Smallest Town or City

[Jasper]

Just reading the Gibraltar thread make me think how good it would be to see a club from a small town or provincial location within England win the league. Which then got me thinking which is the club from the smallest town or city to have won the English league. Anyone know?

 

[ObserverPhil]

Leicester is a provincial location and Leicester City won the league only a few years ago

 

[chuckyroll]

How sml is Blackburn

 

[Swindon On Tour]

Blackburn would be in with a shout.

 

[chriswallace85]

Burnley or Blackburn possibly? Maybe even argument for us. How big a place is Preston?

 

[Rottie]

at a guess between Blackburn, Burnley and Huddersfield maybe??

edit Preston?

 

[lackingmatchpractice]

Burnley. Population 87,000.

 

[Wansbeck Viking]

Ipswich?

 

[Cheesy Feet]

Ipswich

 

[stubber]

Grimsby

 

[Rhyd59]

at a guess between Blackburn, Burnley and Huddersfield maybe??

The town of Burnley hasn't even got its own postcode. It has a Blackburn postcode, which must piss the Clarets off.
Blackburn isn't big either mind...

 

[chriswallace85]

Burnley 73,000 latest census. The only one so far to come up with a sub 100k population.

 

[Deleted member 45378]

I ain't got a clue, but apparently Glossop in Derbyshire is the smallest ever to have a top flight team

And I also noted that villareal in Spain only have a population of 50,000 people and hoffenheim in Germany is a tiny village with only 3000 people

 

[chriswallace85]

I'm gannin Burnley based on this... List of English districts by population - Wikipedia

 

[martin_s_buckley]

The answer is Burnley.

• Quelch, Tim (2015). Never Had It So Good: Burnley's Incredible 1959/60 League Title Triumph. Pitch Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1909626546.

Burnley's population had reduced by around 20 per cent since they last won the First Division in 1921; with 80,000 inhabitants in 1960, the town became the smallest to have an English first-tier champion.[55]

 

[Grumpy Old Man]

Looking at this Wiki article, it has to be Burnley

List of English football champions - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[chriswallace85]

Grimsby

Ahh, the glory years. Fish all ower.

 

[kildaremackem]

How sml is Blackburn

whenthey were in the premier league i think blackburn had a smaller population than any other team in it..

 

[Shandy drinker]

Just reading the Gibraltar thread make me think how good it would be to see a club from a small town or provincial location within England win the league. Which then got me thinking which is the club from the smallest town or city to have won the English league. Anyone know?

Burnley

The town of Burnley hasn't even got its own postcode. It has a Blackburn postcode, which must piss the Clarets off.
Blackburn isn't big either mind...

A666 joins them
Road to hell

 

[123SunTan]

Burnley or Blackburn possibly? Maybe even argument for us. How big a place is Preston?

Very small, if you count only the north end.