2007/08 Premiership is dropped from the competition title and the Barclays Premier League is the new name for the English top-flight. The first all-English UEFA Champions League final takes place as Manchester United defeat Chelsea and the Premier League tops the UEFA Club Co-efficient for the first time. Manchester United winger Cristiano Ronaldo is top scorer with 31 goals - in just 31 Premier League starts – tying Alan Shearer’s record for a 38-match season. 2008/09 Manchester United win their 11th Premier League and equal Liverpools record of 18 top-flight titles. Premier League turnover is £1.005bn, with £136m going to external good causes and solidarity payments. 2009/10 Chelsea reclaim the Premier League title from Manchester United for the first time since 2006. The success caps an excellent first season for Chelsea manager Carlos Ancelotti, with his side scoring 103 goals – a new Premier League record – and winning The FA Cup. 2010/11 Manchester United win their 12th Premier League title and 19th overall. A new record of 1,063 goals scored is set in a 38-fixture season. On Saturday 5th February 2011 a record 41 goals are scored in one day, in only eight matches. Premier League grounds are 92.2% full and the season’s attendance is 13.4m. Premier League turnover stands at £1.202bn, with more than £165m distributed outside of the League in solidarity, good causes and grassroots funding. 2011/12 With one of the final strikes of the season, Sergio Aguero secured Manchester City’s first ever Premier League title in a dramatic 3-2 victory over QPR as Manchester United finished second on goal difference. Chelsea also lifted the UEFA Champions League trophy for the first time, ensuring that England was top of the UEFA League coefficient for the fifth season in a row. Aston Villa midfielder Marc Albrighton scored the 20,000th Premier League goal against Arsenal in December. The 2011/12 season was voted the best one yet in the Premier League 20 Seasons Awards, with the league title, Champions League qualification places and relegation all decided on the final day. 2012/13 Manchester United won their 13th Premier League trophy in the final season of Sir Alex Ferguson’s glorious 26 years in charge at Old Trafford. Long-serving top flight stars Paul Scholes, Michael Owen and Jamie Carragher also called time on their playing careers. The Red Devils won the title with four matches to spare thanks to a hat-trick from the league’s top scorer Robin van Persie, who netted 26 times in his first campaign with Man Utd, against Aston Villa. Chelsea, who won the UEFA Europa League to become the first British club to lift all three major European trophies, finished in the top four along with Manchester City and Arsenal, who narrowly pipped Tottenham Hotspur to fourth spot. Collective Premier League attendances eclipsed 250 million in the 2012/13 season. Swansea City and Wigan Athletic won major silverware for the first time, lifting the League Cup and FA Cup respectively.
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