All statistics here refer to time in the Premier League only, with the exception of 'Most Recent Finish' (which refers to all levels of play) and 'Last Promotion' (which refers to the club's last promotion from the second tier of English football). For the 'Top Scorer' column, those in bold still play in the Premier League for the club shown. Premier League teams playing in the 2024–25 season are indicated in bold, while founding members of the Premier League are shown in italics. A 'spell' refers to a number of consecutive seasons within the league, uninterrupted by relegation. If the longest spell is the current spell, this is shown in bold, and if the highest finish is that of the most recent season, then this is also shown in bold.
Norwich City have had the most separate spells in the Premier League, with six, which have lasted from one to three seasons in length.
Three clubs – Luton Town, Notts County and West Ham United – were in the top flight in 1991–92, and so took part in the original negotiations in 1991 that led to the formation of the Premier League, resigning their membership of The Football League along with the other 19 clubs in the top flight. However, the clubs were relegated that season and were thereby not founding Premier League members. West Ham won promotion to the Premier League the following season. Notts County has not returned to the top flight since, even dropping to the National League in 2019. Luton Town also dropped to the National League in 2009, but managed to return to the Football League in 2014 and won promotion to the Premier League in 2023 after play-offs.
Where a club has played at multiple locations, the current location is shown (if they are a current Premier League member), or the location played at during the most recent Premier League season they competed in (if they are currently in the lower divisions).
Overall number of seasons in First Division and Premier League
The number of seasons that each team has played in the top division between 1888–89 and 2023–24. A total of 65 teams have competed in at least one season of the top division. No team has participated in all 125 seasons; Everton have been absent for the fewest seasons, missing just four for a total of 121 seasons in the top flight. Teams in bold participate in the 2023–24 Premier League. Teams in italic have never competed in the Premier League, only the old First Division.
^Arsenal finished 5th in Division Two in the 1914–15 season, but the Football League was then suspended until 1919–20 due to the First World War. After the war, Division One was expanded from 20 to 22 clubs and Arsenal was elected to the First Division for the 1919–20 season.
^The original Bradford Park Avenue went into liquidation in May 1974 and reformed as a Sunday league club. The club was refounded in 1988.
^The original Bury F.C. was expelled from the EFL on 27 August 2019.[3] Bury A.F.C. was formed as a phoenix club in December of the same year. Following FA approval of a June 2023 merger between Bury F.C. and Bury A.F.C., the two teams' histories were combined, retroactively counting Bury A.F.C.'s seasons as seasons for Bury F.C.