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Find out about the format and history of the Premier League

The Premier League is the exceed tier of England ‘s football pyramid, with 20 teams battling it out for the respect of being crowned english champions .
home to some of the most celebrated clubs, players, managers and stadiums in world football, the Premier League is the most-watched league on the planet with one billion homes watching the action in 188 countries.

The league takes place between August and May and involves the teams playing each other home and away across the season, a total of 380 matches .
Three points are awarded for a succeed, one point for a draw and none for a get the better of, with the team with the most points at the end of the season winning the Premier League title .
The teams that finish in the bottom three of the league mesa at the end of the political campaign are relegated to the Championship, the moment tier of English football .
Those teams are replaced by three clubs promoted from the Championship ; the sides that finish in beginning and second place and the third via the end-of-season playoffs .

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Manchester United have won the Premier League title 13 times

If any clubs finish with the same total of points, their stead in the Premier League table is determined by goal difference, then the number of goals scored. If the teams still can not be separated, they will be awarded the lapp position in the postpone .
Since the League began in 1992, there have been seven unlike winners : Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City, Blackburn Rovers, Leicester City and Liverpool. Man Utd have had the most success with 13 titles in the 28 seasons therefore far .
Man City have the Premier League phonograph record for the biggest winning gross profit, when they finished 19 points ahead of second-placed Manchester United in 2017/18 .
The narrowest winning allowance of +8 goal remainder came in 2011/12 when Sergio Aguero ‘s goal, deep into stoppage-time on the final examination day of the season, gave Man City the championship in the most dramatic of Premier League finishes.

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Arsene Wenger ‘s Arsenal are the alone side to have gone the integral Premier League campaign unbeaten. That record season was achieved in 2003/04 when they won the style by 11 points from Chelsea. For more Premier League facts and figures, suction stop hera .
There have been four unlike Premier League champions in the last five years, with Leicester City capping off an incredible sporting narrative by winning the style in 2015/16 .
The improbable title gloat came a season after the Foxes avoided relegation by merely six points .
liverpool are the maintain champions, having equalled a Premier League record by winning 32 of their matches, finishing 18 points ahead of Man City in 2019/20 .

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Leicester City won the Premier League in the incredible 2015/16 campaign

A sum of 49 clubs have played in the Premier League, with Brighton & Hove Albion and Huddersfield Town being the latest to make their debuts, in 2017/18 .
Six clubs are ‘ever-present ‘, having been in the Premier League since it formed : Arsenal, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur .
The teams that finish in the crown four of the Premier League qualify for the future temper ‘s UEFA Champions League group stages.

A fifth-place Premier League finish will put a team into the UEFA Europa League but the future best-placed teams who have not qualified for Europe will besides enter the rival if the winners of the FA Cup and/or League Cup qualify through their league position .

Premier League champions

2019/20 Liverpool
2018/19
Manchester City
2017/18 Manchester City
2016/17 Chelsea
2015/16
Leicester City
2014/15 Chelsea
2013/14 Manchester City
2012/13 Manchester United
2011/12 Manchester City
2010/11 Manchester United
2009/10 Chelsea
2008/09 Manchester United
2007/08 Manchester United
2006/07 Manchester United
2005/06 Chelsea
2004/05 Chelsea
2003/04 Arsenal
2002/03 Manchester United
2001/02 Arsenal
2000/01 Manchester United
1999/00 Manchester United
1998/99 Manchester United
1997/98 Arsenal
1996/97 Manchester United
1995/96 Manchester United
1994/95 Blackburn Rovers
1993/94 Manchester United
1992/93 Manchester United
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