Are there any teams besides Leicester City who won the title after coming...

tux_tina

In the 2015/16 season, the English Premier League was won by Leicester. The interesting thing is that in the season before, 2014/15, Leicester ended the season in fourteenth place and if they had only 7 points fewer, would have been relegated to the second (Championship) league. So, it is kind of a football miracle that they won the English Premier League. I would like to know if there are any similar examples of football clubs that were close...

Originally asked by Farewell on Stack Exchange (sports) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

1 I remember reading this in the past . Basically scroll down to the 3rd to last graph and the author is claiming that no team has won the EPL from below 3rd the year before. It also looks like Chelsea set a new record for futility in that they fell the furthest of any EPL champ Edit: Here is the graph I was talking about:

Full answer by qwertylpc: https://sports.stackexchange.com/a/13890 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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