7 Greatest Relegation Escapes Of All Time 

Do the reverse of this, 7 biggest collapses that lead to relegation

Nice to see you dig into South America and found Fluminense's story, that was quite an amazing run from relegation to title.

As a Leicester fan I absolutely loved our great escape in 2014/15. The turn around was fantastic and really enjoyable to watch. I treasure that season just as much as the title winning season. As far as I'm concerned it was just as special. Certainly deserves a lot more recognition (in regards to Leicester City discussion).

Toulouse in ligue 1 2015-2016 was quite extraordinary with a player fom the academy scoring a wonderful freekick in the last 10 minutes of the last game of the season to stay up.

The worst thing about Palace getting caught by Oldham is they got relegated with 48 points.

As a Wigan fan I feel we deserved at least a mention, we pulled of some impressive espaces from the prem in the past

Where the f*** is Toulouse ? 10 points behind after matchday 28/38, escaped relegation with a last-gasp free kick from Yann Bodiger in a 3-2 away win, after the most mythical coach speech France had never known about. That deserved at least a place on the podium.

The 15/16 relegation escape of Hamburg in the Bundesliga should be in there. In the relegation playoffs we played against Karlsruhe, where we lost the first game 1:0. In the second game it was 1:1 in the 95th Minute, when Marcelo Díaz scored a insane free kick goal, and we stayed in the Bundesliga. It was incredible.

The Crotone one in 2016/17 was amazing i was there for their last game against Lazio and the atmosphere was electric.

I was at that Carlisle game. There was a huge pitch invasion after Glass scored and it took the ref half an hour to get everyone off. The whistle was then blown to restart the game, followed by the final whistle and then another pitch invasion. Brilliant day.

7 of the best individual seasons of the last 30 years to not finish in the top 3 of Ballon D'or voting

No way you included Fluminense, you are one of the few who remembers the brazilian league, thats why I love your vids

Pls make a "david vs goliath" list talking about when smaller/weaker clubs won an important game or trophy against a stronger/giant club

I'm surprised you haven't mentioned Hamburg/HSV. They always struggle to change league, doesn't matter if up or down

the fact that west brom isn't on there is a joke, first team to stay up from bottom on the final day and bottom at Christmas.

If Fluminense isn't here I'll be pretty disappointed. Edit: He did it! I expected more stuff from out of Europe though. Oldham's escape was the only one that was new to me.

Brighton 96/97 was very similar to the Carlisle, Swansea and Hull seasons you discussed and I would argue has got the most going for it as an overall story with the ground/owner situation, where Brighton and Hereford have ended up respectively etc. Cannot believe you didn’t mention it!

West brom should definitely have been on this list

Part two, with Bolton’s survival in the championship with 2 goals in the 88th and 89th minute to survive was so surreal

Honourable mention if i can throw one in too, Portsmouths in 2005-06! I do have others, but i do love it. Also, kudos to your other honourable mentions!

Leicester winning pl was the best ever. Like a fairy tale dream. Very happy they are performing consistently after the PL win. They were the reason I started watching football in 2015.

My Fluminense in The List

Monchengladbach's Marco Reus inspired escape in 2010-11 was amazing. So many times it looked like they were down, and the German relegation playoff game format makes it all the more dramatic.

I can think of another one (though some in the video were more impressive): Randers FC in 2009-10 in the Danish league. A winless run of 17 games in the first half of the season, before beating fellow relegation candidate HB Køge on matchday 18 right before the winter break. After the winter break, they were undefeated in the remaining 15 games, securing another season in the Danish league (with AGF, who were in third at the winter break, being relegated).

I've gotta say, these recent videos of yours have been really decent; good topics, to the point, informative and interesting. Not that much earlier ones weren't decent, but there's definitely a clear and steady increase in overall quality. Nicely done, and keep up the good work 👍

ADO den Haag last season. Finished dead last, but because the Eredivisie was null and voided, they stayed up

Newport county's great escape 2016/17 was something special, have a look into it , pretty much relegated with 12 games to go, sack are manager to be replaced by a local boy with no managerial experience in league football to survive on the 89th minute of the last game by a super goal from a centre back, which left stelling Merson and le tissier stunned.

