English Football League • Promotions & Relegations • 1888 - 2022

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[@ronvlaarsvar6867]

Fulham and Norwich passing eachother "oh Hi again, see you again in 12 months time"

[@itsgettingdark1134]

Say that again

[@PorterPlaysOfficial]

@@itsgettingdark1134 Fulham and Norwich passing eachother “oh Hi again, see you again in 12 months time”

[@aaaabbbb2483]

Their yo-yo sequences finally ended!

[@itsgettingdark1134]

@@PorterPlaysOfficial Ffs 😂😂😂

[@itsgettingdark1134]

@@aaaabbbb2483 Thank god it was getting so stale

[@irvinhernandez5289]

It's incredible that league one will have historical teams like derby county, bolton, ipswich, portsmouth, sheffield wednesday which have english league championships, PD. what a great video Meddows!!!

[@hackett152332]

Your right there, I’m an Ipswich fan - still waiting for our time to come back

[@jorgelodwick4429]

Then,mate get behind, the line mate! Because. POMPEY,F.C.ARE FIRST!!! Yeah!!!

[@hackett152332]

@@jorgelodwick4429 Nahhh Ipswich always been better than Pompey tbh

[@hackett152332]

@@jorgelodwick4429 Richer history etc

[@jorgelodwick4429]

@@hackett152332 It SOUNDS LIKE..sour ,grapes, We will see ..next Season, and may both Team's GET Promoted! YEAH!

[@josemarcosr8746]

As a complement to the video, here is a list of clubs that have played most seasons in the 1st division. (including 22/23) (Top 30) Total: 124 seasons. 1. Everton 120 2. Aston Villa 109 3. Liverpool 108 4. Arsenal 106 5. Man United 98 6. Man City 94 7. Newcastle 91 8. Tottenham 88 9. Chelsea 88 10. Sunderland 86 11. West Brom 82 12. Bolton 73 13. Blackburn 72 14. Wolverhampton 68 15. Sheffield Wednesday 66 16. Derby County 65 17. West Ham 65 18. Sheffield United 62 19. Stoke City 62 20. Middlesbrough 61 21. Burnley 59 22. Birmingham 57 23. Nottingham Forest 57 24. Leicester 56 25. Leeds United 53 26. Preston 46 27. Southampton 44 28. Coventry City 34 29. Portsmouth 33 30. Huddersfield Town 32

[@kingofmonra]

that's pretty cool. should do a consecutively one as well

[@lisaward406]

Very nice

[@WashingtonSAFC]

@@kingofmonra Can't do videos of it, but the longest consecutive stretches in history are: Arsenal 96 Everton 67 Liverpool 59 Sunderland 58 Manchester United 46 Spurs 43 With quite a distance to any others.

[@kingofmonra]

@@WashingtonSAFC Arsenal getting real close to 100 years.

[@thomasthomas7557]

@@kingofmonra the Better go down then 😂

[@JoshuaTaylor01]

Bravo bury for being in the football league for 127 years i liked my comment

[@manning0]

Love seeing teams like Glossop, Bradford PA, South Shields and Gainsborough Trinity so high up in the leagues, considering where they are now

[@tommybellic22]

Man I still remember Portsmouth in the Prem, and of course that fa cup in 2008 cuz I started watching football around those years. To think they went from the PL to the 4th division in only 4 years, crazy

[@SuperRobin81]

Absolutely love this, proper football pyramid, well apart from 1980-1983 when my club Bristol City became the first english club to be relegated from the top flight all the way down to the old division four in successive seasons and financial ruin which followed, but we rebuilt, albeit very slowly. UTC.

