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Having existed since 1888, the Football League Division One was disbanded when all 24 clubs decided to break away to form a new league at the start of the 1992/1993 season.
Since then, the Premier League has gone on to become the most followed football league in the world, with viewership running into billions from every corner of the globe.
Other than being the most followed league in the world, the English top-flight also prides itself on being the most competitive and while this opinion might be open to debate, it cannot be argued that the Premier League's very open nature means that it provides more than its fair share of shocks and surprise results.
However, like other leagues, the Premier League is not immune from the odd scandalous scoreline and every now and again, a club is usually on the receiving end of a whitewash.
Here, we shall be having a rundown of the five biggest wins in Premier League history.
Honourable mentions: Newcastle 8-0 Sheffield Wednesday (19 September 1999), Chelsea 8-0 Aston Villa (23 December 2012), Southampton 8-0 Sunderland (18 October 2014)
#5 Manchester City 8-0 Watford (21 September 2019)
Manchester City have been transformed into something of an attacking behemoth under the management of Pep Guardiola and the Cityzens made history in the 2017/2018 season when they won the league title at a canter, setting records for most points, largest goal difference, most wins, and most goals scored.
They followed that up with another exhilarating display last term and went one further by becoming the first side in English football history to win all three domestic trophies in the same season.
They haven't been as clinical so far this season, but Watford were on the receiving end of a brutal display on matchday 6.
The defending champions had surprisingly lost to Norwich City the week prior and it was expected that they would respond in an emphatic fashion.
Their claim was further boosted by the fact that they had a recent good record against the Hornets, with the last fixture between the two clubs ending in a 5-0 victory for Manchester City in the final of the FA Cup last season.
It took less than a minute for David Silva to open the scoring and the Mancunians were 5-0 up inside the first 18 minutes.
At that rate, they seemed destined to obliterate the record scoreline in Premier League history, but a combination of factors including profligacy and stepping off the gas pedal meant that just three goals were scored over the next 70 minutes.
#4 Chelsea 8-0 Wigan (9 May 2010)
When the debates for the greatest teams in the Premier League era come up, one side that would pop up is the Chelsea squad of 2009/2010 managed by Carlo Ancelotti.
Under the Italian's management, the Blues were an almost unstoppable attacking machine and scored goals for fun, with Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard leading the charge from the front.
Chelsea entered the final match of the season engaged in a tight race for the title with Manchester United, holding a one-point advantage over the Red Devils.
Thus, the clash against Aston Villa took on extra significance, as Chelsea needed the victory to secure a first league title since 2006 and stop Manchester United from making it four on the trot.
A sixth-minute goal by Nicolas Anelka helped calm nerves inside Stamford Bridge and from then on, there was no debate over who would get all three points and Chelsea ended the match with an emphatic 8-0 victory, with Didier Drogba, Frank Lampard, Salomon Kalou, and Ashley Cole all in among the goals.
With his brace, Didier Drogba steered clear of Wayne Rooney to win his second Golden Boot, while the club also set the record for most goals in a season (103) which was broken by Manchester City eight years later.
#3 Tottenham 9-1 Wigan (22 November 2009)
In the latter years of Harry Redknapp's management, Tottenham Hotspur laid the groundwork for the heights they reached in recent times and in 2009, they handed out one of the most comprehensive defeats in Premier League history.
In what was perhaps a foreboding of the bashing they were to receive on the last day by Chelsea, Wigan Athletic were on the receiving end of another whitewash in a ten-goal thriller as they were thumped 9-1 by Spurs at White Hart Lane in November 2009.
Current Rangers star and former England international Jermaine Defoe was the star of the show, as he weighed in with five goals, while Peter Crouch, Aaron Lennon, David Bentley, and Niko Kranjcar completed the rout.
Tottenham got the reward for their brilliant campaign by securing qualification for the Champions League for the first time, while Wigan ended the season five points clear of the relegation places despite the two heavy defeats to Chelsea and Tottenham.
#2 Southampton 0-9 Leicester (25 October 2019)
Leicester City were surprise winners of the Premier League title in 2016, but since that fairytale campaign, the Foxes have somewhat gone under the radar, sporadically showing their class, but not displaying enough consistency to truly break into the European places.
All that seems to be changing under the management of Brendan Rodgers, as the Irishman has totally revamped the fortunes of the East Midlands club.
The 46-year-old had earlier made a name for himself in the league when he nearly guided Liverpool to their first-ever Premier League title in 2014 but soiled his legacy with his subsequent struggles before his unceremonious departure just a year later.
He went on to Celtic and revamped his image such that Leicester were willing to give him a second shot at redemption when they parted ways with Claude Puel in February 2019.
Since then, Leicester City have been transformed and have lost just four from 21 Premier League matches since then, picking up 41 points from a possible 64; only Liverpool and Manchester City have picked up more points in the same timeframe.
This season, the Foxes are looking like genuine contenders to break into the top four and this is highly probable, as a lot of the vaunted top six are performing beneath expectations.
They kicked off matchday 10 with a trip St Mary's to face a hapless Southampton who were winless in four and the visitors went ahead in the 10th minute through Ben Chilwell and Ryan Bertrand's red card two minutes later made the Saints' job much more difficult.
Jamie Vardy and Ayoze Perez each scored a hat-trick, while James Maddison and Youri Tielemans completed the rout to help Leicester City equal a 25-year record.
#1 Man Utd 9-0 Ipswich Town (4 March 1995)
Though it might seem like a distant memory owing to their recent struggles, but Manchester United were once the most dominant force in the Premier League and won the first two editions of the league in 1993 and 1994.
The following season, they had to navigate most of the campaign without the services of the influential Eric Cantona who had been given a long-term ban for his infamous kung fu kick on a Crystal Palace fan.
Manchester United and Blackburn were engaged in a tight race for the league title and the Red Devils went into the game against Ipswich three points behind Rovers in second place, while their opponents were placed 21st (out of 24 teams), eight points from safety.
In front of just over 40,000 Manchester United faithful, the Red Devils took time to get going and scored just three in the first half. They, however, stepped up the pressure after the break and scored a further six in the second 45 minutes.
Andy Cole became the first player to score five goals in a single Premier League match, while the result also matched Manchester United's record margin of victory set 103 years earlier when they beat Wolverhampton Wanderers 10-1 on 15 October 1982.
Despite the result, they still finished in second place, just one point behind Blackburn Rovers while Ipswich were relegated having finished bottom of the table.
