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2000–01 FA Premier League

Premier League
Season 2000–01
Champions Manchester United
7th Premier League title
14th English title
Relegated Manchester City
Coventry City
Bradford City
Champions League Manchester United
Arsenal
Liverpool
UEFA Cup Leeds United
Ipswich Town
Chelsea
Intertoto Cup Aston Villa
Newcastle United
Matches played 380
Goals scored 992 (2.61 per match)
Top goalscorer Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (23)
Biggest home win Manchester United 6–0 Bradford City
(5 September 2000)
Biggest away win Charlton Athletic 0–4 Liverpool
(19 May 2001)
Manchester City 0–4 Arsenal
(11 April 2001)
Derby County 0–4 Chelsea
(7 April 2001)
Manchester City 0–4 Leeds United
(13 January 2001)
Derby County 0–4 Liverpool
(15 October 2000)
Highest scoring Arsenal 5–3 Charlton Athletic
(26 August 2000)
Longest winning run 8 games
Manchester United
Longest unbeaten run 13 games
Leeds United
Longest winless run 13 games
Bradford City
Derby County
Longest losing run 8 games
Leicester City
Highest attendance 67,637
Manchester United v Coventry City
(14 April 2001)
Lowest attendance 15,523
Bradford City v Coventry City
(2 December 2000)
Average attendance 32,905

The 2000–01 FA Premier League (known as the FA Carling Premiership for sponsorship reasons) was the third season running which ended with Manchester United as champions and Arsenal as runners-up. Sir Alex Ferguson became the first manager to win three successive English league titles with the same club. Liverpool, meanwhile, managed a unique cup treble – winning the FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup. They also finished third in the Premiership and qualified for the Champions League; they had not played in the European Cup since the 1985 final at Heysel in which their fans were accused of killing 39 spectators, and were given a six-year ban from European competition.

UEFA Cup places went to Leeds United, Chelsea, Ipswich Town, and Aston Villa, who qualified via the Intertoto Cup. None of the top six clubs in the Premiership had an English manager. The most successful English manager in the 2000–01 Premiership campaign was Peter Reid, whose Sunderland side finished seventh, having spent most of the season challenging for a place in Europe, and briefly occupied second place in the Premiership table.

Despite the success achieved by Sir Alex Ferguson and Gérard Houllier, the Manager of the Year Award went to George Burley. The Ipswich Town manager was in charge of a newly promoted side who began the season as relegation favourites and on a limited budget, guided his team to fifth place in the Premiership final table and a place in the UEFA Cup for the first time in almost 20 years. 2000–01 was perhaps the best season yet for newly promoted teams in the Premiership. Charlton Athletic finished ninth, their highest finish since the 1950s. The only newly promoted team to suffer relegation was Manchester City, who in the space of seven seasons had now been relegated four times and promoted twice. Relegated in bottom place were Bradford City, whose return to the top division after almost 80 years was over after just two seasons. The next relegation place went to Coventry City, who were finally relegated after 34 successive seasons of top division football, which had brought numerous relegation battles and league finishes no higher than sixth place.


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