List of Premier League seasons

The Premier League is an English league for professional football clubs. It is the country's leading football competition and forms the highest level of the English football league system. The competition began in the 1992–93 season, when the country's top clubs broke away from The Football League, and is regarded as one of the strongest football leagues in the world. As of 2008, sixteen Premier League seasons have been completed, although only four different clubs have been crowned champions. Manchester United have won the league eleven times, Arsenal three times, Chelsea twice, and Blackburn Rovers once. The reigning champions are Manchester United, who won a third consecutive title in the 2008–09 season.

History
After several years of discussion over the possibility of a so-called "Super League" being formed by English football's leading clubs, the Premier League came into existence in 1992 when the top clubs broke away from the 104-year old Football League. Manchester United won the first title in the 1992–93 season, the first time the club had won the championship of English football for 26 years. but the club's bid for a third consecutive championship was halted in the 1994–95 season by Blackburn Rovers, who won the title for the first time since 1914.

The record for the most points accumulated in a Premier League season belongs to Chelsea, who accumulated 95 points over 38 games in the 2004–05 season. At the other end of the scale, Derby County accumulated just 11 points in the 2007–08 season, beating Sunderland's record of 15 points. Derby County also hold the record for the fewest goals scored in a season, having scored just 20 goals in 2007–08, while Manchester United hold the record for the most goals scored, with 97 in the 1999–2000 season.