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Preston North End in 1888–89, the first Football League champions. They completed the season undefeated and went on to complete the Double by winning the FA Cup. This article lists English association football clubs whose men's sides have won competitive honours run by official governing bodies.
The winner of the final receives the eponymous EFL Cup. The EFL Cup is a knockout cup competition in English football organised by and named after the English Football League (EFL). [1] The competition was established in 1960 and is considered to be the second-most important domestic cup competition for English football clubs, after the FA Cup. [2]
The Anglo-Italian League Cup was created in 1969 to match English cup winners against the winners of the Coppa Italia, and was permanently disbanded in 1976. [7] In 1985, the Full Members Cup and Football League Super Cup were created as substitutes for UEFA competitions after UEFA responded to the Heysel Stadium disaster by banning English clubs.
Twenty four different football clubs have been crowned English champions since the league began in 1888. [15] Some clubs have enjoyed regular success with others not so fortunate. In 2020, Liverpool ended a 30-year wait to become league champions again, however this is nowhere near the longest wait in history to once again be the English ...
Winners not only receive the EFL Cup, [1] of which there have been three designs, the current one also being the original, but also qualify for European football: from 1966–67 until 1971–72 the winners received a place in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, from 1972–1973 until the 2019–20 season in the UEFA Europa League (formerly the UEFA Cup ...
The English football champions are the winners of the top-level league in English men's football, which since the 1992–93 season has been called 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 ...
The category includes winners of the competition under its original name, the Football League Cup, between 1961 and 2016. Pages in category "EFL Cup winners" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
With 48 continental trophies won, English football clubs are the third-most successful in European football, behind Italy (50) and Spain (67). In the top-tier, the UEFA Champions League, a record six English clubs have won a total of 15 titles and lost a further 11 finals, behind Spanish clubs with 20 and 11, respectively. [1]