English Football League

The English football league is a series of 140 leagues, containing over 480 divisions. The English football league structure is formed similar to a pyramid. This interconnected structure consists of 'promotion' and 'relegation' which allows any football team (even the smallest town amateur teams) to rise to the pinnacle of the pyramid structure & become champions of the Premier League.

The top five levels of the English Football league contains one division each. These levels have altered their names through the last 20 years from division 1 to be renamed as 'the premiership' and division 2 as 'the championship' and division 3, many years ago, used to be split into a north and south divide.

This site focuses on the top 4 English League divisions from 1950 division 1, 1950 division 2, 1950 division 3 north, and 1950 division 3 south, through to 2009 live premiership league and the 2009 live championship league. The complete list of league tables are referenced in the quick links below, and at the top of the footy facts site thoughout the English league division section.

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English Football League Tables





English Football
League Statistics

English Football League longest unbeaten start to a season
team
league
games
season
Leeds Utd Division 1 29 1973-74
Liverpool Division 1 29 1987-88
Football League longest sequence without a win in a Season
team
league
games
season
Cambridge Utd Division 2 31 1983-84

English Football
League Records

league championship triple runs
team
season
Liverpool 1981-82 1982-83 1983-84
Manchester United 1998-99 1999-00 2000-01
record league championships
team
no.
seasons
Liverpool 18 (22)
(1916-17, 1900-01, 1905-06, 1916-17 regional league winners, normal league suspended due to World War)
1921-22 1922-23 1946-47
1963-64 1965-66 1972-73 1975-76
1976-77 1978-79 1979-80 1981-82
1982-83 1983-84 1985-86 1987-88
1989-90
joint post war record league championships
team
no.
seasons
Manchester United 18 (20) (1907-08, 1910-11, regional league winners, normal league suspended due to World War)
1951-52 1955-56 1956-57 1964-65
1966-67 1992-93 1993-94 1995-96
1996-97 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-
01
2002-
03
2006-07 2007-08 2008-09
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