Most matches played — Premier League

Who has spent the most seasons in it in the Premier League, counted from the 10,260 matches of that league alone — 2000–01 to 2026–27. A club’s record in any other competition, including the other four leagues on this site, is not in these figures.

The list

Where two are level they share a rank, and the list runs past fifty when fiftieth place is shared, because splitting a tie would mean choosing between them on no stated basis.

Played — the leading 15. Every one of the 46 is in the table below.

#	Club	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost
1	Chelsea FC	993	557	229	207
1	Everton FC	993	368	277	348
1	Liverpool FC	993	551	240	202
1	Arsenal FC	993	574	225	194
1	Tottenham Hotspur FC	993	452	221	320
1	Manchester United FC	993	580	211	202
7	Manchester City FC	955	533	185	237
8	Newcastle United FC	917	333	228	356
9	Aston Villa FC	879	302	243	334
10	West Ham United FC	874	284	217	373
11	Fulham FC	727	220	187	320
12	Southampton FC	646	189	174	283
13	Sunderland AFC	575	142	152	281
14	Crystal Palace FC	537	164	141	232
15	Leicester City FC	494	165	118	211
15	West Bromwich Albion FC	494	117	139	238
17	Wolverhampton Wanderers FC	456	129	110	217
18	Blackburn Rovers	418	140	110	168
18	Bolton Wanderers	418	132	110	176
20	Middlesbrough FC	380	107	111	162
20	Stoke City	380	116	109	155
20	Burnley FC	380	92	95	193
23	AFC Bournemouth	347	108	90	149
23	Brighton & Hove Albion FC	347	111	110	126
25	Leeds United FC	309	107	77	125
26	Wigan Athletic	304	85	76	143
27	Charlton Athletic	266	85	70	111
27	Birmingham City	266	73	82	111
27	Portsmouth FC	266	79	65	122
27	Norwich City FC	266	56	66	144
27	Watford FC	266	67	60	139
27	Swansea City	266	82	66	118
33	Hull City AFC	195	43	50	102
33	Brentford FC	195	70	52	73
35	Nottingham Forest FC	157	49	41	67
36	Sheffield United FC	152	34	29	89
37	Ipswich Town FC	119	35	25	59
38	Derby County	114	19	26	69
38	Reading FC	114	32	23	59
38	Queens Park Rangers	114	22	26	66
41	Cardiff City	76	17	13	46
41	Huddersfield Town	76	12	17	47
43	Coventry City FC	43	9	10	24
44	Bradford City	38	5	11	22
44	Blackpool FC	38	10	9	19
44	Luton Town FC	38	6	8	24

The same list across all five leagues: Most matches played, Europe-wide.

Where this came from

Fixtures and results from openfootball, released into the public domain (CC0). Players, clubs and career figures from Wikidata (CC0). Tables, totals and records on this page are worked out here from the results rather than copied from anywhere. No free source links players to individual matches, so these pages give results and career totals but never who scored in a given game.

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