This article is about men ‘s English football league champions. For women ‘s titlists, see List of English women ‘s football champions
The English football champions are the winners of the highest league in English men ‘s football, which since 1992–93 is 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 director William McGregor. [ 2 ] At the end of the 1888–89 season, Preston North End were the first club to be crowned champions after completing their fixtures unbeaten. [ 3 ]

The league ‘s early years were dominated by teams from the North and Midlands, where professionalism had been embraced more promptly than in the South of England. [ 4 ] Its condition as the country ‘s pre-eminent league was strengthened in 1892, when the equal Football Alliance was absorbed into the Football League. [ 5 ] Former Alliance clubs comprised the bulge of a newfangled Second Division, from which promotion to the top level could be gained. It was not until 1931 that a southerly club were crowned champions, when Herbert Chapman ‘s Arsenal secured the title. [ 6 ] Rules stipulating a maximum wage for players were abolished in 1961. This resulted in a shift of power towards bigger clubs. [ 7 ] Financial considerations became an even bigger influence from 1992, when the teams then in the First Division defected to form the FA Premier League. This supplanted the Football League First Division as the highest flush of football in England, [ 8 ] and due to a serial of increasingly larger television receiver contracts, put unprecedented wealth into the hands of top flight clubs. [ 9 ] The first five champions in the Premier League earned run average – Arsenal, Blackburn Rovers, Chelsea, Manchester City and Manchester United – had all won the entitle at least once prior to 1992. Leicester City were champions for the first time in 2016, becoming the inaugural team to win the Premier League without having previously won the First Division. All the clubs which have ever been champions are however in being nowadays and all take separate in the acme four tiers of the English football league system. Sheffield Wednesday are the lone cabaret who have ever changed their name after winning a league style having been known as The Wednesday for the first three of their four titles. manchester United have won twenty dollar bill titles, the most of any club. [ 10 ] United ‘s rivals Liverpool are second with nineteen. Liverpool dominated during the 1970s and 1980s ( winning eleven league titles between 1973 and 1990 ), while Manchester United dominated in the 1990s and 2000s under coach Sir Alex Ferguson ( football team league titles between 1993 and 2009 ). Arsenal are third with thirteen titles, having dominated during the 1930s ( five league titles between 1931 and 1938 ). Everton are one-fourth with nine titles. Aston Villa ( seven ) and Sunderland ( six ) secured the majority of their titles before World War I. Manchester City ( seven titles ) and Chelsea ( six titles ) secured the majority of their titles in the twenty-first century. Manchester City have won five league titles between 2012 and 2021, whilst Chelsea won five titles between 2005 and 2017.

Huddersfield Town ( 1923–24 to 1925–26 ), Arsenal ( 1932–33 to 1934–35 ), Liverpool ( 1981–82 to 1983–84 ) and Manchester United ( 1998–99 to 2000–01 and 2006–07 to 2008–09 ) are the only sides to have won the league title in three back-to-back seasons. [ 11 ]

list of champions [edit ]

Premier League ( 1992–present ) [edit ]

sum titles won [edit ]

There are 24 clubs who have won the English claim. Teams in bold compete in the Premier League as of the 2021–22 temper.

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