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The History of the English Premier League. {This is an Educational Exercise Only}
The English Premier League was formed at the end of the 1990/91 season and its inaugural season was the 1991/92 season. The FA Premier League as it was known when it first was established, was designed with the idea to be the most popular league in the world. Before its establishment, English football was experiencing a decline in attendance at games, growing issues of hooliganism, a ban on being able to enter European competitions, and also the Hilsborough Disaster. It was decided that a new league system was needed. The five biggest teams in England who were Manchester United, Liverpool, Everton and Tottenham Hotspur, would push for the establishment of a new league. The new league, known as the FA Premier League would be independent from the other football league's in England, meaning it would be more profitable as it would be able to keep all the image rights and television rights for themselves. The Premier League would go on to become the biggest and most watched league in the world.

Arsenal were the last team to win the old top tier of English football known as the First Division in the 1990/91 season. After that the end of the famous First Division was confirmed as the teams who weren't relegated at the end of the season joined the Premier League ahead of the 1991/92 season. Many thought that the most dominant teams in the Premier League would Arsenal and Liverpool as they were both quite successful in the 1980's and of course as Arsenal had won the last First Division title. Liverpool at the time had the most league titles out of any other team with 18 to their name, and having been successful domestically and in Europe throughout the 1970's and 80's, many thought they would find success in the new FA Premier League. However, this was not the case, and to make things a little painful for Liverpool fans, it was their arch enemy and biggest rival in football, Manchester United, who would dominate the Premier League becoming it's most successful and dominant team of the 1990's and 2000's.

Manchester United before the Premier League's inaugural season had not won the league in 26 years and were relegated in the 1970's from the First Division and in the 1980's were a very average mid - table team. However, under the leadership of Sir Alex Fergusson Manchester United won the inaugural Premier League title in 1991/92, ending the 26 year league drought. For both the Premiership and Manchester United, this was the beginning of football dominance. Manchester United won 6 out of 8 titles up for grabs in the 1990's, with Blackburn Rovers and Arsenal winning the other two. Manchester United are also the only team to have won the Premier League three times in a row not just once - but twice. their first time doing this from 1998/99 - 2000/01 and their second time was from 2006/07 - 2008/09. Their 1998/99 Premier League title was arguably their most famous as Sir Alex's Red Devils completed a unique and triumphant treble, winning the Premier League, the FA Cup and the UEFA European Champions League. Since 1991/92, Manchester United have won the Premier League title a record 13 times. They are also England's most successful domestic team having won the League title a total 20 times, two more than their biggest rivals Liverpool who hold 18 titles. However, since Sir Alex Fergusson's departure at the end of their last title winning season of 2012/13, Manchester United have not won the Premier League and have only finished in the top four of the league twice whereas under Sir Alex Fergusson they never finished below second place for 21 years.

Since Manchester United's decline in English football, another Manchester team has since taken the crown of best team in the league however, instead of wearing red they wear blue and they are called Manchester City. Manchester City since 2011/12 have won 5 league titles and in 2017/18 became the only team to ever accumulate over 100 points in a season. Since their buyout in 2009 by Sheik Mansour, the Cityzens as they are known by their fans have gone from fighting relegation each season to dominating the league and winning back to back league titles in 2017/18 and 2018/19, the first team to win back to back titles since Manchester United in 2007/08 and 2008/09. However, in the early days of the Premier League in the 1990's, Manchester City saw their biggest rivals Manchester United win 6 league titles and become the world's best team. Meanwhile, City were relegated in back to back seasons in 1995/96 and 1996/97 which saw them at their lowest in their history in the third division of English football. However, City and their iconic stadium at the time, Maine Road, managed to get back into Premier League by 2001 before being relegated again three years later. Since 2009, Manchester City have built themselves up to be the biggest and best run team in England, Overshadowing their rivals Manchester United.

While Liverpool have never won the Premier League, they have come close on a few occasions but fallen short and have had to suffer as their rivals Manchester United saw much success. However, the 2019/20 title looks to be going to Anfield as Liverpool lead Manchester City 64 points to 51 points in the table with 16 games to go. It will be Liverpool's first Premier League title ever and their first league title since the 1989/90 season and their 19th title overall, just one behind rivals Manchester United.

The teams that have won the Premier League are Manchester United, who hold 13 titles, Manchester City, who hold 4 titles, Chelsea, who hold 5 titles, Arsenal, who hold 3 league titles including their invincible season of 2003/04 where they received a gold Premier League Trophy for going undefeated in the league for an entire season. Leicester City, who hold 1 league title that being probably the most famous and unexpected league winners in sports history with their triumphant season of 2015/16 where they beat the odds and managed to win the league holding off Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal. Lastly, Blackburn Rovers, who hold 1 league title after they upset Manchester United in the 1994/95 season and beat the odds to hold off United from winning their third title in a row and become the Premier League's second ever team to win the league.

Info on Manchester United's last First Division title of 1966

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