Premier League 1995/96 – Football Research Archive

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Premier League 1995/96 – Football Research Archive

Season outcomes

Premier League 1995/96: champions, qualification and relegation recorded by the cited source. Cup results can also determine qualification.
Club	Outcome
Manchester United	Champions Qualification for the Champions League group stage
Newcastle United	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round
Liverpool	Qualification for the Cup Winners' Cup first round [1]
Aston Villa	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round
Arsenal	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round
Everton	Excluded from the UEFA Cup [2]
Manchester City	Relegation to Football League First Division
Queens Park Rangers	Relegation to Football League First Division
Bolton Wanderers	Relegation to Football League First Division

Liverpool qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup as FA Cup runners-up, as winners Manchester United already qualified for the Champions League. They defaulted their UEFA Cup spot from league position to Arsenal.
The Football Association was initially awarded a UEFA Fair Play berth to the Premier League's highest-placed team not qualified for Europe, but was revoked by UEFA for its clubs fielding under-strength sides in the 1995 UEFA Intertoto Cup.

Labels and notes adapted from English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Club names and formatting are normalized.

1995–96 FA Premier League · Fetched 22 Oct 2026

Corrections to the source

Values in OpenFootball's file corrected by the archive, each citing an official document. The source file itself is kept unchanged.
Match	Field	OpenFootball lists	Corrected to	Official source	Status
Arsenal v Aston Villa	Score	2 – 0	2 – 0 (half time 0 – 0)	Premier League, Official match catalogue: Arsenal v Aston Villa, 1995-10-21	Applied
Arsenal v Blackburn Rovers	Score	0 – 0	0 – 0 (half time 0 – 0)	Premier League, Official match catalogue: Arsenal v Blackburn Rovers, 1995-11-26	Applied
Arsenal v Bolton Wanderers	Date	4 May 1996	5 May 1996	Premier League, Official match catalogue: Arsenal v Bolton Wanderers, 1996-05-05

Grounds

Premier League 1995/96: each club's home ground that season.
Club	Ground
Arsenal	Highbury
Aston Villa	Villa Park
Blackburn Rovers	Ewood Park
Bolton Wanderers	Burnden Park
Chelsea	Stamford Bridge
Coventry City	Highfield Road
Everton	Goodison Park
Leeds United	Elland Road
Liverpool	Anfield
Manchester City	Maine Road
Manchester United	Old Trafford
Middlesbrough	Riverside Stadium

League table

Premier League 1995/96. Calculated from the results below: 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw, ordered by points, goal difference and goals scored.
Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Manchester United	38	25	7	6	73	35	+38	82
2	Newcastle United	38	24	6	8	66	37	+29	78
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