3 clubs that have fallen badly since the inaugural Premier League season

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Oldham Athletic made unwanted history this weekend as the first club to compete in the inaugural Premier League season to drop out of the English Football League system altogether.

A 2-1 loss at home to Salford City ended a 114-year stay in the EFL for the Latics just 30 years after competing and surviving in the first-ever Premier League season, with Oldham eventually dropping down to the Championship in the 1993/94 season.

Indeed, Oldham have fallen from grace in just three decades, yet the soon-to-be National League side isn’t the only club to have dropped from the perch of English football since that first-ever season 30 years ago.

Ipswich Town

A club that spent three seasons in the Premier League before being relegated, Ipswich Town are regarded by many as a club that are simply way too big to be sat in League One, a division the Tractor Boys looks set to spend a third year in based on the current table.

Whilst the Suffolk-based side will be desperate to return to the Championship, it’s easy to forget that Ipswich were once in the Premier League, a division that now feels like a fantasy for supporters of the third-tier side.

Sheffield Wednesday

A side that finished seventh in the inaugural season of the Premier League, Sheffield Wednesday are another side who are way too big to be down in the third tier, though a play-off finish is on the cards for the Owls this season.

One of two major sides in the Steel City, Sheffield Wednesday have lofty ambitions of returning to the pinnacle of English football, and if the League One side can clinch promotion this season, they will be one step closer to the promised land of the Premier League.

Wimbledon (MK Dons/AFC Wimbledon)

The story of Wimbledon is one of the saddest and most frustrating in all of English sports when the beloved south London side were uprooted from their home to Milton Keynes and changed overnight to MK Dons.

The only example of a professional football club being relocated and refranchised in England, MK Dons remain one of the most disliked and worst supported sides in the EFL.

Although phoenix side AFC Wimbledon are set for relegation back down to League Two, the original club will always have a special place in English sport as one of the most unique.