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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 ...
[37] [38] [39] A friendly competition [40] held at the end of the 1998–99 Football League between the champions of that league and the then record Football League champions. [37] Although the centenary above was ten years earlier, 1998–99 was the 100th season of the Football League because the Football League stopped twice during WWI and ...
Most national championships won in a row: 15 – Tafea, 1994–2009; the club won 15 Port Vila Football League consecutive titles [74] Oldest football club that is still active: Since 1848 – Sheffield [75] Most goals in football history: 13,085 (up to 4 December 2024) – Flamengo, 1912–2024 [76] [77] [78]
Their neighbours, Sheffield Wednesday, have won the league more recently than them, but have not added to their tally of four league titles, with their most recent success coming in 1930. Huddersfield Town won a hat-trick of titles between 1924 and 1926, but nearly a century later no fourth title has been added.
The Football League Centenary Trophy marked The Football League's 100th birthday, in the 1988–89 season. [9] The European governing body UEFA was founded in 1954, and created their first and most prestigious competition, the European Cup, the next year. It was expanded and renamed in 1992 as the UEFA Champions League.
In 1992, with the departure of the then First Division clubs to become the Premier League, the second tier became known as the First Division. In 2004 it was re-branded as the Football League Championship before it was renamed the EFL Championship in 2016. The current champions of the league are Leicester City. They are also the most successful ...
At the top of the English football league system, it is the country's primary football competition and is contested by 20 clubs. The competition was formed in February 1992 following the decision of clubs in the Football League First Division to break away from The Football League, in order to take advantage of a lucrative television rights deal.
The NFL championships describes both the Championship games of the National Football League, which ran from 1920 to 1969; and the Super Bowl, which has run from 1966 to the present. Many players and teams have won these championships on multiple occasions, both during the NFL championships and the Super Bowl era.