Originally Posted by
talkSAFT
All-time League placings upto 2017
No consideration is given to points accumulated, games won, or goals scored.
Based purely on League position since The Football League's inauguration (1888) these are the top 40 Clubs.
The League champions are awarded 92 League pts,
whilst the bottom team in League 2 are awarded 1 League point.
(Between 1924 and 1950, there were only 88 Clubs in the League,
and so the League champions gained 88 League pts.
Between 1888 (12 Clubs) and 1923 (86 Clubs) there were varying
nos of League members. The Champs get 12 pts (for example) for
winning the 1888-89 season,
When there were 2 Division 3s (North & South), the winners would have
each received 49 pts, whilst the runners-up both got 47.)
1 Liverpool 8,203
2 Arsenal 8,153
3 Everton 8,067
4 Manchester United 7,987
5 Aston Villa 7,847
6 Manchester City 7,571
7 Newcastle United 7,517
8 Tottenham Hotspur 7,396
9 Sunderland 7,387
10 Chelsea 7,356
11 West Bromwich Albion 7,118
12 Blackburn Rovers 6,908
13 Derby County 6,817
14 Wolverhampton Wanderers 6,742
15 Sheffield Wednesday 6,739
16 Middlesbrough 6,705
17 Bolton Wanderers 6,697
18 Sheffield United 6,620
19 West Ham United 6,595
20 Birmingham City 6,584
21 Leicester City 6,545
22 Nottingham Forest 6,529
23 Leeds United 6,505
24 Stoke City 6,421
25 Burnley 6,044
26 Southampton 5,953
27 Preston North End 5,668
28 Portsmouth 5,380
29 Fulham 5,310
30 Huddersfield Town 5,276
31 Charlton Athletic 5,240
32 Blackpool 5,095
33 Coventry City 5,068
34 Norwich City 4,900
35 Queens Park Rangers 4,734
36 Ipswich Town 4,713
37 Cardiff City 4,544
38 Crystal Palace 4,537
39 Bristol City 4,406
40 Barnsley 4,343
We're 523 pts above the Cockneys. To put that into perspective, they need to finish a full 20 places above us for the next 26 years before I would consider calling them a bigger Club, and both TopMan and myself will probably be Uncle Ned by then.