Last Major Trophy for Every Premier League Club (Updated List) |

Every club moves through time at its own pace, some carried forward by a steady stream of success, others held in place by a single memory that refuses to loosen its grip, and in English football that contrast feels sharper than anywhere else, where the distance between triumphs can stretch across generations yet never fully erode the belief that another moment is always building somewhere just out of sight.

Trophies do more than decorate cabinets; they anchor identity, they shape how supporters interpret every new season, every signing, every narrow defeat that feels heavier because of what came before.

In the Premier League era, the conversation often leans toward dominance, toward the clubs that collect silverware with a kind of routine efficiency. Beneath that surface sits a different story, one where time behaves unevenly, where a single afternoon can define decades and where the absence of success becomes part of the emotional fabric of following a team.

For some, the last trophy still feels recent enough to influence expectations in real time, a reminder that success is not far away, while for others it has drifted into something almost mythical, revisited through old footage and retold with increasing reverence.

This list traces those moments, not as isolated achievements but as markers in longer journeys, capturing where each club last touched that feeling of completion and how far they have travelled since.

Some entries carry the confidence of continuity, others the weight of waiting; all of them sit within the same landscape, where the next chapter always feels possible, even when history suggests otherwise.

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16. Burnley — First Division, 2 May 1960

16. Burnley — First Division, 2 May 1960

Burnley is one of the twelve founding members of the Football League, which makes the nearly seventy-year gap since their last top-flight title a particularly heavy thing to carry.

The 1959-60 season remains the gold standard, a campaign of collective effort and tactical intelligence under Harry Potts that was settled by a single point over Wolverhampton Wanderers on the final day.

Recent Championship wins have kept the flame alive at Turf Moor, but the wait for a major honour at the top level remains the longest of any established side in the division.

15. Sunderland — FA Cup, 5 May 1973

Last Major Trophy for Every Premier League Club (Updated List)

To find the last time Sunderland’s loyalty was rewarded with major silverware, you travel back to a Wembley afternoon that has since grown into genuine football mythology.

A Second Division side against Don Revie’s Leeds United, one of the most formidable teams in Europe, and the result felt impossible before a ball was kicked. Ian Porterfield’s swivel and volley gave Sunderland the lead. Jimmy Montgomery’s miraculous double save defied all reasonable explanation.

When Bob Stokoe ran across the pitch in his trilby hat at the final whistle, he cemented a legacy that more than fifty years of subsequent football have done nothing to diminish.

14. Wolverhampton Wanderers — League Cup, 15 March 1980

Facing Brian Clough’s Nottingham Forest, the reigning European champions, was a daunting enough prospect on paper. Wolves absorbed the pressure, waited for their moment, and found it through a defensive mix-up that left Andy Gray with an empty net to tap into.

The 1-0 win was tight, hard-earned, and completely justified.

In the forty-six years since, Wolves have experienced European quarter-finals and the indignity of the third tier, a range of fortune that few clubs can match, but that single Wembley afternoon remains the last addition to the Molineux cabinet.

13. Nottingham Forest — League Cup, 29 April 1990

Brian Clough’s capacity to extract maximum performance from his players in the biggest moments had not diminished by 1990, even if the European Cup years were behind him.

Nigel Jemson’s goal and Des Walker’s defensive masterclass in the final against Oldham Athletic were vintage Clough: built on discipline, collective organisation and a willingness to do whatever the game required rather than whatever looked elegant.

It proved to be the final trophy of a sustained period of achievement, and the club’s current return to the Premier League has given the City Ground its most legitimate reason for optimism in a generation.

12. Leeds United — First Division, 3 May 1992

The 1991-92 season was the last campaign of the old First Division before the top flight rebranded entirely, and Leeds United have the distinction of being its final champions.

Howard Wilkinson’s side was deeply functional rather than spectacular, combining David Batty’s relentless running with Gary McAllister’s technical quality and Lee Chapman’s goals in a formula that held together through the pressure of a title race with Manchester United that went to the final weeks.

Since that afternoon, Leeds have been to a Champions League semi-final, collapsed financially, spent sixteen years outside the top flight, and returned twice over.

The 1992 title remains the last time those white shirts stood at the summit of the English game.

11. Everton — FA Cup, 20 May 1995

Everton is the fourth most successful club in English football history by league titles, which makes the current thirty-one-year drought feel so deeply out of step with everything that came before.

Joe Royle’s “Dogs of War” produced a performance of pure collective character in the 1995 final, refusing to be overwhelmed by a Manchester United side that contained far more individually recognised talent.

Paul Rideout’s header was the difference; the scenes on Merseyside reflected what the fanbase had known all along, and a 2009 final defeat to Chelsea has been the closest the club has come to repeating it since.

With a move to the new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock now underway, the desire to break the cycle has never been more clearly expressed.

10. Aston Villa — League Cup, 24 March 1996

Brian Little’s Villa demolished Leeds United 3-0 in the 1996 League Cup final with a display that suggested a club on the verge of something sustained.

Goals from Savo Milosevic, Ian Taylor and Dwight Yorke amounted to a performance of real authority, equalling the club’s own record for wins in the competition. The reality that followed, a long drift and eventually a relegation in 2016, made that afternoon feel increasingly remote.

Unai Emery’s arrival has fundamentally altered that trajectory, with Villa now competing in Europe and challenging at the top of the table, and the 1996 trophy feels less like a final moment of glory and more like a benchmark waiting to be surpassed.

