. ^ Brown, Paul. "The man who stole the FA Cup – how a kleptomaniac pensioner ended the 63-year mystery". FourFourTwo. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  19. ^ The Derby Mercury (Derby, England), Wednesday, 15 March 1871; Issue 8181.
  20. ^ a b c Mangan, J. A. (1999). Sport in Europe: Politics, Class, Gender. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-7146-4946-7.
  21. ^ Edward Moor, Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms, J. Loder, London
  22. ^ Moor, Edward (1823). Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, an Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms of that County. J. Loder. moor date:1823-2007.
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