Live now, Group B Leading goalscorer: Bobby Zamora (Brighton & Hove Albion), 28. 14 October 2000: Leicester City surrender their lead of the Premier League with a 3–0 home defeat by Manchester United, who replace them at the top of the table. Wimbledon finished eighth in their first season outside the top flight for 15 years. At the bottom of The Football League, the battle for survival went to the very last day of the season, with the bottom two sides Torquay United and Barnet playing each other at Barnet's Underhill Ground. Swindon narrowly avoided a second successive relegation. It is their sixth FA Cup triumph to date and their first since 1992. Manchester United became the fourth team in history to win the English league title three seasons in a row. The 2000–01 season was the 121st season of competitive football in England. Former Lazio coach Eriksson, 52, was the first foreigner to be appointed coach of the England national team. They endured three successive playoff failures before winning the Division One playoff final in 2000 and ending a five-year exile from the Premiership. Manchester United secured their third Premiership title in succession and their seventh title in just nine seasons. The other team to hit the headlines were Liverpool, who finished third but won both domestic cup competitions as well as the UEFA Cup. Note: Cardiff City left administration and made arrangements before promotion as runner up and Chesterfield deducted 9 points for beginning financial irregularities. [27], 9 May 2001: Tony Cottee, 35-year-old striker, retires after a brief spell at Millwall during their Division Two promotion run-in. Overview. The new Middlesbrough manager is, The same weekend sees future England teammate, This page was last edited on 15 September 2020, at 04:39. Sir Alex Ferguson became the first manager in English football to win three successive league titles after Manchester United (only the fourth team in history to win three straight titles) topped the Premiership's final table for the third year in a row. Use of UEFA.com signifies your agreement to the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy. 1 August 2000: After a year at Coventry City, 7 August 2000: Middlesbrough sign Croatian striker, 13 August 2000: Chelsea defeat Manchester United to win the, 19 August 2000: Opening day drama in the Premier League sees newly promoted Charlton Athletic and Manchester City clash at, 25 August 2000: Liverpool pay Middlesbrough £5.5 million for. Torquay won the match and ensured League survival, while Barnet returned to the Conference after a decade in the league. Torquay were 3–0 up at half-time, but Barnet, playing five up front for periods of the second half scored twice to keep the tension levels high until the end of the match. Leading goalscorer: Louis Saha (Fulham) – 27. Burnley's seventh-place finish put them just one place short of the playoffs and the chance of ending their 25-year absence from the top flight. Sir Alex Ferguson became the first manager in English football to win three successive League titles after Manchester United were crowned Premier League champions for the third season running. Liverpool became only the second English side to win the League Cup and FA Cup in the same season, also adding the UEFA Cup to make it a unique treble. Wycombe were defeated 2–1 at Villa Park. 6 December 2000: Five days after withdrawing their offer for him to become first-team coach, Middlesbrough unveil Terry Venables as first-team coach to work alongside manager, 14 December 2000: West Ham United fail in a £10 million bid for Coventry City striker, 16 December 2000: Manchester United suffer their first home defeat in the Premier League for two years when a, 22 December 2000: Recent calls for standing accommodation to be relegalised at Premier League grounds are blasted by relatives of some the 96 people killed in the. Marcus Stewart was the Premiership's second-highest goalscorer with 19 goals for newly promoted Ipswich Town, who qualified for the UEFA Cup. He was also capped 22 times by England between 1988 and 1996. Joining them were newly promoted Manchester City and Coventry City, whose luck finally ran out after 34 years in the top flight. Mark McGhee enjoyed success in his first season as Millwall manager by guiding them to the Division Two title. 25 February 2001: After a 1–1 draw in open play at the. Fulham reached the Premiership as Division One champions to secure their five-season rise from Division Three. 28 May 2001: Bolton Wanderers defeat Preston North End 3–0 in the Division One playoff final to join champions Fulham and runners-up Blackburn Rovers in the Premiership. An unlikely series of results in the final few weeks sent Huddersfield down to Division Two, when they had looked safe at the start of April. The 2000-01 season was Liverpool's 109th season of football since they were established. Despite Sir Alex Ferguson winning a third successive Premiership title with Manchester United and Gérard Houllier's three successes in cup competitions, Ipswich Town's George Burley received the Manager of the Year award. After the end of the 2000–01 season, Sir Alex Ferguson began a summer of heavy spending. Chelsea purchase, 24 May 2001: Seven months after quitting as England manager, Kevin Keegan makes a return to football when he is named as, 26 May 2001: A week after the last competitive game at The Dell, Southampton's old stadium finally hosts its last ever match when Brighton & Hove Albion – Southampton's first opponents there in 1898 – visit the stadium for a friendly against. Bradford City and Derby County continue to prop up the top flight, joined in the drop zone by Middlesbrough. 23 November 2000: Leeds United break the English transfer fee record by paying £18 million for West Ham United centre-back. Millwall, who had failed to impress since relegation from the First Division in 1996, finally secured promotion as divisional champions. Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Chelsea's record signing at £15 million, topped the Premiership goalscoring charts with 23 goals. Under the management of Jean Tigana, but with only two changes to the previous season's first team, Fulham won the division easily. 31 January 2001: January draws to a close with Manchester United now 15 points ahead of Arsenal at the top of the Premier League, with Sunderland, Liverpool and Ipswich Town among the even more distant title challengers, while Leicester City have now dipped to eighth place and are now focused on pushing for a top-six finish as well as a good run in the FA Cup. 31 December 2000: The year 2000 draws to a close with Manchester United now eight points ahead of Arsenal at the top of the Premier League, while Ipswich Town and Leicester City's surprise title challenge – which is becoming more distant – is now being joined by a threat from vastly improving Sunderland. The UEFA word, the UEFA logo and all marks related to UEFA competitions, are protected by trademarks and/or copyright of UEFA. After their financial nightmares and near-relegations of the previous years, Brighton finally started making serious progress, as they won the title. The 2000–01 season was the 121st season of competitive football in England. 5 June 2001: Bryan Robson resigns after seven years as manager of Middlesbrough. Bristol Rovers occupied the final relegation spot, entering the League's bottom tier for the first time in their history. Championship Manager 00/01 [cheats&hints updated] HINTS Enter "fishbate" as your name to get 100.000.000 money. If two or more clubs are level on points, alphabetical order is applied based on full club names until teams have played each other twice, at which point the competition regulations are applied. Tranmere's recent cup successes failed to translate into league form, and they finished bottom, just behind Queens Park Rangers, who fell into the third tier for the first time since the 1960s. Most bookmakers had closed their books before the turn of the New Year and admitted that United were certain of their seventh Premier League title in the last nine years. The match was won in the 116th minute by golden goal, and it completed a triplet of trophies for Liverpool which ended their six-year trophy drought as well as delivering their first trophies under Houllier's management. This was the season that the Reds scooped a treble of trophies under the reign of Gérard Houllier. ... At the start of the season Kenny Miller of Rangers is always on loan and if you sign him on loan for any club and bring him on at exactly 70 minutes he will score a goal. 28 October 2000: Arsenal beat Manchester City 5–0 in the league at.