English Premier League football seasons ranked: Why Man City's title years beat out Fergie's United reign(2023)!!

 If the Premier League relies on the favorites in all three European competitions by spring - Manchester City in the Champions League, Manchester United in the Europa League and West Ham in the Conference League - you know things are looking good.

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If City and Arsenal's title chances are near perfect every week through April, 50-50, if seven teams have at least a 22% chance of finishing in the top four, and if the relegation race tops almost half of the championship (West Ham included) you know the stakes will be dramatic to the end. When the Brentford-Brighton match is also huge (and ticks all the boxes), show yourself honestly. - Aired on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, Other (US) The Premier League is coming for the 2022-23 season. OK, maybe not all: Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal were eliminated from their European competitions earlier than expected, with all "12 managers sacked in one season"; it's a bit quirky and disgusting, but every race is addictive, almost every team is involved in one of these races and it seems that many European successes are still to come. So this is the best Premier League season ever? Three years ago, after Liverpool won their first Premier League title in 30 years, I rated Premier League seasons. Let's revisit that approach by adding the last two full seasons to the list and speculating on where 2022-23 might end.Methodology

I used six free categories: champion quality, runner-up quality, title race quality, relegation quality, European success and top variety. It covered pretty much every angle I could think of, and otherwise I gave up to four multi-season bonus points for particularly memorable moments or achievements. Most points you could score in a season was 30.

Champion quality (1-5 points)

In this category I was quite strict with the number of points scored by each champion and the dominant goal difference. This has led to sacrilegious results: recent champions Manchester City have scored all five points, while sacred cows like Manchester United, who won the treble in 1998/99 (79 points, goal difference plus -43), and Arsenal's Invincibles in 2003/04 (90 points plus -47) no.On a five-point run, Arsenal received four points but United only one.

Second Degree (1-3 points)

You need a good dance partner who will push you to your limits. Champions who won by a lot of points, or who won on shaky ground, probably weren't pushed as hard as they could have been. A great second place is a great season, even if I only awarded three points in this category. It goes without saying that the 2018/19 season, which saw Liverpool score the third-most points in English top-flight history but finished second behind Manchester City, scored all three points. Other seasons in recent years such as 2020-21 (Manchester United: 74 points, 12 behind City) and 2015-16 (Arsenal: 71 points, 10 behind Leicester City) have only received one.

Quality of the title race (1-5 points)

The first two categories say something about the quality of a season's race, but not everything. For example, part of the mythology of Manchester United's 1998/99 season arose because Arsenal would not relinquish the championship until the final game of the season. It's a five-point run like others like 1994-95 (Blackburn trailed by eight points with six games to go, collapsed and retained the title when Manchester United drew with West Ham on the final day), the

and of course 2011-12 when Sergio Aguero helped Man City guide Manchester United to the title.

Last season City beat Liverpool again on the final day - five points! - and this year's race could also go all out.

Quality of the relegation battle (1-3 points)

Even if the title race itself is no longer interesting at the end of April, you can usually count on the relegation battle lasting until the last one or two rounds. The early days of the Premier League were marked by epic relegation dramas – in the 1992–93, 1993–94 and 1996–97 seasons seven clubs finished within three points of the relegation line, while in 1995–96 five clubs – and of the nine teams that always four points clear of the relegation zone, this season is perhaps the best

we've seen.

Success in Europe (1-5 points)

I measure league success in Europe in the simplest way: just add up your total league points in the Champions League and to a lesser extent in the Europa League (and now Conference Lega) for each Season. This puts an artificial strain on the early Premier League seasons when there weren't many chances to score as many points, but as the Premier League got off to a pretty bad start - in the first few seasons after Heysel's suspension ended, the

English teams have failed to keep up with the rest of Europe, which doesn't really matter.