Liverpool are on the brink of being confirmed as Premier League champions after a dominant campaign under Arne Slot.
There were fears over the Reds’ prospects in 2024/25 after the departure of transformative manager Jurgen Klopp and a quiet summer in the transfer market.
But Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk, two pillars of Klopp’s great teams, have each been superb, while the likes of Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai have taken huge steps forward as challengers have fallen by the wayside.
So where will this title put Liverpool in English football’s all-time rankings? It’s arguably a success to that brings parity to an eternal rivalry… at least for now.
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Who has won the most Premier League titles?
Manchester United are top of the all-time rankings with 20 Premier League titles, one ahead of Liverpool on 19.
Arsenal and Manchester City are the only two other clubs to have their number of titles in double figures.
The table below features all top-division titles won by clubs, including those prior to the Premier League split from the Football League in 1992/93.
In the rebranded Premier League, United are comfortably the most successful club with 13 titles, ahead of City on eight and Chelsea with five.
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All-time list of English football champions
- 20 — Manchester United
- 19 — Liverpool
- 13 — Arsenal
- 10 — Manchester City
- 9 — Everton
- 7 — Aston Villa
- 6 — Chelsea, Sunderland
- 4 — Newcastle United, Sheffield Wednesday
- 3 — Wolves, Huddersfield Town, Leeds United, Blackburn Rovers
- 2 — Preston North End, Tottenham, Derby County, Burnley, Portsmouth
- 1 — Sheffield United, West Brom, Ipswich Town, Nottingham Forest, Leicester City
Liverpool FC vs. Man United rivalry
The two clubs astride the top of the list are the giant institutions of English football.
United have also won the FA Cup 13 times to Liverpool’s eight, while the Anfield club have a record 10 League Cups to United’s six.
Liverpool are not shy when it comes to pointing out that they have double United’s three European Cup/Champions League successes.
During Sir Alex Ferguson’s time in charge at Old Trafford, pointing to this history of European success became an act of almost reflexive self-preservation. Because, as equal as this rivalry is overall, it is marked by defining periods of dominance from one club or the other in terms of English league titles.
Following Sir Matt Busby’s final Division One title in 1966/67 — a crown United lost to crosstown rivals Manchester City the year after — the Red Devils were not champions of England again until Ferguson scaled the mountain for the first time in 1992/93.
In the interim period, Liverpool won the title on 11 occasions. However, an unlikely barren spell stretched 30 years from 1989/90 to 2019/20 when Jurgen Klopp led the Reds to glory.
During that drought, Ferguson won a remarkable 13 titles, making good on his pledge to “knock Liverpool off their perch” and overhauling what looked like an insurmountable all-time advantage.
It will once again be Liverpool and Manchester United’s perch to share, with the latter club now firmly in the doldrums. Another period of United dominance feels impossible to imagine right now, but history shows how this pendulum can swing.
