[45] Manchester City won the title in the 2011–12 season, becoming the first club outside the "Big Four" to win since Blackburn Rovers in the 1994–95 season. The types of cookies used on this website can be classified into one of three categories: You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser’s “Help” option on how to do this). This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again. [107] Under its Merlin brand, Topps held the licence to produce collectables for the Premier League between 1994 and 2019 including stickers (for their sticker album) and trading cards. [115] In 2010 the Premier League was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category for its outstanding contribution to international trade and the value it brings to English football and the United Kingdom's broadcasting industry. Since the first Premier League season in 1992–93, 23 players from 11 clubs have won or shared the top scorer title. All of the "Big Six" had revenues greater than €350 million, with Manchester United having the largest revenue in the league at €676.3 million. The eighth largest revenue generator West Ham, who didn't play in European competition, had revenues of €213.3 million, nearly half of the club with the fifth largest revenue, Liverpool (€424.2 million). [123], Not all Premier League matches are televised in the United Kingdom, as the league upholds the long-standing prohibition on telecasts of any association football match (domestic or otherwise) that kicks off between 2:45 p.m. and 5:15 p.m. on Saturday matchdays. [168] The Hillsborough disaster in 1989 and the subsequent Taylor Report saw a recommendation that standing terraces should be abolished. [245], The Golden Boot award is given to the top goalscorer of every season, the Playmaker of the Season award is given to the player who make the most assists of every season[246] and the Golden Glove award is given to the goalkeeper with the most clean sheets at the end of the season. Outlook: Quality has been added to the squad for Brightons fourth season in the Premier League with Adam Lallana joining after winning the Premier League with Liverpool but he is in the latter stages of his career at 32. [74][75] The first Premier League match to be played outside England was Swansea City's home match at the Liberty Stadium against Wigan Athletic on 20 August 2011. These are essential in order to enable you to use certain features of the website, such as submitting forms on the website. The winner of the EFL Cup qualifies for the subsequent season's UEFA Europa League second qualifying round, but if the winner already qualified for a UEFA competition via their performance in another competition, then this place reverts to the team that finished sixth in the Premier League, or seventh if the FA Cup result already caused the sixth-placed team to qualify.[88]. [101][102], From 1993 to 2016, the Premier League had title sponsorship rights sold to two companies, which were Carling brewery and Barclays Bank PLC; Barclays was the most recent title sponsor, having sponsored the Premier League from 2001 until 2016 (until 2004, the title sponsorship was held through its Barclaycard brand before shifting to its main banking brand in 2004). The Premier League, often referred to as the English Premier League or the EPL outside England, is the top level of the English football league system. [195][196] This was to enable the "home grown" rule to be enacted, whereby the Premier League would also from 2010 require at least eight members of the named 25-man squad to be "home-grown players".[195]. Outlook: Arsenal ended the pandemic-disrupted season as FA Cup winners to qualify for the Europa League after an eighth-place finish was the London clubs lowest in the Premier League since 1995. Between 2005 and 2012, there was a Premier League representative in seven of the eight Champions League finals, with only "Top Four" clubs reaching that stage. There was no change in competition format; the same number of teams competed in the top flight, and promotion and relegation between the Premier League and the new First Division remained the same as the old First and Second Divisions with three teams relegated from the league and three promoted.