Premier League 1997/98 – Football Research Archive

League table

Premier League 1997/98. 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	Arsenal	38	23	9	6	68	33	+35	78
2	Manchester United	38	23	8	7	73	26	+47	77
3	Liverpool	38	18	11	9	68	42	+26	65
4	Chelsea	38	20	3	15	71	43	+28	63
5	Leeds United	38	17	8	13	57	46	+11	59
6	Blackburn Rovers	38	16	10	12	57	52	+5	58
7	Aston Villa	38	17	6	15	49	48	+1	57
8	West Ham United	38	16	8	14	56	57	−1	56
9	Derby County	38	16	7	15	52	49	+3	55
10	Leicester City	38	13	14	11	51	41	+10	53
11	Coventry City	38	12	16	10	46	44	+2	52
12	Southampton	38	14	6	18	50	55	−5	48
13	Newcastle United	38	11	11	16	35	44	−9	44
14	Tottenham Hotspur	38	11	11	16	44	56	−12	44
15	Wimbledon	38	10	14	14	34	46	−12	44
16	Sheffield Wednesday	38	12	8	18	52	67	−15	44
17	Everton	38	9	13	16	41	56	−15	40
18	Bolton Wanderers	38	9	13	16	41	61	−20	40
19	Barnsley	38	10	5	23	37	82	−45	35
20	Crystal Palace	38	8	9	21	37	71	−34	33

ChampionsEuropean qualificationRelegationOutcome notes and sources

Source OpenFootball; English WikipediaUpdated 22 Oct 2026, 15:21 BSTCalculation standings-v1Table changed 15 Oct 2026, 07:28 BSTResults to 10 May 1998

League table

Season outcomes

Premier League 1997/98: champions, qualification and relegation recorded by the cited source. Cup results can also determine qualification.
Club	Outcome
Arsenal	Champions Qualification for the Champions League group stage
Manchester United	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
Liverpool	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round
Chelsea	Qualification for the Cup Winners' Cup first round [1]
Leeds United	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round [2]
Blackburn Rovers	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round [2]
Aston Villa	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round [2]
Newcastle United	Qualification for the Cup Winners' Cup first round [3]
Bolton Wanderers	Relegation to the Football League First Division
Barnsley	Relegation to the Football League First Division
Crystal Palace	Intertoto Cup third round and relegation to the First Division

Chelsea qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup as defending champions. As they were also the League Cup winners, the UEFA Cup berth vacated was awarded to Blackburn Rovers.
Aston Villa was rewarded entry to the UEFA Cup through UEFA Fair Play ranking.
As Arsenal qualified for the Champions League, their Cup Winners' Cup place as FA Cup winners defaulted to Newcastle United, the runners-up.

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

1997–98 FA Premier League · Fetched 22 Oct 2026

Results

Grounds

Premier League 1997/98: each club's home ground that season.
Club	Ground
Arsenal	Highbury
Aston Villa	Villa Park
Barnsley	Oakwell
Blackburn Rovers	Ewood Park
Bolton Wanderers	Toughsheet Community Stadium
Chelsea	Stamford Bridge
Coventry City	Highfield Road
Crystal Palace	Selhurst Park
Derby County	Pride Park Stadium
Everton	Goodison Park
Leeds United	Elland Road
Leicester City	Filbert Street
Liverpool	Anfield
Manchester United	Old Trafford
Newcastle United	St James' Park
Sheffield Wednesday	Hillsborough Stadium
Southampton	The Dell
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	0 – 0	0 – 0 (half time 0 – 0)	Premier League, Official match catalogue: Arsenal v Aston Villa, 1997-10-26	Applied
Arsenal v Barnsley	Score	5 – 0	5 – 0 (half time 3 – 0)	Premier League, Official match catalogue: Arsenal v Barnsley, 1997-10-04	Applied
Arsenal v Blackburn Rovers	Score	1 – 3	1 – 3 (half time 1 – 0)	Premier League, Official match catalogue: Arsenal v Blackburn Rovers, 1997-12-13