1998–99 Premier League

The **1998–99 Premier League** (known as the **FA Carling Premiership** for sponsorship reasons) was the seventh season of the Premier League. That season, Manchester United won the league. That year, United also won the treble: the league title, the FA Cup and the UEFA Champions League.

## Teams

- Arsenal
- Aston Villa
- Blackburn Rovers
- Charlton Athletic
- Chelsea
- Coventry City
- Derby County
- Everton
- Leeds United
- Leicester City
- Liverpool
- Manchester United
- Middlesbrough
- Newcastle United
- Nottingham Forest
- Sheffield Wednesday
- Southampton
- Tottenham Hotspur
- West Ham United
- Wimbledon

## League table

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### Top scorers

|Rank|Player|Club|Goals|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=3 align=center|1|Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink|Leeds United|rowspan=3 align=center|18|
|Michael Owen|Liverpool|||||
|Dwight Yorke|Manchester United|||||
|rowspan=2 align=center|4|Nicolas Anelka|Arsenal|rowspan=2 align=center|17|
|Andy Cole|Manchester United|||||
|align=center|6|Hámilton Ricard|Middlesbrough|align=center|15|
|rowspan=4 align=center|7|Dion Dublin|Aston Villa|rowspan=4 align=center|14|
|Robbie Fowler|Liverpool|||||
|Julian Joachim|Aston Villa|||||
|Alan Shearer|Newcastle United|||||

### Hat-tricks

|Player|For|Against|Result|Date|Ref|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Charlton Athletic|Southampton|5–0 (H)|||
||Liverpool|Newcastle United|4–1 (A)|||
|<sup>4</sup>|Liverpool|Nottingham Forest|5–1 (H)|||
||Aston Villa|Leicester City|4–1 (A)|||
||Liverpool|Aston Villa|4–2 (A)|||
||Tottenham Hotspur|Everton|4–1 (H)|||
||Coventry City|Nottingham Forest|4–0 (H)|||
|<sup>P</sup>|Liverpool|Southampton|7–1 (H)|||
||Manchester United|Leicester City|6–2 (A)|||
|<sup>4</sup>|Manchester United|Nottingham Forest|8–1 (A)|||
||Arsenal|Leicester City|5–0 (H)|||
||Everton|West Ham United|6–0 (H)|||
- **Note:** <sup>4</sup> Player scored 4 goals; <sup>P</sup> Player scored a perfect hat-trick; (H) – Home; (A) – Away

### Top assists

|Rank|Player|Club|Assists|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"|1|align="left"|Dennis Bergkamp|align="left"|Arsenal|rowspan="2"|13|
|align="left"|Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink|align="left"|Leeds United|||||
|rowspan="4"|3|align="left"|David Beckham|align="left"|Manchester United|rowspan="4"|11|
|align="left"|Eyal Berkovic|align="left"|West Ham United|||||
|align="left"|Steve Guppy|align="left"|Leicester City|||||
|align="left"|Dwight Yorke|align="left"|Manchester United|||||
|7|align="left"|David Ginola|align="left"|Tottenham Hotspur|10|||
|rowspan="2"|8|align="left"|Darren Anderton|align="left"|Tottenham Hotspur|rowspan="2"|9|
|align="left"|Harry Kewell|align="left"|Leeds United|||||
|10|align="left"|James Beattie|align="left"|Southampton|7|||

## Other websites

- 1998–99 FA Premier League Season at RSSSF

## Infobox (football league season)

- **competition**: Premier League
- **season**: 1998–99
- **dates**: 15 August 1998 – 16 May 1999
- **winners**: Manchester United F.C., Manchester United
5th Premier League title
12th English title
- **relegated**: Charlton Athletic F.C., Charlton Athletic
Nottingham Forest F.C., Nottingham Forest
Blackburn Rovers F.C., Blackburn Rovers
- **continentalcup1**: 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League, Champions League
- **continentalcup1 qualifiers**: Manchester United F.C., Manchester United
Arsenal F.C., Arsenal
Chelsea F.C., Chelsea
- **continentalcup2**: 1999–2000 UEFA Cup, UEFA Cup
- **continentalcup2 qualifiers**: Leeds United F.C., Leeds United
Newcastle United F.C., Newcastle United
Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Tottenham Hotspur
- **continentalcup3**: 1999 UEFA Intertoto Cup, Intertoto Cup
- **continentalcup3 qualifiers**: West Ham United F.C., West Ham United
- **league topscorer**: Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
Michael Owen
Dwight Yorke(18 goals each)
- **matches**: 380
- **total goals**: 959
- **prevseason**: 1997–98 Premier League, 1997–98
- **nextseason**: 1999–2000 Premier League, 1999–2000