How often has each club been promoted to the Premier League, and who leads the way for the most promotions via the Championship play-offs? We have the answers.
Each season sees the Premier League welcome three new clubs from the Championship, with two winning automatic promotion and a third coming up via the play-offs. But which teams have won promotion to the Premier League the most since the inaugural season in 1992?
Clubs With the Most Promotions to the Premier League (Since 1992)
5 – Norwich City, West Bromwich Albion, Leicester City, Burnley, Sunderland4 – Crystal Palace, Fulham, Middlesbrough, Watford3 – Birmingham City, Bolton Wanderers, Hull City, Newcastle United, Nottingham Forest, Sheffield United, West Ham United, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Ipswich Town
Coventry City are back in the Premier League after they won the 2025-26 Championship title in April. Frank Lampard’s side will take their place in the English top flight for the first time since 2000-01, when they were relegated under the management of Gordon Strachan. It was the Sky Blues’ first promotion to the Premier League.
Last season saw Sunderland seal their fifth promotion to the Premier League thanks to a 2-1 comeback victory against Sheffield United in the 2024-25 play-off final at Wembley. No side have been promoted more often to the Premier League since its inaugural season in 1992-93.
Burnley’s automatic promotion from the Championship in 2024-25 win also saw them promoted to the Premier League for the fifth time, equalling tallies achieved by Leicester City, Norwich City and West Brom.
Scott Parker’s side’s promotion came two years after Vincent Kompany sent them up to the Premier League. Leeds United were also promoted on the same day (21 April 2025), sealing their second promotion to the Premier League after the 2019-20 title under the management of Marcelo Bielsa.
Leicester’s title win in 2023-24 was their second in the Premier League era, following their success in 2013-14. They followed that up two years later with a sensational Premier League title win in 2015-16. Their other three promotions to the Premier League came via the play-offs (1993-94 and 1995-96) and a second-place finish in 2002-03.
Three of Norwich’s promotions to the Premier League have come via title wins (2003-04, 2018-19 and 2020-21), while they finished as runners-up in 2010-11 to QPR and won the 2015 play-off final at Wembley Stadium against Middlesbrough.
West Brom have seen just one of their promotions to the Premier League come via a title win (2007-08) with their other four coming as runners-up in the second tier: 2001-02, 2003-04, 2009-10 and 2019-20. They’ve never been promoted to the Premier League via the play-offs.
Crystal Palace have won promotion to the Premier League on four occasions, with only one of those coming via a title (1993-94). Palace have won promotion to the Premier League via the play-offs more often than any other team since 1991-92 (3).
Southampton secured promotion via the 2023-24 Championship play-offs thanks to a slender 1-0 win over Leeds United at Wembley in the final.
It was the second time they’ve been promoted to the Premier League and first since 2011-12, when they finished runners-up to Reading.
Their return to the top flight for the 2024-25 campaign meant they bounced back at the first time of asking having been relegated – with Leicester and Leeds – in 2022-23. It didn’t go well though – they went on to suffer the earliest relegation in Premier League history, being sent back to the Championship with seven games left to play.
Clubs With the Most Promotions to the English Top-Flight (All-Time)
13 – Leicester City12 – Birmingham City11 – Manchester City10 – West Bromwich Albion9 – Bolton Wanderers, Middlesbrough, Norwich City, Sheffield United, Burnley, Sunderland8 – Leeds United, Sheffield Wednesday7 – Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Derby County, Newcastle United, Nottingham Forest, West Ham United, Wolverhampton Wanderers
Of course, English football didn’t begin in 1992 with the introduction of the Premier League.
Overall, in second-tier history within the English Football League, Leicester have both won promotion (13) and won the title (8) more times than any other club. They enjoyed title success in the following seasons: 1924–25, 1936–37, 1953–54, 1956–57, 1970–71, 1979–80, 2013–14 and 2023–24.
Birmingham City have won promotion to the top-flight 12 times, although they have only won the title in four of those (1892-93, 1920-21, 1947-48 and 1954-55). Manchester City have won the second-tier seven times but have won promotion to the top flight less often (11) than Birmingham (12) overall.
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