Premier League and Fulham

[Ludlow Richard]

There was football before the Premier League, of course, but seasons spent in the PL are a useful yardstick of where we have been as a club in the past three decades. 2022/23 will be the 31st PL season, and it will be our 16th season in it. If you had been pondering FFC's future in 1992/93 (the first PL season and a pretty ordinary season for us, languishing in the 3rd tier of English football), would you have believed that we would have spent 16 of the next 30 seasons rubbing shoulders with the elite?

In terms of seasons spent in the PL, we are not near the top. We are not surprisingly behind Arsenal, Man Utd, Man City, Liverpool, Everton, Spurs and Chelsea.  Others ahead of us in terms of PL seasons are Villa, Newcastle, West Ham, Southampton, Blackburn and Leicester. But we are ahead of some big clubs like Leeds and Middlesbrough (15 seasons in the PL), Palace (14), WBA (13), Stoke and Norwich  (both 10); and streets ahead of Burnley (8), QPR (7), AFCB, Forest and Brighton (all 6) and Cardiff and Brentford (both 2). 

If you measure success by seasons spent in the PL, we rank 14th (equal with Sunderland).

[Lighthouse]

When you consider we reached the final of The Europa Cup as well. It isn't bad of a club the size of Fulham.

It would be just great to hang onto the Prem for more than a season but whatever happens it isn't a bad record considering that now the rules have changed to help the bigger clubs now far more than they did in the early days.