The worst teams in Premier League history

For a division often hailed as the 'best in the world', the Premier League has boasted some truly awful sides over the years.

There have been plenty of clubs over the years that have been laughably bad, competing in their own mini-league of the worst sides to have ever taken to the Premier League stage. It's hardly a competition to be proud of winning, but it does guarantee notoriety for years to come.

Of course, it's not always the fault of these dismal teams, many of whom are unable to cope with the jump in quality and financial disparity between the Championship and the Premier League, but the English top flight can be a merciless place.

Here are the worst teams in Premier League history — ranked by their microscopic points tallies.

Bradford, having retained their Premier League status by the barest of margins the previous season, endured a miserable domestic campaign at the start of the millennium.

Their European journeys in the summer will live long in the memory as they reached the semi-finals of the now-defunct Intertoto Cup via trips to FK Atlantas and RKC Waalwijk, but such travails can't be blamed for their Premier League woes.

Paul Jewell's departure doubtlessly hindered the Yorkshiremen, who ended 2000/01 as the division's lowest scorers — netting just 30 times — and rock-bottom of the table, 16 points adrift of safety.

Who you gonna call? BIG SAMMM!

Not even escape artist Sam Allardyce could save the Baggies after he was drafted in as manager following Slaven Bilic's departure 13 games into the 2020/21 season.

Allardyce struggled to oversee a notable resurgence within a fairly uninspiring West Brom squad highlighted by England international Sam Johnstone, Chelsea skipper Conor Gallagher and crafty