Ranking all of the teams ever to win the Premier League is a thankless and ever-growing task. The game has changed enormously over the three decades since the Premier League began. Is it fair to compare Blackburn Rovers’ mostly homegrown title-winners with the more stellar international names plying their trade at the City of Manchester Stadium in recent years? Can you objectively rate the nostalgia-laced teams of Barclays past with the modern, sleek machines of the non-branded EPL? Rank anything in football and you’re going to piss someone off.
It's all about opinions: unless you politely disagree, then you're a fraud who doesn't even look at post-match xG or know what passing empathy is (no, us neither). This is not simply an exercise in tallying up the number of points each team collected in their title-winning season(s). Of course, the wins, losses and draws are significant, but there’s more to it than that: dominance, swagger, goals scored and conceded, the strength of the opposition, the extent of the team's superiority and the pressure of the situation have all been taken into account, not to mention that most intangible of metrics, the vibes .
It's our Premier League winners ranking – AND IT'S LIVE. 32. Manchester United 1996/97 It seems harsh to rank this team at the bottom, after they won their fourth title in five years and claimed the league by a comfortable seven points.
But they only won 21 games, and conceded 44 goals, on their way to the lowest points .