Premier League 1996/97 – Football Research Archive

League table

Premier League 1996/97. 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	21	12	5	76	44	+32	75
2	Newcastle United	38	19	11	8	73	40	+33	68
3	Arsenal	38	19	11	8	62	32	+30	68
4	Liverpool	38	19	11	8	62	37	+25	68
5	Aston Villa	38	17	10	11	47	34	+13	61
6	Chelsea	38	16	11	11	58	55	+3	59
7	Sheffield Wednesday	38	14	15	9	50	51	−1	57
8	Wimbledon	38	15	11	12	49	46	+3	56
9	Leicester City	38	12	11	15	46	54	−8	47
10	Tottenham Hotspur	38	13	7	18	44	51	−7	46
11	Leeds United	38	11	13	14	28	38	−10	46
12	Derby County	38	11	13	14	45	58	−13	46
13	Blackburn Rovers	38	9	15	14	42	43	−1	42
14	West Ham United	38	10	12	16	39	48	−9	42
15	Everton	38	10	12	16	44	57	−13	42
16	Southampton	38	10	11	17	50	56	−6	41
17	Coventry City	38	9	14	15	38	54	−16	41
18	Sunderland	38	10	10	18	35	53	−18	40
19	Middlesbrough	38	10	12	16	51	60	−9	39*
20	Nottingham Forest	38	6	16	16	31	59	−28	34

ChampionsEuropean qualificationRelegationOutcome notes and sources

* Middlesbrough: points deduction, −3 in total.
- −3: Failure to fulfil a fixture. Middlesbrough did not play a scheduled match earlier in the season (a late cancellation); the Premier League deducted 3 points. Source: Premier League, “Premier League Table 1996/97 (footnote: Middlesbrough deducted 3 points due to late game cancellation)”

Points shown are after these adjustments. The table is otherwise calculated from the results.

Source OpenFootball; English WikipediaUpdated 22 Oct 2026, 15:00 BSTCalculation standings-v1Table changed 15 Oct 2026, 07:28 BSTResults to 11 May 1997

League table

Season outcomes

Premier League 1996/97: 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 Champions League second qualifying round
Arsenal	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round [1]
Liverpool	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round [1]
Aston Villa	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round [1]
Chelsea	Qualification for the Cup Winners' Cup first round [2]
Leicester City	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round [3]
Sunderland	Relegation to the Football League First Division
Middlesbrough	Relegation to the Football League First Division
Nottingham Forest	Relegation to the Football League First Division

Aston Villa was rewarded entry to the UEFA Cup through UEFA Fair Play ranking.
Chelsea qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup as FA Cup winners.
Leicester City qualified for the UEFA Cup as League Cup winners.

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

1996–97 FA Premier League · Fetched 22 Oct 2026

Results

Grounds

Premier League 1996/97: each club's home ground that season.
Club	Ground
Arsenal	Highbury
Aston Villa	Villa Park
Blackburn Rovers	Ewood Park
Chelsea	Stamford Bridge
Coventry City	Highfield Road
Derby County	Baseball Ground
Everton	Goodison Park
Leeds United	Elland Road
Leicester City	Filbert Street
Liverpool	Anfield
Manchester United	Old Trafford
Middlesbrough	Riverside Stadium
Newcastle United	St James' Park
Nottingham Forest	City Ground
Sheffield Wednesday	Hillsborough Stadium
Southampton	The Dell
Sunderland	Roker Park
Tottenham Hotspur	White Hart Lane
West Ham United	Boleyn Ground
Wimbledon	Selhurst Park

From each club's ground history, dated from Wikidata and the club's Wikipedia article; the sources are on each club's page. The archive holds the venue of each match only for 2025/26.

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 – 2	2 – 2 (half time 1 – 0)	Premier League, Official match catalogue: Arsenal v Aston Villa, 1996-12-28	Applied
Arsenal v Blackburn Rovers	Score	1 – 1	1 – 1 (half time 1 – 0)	Premier League, Official match catalogue: Arsenal v Blackburn Rovers, 1997-04-19	Applied
Arsenal v Chelsea	Score	3 – 3	3 – 3 (half time 1 – 2)	Premier League, Official match catalogue: Arsenal v Chelsea, 1996-09-04

League table

Results

League table

Points adjustments

League table

Season outcomes

Results

Grounds

Corrections to the source

Season outcomes

Grounds

League table

Points adjustments

Corrections to the source