I’m glad you mentioned Crotone’s great escape! Things like this rarely ever happen here in Italy and to see it unfold was truly incredible! W la Calabria!🌶

Happy to see my team, Fluminense deservedly make this list 👍🏽

Really glad Sunderland 2013-14 got a mention. I was at all the home games that season and it was an amazing escape

This was a great video. I love great escapes!

Great video, Alfie! I'm brazilian and a Fluminense supporter, so It's really nice to see the 2009's escape been remenbered! It was a perhaps the biggest rollercoster of emotions I've experienced as a fan, since the relegation seemed unavoidble at some point! I really love how much this channel makes the effort to look football (historically and currently) outside of Europe! It's not common for english Football channels and I really appreciate It! 😁 Oh, and I have a video suggestion to make, If it is possible: you could talk about, from a englishman perspective, which individual award is more prestigious and has the fairest criteria - the Ballon D'or x The Fifa Best Player Award (today known as FIFA The Best). It's funny, 'cause from a Brazilian perspective, the FIFA award' is normally more renowned, for being the more "official one" from Football's main Entity. The Ballon D'or got more well known around here arguably in the last two decades, since it was exclusively for Europeans up until 1995. To me, It seems the France Football award is more important, due to It's tradition. I'd like to hear Alfie's opinion on this topic. Greetings!

Thanks for mentioning fulham, that battle was crazy

Definitely one of the best video ideas so far

Thanks Alfie!

I'm new to your channel and giving your old videos a watch through. Very surprised not to see West Brom's 04-05 season great escape not on here. I will forgive the omission if you make a whole video about it 😂. The story would definitely warrant a full video.

The Bundesliga RU-vid channel has a great video about the Frankfurt escape/Nuremberg relegation

I am surprised none of Real Zaragoza's escapes in consecutive seasons even made the honorable mention, still, most of the escapes were insane. Suggestion for a video about the ruling in Brazil that makes so that only one coach can be fired during a season.

Thanks Alfie for including Latin/South American leagues. I think you’d find interesting what used to happen in Mexico with the relegation percentage.

Special mention to German club Hamburg, who had numerous relegation battles to survive. Especially in 2014-15 when a stoppage-time free kick ensured their place in the German top division. The former "unrelegate-able" German club is now in Bundesliga.2, and hopefully they could return to the Bundesliga.1 soon. Good day, every one! ^_^

I would suggest you make a documentary about those football team whose league is a foreign one. There are great examples such as Vaduz FC (and most Liechtensteiner teams), San Marino (now Cattolica-San Marino), FC Andorra, Lemlands IF (a team from the Finnish Åland Islands playing in Sweden),

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that "any how" - "eddie howe" joke to end it was fantastic LMAO

We need a part 2

after seeing what you said about the Fluminense team it would be cool to do the best Promotions of all time(maybe featuring Grêmio that survived a death sentence and got back to série A with only 7 players at the last game of the seasonl

Coventry City - so many to choose from, but the best has to be 96/97. Only stayed up because Middlesbrough got docked 3 points for refusing to field a team earlier in the season. Was also the year Boro lost 2 cup finals 😁

Platense in Argentina. 1977: Tied tiebreaker, penalties, long enough for goalkeepers to kick (their goalkeeper somehow skipped it). 1978: Won last match, tying would have sent to 3-way tiebraker 1979: 4-way tiebreaker, one to stay. 1985/6: 0-2 to 2-2 in next to last round, 0-3 to 4-4 in last round. 1986/7: A substitute's hat trick to get 3-2 from 0-2. 1987/8: Just good enough run to avoid relegation (3 last seasons were used at this time). Maybe not a single one gets in the list, but the run should.

