Premier League 2001/02 – Football Research Archive

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Premier League 2001/02 – Football Research Archive

Season outcomes

Premier League 2001/02: champions, qualification and relegation recorded by the cited source. Cup results can also determine qualification.
Club	Outcome
Arsenal	Champions Qualification for the Champions League first group stage
Liverpool	Qualification for the Champions League first group stage
Manchester United	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
Newcastle United	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
Leeds United	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round [1]
Chelsea	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round [1]
Aston Villa	Qualification for the Intertoto Cup third round
Blackburn Rovers	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round [2]
Fulham	Qualification for the Intertoto Cup second round
Ipswich Town	UEFA Cup QR and relegation to the First Division [3]
Derby County	Relegation to the Football League First Division
Leicester City	Relegation to the Football League First Division

Since Arsenal qualified for the Champions League, their UEFA Cup place as FA Cup winners defaulted to Chelsea, the losing finalists.
Blackburn Rovers qualified for the UEFA Cup as League Cup winners.
Ipswich Town qualified for the UEFA Cup qualifying as the winners of Premiership Fair Play League by The Football Association, and as one of the UEFA Fair Play ranking winners.

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

2001–02 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
Everton v Aston Villa	Score	3 – 2 (half time 0 – 0)	3 – 2 (half time 1 – 0)	ToffeeWeb, Match report: Everton 3–2 Aston Villa, FA Premiership, Saturday 20 October 2001	Applied

Grounds

Premier League 2001/02: each club's home ground that season.
Club	Ground
Arsenal	Highbury
Aston Villa	Villa Park
Blackburn Rovers	Ewood Park
Bolton Wanderers	Toughsheet Community Stadium
Charlton Athletic	The Valley
Chelsea	Stamford Bridge
Derby County	Pride Park Stadium
Everton	Goodison Park
Fulham	Craven Cottage
Ipswich Town	Portman Road
Leeds United	Elland Road
Leicester City	Filbert Street

League table

Premier League 2001/02. 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	26	9	3	79	36	+43	87
2	Liverpool	38	24	8	6	67	30	+37	80
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