Every Premier League Champion Since 1992-93, and Who Has Won the Most

Most Premier League titles by club

United won 13 of the first 21 titles, from 1992-93 to 2012-13, and none since. City have won eight, all since 2011-12, Chelsea five, Arsenal four and Liverpool two, while Blackburn Rovers (1994-95) and Leicester City (2015-16) won it once; those seven are the only champions on the Premier League's list.

Arsenal have finished second a record nine times, including three seasons in a row twice, from 1998-99 to 2000-01 and from 2022-23 to 2024-25, and both runs ended with the title the next season. Counting both places, United have been in the top two 20 times, Arsenal 13 and City 12. Newcastle United (1995-96 and 1996-97), Aston Villa (1992-93) and Tottenham Hotspur (2016-17) have been runners-up without ever winning it.

Premier League winners list: every champion since 1992-93

The first three seasons had 22 clubs and 42 games each; since 1995-96 there have been 20 clubs and 38 games. The points come from final tables we rebuilt from every result, and how many points a title has taken, season by season, is in our analysis of title-winning points.

Premier League champions by decade, and how many different winners

Three clubs shared the eight titles of the 1990s, United winning six, and three the 10 of the 2000s, when Chelsea won three, the first in 2004-05. The 2010s were the most open decade, with five champions, Leicester City and Liverpool among them, and the six titles of the 2020s have gone to three clubs, four of them to City.

Seven champions in 34 seasons is a short list by English standards. In the 34 First Division seasons before the Premier League, from 1958-59 to 1991-92, Liverpool won 13 titles, as many as United have since, but 13 different clubs were champions, among them Burnley, Ipswich Town, Derby County and Nottingham Forest, Wikipedia's list of English champions shows.

Counting the First Division, Liverpool and Manchester United have won the English title 20 times each, the Premier League notes, Arsenal 14 and City 10. Eighteen of Liverpool's 20 came before the Premier League, and 13 of United's in it.

Back-to-back Premier League champions and title droughts

The champion has retained the title 11 times in 33 attempts, and only three clubs have done it: United six times, City four and Chelsea once, in 2005-06. City's four in a row from 2020-21 to 2023-24 is the longest run of English titles since the Football League began in 1888-89; United won three straight twice, from 1998-99 to 2000-01 and from 2006-07 to 2008-09.

Defending the title has sometimes gone badly. Leicester finished 12th the season after winning it, in 2016-17, Chelsea 10th in 2015-16, and Blackburn (1995-96) and United (2013-14) seventh; Liverpool were fifth last season.

Arsenal's 22-year wait between titles, from 2003-04 to 2025-26, is the longest between two Premier League titles, and United have now gone 13 seasons without one. Five clubs' first Premier League title ended a wait of more than 20 years for an English title, and Leicester had never been champions:

• Blackburn Rovers, 1994-95: first title since 1913-14
• Chelsea, 2004-05: first title since 1954-55
• Manchester City, 2011-12: first title since 1967-68
• Liverpool, 2019-20: first title since 1989-90
• Manchester United, 1992-93: first title since 1966-67
• Leicester City, 2015-16: first title ever

Six clubs have played in every season, and two of them have never won it: Tottenham, whose best finish is second in 2016-17, and Everton, fourth in 2004-05.

Closest Premier League title races: the final day and goal difference

Ten of the 34 titles were still open going into the final day, and City won five of them: 2011-12, 2013-14, 2018-19, 2021-22 and 2023-24. Only 2011-12 was settled on goal difference, when City and United both finished with 89 points and City came out ahead, +64 to +56.

Ten titles were won by two points or fewer, though not quite the same ten: Arsenal won by a point in 1997-98 but were champions with two games left, and United won by four in 1995-96 after Newcastle took the race to the last day. Liverpool were champions with seven games to spare in 2019-20, the earliest a title has been decided, and Arsenal settled 2025-26 with one game left, when City drew 1-1 at AFC Bournemouth on Tuesday, May 19.

Top at Christmas: how many champions led on December 25

The team top of the table on Christmas Day has won the title in 18 of 34 seasons, including Arsenal last season, two points clear of City on December 25. Norwich City led at Christmas 1992 and finished third, according to the Premier League, and since 1995-96 the leader has won 16 of 31 times; how big a lead has been safe is in our look at the teams top at Christmas.

Premier League table 2026-27 after matchweek 7

Manchester City have won all seven games and lead the Premier League table with 21 points, three more than Arsenal and five more than Brighton & Hove Albion, who have the best goal difference, +18. City beat Ipswich Town 3-2 on October 17, and Arsenal won 1-0 at Nottingham Forest and Brighton beat Crystal Palace 5-0 the next day. Chelsea are fourth with 13 points, Liverpool fifth with 12 and Sunderland bottom with four.

City were the third team to win their first seven Premier League games, after Chelsea in 2005-06 and Liverpool in 2019-20, by the Premier League's count and our results since, and both of those won the title. The leader after seven games has also won it in each of the last three seasons, though in only 12 of the 33 since 1993-94. City then lost 2-1 at Aston Villa in matchweek 8 and 1-0 at home to Brighton in matchweek 9, and Arsenal lead the table after nine matchweeks with 24 points to City's 21. The Vertize simulator lets you play out the rest of the season from the current table.

Premier League winners: frequently asked questions

Who has won the most Premier League titles? Manchester United, with 13, the last in 2012-13. Manchester City have eight and Chelsea five.

Who won the Premier League in 2025-26? Arsenal, with 85 points, seven more than Manchester City, for their first title since 2003-04. They also reached the Champions League final and lost it on penalties to Paris Saint-Germain.

How many clubs have won the Premier League? Seven: Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, Blackburn Rovers and Leicester City.

Has any club won the Premier League four times in a row? Only Manchester City, from 2020-21 to 2023-24, the longest run of English titles since 1888-89.

Who has won the most English league titles? Liverpool and Manchester United, 20 each, counting the First Division.

How this was built: the final table of every season from 1992-93 to 2025-26, rebuilt from the results of all 13,166 games, those since 1993-94 from football-data.co.uk and 1992-93's from the results grid of Wikipedia's season article, ranked on points, goal difference and goals scored, with point deductions as in the official tables. Every table matches the season's table on Wikipedia place by place, and the 6,840 results since 2008-09 match the Premier League's own. A title went to the final day if, before the champion's last game, a rival could still reach its points; 1992-93 and the list of final days were checked against the Premier League's records. The Christmas table counts every game played by December 25. Decades go by the year a season starts. The 2026-27 table comes from the Premier League's results of the 70 games played from August 21 to October 19 and matches its official standings. First Division titles are from Wikipedia's list of English champions. See also our methodology. Data collected October 21, 2026; the matchweek 8 and 9 results and the table after nine matchweeks are ESPN's, as of November 3.