West Brom 04-05? Didn't even get a mention? They got more points in last 6 games than in their previous 32 and were the first team to stay up despite being bottom at Christmas, and they STILL have the record for fewest points to stay up. I think they survived by like +1 goal difference or 1 goal scored.

seattle sounders 2016, from second to last place in the western conference to winning our first MLS cup in a game we didn’t register a shot on goal, and starting the beginning of the sounders current reign atop MLS over the last 7 years. Marked by the arrival of nicolas lodeiro and jordan morris.

7 best pictures to start a HITC Sevens video. I knew this video was gonna be amazing the moment I saw the intro lol.

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You gotta do the reverse now my man! Seven of the greatest collapses in football history. Can I recommend Hibs 2013/14 because funny 😂

The relagation battle of Frankfürt was much more dramatic than it was stated on this video. There was actually a four-way battle that swung to each side in real time. Bundesliga's official channel made a video covering this.

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I think Fulham’s great escape in 2008 is understated. With three games to play they were 0-2 down at Man City after 70 minutes and on course to be relegated that day before turning it around and winning their last two matches. Hodgson master class.

Remember Crotone 16-17 what a great escape!

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I wish oneday i will meet with you and give you a hug. And will say, " Thank you Bro! For all your great contents "

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Brilliant Diva von Main. Was there and caught on video. You needed yo start with the 2-2 with HSV

Props for mentioning the Swansea - Hull game!

Come on not to be harsh but AFC Bournemouth 08/09 have got to be here from -17, transfer embargo and nothing but Eddie Howe to being in the prem eight years later quite simply the greatest ever escape

I'm very surprised you didn't have Barnsley in the top selection. We were in the relegation zone ALL season until the 92nd minute of the last game of the season. Now that's a great escape. Especially when we were playing joint second in the league and stopped them getting automatic promotion to the premiership in the process. Oh well.... We will be playing Premier League football next season anyway and maybe it will be a great escape video the year after when we avoid relegation from the top tier!

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Brighton in 1997 is a major miss here - 12 points down at Christmas and the last day drama vs Hereford? Good video besides that!!

Best final day's of the season. League two 15/16 Bristol Rovers needed a win to go up in third with either Accrington or Oxford needing to drop points for Rovers to go up. Bristol Rovers ended up going down 0-1 in the first 20 minutes against already relegated Dagenham. The game ended 2-1 with a 92nd minute goal sending rovers up. Whilst accrington had hit the woodwork 4 times in their final game of the season against stevenage. Both oxford and Bristol rovers went up automatically (just an example)

Sunderland were escape heroes all the time. Caught up with them eventually. Di Canio was a psycho. Watch Si Ferry's stories about him on here (youtube). Comedy gold.

Now one could add Mainz Great Escape of this season. They started the year same points as Schalke. Would love a Part II featuring it :)

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You mentioned Hull and Swansea, what about Bournemouth 2007/08? In administration, transfer embargo, untried manager comes in on NYE and we stay up on the last home game of the season with a goal from a club legend 🍒❤️🖤

NEC in the 2007/2008 season in the eredivisie. From 17th by christmas from European football in May. This as a really good inclusion

Like 3 hamburger sv seasons should’ve been on this list. Btw can u make a vid on the downfall of hamburg

Coventry in 1984/85 in 1. division of England (top tier at the time). All other games in the relegation zone had been played except for three matches that Coventry had left. They were trailing by eight points, so they had to win them all. The final match was against the champions that season - Everton, who had lost only one of their last 25 matches. Well, Coventry did win them all. The one against Everton with 4-1, and Norwich got relegated instead!

Still want someone to explain to the world that Brasil has the only major league where you can have no clue who will finish in the top 6 even by the middle of the season

I remember when Barnsley was at the foot of the table in League 1 at Christmas and somehow played the following season in the Championship.

The Pahars inspired escape was my favourite Saints dodge 👌

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My number one is The Wednesday, who avoided relegation from the First Division by one point in 1927/28 by winning seven and drawing three of their last 10 games (including five wins and a draw in their last six). They were the Champions the following season and the season after that.

Fluminense being 1st makes me so happy man! Its the magic of my beloved South American football. Also,Coritiba got relagated in the 100 years anniversary of the club HAHAHAJAJA

Derby might make the list this season!!

