THE USURPER LEAGUEPremier League 1992/93.
A different title race.
Norwich City win our alternative 1992/93 Premier League with 55 points from 30 matches. The usual suspects have been excused.
We removed every fixture involving the clubs on our exclusion list who actually played in the Premier League that year. We kept all other scores unchanged. That's 240 real matches and 16 competing clubs.
The new 1992/93 table
No imaginary fixtures. No points generously handed out. The other clubs keep their results against one another.
| # | Club | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwich City | 30 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 44 | 42 | 2 | 55 |
| 2 | Queens Park Rangers | 30 | 16 | 6 | 8 | 53 | 42 | 11 | 54 |
| 3 | Blackburn Rovers | 30 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 53 | 34 | 19 | 51 |
| 4 | Aston Villa | 30 | 14 | 7 | 9 | 41 | 31 | 10 | 49 |
| 5 | Crystal Palace | 30 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 41 | 38 | 3 | 44 |
| 6 | Coventry City | 30 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 40 | 33 | 7 | 43 |
| 7 | Everton | 30 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 39 | 37 | 2 | 43 |
| 8 | Sheffield Wednesday | 30 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 37 | 35 | 2 | 41 |
| 9 | Leeds United | 30 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 45 | 46 | -1 | 38 |
| 10 | Southampton | 30 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 41 | 45 | -4 | 38 |
| 11 | Ipswich Town | 30 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 35 | 41 | -6 | 37 |
| 12 | Wimbledon | 30 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 40 | 41 | -1 | 35 |
| 13 | Oldham Athletic | 30 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 49 | 54 | -5 | 35 |
| 14 | Sheffield United | 30 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 34 | 38 | -4 | 34 |
| 15 | Middlesbrough | 30 | 7 | 7 | 16 | 41 | 58 | -17 | 28 |
| 16 | Nottingham Forest | 30 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 31 | 49 | -18 | 27 |
How the table changes
With everybody participating, Manchester United lead our all-club calculation. Removing Big Six fixtures puts Norwich City first in the alternative league.
Who's been excused?
Excluded clubs present in 1992/93: Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur. We removed 222 fixtures, along with every point and goal from those matches.
See the all-club calculated table for comparison
| # | Club | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manchester United | 42 | 24 | 12 | 6 | 67 | 31 | 36 | 84 |
| 2 | Aston Villa | 42 | 21 | 11 | 10 | 57 | 40 | 17 | 74 |
| 3 | Norwich City | 42 | 21 | 9 | 12 | 61 | 65 | -4 | 72 |
| 4 | Blackburn Rovers | 42 | 20 | 11 | 11 | 68 | 46 | 22 | 71 |
| 5 | Queens Park Rangers | 42 | 17 | 12 | 13 | 63 | 55 | 8 | 63 |
| 6 | Liverpool | 42 | 16 | 11 | 15 | 62 | 55 | 7 | 59 |
| 7 | Sheffield Wednesday | 42 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 55 | 51 | 4 | 59 |
| 8 | Tottenham Hotspur | 42 | 16 | 11 | 15 | 60 | 66 | -6 | 59 |
| 9 | Manchester City | 42 | 15 | 12 | 15 | 56 | 51 | 5 | 57 |
| 10 | Arsenal | 42 | 15 | 11 | 16 | 40 | 38 | 2 | 56 |
| 11 | Chelsea | 42 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 51 | 54 | -3 | 56 |
| 12 | Wimbledon | 42 | 14 | 12 | 16 | 56 | 55 | 1 | 54 |
| 13 | Everton | 42 | 15 | 8 | 19 | 53 | 55 | -2 | 53 |
| 14 | Sheffield United | 42 | 14 | 10 | 18 | 54 | 53 | 1 | 52 |
| 15 | Coventry City | 42 | 13 | 13 | 16 | 52 | 57 | -5 | 52 |
| 16 | Ipswich Town | 42 | 12 | 16 | 14 | 50 | 55 | -5 | 52 |
| 17 | Leeds United | 42 | 12 | 15 | 15 | 57 | 62 | -5 | 51 |
| 18 | Southampton | 42 | 13 | 11 | 18 | 54 | 61 | -7 | 50 |
| 19 | Oldham Athletic | 42 | 13 | 10 | 19 | 63 | 74 | -11 | 49 |
| 20 | Crystal Palace | 42 | 11 | 16 | 15 | 48 | 61 | -13 | 49 |
| 21 | Middlesbrough | 42 | 11 | 11 | 20 | 54 | 75 | -21 | 44 |
| 22 | Nottingham Forest | 42 | 10 | 10 | 22 | 41 | 62 | -21 | 40 |
About the numbers
This is not an official Premier League table. We use real results to calculate an alternative competition. Wins earn three points; ties are ordered by goal difference and goals scored. This does not attempt every official historical disciplinary deduction or tiebreaker.
Original historical match results: footballcsv/england, CC0 public-domain licensed. Each source season was validated as a complete home-and-away league before inclusion.
That trophy never existed. The argument about who deserves it absolutely can.