[@aarondoesyt3194]

Northampton did something similar when we wnt from the 4th division to the 1sr division and back in about 10 seasons haha

[@EuanBCFC]

Hey, at least it’s cool to watch all those relegations without ever actually finishing bottom

[@w3bbyy]

1989-90 imagine finishing 2nd UTG

[@SuperRobin81]

@@w3bbyy still on about that are we? If super Bob Taylor hadn't of got injured and missed end of season we would of pissed it. Anyway, mind the gap.......23 years and counting. UTC

[@wolfie5]

My team Wolves FC did similar from 81-82 to 85-86 from 1st to 4th div

[@theentitledsiriowlsx]

Just realising that Luton Town missed the inagural EPL season. What bad luck they have. At least they can get promoted to Prem this season.

[@nkskro80]

This is absolutely mesmerising! Fantastic work

[@Meddows]

Thank you very much. I appreciate your comment

[@javireyes1695]

@@Meddows me gustaría que hicieras más videos como este pero de la liga MX, la liga, la serie a ,Bundesliga,el brasileirao o la liga argentina cualquiera estaría bien

[@helenloughton2418]

K.r.o

[@L1am21]

Kro

[@superalex120]

@@Meddows do this but serie a

[@Britinsweden]

Watched my team Bury throughout. They were on there from pretty much the start until the last 2 seasons 😅

[@Harrier20153]

This is such a great graphic video that I have repeated it many times to watch every twist of the clubs ’journey from the past to the present era. Complete preparation. Thanks to the admin 👍

[@mannym7849]

An awesome historic record for all football fans to look back on, well done on making this 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Thanks

[@omegaman6494]

Everton, Ipswich and Spurs are the three teams who won the English title the season after winning the 2nd tier title. Notts Forest are the last team to win promotion then the League crown in 76/77 and 77/78

[@sourjellybaby4286]

Very well done Meddows, great job. Hard to keep track of every teams ups and downs so concentrated on my team Fulham mostly messing around in the top 2 divisions, especially the last few yo yo years.

[@nicwilley1116]

Awesome video. It really helps us Yanks to understand proper football. And how the leagues should be working.

[@TehDawg]

Follow the boro

[@kembowhite1903]

The league back at the start was so volitile, ive watched liverpool in the 1900-1910s go 2nd, 1st , 2nd from bottom, relegated, poromoted, 1st, 2nd all in the space of 10 years

[@fluvirus]

Do you remember the dinosaurs too ? 🤣

[@kembowhite1903]

@@fluvirus no just early mammals

[@thedevonianfootiefan9871]

I love finally seeing a Torquay logo outside of the national league for once

[@bensstuff1889]

Tranmere should’ve gone up 2006-7, they literally won the first 12 games of the season and had 36 points by about November but then they had to deal with injuries and such and we went on a bad run of games until the end of the season, and where did we finish? Ninth!

[@CronoXpono]

Footy is nuts. That’s crazy to start that strong and not be promoted!

[@connorsmith1797]

I'm an Ashington AFC Fan and love to see the new ashington crest in this video. Lovely!

[@dickoon]

On a point of precision to the point of pedantry, the Middlesbrough team you have listed for 1893-94 are Middlesbrough Ironopolis, who are considered to have a different (and short-lived) history to Middlesbrough FC who appear from 1899-1900 onwards.

[@danielcompton1312]

This is literally my favourite video ever!

[@franckj.c.1293]

Excelente idea 👍 quién diría que Everton es el club con más temporadas en la primera, por ende, el que menos descensos tiene 😉

[@josemarcosr8746]

Más temporadas en Primera no implica menos descensos, el que menos descendió fue el Arsenal, 1 sola vez (1912-13). El Everton descendió 2 veces, en 1929/30 y 1950/51. 😉

[@maximilianrobespierre8365]

@@josemarcosr8746 astonishing

[@Guttlegob]

Everton were one of the biggest clubs in England before Premier League era. In 1987 only Liverpool had won more league titles

[@shortsBarchartsGamingeStatsman]

hey your English friend here, this is right cool my friend i have been subscribed since 2019 season when you were at 30K and i have never seen you include the rest of the football league before, can you please update this every single year?, and by October this year 110K come on underrated channel love this channel.

