List of football clubs in England by major honours won

This is a list of the major honours won by football clubs in England. It lists every English football club to have won any of the three major domestic trophies or three major European competitions. [cite news |url=http://football.guardian.co.uk/news/theknowledge/0,9204,1140185,00.html |title=Liverpool or United - who's won the most trophies?| date=2004-02-04 |accessdate=2008-03-17 |publisher=The Guardian |author=Lawrence Booth and Sean Ingle] They are the English football championship—The Football League up to 1992 or Premier League thereafter—the FA Cup, the League Cup, the Champions League or its predecessor the European Cup, the European Cup Winners' Cup or the UEFA Cup or its predecessor the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. It also lists Welsh side Cardiff City, who play in the English football league system and won the 1927 FA Cup.

Competitive football started in England with the FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, [cite web|url=http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/TheFACup/History/Postings/2006/01/FACup_History.htm|title=History of the FA Cup|accessdate=2008-02-25|publisher=The FA] first being competed for in the 1871–72 season when Wanderers beat Royal Engineers 1–0. [cite web|url=http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/TheFACup/History/Postings/2004/03/FACup_Final_1872.htm|title=A date to remember|date=2004-03-16|accessdate=2008-02-25|publisher=The FA] League football followed in the subsequent decade when The Football League was founded in 1888, with Preston North End winning the first title. [cite web|url=http://www.football-league.premiumtv.co.uk/page/History/0,,10794,00.html|title=The History of The Football League|accessdate=2008-02-25|publisher=The Football League] The Football League, which was renamed the First Division upon expansion of the league in 1892, remained the highest division of the English football league system until 1992 when the Premier League was founded. [cite web|url=http://www.premierleague.com/page/History/0,,12306,00.html|title=A History of The Premier League|publisher=Premier League|accessdate=2008-02-25] The Football League also added a second major cup competition in 1960, when it founded the League Cup, invititation to which is restricted to the 92 members of the league. Despite not winning the league since the 1989–90 season, Liverpool hold the record for most titles with 18. [cite news|url=http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/15122007/58/premier-league-fergie-eyes-liverpool-record.html|title=Premier League - Fergie eyes Liverpool record|accessdate=2008-02-25|date=15 December 2007|publisher=Eurosport] Liverpool also hold the record number of League Cup titles with seven victories in the final, [cite web|url=http://www.carlingcup.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Records/0,,11995,00.html|title=Everything you ever wanted to know about The League Cup, but were afraid to ask|accessdate=2008-02-25|publisher=Carling Cup] and Manchester United have won the most FA Cups with the 2004 title being their 11th. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/fa_cup/1622770.stm|title=All-time Top 10 clubs|date=2007-10-25|accessdate=2008-02-25|publisher=BBC Sport] [cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/fa_cup/3725063.stm|title=Man Utd win FA Cup|date=2004-05-22|accessdate=2008-02-25|publisher=BBC Sport]

European competition started in 1955 with the European Cup and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, which was succeeded by the UEFA Cup for the 1971–72 season. [cite web|url=http://www.uefa.com/competitions/uefacup/history/index.html|title=UEFA Cup|accessdate=2008-02-25|publisher=UEFA] The Cup Winners' Cup followed in 1960 but was discontinued in 1999. [cite web|url=http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ecwc/history/index.html|title=UEFA Cup Winners' Cup|accessdate=2008-02-25|publisher=UEFA] As of the 2006–07 season, 32 English teams have competed in the three main European competitions, 13 of which have lifted at least one trophy, [cite web|url=http://www.thefa.com/TheFA/NewsFromTheFA/Postings/2005/02/EnglishSidesInEurope.htm|title=English sides in Europe|accessdate=2008-02-25|publisher=The FA] with four of those winning the European Cup—Aston Villa, Liverpool, Manchester United and Nottingham Forest. [cite web|url=http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/history/index.html|title=UEFA Champions League|accessdate=2008-02-25|publisher=UEFA]

Honours table

;Key

League = Champions of
Premier League or
(until 1992) Football LeagueFAC = FA Cup
LC = League CupCL = Champions League
EC = European CupCWC = UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
FC = Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
UC = UEFA Cup

ee also

*English football champions

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