Football : Season Details : 1989

Final English Top Division Football (soccer) Table and Cup Final(s)

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Position	Club	Points	History	Notes
1	Arsenal	76	2-63
2	Liverpool	76	4-27	FAC-W
3	Nottingham Forest	64	5-12	LC-W
4	Norwich City	62	4-3
5	Derby County	58	6-2
6	Tottenham Hotspur	57	5-11
7	Coventry City	55	1-22
8	Everton	54	3-35	FAC-F
9	Queens Park Rangers	53	3-6
10	Millwall	53	1-1
11	Manchester United	51	6-14
12	Wimbledon	51	1-3
13	Southampton	45	2-11
14	Charlton Athletic	42	2-3
15	Sheffield Wednesday	42	8-5
16	Luton Town	41	3-7	LC-F
17	Aston Villa	40	5-1
18	Middlesbrough	39	5-1
19	West Ham United	38	3-8
20	Newcastle United	31	4-5

Legend and Abbreviations
Points: 3 for a win : 1 for a draw. Clubs: Red Relegated
History is in the form A-B: A is the number of occasions that the club has been in the Top Division. B is the current number of consecutive seasons in the Top Division.
Notes: FAC FA Cup; LC League Cup; W Winners - F Finalists

League Cup Final	Nottingham Forest 3 Luton Town 1
FA Cup Final	Liverpool 3 Everton 2 aet

European Cup Final	AC Milan 4 Steaua Bucharest 0
UEFA Cup Final First Leg	Napoli 2 Stuttgart 1
UEFA Cup Final Second Leg	Stuttgart 3 Napoli 3 (agg 4 - 5)
Cup Winners Cup Final	Barcelona 2 Sampdoria 0

aet After Extra Time : agg Aggregate Score

History

The Top Division is reduced to 20 clubs.

In injury time of the last game of the season, Arsenal scored a goal beating Liverpool 2-0 at Anfield. This win gave Arsenal the same number of points as Liverpool and the same goal difference. Arsenal won the Championship because they had scored 6 goals more. This was the closest Championship finish in the history of the League. The Liverpool v Arsenal game had been postponed from earlier in the season and was being played after the FA Cup final which Liverpool had won. For the second consecutive season, Liverpool were denied the League and FA Cup double by a London club.

This was the first time since 1952 that the season ended with two clubs playing each other for the Championship.

The FA Cup final was a repeat of 1986, and was the second all-Mersey final. Liverpool complete a record run of nine successive seasons of reaching major finals.

Millwall make their top division debut.

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