[@TheLewisLegend]

Surprising to see Oil heater be as successful as it has before the oil money

[@holychild2581]

I wish this video would explain rule changes regarding relegation, like how many teams are relegated, how many go to a playoff, etc.

[@shortsBarchartsGamingeStatsman]

its simple mate, the lowest points go down and the highest points go up and in the lower leagues will be in the play-offs so three up and three down simple as that. i have been watching football for at least 2008 when Man U won the champions league final with Chelsea. its not that hard to work out.

[@KebabMusicLtd]

@@shortsBarchartsGamingeStatsman It’s not that simple. The First Division was created in 1888 and the Second Division 1892. At first there was no direct promotion-relegation between the two leagues but a series of round robin matches between the bottom teams of the First Division and the top teams of the Second Division. The two teams with the most points would be elected or retain their position in the First Division, depending on their points total after four games. In 1898, Burnley and Stoke City entered the last play-off match both needing a draw for promotion (or in Stoke’s case, to retain their First Division place). A 0-0 draw ensued, reportedly ‘the match played without a single shot at goal from either side’ and the league immediately withdrew the test-match system in favour of automatic promotion and relegation. Automatic Promotion and Relegation then continued as two up, two down for many years between the top three divisions. Division Three and Four always had four teams relegated/promoted between them. Promotion/Relegation between the top three divisions was increased to three teams in 1973-74. The play-off system wasn’t introduced until the 1986-87 season but that was similar to the Scottish model in that one of the teams at the bottom (19th) of the First Division would be included with three from the top of the Second. (Teams finishing 3,4, and 5) In 1989 they adopted the current system.

[@shortsBarchartsGamingeStatsman]

@@andymerrett yea kind off a expert i can predicted where a team might finish and about 80 percent of the time i do get it right really, the points that is diffiercalt to do but i have predicted the sheff. Wednesday will finish in the play-offs and they did but not qualified for the championship and i also predilected that too from the end of 2020-21 season when they went down. i also predicted that Stockport a few years ago to be the football league and here we are back in since 2010-2022 outside of the football league. 11% really i never knew that ha cool if you want me to produce a video on my predictions that is fine with my voice on it from premier league to the isthmian league and then thru out the season i could come back to find out i am right or not.

[@ChrisHazz]

Yeah it's changed a bit, like when the Boro relegated Chelsea in the play off final (Chelsea were forth bottom in the old division 1).

[@shortsBarchartsGamingeStatsman]

@@KebabMusicLtd i was making a joke, i know its not that simple an i do know how the rules work i am not dumb so please do not speak to me like that please, its part of my freaking humour and i get slated for one comment wow, people over worked up by a joke good god, i may sound stupid i am NOT really so dont treat me like one. and you will here me making jokes on my videos all of the time when i my f1 videos. PS: i am not having ago at you personally, i do not care much about the league from 1889-2008 really because from 1889-1994 i was not even born and in 1994-2008 i hated football and then in 2010-now ever since world cup when Spain won it, was my first ever world cup and first time watching the league. there a little back round of me hating football to liking football. but again thank you for the info though. and sorry i am seem sharp with you i do apologize on it. ps 2: the channel for my f1 gaming is: all Irish motorsports: f1 gaming if your interested in that sport.

[@mgramsdale]

Excellent video. You can do the same for so many other leagues too!

[@golnanet7131]

Omggg I can't even think about how difficult it might've been for you to do it. Congradulations on this amazing video!!

[@Meddows]

Thanks, collecting the data was the hardest part

[@lauty5yt]

Hola meddows!!! estaria bueno que lo hagas con la liga argentina desde la etapa profesional. Saludos ;)

[@adambaker8689]

Brilliant video

[@frankreynolds1713]

Brilliant!

[@olliewalton361]

To my knowledge only two teams (Bolton, WHU) have played more seasons in the top flight without winning it than my team Stoke City. Closest we have and probably will ever come is 4th on a few occasions.

[@siampromana8489]

Great​ clip... Thank​ you..