I remember that 13-14 season very well. It was the season of the Gerrard slip. But really, that slip made people forget it was actually Chelsea who blew it big time, losing to Villa, Sunderland, and Palace, and drawing at home to Norwich in their final 7 games. 10 points dropped and they finished 4 points behind City for the title. But I also remember thoroughly enjoying that Sunderland rescue. I remember watching their game at the Etihad like it was yesterday... Fernandinho scored after 2 minutes and it looked like it would be a classic City rout at home. but Sunderland hung on, got to halftime at just 1-0 down, wickham scored 2 second half goals and they would've won the game had Vito Mannone not spilled a shot from Samir Nasri. Nasri then had a great chance to win the game and missed. As much as their win at Stamford bridge hurt, it was mightily impressive. Jose Mourinho hadn't lost in his first 70-something home league games in charge of Chelsea, and again Sunderland conceded early, and again they came back and this time hung on to win. Mark Schwarzer spilled a rebound and Azpi brought down Altidore late in the game and borini scored on the ensuing penalty. What a mental season that was. The prem is not the same without Sunderland's miracle escapes.

Do another !

Do 7 Near Misses Ie. where a big team narrowly avoided the drop, or a team's form collapsed mid-season and they ended up in a relegation scrap

The history of San Marino football would be interesting... Like surely the government doesn't give them funding to help the team get better

Little bit disappointed afcb Bournemouth's great escape of 08/09 isn't on the list. Started season on -17 points and under a transfer embargo, survived on last home game of the season, went on to be promoted the next season whilst still under a transfer embargo.

For Bolton it has to be Wilbraham's late winning goal against Forest to stay in the Championship in May 2018, but the end of the 02-03 season was good too

I'm just kinda surprised that my favorite relegation escape - Wigan in 2011/12 - didn't even get an honorable mention. Going from last place to beating Liverpool, Man United, Arsenal, and Newcastle in a 5 week span, along with only losing to Chelsea due to a stoppage time Juan Mata goal.... I thought that would merit something. Still, some serious stories on here. Especially those top 2

Barrow 2013-2014 in relegation zone at Christmas ended up getting promoted to conference National

Please, take a look at Ceará's escape in the Brasileirão 2018, during the World Cup break we were last without winning any game in 13, with only 5 points, we did G6 campaign and escapes

Maybe a part 2 I think a good one could be rochdale 17/18 last day a player who was twice told he wouldn’t play football again because of cancer which he beat twice then to score in the final minutes and send there rivals down to Leauge 2 ?

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I cannot argue against any of your choices but I might suggest Luton Town in 1983. Antic's late goal in the last day "Winner stays up" game against Manchester City is worthy of consideration

Im a leicester fan, a big one.. but I sadly began to watch the league a year after the miracle:(

Very good video, but what about Burnley & Torquay in 1986-87, the first season there were automatic relegation from the Football League? I remember that I sat at home in Norway listening to BBC Radios live coverage of the 2nd half of their last match against Orient which they had to win. They duly did, and Lincoln were relegated finding themselves bottom for the only time of the season! Burnley jumped up two places with their win as the team who finshed next-to-bottom, Torquay saved themselves from relegation from the Football League with a goal in a injury time which mostly were added on b/c a police dog bit Torquays captain!

My Great Escape is West Brom 04/05. These ones are better, but I remember it being the first time a team bottom of the league at Christmas was able to avoid the drop.

I consider mainz last season a good shout. They were dead and buried at the winter break, even sitting below Schalke in the table and subsequently became the 4th best team in the league

I was hoping to see the Albion one we was bottom at Christmas and stayed up on the final day

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9:44 when talking about relegation escapes and the fact Frankfurt beat Dortmund in their run-in, probably worth mentioning that Dortmund were recent winners of the Champions League at that point to give it a bit of context

Where is the Albion in 04/05? Who was the assistant manager for the Albion that year? None other than Nigel Pearson. But after a good run of results Albion still stood a chance of staying up. They needed to beat Portsmouth and hope that Southampton, Palace and Norwich all lost....which they did.