9. Arsenal — FA Cup, 1 August 2020

14 FA Cup titles make Arsenal the most successful club in the history of the competition, and their most recent arrived in the hollow, echoing silence of a pandemic-era Wembley, where Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored twice to beat Chelsea.

It was Mikel Arteta’s first trophy as a manager, and it served as a foundational moment for a rebuild that has since produced consecutive near-misses in the Premier League title race.

The 2020 win demonstrated that even through their most difficult period, Arsenal retain the specific capacity to produce their best football when a final demands it, and the next addition to that cabinet feels genuinely close.

8. West Ham United — Europa Conference League, 7 June 2023

Prague ended forty-three years of waiting with the kind of dramatic conclusion that no writer would have the confidence to invent.

Jarrod Bowen racing clear in the final moments against Fiorentina, finding the composure to finish when the weight of four decades was pressing down on every West Ham supporter watching around the world, and then the eruption of pure relief from the thousands inside the stadium.

The Europa Conference League is the junior competition in European football, but the prestige meant everything to a fanbase that had been waiting since 1980, and the victory changed the conversation around the club from one rooted in nostalgia to one grounded in the present tense.

7. Manchester United — FA Cup, 25 May 2024

Nobody gave Manchester United a realistic chance against Manchester City, which made what happened at Wembley all the more remarkable.

Kobbie Mainoo, twenty years old, played with a composure that recalled someone who had been performing at this level for a decade, scoring one and contributing to another as United won 2-1 through goals from himself and Alejandro Garnacho.

The subsequent turbulence under Erik ten Hag and the ongoing uncertainty of the INEOS era mean the 2024 FA Cup is a complicated artefact of a complicated time. For supporters, however, beating your fiercest rivals in a cup final produces a satisfaction that nothing that comes after it can fully undo.

6. Newcastle United — League Cup, 16 March 2025

70 years without a major trophy. 70 years of accumulated longing that had become such a central part of the Newcastle United story that it was almost impossible to imagine what the ending of it would feel like.

Eddie Howe’s side provided the answer against Liverpool, with Dan Burn scoring one of the most emotionally charged goals the Premier League era has produced and Alexander Isak adding the decisive second in a 2-1 victory.

The celebrations across Tyneside went beyond anything that could be adequately framed in football terms. For a club and a city that had been waiting since 1955, this was not simply a trophy. It was the resolution of something that had defined generations.

5. Liverpool — Premier League, 27 April 2025

The genuine uncertainty after Jurgen Klopp’s departure was whether Liverpool could maintain the standard he had set or whether the years ahead would require a substantial rebuilding period.

Arne Slot answered that question emphatically by winning the Premier League title in his very first season, leading Liverpool with a consistency that recalled the best stretches of the Klopp era and pulling away from Arsenal and Manchester City through the spring with a composure that suggested a club whose institutional strength runs considerably deeper than any individual manager.

Wrapping up the title with four games to spare gave the Anfield faithful a final month of celebration, and the message it sent about the depth of the club’s culture was as significant as the trophy itself.

4. Crystal Palace — FA Cup, 17 May 2025

Oliver Glasner’s Palace entered the final as heavy underdogs against Manchester City and left it as FA Cup winners for the first time in their entire history, which is a sentence that still requires a moment to process properly.

Eberechi Eze’s first-half goal gave Palace the platform, and Dean Henderson delivered a goalkeeping performance that simply belonged to a different category from anything he had previously produced, making save after save as City’s desperation grew with every passing minute.

When Joel Ward lifted the trophy, it confirmed what the cup has always been willing to demonstrate: that preparation and belief and a goalkeeper who is absolutely locked in on one particular afternoon can overcome almost any deficit in resources and expectation.

3. Tottenham Hotspur — Europa League, 21 May 2025

17 years without a trophy and the word “Spursy” following the club like a permanent and humiliating shadow. Ange Postecoglou had promised silverware in his second season, which was simultaneously charming and audacious, and the Europa League final in Bilbao against Manchester United delivered it through Brennan Johnson’s single, composed finish in a tense, cagey 1-0 victory.

Tottenham finished seventeenth in the Premier League that season and narrowly avoided relegation. They will compete in the Champions League next season as Europa League winners.

It is precisely the kind of gloriously contradictory outcome that makes following this club such a perpetually extraordinary experience.

2. Chelsea — Europa Conference League, 28 May 2025

Chelsea navigated the 2024-25 Conference League with the authority of a squad that contained considerably more quality than any opponent they faced in the competition, and the final in Wroclaw against Real Betis confirmed that assessment after a brief first-half scare.

A 4-1 victory in the second half demonstrated the depth that Enzo Maresca had learned to deploy efficiently.

The historical significance was specific and substantial: Chelsea became the first club to win all 5 major European trophies, a collection spanning five decades of continental football that speaks to the durability of a winning culture at Stamford Bridge that has proven more resilient than any individual era of ownership or management.

1. Manchester City — League Cup, 22 March 2026

It is appropriate that Manchester City sit at the top of this list, having secured the most recent major trophy available. Their League Cup victory against Arsenal last night was classic Guardiola, built on positional intelligence and the confident deployment of a squad that contains more usable quality at every level than any other club in the country.

Nico O’Reilly scored twice on the biggest domestic stage available, confirming that the academy pipeline sustaining City’s project is as healthy as it has ever been. A rare two-year gap without silverware before this win had generated considerable discussion about whether the extraordinary run was reaching its end.

The final resolved that debate with considerable authority, and with the league and the FA Cup both still in contention as the season approaches its conclusion, this League Cup win may prove to be only the first celebration of several before summer arrives.