[@Meddows]

Thanks for watching

[@almostyummymummy]

Well, gees. That was a fun little thing to watch. And more than a little eye-opening. More than a few surprises.

[@felfoldiakos8969]

Excellent video!!!!!

[@Naz.111]

عمل ممتاز 👏👏👏

[@idankingon]

Amazing

[@alejandroavalos1613]

Excelente video, ojala puedas hacer uno igual de ascensos y descensos de más ligas empezando por la liga MX por favor 😀🤗

[@rolandocesarq]

El mejor video de Ascensos y Descensos de Ligas.. En las 4 Divisiones Profesionales de Inglaterra queda Genial...!!!! Felicitaciones..!!!

[@Meddows]

Muchísimas gracias!

[@rolandocesarq]

@@Meddows Excelente.. Talvez se puede hacer de la 5ta y 6ta division de Inglaterra... Sería muy bueno tambien..!!!

[@Meddows]

@@rolandocesarq si podria ser, de momento busqué hacer solo de efl, en el futuro podría hacer de la non-league

[@rolandocesarq]

@@Meddows Si, Excelente. Gracias

[@alethiam3821]

Could you make this for La Liga please! Thanks and good continuation

[@jpshrew1965]

Love that, great graphics

[@JohnnysCafe_]

Very good way to chart the progress of teams throughout the years 👍👍👍

[@colinafobe2152]

love it!

[@fraser_allandinio2695]

It was incredible to see big six teams like city struggling and being a yo-yo team (like watford is now)

[@jamieleehayden]

That was so good to watch.

[@dann9450]

Me encantó, mil gracias Medd..

[@franckj.c.1293]

Bastante original la idea.

[@oufc90]

5:33 nice and smooth slide along the top there for Oxford

[@itztoa5t483]

Love northampton being the quickest to go to the first division then all the way back down again

[@deekae6801]

Loved watching my club Wigan athletic appear in the football league in 1978 then rise all the way up to the premier league!

[@avaz3837]

😂

[@fozbox3402]

@@avaz3837 im a spurs fan and i respect wigan's fan so dont chat

[@fozbox3402]

@Avaz u lit support bolton lmaoo like where tf are u 😂

[@danielkarmy4893]

Glossop, the first tale of a local millionaire buying the town football club and trying to spend his way to glory...granted, they made it to the First Division under his stewardship, which was incredible for such a small club in such a small town, but unfortunately it all unravelled when the money dried up. Even more unfortunately, nobody, in over a century since, has bothered to learn from their example.

[@AndrewG1989]

Very interesting stats. I even like the music as well. Very good.

[@1977Futre]

Great vid.

[@TailwindAirlines]

Best video bro

[@RobertArtus]

I feel bad for rochdale. The highest division they've ever been in is division 2 and that's before the other divisions existed

[@ka0tic_estate495]

great video

[@0ex3ex2]

4:25 double promotion 🤩

[@user-sr1xg2tp2t]

Great Video.😊😊

[@CJ_Edwards]

1:57 I remember when Aberdare were in the football league

[@mrlondon7484]

Great video

[@luxford60]

Mesmerising.

[@viiivo8887]

Back then: promoted clubs can immediately top the 1st division, and top of one season can be stuck in the middle in the next, or even relegated. Now: promoted clubs rarely get through the mid table, or can be relegated immediately, top EPL are always the Big 6 group, it is what it is Football and sports are really more boring by its capitalism.

[@L1am21]

Most the time capitalism was prob reason that happend new rich owners boosting a team that was down on thier luck that cant happen now cause you have to mega rich now like 1% club rich.

[@JOSHUACHIOCCI]

6:09 most beautiful thing in the 1st division in 1992 look who's in 1st

[@shyno_1821]

Vamos Everton 💙

[@AS-mw6pw]

Amazing video

[@manuelnogalessanchez297]

Hacer algo así ¡ pero de la liga española sería muy interesante....también me encanta la liga inglesa..me guardaré éste video ( muy buen trabajo 👏 .)

