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FA Premier League 1992-93

Premier League
Season 1992–93
Champions Manchester United
1st Premier League title
8th English title
Relegated Crystal Palace
Middlesbrough
Nottingham Forest
Champions League Manchester United
UEFA Cup Aston Villa
Norwich City
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Arsenal
Goals scored 1,222
Average goals/game 2.65
Top goalscorer Teddy Sheringham (22)
Biggest home win Blackburn Rovers 7–1 Norwich City
Sheffield United 6–0 Tottenham Hotspur
Biggest away win Manchester United 0–3 Everton
Sheffield Wednesday 0–3 Manchester City
Leeds United 1–4 Nottingham Forest
Blackburn Rovers 2–5 Coventry City
Nottingham Forest 0–3 Norwich City
Queens Park Rangers 0–3 Blackburn Rovers
Manchester City 2–5 Everton
Highest scoring Liverpool 6–2 Tottenham Hotspur
Everton 3–5 Queens Park Rangers
Oldham Athletic 6–2 Wimbledon
Blackburn Rovers 7–1 Norwich City
Oldham Athletic 5–3 Nottingham Forest
Longest winning run 7 games
Manchester United
Sheffield Wednesday
Longest unbeaten run 11 games
Manchester United
Longest winless run 13 games
Ipswich Town
Longest losing run 6 games
Nottingham Forest
Highest attendance Liverpool v Everton (44,619)
Lowest attendance Wimbledon v Everton (3,039)

The 1992–93 FA Premier League was the inaugural season of the Premier League, the top division of English football. The season began on 15 August 1992 and ended on 11 May 1993. The league was made up of the 22 clubs that broke away from The Football League at the end of the 1991–92 season. The new league was backed up by a five-year, £305 million deal with BSkyB to televise Premier League matches. In concept, the Premier League was identical to the old First Division of the Football League, which was now reduced to three divisions.

In May 1992, the breakaway league signed a broadcasting rights contract with British Sky Broadcasting and the BBC valued at £304 million, the largest such agreement in the history of British sport. The league's executive committee was unable, however, to secure title sponsorship for the new competition after eight clubs blocked a proposed £13 million deal with brewers Bass. Nonetheless, clubs began to utilise their dramatically increased wealth to fund a series of high-profile transfers.

Although the idea of a super league had been mentioned by football's governing bodies and evaluated by the media since the mid 1980s, plans for a new Premier League of 22 clubs were first unveiled by the Football Association in October 1990, and included in the Football Association's Blueprint for the Future of Football, published in June 1991. The majority of First Division clubs, particularly long-established top clubs including Arsenal and Manchester United, were in favour of a breakaway from the Football League, although Football League president Bill Fox criticised the planned Premier League as an attempt by the Football Association to "hijack" the First Division.


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