Sheffield United were the first club in English football to achieve promotion from the newly formed Second Division to the First Division in 1892–93. The club was also a founder member of the Premier League in the 1992–93 season, during which they scored the first ever goal of the Premier League era. Sheffield United won [...]
Albion was one of the 12 founding members of the English Football League in 1888, the first professional football league in the world. The club has spent the majority of its existence in the top tier of English football, where as of 2020–21 it has played for 82 seasons. The club has been champions of…
Founded in 1879, they are London’s oldest football club playing professionally. The club has spent 27 seasons in English football’s top division, the majority of which have come in two periods during the 1960s and 2000s. The latter period was associated with former chairman, after the club had climbed up from the fourth tier in…
By the late 1990s, Brighton was in the fourth tier of English football and were having financial difficulties. After narrowly avoiding relegation from the Football League to the conference in 1997, a boardroom takeover saved the club from liquidation. Back to back promotions in 2001 and 2002 brought Brighton back to the second tier, and…