2000–01 FA Premier League
The 2000–01 FA Premier League (known as the FA Carling Premiership for sponsorship reasons) was the ninth FA Premier League season and the third season running which ended with Manchester United as champions and Arsenal as runners-up. Sir Alex Ferguson became the first manager to win three successive English league titles with the same club. Liverpool, meanwhile, managed a unique cup treble – winning the FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup. They also finished third in the Premier League and qualified for the Champions League. Nike replaced Mitre as manufacturer of the official Premier League match ball, a contract that has since been extended multiple times, with the most recent renewal made in November 2018 to the end of the 2024–25 season.
| Season | 2000–01 |
|---|---|
| Dates | 19 August 2000 – 19 May 2001 |
| Champions | Manchester United 7th Premier League title 14th English title |
| Relegated | Manchester City Coventry City Bradford City |
| Champions League | Manchester United Arsenal Liverpool |
| UEFA Cup | Leeds United Ipswich Town Chelsea |
| Intertoto Cup | Aston Villa Newcastle United |
| Matches played | 380 |
| Goals scored | 992 (2.61 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (23 goals) |
| Best goalkeeper | Fabien Barthez Paul Jones Sander Westerveld (14 clean sheets each) |
| Biggest home win | Manchester United 6–0 Bradford City (5 September 2000) |
| Biggest away win | Derby County 0–4 Liverpool (15 October 2000) Manchester City 0–4 Leeds United (13 January 2001) Derby County 0–4 Chelsea (7 April 2001) Manchester City 0–4 Arsenal (11 April 2001) Charlton Athletic 0–4 Liverpool (19 May 2001) |
| Highest scoring | Arsenal 5–3 Charlton Athletic (26 August 2000) |
| Longest winning run | 8 games Manchester United |
| Longest unbeaten run | 13 games Leeds United |
| Longest winless run | 13 games Bradford City Derby County |
| Longest losing run | 8 games Leicester City |
| Highest attendance | 67,637 Manchester United 4–2 Coventry City (14 April 2001) |
| Lowest attendance | 15,523 Bradford City 2–1 Coventry City (2 December 2000) |
| Total attendance | 12,503,039 |
| Average attendance | 32,903 |
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UEFA Cup places went to Leeds United, Chelsea, Ipswich Town, and Aston Villa, who qualified via the Intertoto Cup. None of the top six clubs in the Premier League had an English manager. The most successful English manager in the 2000–01 Premier League campaign was Peter Reid, whose Sunderland side finished seventh, having spent most of the season challenging for a place in Europe, and briefly occupied second place in the Premier League table.
Despite the success achieved by Sir Alex Ferguson and Gérard Houllier, the Manager of the Year Award went to George Burley. The Ipswich Town manager was in charge of a newly promoted side who began the season as relegation favourites and on a limited budget, guided his team to fifth place in the Premier League final table earning a total of 66 points - the highest total in Premier League history for a newly promoted side since the switch to a 20-team format—and a place in the UEFA Cup for the first time in almost 20 years. 2000–01 was perhaps the best season yet for newly promoted teams in the Premier League. Charlton Athletic finished ninth, their highest finish since the 1950s. The only newly promoted team to suffer relegation was Manchester City, who in the space of six seasons had now been relegated three times and promoted twice. Relegated in bottom place were Bradford City, whose return to the top division after almost 80 years was over after just two seasons. The next relegation place went to Coventry City, who were finally relegated after 34 successive seasons of top division football, which had brought numerous relegation battles and league finishes no higher than sixth place.