[@rachaelholmes2212]

Portsmouth were great then but look at us now (I'm a Portsmouth fan) PUP

[@jorgelodwick4429]

We never. NEVER, GIVE up! P.U.P!!

[@rachaelholmes2212]

We are the only one and blue army!

[@josemarcosr8746]

How amazing was the Don Revie's Leeds from the 60s and 70s. Truly a machine. 🟡🔵⚪

[@lordprotector3367]

Yes, and robbed of two Euro cups by 2 bribed referees, and robbed of the double in 1972 by a refereeing mistake (which he admitted to).

[@WashingtonSAFC]

@@lordprotector3367 Which makes up for the cheat of a ref, who was bribed by Revie (it was in Johnny Giles' book) who gave an inexplicable penalty and sending off against Sunderland in the second replay at Boothferry Park against Sunderland. (Where, incidentally, Sunderland supporters outnumbered Leeds by 2:1 despite Hull being almost 4 times as far from Sunderland than Leeds is). Every team gets what it deserves. Revie was cheating Scum.

[@lordprotector3367]

@@WashingtonSAFC Revie was a genius, and Sunderland are shite.

[@JeremiasHDOficialPT]

É impressionante como não existem equipas que nunca desceram.

[@robtyman4281]

....though Arsenal have been in the top flight on a continuous unbroken run that stretches all the way back to 1919!! ....no other English club comes close in terms of an unbroken run in the top flight. Everton are next - been in the top flight since 1954. Have a look at this video again and you won't see Arsenal out of the top flight after 1919.

[@ziiiz-bh6vv]

Exelente trabajo, la premier es la mejor liga.

[@RichardDomingues28]

No

[@ziiiz-bh6vv]

@@RichardDomingues28 si

[@totifutt27]

que increíble lo de Everton, ser el club con más temporadas en primera división, espectacular 👏🏻

[@handsolo1209]

Goalkeeper Han Segers was paid to lose a game for Wimbledon that kept Everton (Everton "won" 3-2) in the PL in 1994, so not so "espectacular"

[@Graeme726]

@@handsolo1209 things that never happened 👆🏻

[@handsolo1209]

@@Graeme726 You lying piece of shit. You know full well that it did happen.

[@Guttlegob]

This Solo guy spends all his time commenting about Hans Segas what a whopper 😅

[@keshoasubuhi]

@@handsolo1209 Well he left it pretty late, I'd have paid him only half

[@Petrolosis]

Interesting how 1971-72 has what would be considered the "Top Six" bunched together like that

[@ultraviolence1054]

Tremendo video

[@Ththnol]

Good video!

[@user-ei7ed6zy9k]

One thing that’s evident is that since the 90’s the premier league is having less and less major movements compared to other leagues and decades in the past. Same top 4, Same mid table and a mess of a bottom half. It goes to show that if you were good at the right time, you can be a major club due to financial reward

[@gsf67]

This is amazing, it's interesting to see patterns which develop, clubs which were once strong and at other times they have struggled, clubs like Everton had a great spell in the mid 80's, but have been fair to middling ever since.

[@samking1273]

most interesting thing about this is seeing how little the teams in the first division change over time and watching the teams from the championship fly closer and closer to the bottom each time. Shows how uncompetitive and how much of a closed shop it has gradually become.

[@asd36f]

Amazing how Northampton Town went from the 4th Division all the way to the 1st Division and then all the way back to the 4th Division in less than 10 seasons

[@axelamaru]

Manchester tiene como 5 descensos, liverpool 3, y aún así nadie duda de su grandeza, mientras que en otros países es una mancha para un grande descender tan solo una vez. Incluso en Brasil está mal visto.

[@aarongarcia1405]

Eso depende mucho la cultura futbolística de los países, pues para algunos incluso mi opinión es una marca importante descender de categoría y más si nunca le a pasado a un club. Lo que es Premier League y Bundesliga si hablamos de ligas importantes, todos han descendido, mientras que en España, Italia, Argentina o Brasil aún hay equipos que han conservado su categoría y por eso sería una marca importante descender.

