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Unofficial Premier League Title Belt (somewhat of a follow up)

TL;DR: For at least next season, the Premier League Title Belt will be in the Football League Championship

About 2 years ago u/Prez2028 posted this post about a "premier league belt". Basically, the idea is that since Manchester United won the initial Premier League in 1992/93 they were awarded the belt. Then Chelsea beat United on 11 September 1993 and they became the holders of the belt. This pattern then continued.

For two seasons the Premier League Belt was actually in the championship as Sheffield Wednesday ended the 1999/2000 season as holders, but were relegated.

At the time of u/Prez2028's post, the belt was sitting this Aston Villa. Since then a lot has changed. Once again, the Premier League belt has been relegated. On the 16th of April, Newcastle United beat Swansea City to become the new holders, and haven't lost since then. Since Newcastle have been relegated, the belt will travel down with them to the Championship.

This is all dependent on neither I not u/Prez2028 having made any mistake.

You can view a google docs of my tracking here. Please let me know if you find any errors

Edit: Fixed a capitalization error. And added some bonus stats.

Bonus Stats:

Most common scoreline: 1-0 (no surprise)

Top 3 most common holders: Manchester United (20), Arsenal (19), Chelsea (16)

Season with the most changes: 1996/97 and 1997/98 (16)

Season with the least changes: 1998/99, 2007/08, 2008/09, 2012/13 (6)

Highest winning margin for a title match: 7-0 (Blackburn Rovers vs Nottingham Forrest, 18 November 1995) (Note: less than a month later, Blackburn would lose 5-0 to Coventry who would then lose a week later 4-1 to Aston Villa)

Posted May 15, 2016, 8:12 PM UTC · edited

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