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first division

American

noun

Sports.

the half of a league comprising the teams having the best records at a particular time (second division ).

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Liverpool won the First Division, League Cup and European Cup in 1984, City managed a domestic clean sweep in 2018-19 and became the second club after neighbours Manchester United in 1998-99 to triumph in the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup in 2022-23.

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Yorath captained Wales in 42 of his 59 international appearances, and was part of the Leeds side that won the First Division in 1973-74 and lost in the 1975 European Cup final.

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Howard Wilkinson, now 82 and a long-time elder statesman of the game, was the last Englishman to lift the title with Leeds United in 1991-92, but in the league's previous guise as the First Division.

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However, all of his league appearances for the Saints came in the old First Division.

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He bagged the same number against Fulham, where he was the First Division's top scorer as the Cottagers romped to the title in 2000-01; three for Man United, and three in the blue of Everton.

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