Promotion and Relegation
Nottingham Forest were the first team relegated from the Premier League in the 1992–93 season, losing 0–2 at home to Sheffield United on 1 May 1993. They were joined by Middlesbrough and Crystal Palace, with the latter club relegated on goal difference. Newcastle United and West Ham United, both automatically promoted from the First Division in the 1993–94 season finished in third and thirteenth position respectively while Swindon Town, promoted via the play offs finished bottom of the Premier League having won only five league matches and conceding 100 goals. Oldham Athletic, who survived relegation the previous season and Sheffield United occupied the final two relegation spots.
Blackburn Rovers have been the only Premier League champions to be relegated from the league, in 1998–99 and 2011–12.
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Famous quotes containing the word promotion:
“I am asked if I would not be gratified if my friends would procure me promotion to a brigadier-generalship. My feeling is that I would rather be one of the good colonels than one of the poor generals. The colonel of a regiment has one of the most agreeable positions in the service, and one of the most useful. “A good colonel makes a good regiment,” is an axiom.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)