Reading, 1st place, Champions
Southampton, 2nd place, Runners-up
West Ham, 3rd place, Play-Off Winners
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Manchester United, with 11.
You must be qualified to play in the UEFA champions league europa league to play in europe so you have to be in the premier league if your an english team.
Manchester united have won 11
18 premier league titles so far
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18 each for Liverpool and Manchester united
In the 1996-1997 English Premier League, the champions were Manchester United, who had also won in two previous championships and went on to win 5 more championships as of the 2006-2007 Season.
Only four teams; Manchester United (11 Championships), Blackburn Rovers (1 Championship), Arsenal (3 Championships) and Chelsea (2 Championships), have won the English Premier League.
The football/soccer league known as the Scottish Premier League was founded in 1998. At its inception, the league had 10 clubs, but has expanded to have 12 currently. As of 2013, only two teams have won championships: Celtic and Rangers.
Because it's seen as the most prestigious league in the world. It is also officially Barclay's Premier League or the English Premier League and is just shortened to plain premier league.
The Premier League used to be called the Football League First Division but in 1992 the teams in the Premier League branched off from this championship. There is really no reason that the Premier League is called the Premier League other than Premier meaning good and needing to incorporate "League" in the name. Note that at the moment the Premier League is called the Barclays Premier League because of sponsorship (Barclays being the bank.)