Cardiff City Football Club is a professional football club based in Cardiff, Wales. Founded in 1899, the club competed in local amateur leagues before turning professional in 1910, moving into the English football league system by joining the Southern Football League. Ten years later, they were elected into the Second Division of the Football League, winning promotion to the First Division in their first season. They achieved their highest ever position during the 1923–24 season, finishing in second place of the First Division but lost the league title on goal average to Huddersfield Town. They were relegated from the First Division in 1929. Since then, they have spent a further eight seasons in the top tier; the most recent return was a one-year spell in the 2013–14 season.
Birmingham City Football Club, an English association football club based in the city of Birmingham, was founded in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance. For their first thirteen years, there was no league football, so matches were arranged on an occasional basis, supplemented by cup competitions organised at both local and national level. In 1888, Small Heath joined the Combination, a league set up to provide organised football for those clubs not invited to join the Football League which was to start the same year. However, the Combination was not well organised, and folded in April 1889 with many fixtures still outstanding. Small Heath were founder members of the Football Alliance in 1889, and three years later were elected to the newly formed Second Division of the Football League. They topped the table in their first season, though failed to win promotion via the test match system then in operation, but reached the top flight for the first time in 1894. Since that time, they have not fallen below the third tier of the English football league system, and were promoted to the Premier League for the first time for the 2002–03 season.
York City Football Club is a professional association football club based in York, North Yorkshire, England. Founded in 1922, the club was elected to play in the Midland League, and competed in this league for seven seasons before being elected to play in the Football League in 1929 as members of the Third Division North. York were promoted to the Second Division for the 1974–75 season, which saw the team achieve their highest league placing after finishing in 15th place. York became the first team to reach 100 points in a Football League season after winning the 1983–84 Fourth Division championship with 101 points, the club's only league title. York were relegated to the Football Conference in 2004 after they finished at the bottom of the Third Division, ending 75 years of League membership. York returned to the Football League after eight years with victory in the 2012 Conference Premier play-off Final, but were relegated to the National League four years later.
Sydney Football Club is an Australian professional association football club based in Moore Park, Sydney. The club was formed in 2004. They became the first Sydney member admitted into the A-League in 2005.
Arsenal Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Holloway, London. The club was formed in Woolwich in 1886 as Royal Arsenal before it was renamed Woolwich Arsenal in 1893. They became the first southern member admitted into the Football League in 1893, having spent their first four seasons solely participating in cup tournaments and friendlies. The club's name was shortened to Arsenal in 1914, a year after moving to Highbury. In spite of finishing fifth in the Second Division in 1915, Arsenal rejoined the First Division at the expense of local rivals Tottenham Hotspur when football resumed after the First World War. Since that time, they have not fallen below the first tier of the English football league system and hold the record for the longest uninterrupted period in the top flight. The club remained in the Football League until 1992, when its First Division was superseded as English football's top level by the newly formed Premier League, of which they were an inaugural member. In 2003–04, Arsenal completed a league season without a single defeat, something achieved only once before in English football, by Preston North End in 1888–89.
Manchester City Football Club is an English association football club based in Manchester, which competes in the Premier League. Founded as West Gorton in 1880, the club after several changes of identity adopted the name 'Manchester City' in 1894. During the 1891–92 season, Manchester City joined the Football Alliance. The team was elected to The Football League in 1892, where the club remained until 1992, when the League's First Division was replaced as the top level of English football by the Premier League.
Melbourne City Football Club is an Australian professional association football club based in Bundoora in Melbourne. The club was formed in 2009 as Melbourne Heart before it was renamed to Melbourne City in 2014.
Central Coast Mariners FC is an Australian professional association football club based in Gosford, on the Central Coast of New South Wales, which compete in the top tier of Australian football (soccer), for the 2016–17 season. The club was formed in 2004, and were the only regional club included in the A-League's inaugural season in 2005–06. They have played in all eleven A-League seasons.
Sunderland Association Football Club, an English association football club based in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, was founded in 1879. They joined The Football League in the 1890–91 season replacing Stoke who had failed to be re-elected, making Sunderland the first new club to join the league since its inauguration in 1888. Sunderland remained in the football league for 106 years, albeit in different divisions, until 1996 when they were promoted to the Premier League, which replaced the Football League's First Division at the top of the English football league system in 1992. Since then the club has been relegated back into The Football League on four occasions. They currently compete in the EFL League One after relegation from the EFL Championship in the 2017–18 season.
