THE USURPER LEAGUEPremier League 2023/24.
A different title race.
Aston Villa win our alternative 2023/24 Premier League with 51 points from 26 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 182 real matches and 14 competing clubs.
The new 2023/24 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 | Aston Villa | 26 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 60 | 39 | 21 | 51 |
| 2 | Newcastle United | 26 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 64 | 37 | 27 | 48 |
| 3 | AFC Bournemouth | 26 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 45 | 37 | 8 | 43 |
| 4 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 26 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 40 | 35 | 5 | 41 |
| 5 | Everton | 26 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 31 | 26 | 5 | 41 |
| 6 | Crystal Palace | 26 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 42 | 34 | 8 | 39 |
| 7 | West Ham United | 26 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 45 | 46 | -1 | 38 |
| 8 | Fulham | 26 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 41 | 35 | 6 | 37 |
| 9 | Brentford | 26 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 43 | 41 | 2 | 33 |
| 10 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 26 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 32 | 40 | -8 | 31 |
| 11 | Nottingham Forest | 26 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 39 | 43 | -4 | 30 |
| 12 | Luton Town | 26 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 41 | 55 | -14 | 25 |
| 13 | Burnley | 26 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 31 | 44 | -13 | 22 |
| 14 | Sheffield United | 26 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 27 | 69 | -42 | 15 |
How the table changes
With everybody participating, Manchester City lead our all-club calculation. Removing Big Six fixtures puts Aston Villa first in the alternative league.
Who's been excused?
Excluded clubs present in 2023/24: Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur. We removed 198 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 City | 38 | 28 | 7 | 3 | 96 | 34 | 62 | 91 |
| 2 | Arsenal | 38 | 28 | 5 | 5 | 91 | 29 | 62 | 89 |
| 3 | Liverpool | 38 | 24 | 10 | 4 | 86 | 41 | 45 | 82 |
| 4 | Aston Villa | 38 | 20 | 8 | 10 | 76 | 61 | 15 | 68 |
| 5 | Tottenham Hotspur | 38 | 20 | 6 | 12 | 74 | 61 | 13 | 66 |
| 6 | Chelsea | 38 | 18 | 9 | 11 | 77 | 63 | 14 | 63 |
| 7 | Newcastle United | 38 | 18 | 6 | 14 | 85 | 62 | 23 | 60 |
| 8 | Manchester United | 38 | 18 | 6 | 14 | 57 | 58 | -1 | 60 |
| 9 | West Ham United | 38 | 14 | 10 | 14 | 60 | 74 | -14 | 52 |
| 10 | Crystal Palace | 38 | 13 | 10 | 15 | 57 | 58 | -1 | 49 |
| 11 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 38 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 55 | 62 | -7 | 48 |
| 12 | Everton | 38 | 13 | 9 | 16 | 40 | 51 | -11 | 48 |
| 13 | AFC Bournemouth | 38 | 13 | 9 | 16 | 54 | 67 | -13 | 48 |
| 14 | Fulham | 38 | 13 | 8 | 17 | 55 | 61 | -6 | 47 |
| 15 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 38 | 13 | 7 | 18 | 50 | 65 | -15 | 46 |
| 16 | Brentford | 38 | 10 | 9 | 19 | 56 | 65 | -9 | 39 |
| 17 | Nottingham Forest | 38 | 9 | 9 | 20 | 49 | 67 | -18 | 36 |
| 18 | Luton Town | 38 | 6 | 8 | 24 | 52 | 85 | -33 | 26 |
| 19 | Burnley | 38 | 5 | 9 | 24 | 41 | 78 | -37 | 24 |
| 20 | Sheffield United | 38 | 3 | 7 | 28 | 35 | 104 | -69 | 16 |
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: openfootball/football.json, 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.