2000-01 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 |
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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. Nike replaced Mitre as manufacturer of the official Premier League match ball.
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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