Everton defeated Bournemouth on the final day of the season to maintain their Premier League status. Champions of the 2015-16 season Despite a 2-1 victory over West Ham, Leicester were relegated. Leeds lost 3-1 at Tottenham on the final day of their survival bid; Southampton, who had already been demoted, drew 4-4 with Liverpool.
Leicester City and Leeds United were relegated from the Premier League on the final day of the season, with Everton securing their own survival with a narrow victory on Sunday.
Leicester City put together one of the greatest underdog sports stories when they won the Premier League title in 2016, but despite a 2-1 victory over West Ham United on Sunday, they now find themselves in the Championship.
Leeds United will join them in England’s second tier after losing 4-1 to Tottenham Hotspur. The club endured a terrible season, losing managers Jesse Marsch and Javi Gracia before appointing Sam Allardyce with four games remaining.
Meanwhile, Everton beat Bournemouth 1-0 thanks to a fantastic strike from Abdoulaye Doucoure, keeping the club’s record of never being relegated from the Premier League as they enter their final season at Goodison Park.
Leicester achieved two fifth-place finishes since winning the Premier League and won the FA Cup in 2021. However, a summer transfer window in which the club signed only one outfield player, followed by a failure to win any of their first six league games, indicated the team would have to struggle to remain up this season.
Soon later, manager Brendan Rodgers appeared to have righted the ship, with the club in 13th place when the Premier League paused for the 2022 World Cup. However, a sequence of five losses in six games resulted in Rodgers’ dismissal on April 2 and the hiring of Dean Smith as interim manager.
Leicester started Sunday two points behind Everton, needing Sean Dyche’s side to drop points, and everything appeared to be going in Smith’s favor, with goals from Harvey Barnes and Wout Faes enough to clinch three points.
However, Dourcoure’s tremendous strike from the edge of the box on 57 minutes proved decisive, as Everton maintained their lead with 36 points, two more than Leicester and five more than Leeds.
Southampton is the third club to lose their Premier League status after finishing bottom of the standings.
