The Premier League desk since ’08 if their outcomes are voided

October 4, 2026
1:29 pm

Arsenal are high of the Premier League desk going again to 2008 if you happen to expunge Manchester Metropolis‘s outcomes from the file since their takeover.

Manchester Metropolis’s dominance of English soccer since their 2008 takeover has reworked and outlined the Premier League over the previous 18 years. However what would the desk appear to be in the event that they merely weren’t there?

It’s a query price asking after an impartial fee discovered Metropolis responsible of great breaches of the Premier League’s monetary guidelines over a nine-season interval.

The findings cowl 2009-10 to 2017-18, with the Fee concluding that Metropolis artificially inflated revenues and diminished prices by greater than £900million.

Premier League chief govt Richard Masters described it as “probably the most vital” disciplinary case within the competitors’s historical past, stating that Metropolis “systematically broke Premier League Guidelines for almost a decade”.

We’ve taken a barely wider view.

Our desk begins in 2008-09, the season of Metropolis’s transformative Abu Dhabi takeover, and removes the membership and each Premier League end result involving them from the equation.

Solely Arsenal, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool and Manchester United have been ever-present within the high flight all through that interval.

The Gunners come out on high with 1,290 factors, simply three forward of Liverpool. Manchester United sit third on 1,250, with Chelsea fourth and Tottenham finishing the highest 5.

We’ve already seen factors deductions handed to Everton and Nottingham Forest for PSR breaches, whereas Chelsea accepted fines totalling £10.75million and switch restrictions over separate historic breaches.

However there is no such thing as a significant precedent for one thing of this scale. That is the most important scandal in English soccer historical past, involving confirmed breaches throughout nearly a decade and sums operating into a whole lot of hundreds of thousands.

What occurs subsequent stays unsure.

Metropolis have lodged an attraction towards the fee’s findings, and no sanction has but been determined. That attraction shall be heard privately by a separate Attraction Board.

And even that may not draw a line beneath issues, with additional authorized avenues probably out there after the Premier League course of. This saga stays a great distance from over.

Right here’s the complete Premier League desk if you happen to strip away all of Manchester Metropolis’s outcomes since their takeover in 2008:

#	Membership	Performed	Factors	PPG
1	Arsenal	653	1,290	1.98
2	Liverpool	653	1,287	1.97
3	Man Utd	652	1,250	1.92
4	Chelsea	653	1,236	1.89
5	Tottenham	653	1,110	1.70
6	Everton	653	932	1.43
7	Newcastle United	581	781	1.34
8	West Ham	612	772	1.26
9	Aston Villa	545	721	1.32
10	Crystal Palace	472	586	1.24
11	Fulham	437	529	1.21
12	Southampton	432	499	1.16
13	Leicester	360	491	1.36
14	Wolves	396	451	1.14
15	Stoke	360	442	1.23
16	Brighton	329	431	1.31
17	Bournemouth	328	410	1.25
18	West Brom	360	395	1.10
19	Sunderland	364	392	1.08
20	Burnley	360	365	1.01
21	Swansea	252	307	1.22
22	Brentford	185	255	1.38
23	Watford	216	233	1.08
24	Wigan	180	198	1.10
25	Norwich	216	193	0.89
26	Nott’m Forest	149	183	1.23
27	Leeds United	149	180	1.21
28	Hull	185	173	0.94
29	Blackburn	144	163	1.13
30	Bolton	144	158	1.10
31	Sheff Utd	108	93	0.86
32	QPR	108	90	0.83
33	Birmingham	72	86	1.19
34	Portsmouth	72	66	0.92
35	Cardiff	72	61	0.85
36	Middlesbrough	72	55	0.76
37	Huddersfield	72	52	0.72
38	Blackpool	36	39	1.08
39	Studying	36	28	0.78
40	Ipswich	41	28	0.68
41	Luton	36	26	0.72
42	Coventry	4	3	0.75