Preston North End Football Club, an English association football club based in the Deepdale area of Preston, Lancashire, was founded in 1880. For their first eight years, there was no league football, so matches were arranged on an occasional basis, supplemented by cup competitions organised at both local and national level. In 1888, Preston participated in the inaugural Football League. They won the first top-flight league title and of the 22 matches they won 18 and drew the other four, therefore they remained undefeated thus being labelled "The Invincibles". They were the only team to be known by this nickname for 115 years until Arsenal completed their 2003–04 season without a defeat. Since then the club has remained in the Football League although it has competed in its various divisions.
Chelsea Football Club is a professional association football club based in Fulham, London. Founded in 1905, they were elected to play in The Football League as members of the Second Division. They were promoted into the First Division in the club's second season. Chelsea remained in the Football League, in the First or Second division, until 1992 when clubs in the First Division broke away from The Football League to form the Premier League. The club has remained in the top division of the English football league system since 1989. In their latest spell in the Second Division Chelsea achieved their highest points total achieving 99 in the 1988–89 season. As of the 2017–18 season, the club holds the records for the most clean sheets in a single Premier League season with 25 in 2004–05. Chelsea have been English football champions six times.
Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club is a professional association football club based in Wolverhampton, West Midlands. Founded in 1877 as St. Luke's, they adopted their current name in August 1879. Wolves began playing league football in 1888 when they were nominated to become one of the twelve founder members of the Football League. Wolves remained in the Football League for 115 years in different divisions, in this time the club were English football champions for three seasons. In 2003 they were promoted into the Premier League, which had replaced the Football League's First Division at the top of the English football league system in 1992. The team were relegated back into the Football League after one season in the Premier League. Their second promotion to the Premier League came in 2009 and this spell spanned three seasons. Between 2012 and 2018 the club were playing in the Football League until their third promotion to the Premier League at the end of the 2017–18 EFL Championship season.
Adelaide United Football Club is an Australian professional association football club based in Adelaide, South Australia. The club was formed in 2003. They became the first South Australian team to play in the A-League. Adelaide United's first National Soccer League match was against the Brisbane Strikers, and they met their 25th and most recent different league opponent, Macarthur FC, for the first time in the 2020–21 A-League season. The team that Adelaide United have played most in league competition is Melbourne Victory, who they first met in the 2005–06 A-League season; the 26 defeats from 54 meetings is more than they have lost against any other club. Newcastle Jets drawn 15 league encounters with Adelaide United, more than any other club. Adelaide United have recorded more league victories against Central Coast Mariners than against any other club, having beaten them 22 times out of 49 attempts.
Western United Football Club is an Australian professional association football club based in the Western Suburbs in Melbourne. The club was formed in 2017 as Western United before it was renamed from Western Melbourne in 2018.
Bolton Wanderers Football Club, an English association football club based in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England was founded in 1874 as Christ Church Football Club before adopting its current name in 1877. Bolton were one of the 12 founder members of the Football League, which formed in 1888. The club has remained in the Football League since it was established competing in its various divisions. As of the end of 2020–21, the club's first team has spent 74 seasons in the first tier of English football, 33 in the second, 13 in the third and two in the fourth. They are currently competing in EFL League One, the third tier.
Macarthur Football Club is an Australian professional association football club based in South Western Sydney. The club was formed in 2017 as Macarthur South West United before it was renamed to Macarthur FC in 2019.
Melbourne Victory is an Australian professional association football club based in Swan Street. The club was formed in 2004. They became the first Victorian member admitted into the A-League in 2005.
Newcastle Jets Football Club is an Australian professional association football club based in Newcastle West, Newcastle. The club was formed in 2000 as Newcastle United before it was renamed to Newcastle Jets in 2005.
Perth Glory Football Club is an Australian professional association football club based in East Perth, Perth. The club was formed in 1995 and played its first competitive match in the first round of the 1996–97 National Soccer League, in October 1996. The Glory has played at its current home ground, Perth Oval, since its foundation. Perth is one of the three inaugural A-League clubs that originally played in the National Soccer League.
Brisbane Roar Football Club is an Australian professional association football club based in Brisbane, Queensland. The club was formed in 1957 as Hollandia-Inala before it was renamed Brisbane Lions in 1977, then Queensland Roar in 2005, then Brisbane Roar in 2009. They became the first Queensland member admitted into the A-League in 2005.