[@tomasjurogutierrez2294]

Los más mencionados de ambos son los últimos que tuvieron, en el último del Liverpool le tomo 8 años para regresar a primera, mientras que en el último del United, el que lo descendió fue su rival de patio (y con un gol de una leyenda de los Red Devils).

[@kristianyankov7535]

@@tomasjurogutierrez2294 El gran Denis Law

[@albertorivera4485]

También depende del prestigio de las ligas inferiores, quiero decir, algo que han hecho muy bien en Inglaterra es valorar las ligas secundarias, y si bien, descender es malo y una mancha como mencionan, también es cierto que el Championship tiene un prestigio importante, siendo, junto con la 2.Bundesliga, las únicas segundas divisiones consideras dentro del Top 10 mundial de ligas, entonces, un descenso de la Premier al Championship no "pega" tanto como un descenso en Argentina, Brasil, Francia o quién me digas. En Inglaterra hasta la League Two tiene su importancia, sólo hay que ver, ¿qué otra Cuarta División es relativamente conocida a nivel mundial? También ayuda bastante que haya muchos equipos importantes o famosos en ellas, digo, por ejemplo, el Championship tenía, hasta éste año, a un equipo que tiene más Champions que el PSG, Tottenham, Arsenal, Feyenoord, Atlético de Madrid, Manchester City, Borussia Dortmund, etc. que es el Nottingham Forest, y así, aunque el Forest haya perdido prestigio (mas no grandeza), irónicamente, su presencia en la segunda división de Inglaterra, le daba éste mismo prestigio a la categoría.

[@alfronzocragimo-spicerini3828]

Bournemouth 😁🍒 what a journey although majority was just division 3

[@NanobanaKinako]

And in 10 years, we find Wrexham winning the Premier League.

[@robtyman4281]

Not quite! ....but I bet you they'll be in the Premier League by 2030. It's so going to happen. They will use Luton as their inspiration and motivation.

[@dmuellner1997]

I watch this video every few days just to relax.

[@untizioacaso1300]

Could you do this with Italy too?

[@aleksavasic2612]

It's hard to believe that teams Brentford and Carlisle United played each other just 10 years ago (in the league, not the cup)!

[@adamdolan6475]

Always found it interesting in the 60s when Northampton had 3 straight promotions to the 1st division then 3 straight Relegation back down to the 4th division

[@josue6212]

Podrías hacer el de España Plis

[@iainbambrough3147]

Sunderland the last team who had only ever played in the top division relegated in 1958.

[@Lewis_Marriott]

Barnsley were like Weee this ride is good

[@tomico9154]

Weird to see Darwen because my cousin used to play for them, I never knew they were in the league.

[@sophiaevans9908]

Worth watching for the 3 seasons Maidstone United spent in the league. We'll be back...😁😁

[@Fredboot1]

1:45, Barnsley 3rd Arsenal 5th. Guess who got promoted? Bent as chuff. Good work though.

[@shanewalsh8663]

Haz uno de la Liga Española por favor

[@djalland1]

That's the wrong Middlesbrough in the 1893-94 2nd Division. It was Middlesbrough Ironopolis, who were a totally separate club and only spent that one season in the Football League.

[@scottl.1568]

Interesting...

[@antonioferri2459]

How did you do this chart?

[@moltenyeti43]

Liverpool was very close to promotion in the 2nd tier between 1956-1961

[@juanfa3031]

where did you make the video? i will like to do like this but LaLiga

[@madmaxine4185]

Nice one. Just wanna play as York City on Fifa again😔

[@eamonlyons8318]

When we (Wolverhampton) go down we plummet

[@KermitOnTiktok665]

Please do a Spanish football league promotions and relegations video please!!! ❤

[@rayyanvlogs772]

Cam you add the national league the 5th division of England

[@franciscoestebanquezada4676]

Podrías hacer uno igual pero del brasileirao o de la liga argentina