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The top tier in English football today is the Premier League, replacing the Football League First Division for the 1992–93 inaugural season. Since the 1888–89 season, the first year of top flight football, three players have scored over 300 goals with a further 25 players scoring over 200 goals.
List of English football champions Football League First Division (1888–1992) Premier League (1992–present) Leicester City celebrate winning the 2015–16 Premier League Country England Founded 1888 Number of teams 20 Current champions Manchester City (2023–24) Most successful club Manchester United (20 championships) The English football champions are the winners of the top-level league ...
Since the 2012–13 season, a player needs to have played in a minimum of five matches for a title-winning team to qualify for a medal. [3] This is down from the previous standard of 10 matches played. [4] At the discretion of the Premier League board, additional medals can be awarded to players who played less than five matches. [5]
Most consecutive Premier League appearances: 310, Brad Friedel (14 August 2004 until 7 October 2012) [90] Most Premier League appearances as a substitute: 204, James Milner [45] Most seasons appeared in: 23 James Milner (every season from 2002–03 to 2024–25) Players currently playing in the Premier League are highlighted in bold.
The top goalscorer in the Premier League's inaugural season was Teddy Sheringham, who scored one goal for Nottingham Forest before his early-season transfer followed by 21 for Tottenham Hotspur for a total of 22. [2]
The Premier League Golden Boot is an annual association football award presented to the leading goalscorer in the Premier League.For sponsorship purposes, it was called the Carling Golden Boot from 1994 to 2001, the Barclaycard Golden Boot from 2002 to 2004, the Barclays Golden Boot from 2005 to 2016, the Cadbury Golden Boot from 2017 to 2020, [1] [2] and the Coca-Cola Zero Sugar Golden Boot ...
List of all-time top scorers Rank Player Goals Apps Ratio Years Club(s) 1 Ian Rush: 49 83 0.58 1980–1998: Liverpool, Leeds United, Newcastle United, Wrexham: 2 Geoff Hurst: 48 60 0.82 1961–1975: West Ham United, Stoke City, West Bromwich Albion: 3 John Aldridge: 44 62 0.73 1978–1998: Newport County, Oxford United, Liverpool, Tranmere ...
The following is a list of footballers who have scored at least 200 domestic league goals in English league football. This includes the appearances and goals of both present and former players in the Premier League and The Football League .