The elimination final against eighth placed Essendon at Patersons Stadium was then the club's biggest ever game, but ended in disappointment for the home team, with the finals experience of Essendon proving too strong for the young team.

In 1972 – 73, Liverpool won the club's eighth league title and their third under Shankly.

The victory capped club's 70th anniversary season in style, and was their eighth premiership, ranking them fifth in the all-time premiership tally.

This record also makes him eighth in the club's all-time appearance charts.

The club's fortunes improved slightly during the summer Hauzen Cup tournament, winning three times and finishing eighth out of the thirteen sides involved.

It was under new manager Neil Warnock that Morrison eventually grabbed his 100th Crystal Palace goal in the London derby against Queens Park Rangers ( a club he has a knack for scoring against ) on 10 November 2007, with an 88th minute equaliser, making him the eighth player in the club's history to reach this milestone.

The next year, another impressive team marched on to another Irish Cup final ( the club's eighth final ).

In the club's first season back, Melvin took them to eighth place and then fifth a year later.

The club's return saw them finish an impressive eighth place in the league as well as a quarter-finalist in the cup competition.

Hodges is the club's all-time appearance record holder and eighth on the all-time goalscoring record list.

In 1999 – 2000, he appeared sparingly, but still helped to the club's eighth European Cup, playing 11 minutes in the final against fellow Spanish outfit Valencia CF, in a 3 – 0 win.

He helped Manchester United to another Premier League title in 2002 – 03, the club's eighth title in 11 seasons.

Copenhagen, where he proved an instant success, taking a team that had finished seventh and eighth in the two previous seasons to the Superliga championship in the 2000 – 01 season – the club's first championship since 1993.

When Rodríguez replaced veteran Troy Percival as the Angels ' closer in, Shields emerged as the club's trusted setup man, pitching the eighth inning as the bridge to Francisco.

He removed the club's Chelsea pensioner crest, improved the youth set-up and training regime, rebuilt the side with shrewd signings from the lower divisions and amateur leagues, and led Chelsea to their first major trophy success – the League championship – in 1954 – 55.

Three years later they won the First Division championship a fourth time in 1926 – 27, with Hughie Gallacher, one of the most prolific goal scorers in the club's history, captaining the team.

The club's league championship triumph culminated in a dramatic last day finish.

To date this remains their last Serie A championship, bringing the club's total to seven.

Tromsø IL started the post-war years in a good fashion, winning the club's sixth district championship in 1946.

In 1996, ten years after the club's first cup championship, Tromsø IL would again qualify for a cup final.

The 1996 cup championship was the club's last championship to date.

In his first season as manager, which also was the club's 100-years anniversary season, Molde won the league championship for the first time.

The club's sixth league championship came in the 1935 – 36 season, and they won the FA Cup the following season, after a 3 – 1 victory against Preston North End at Wembley Stadium.

The night before the last game of the State championship, scheduled for 20 September 1942, the Palestra board of directors held a heated meeting and changed the club's name.

The club's most consistent spell of success came in the 1990s, under coach Telê Santana, when it won three state titles, one national championship, two Copa Libertadores, two Recopa Sudamericanas, two Intercontinental Cups, one Supercopa Sudamericana, one Copa CONMEBOL, one Copa Masters CONMEBOL.

With less than one-third of the championship left, the mathematical probability of the club's relegation was of 98 %.

Motherwell's first ( and to this day, only ) First Division league championship came in 1931 – 32 – with 30 wins in 38 fixtures, scoring 119 goals – a record 52 of which were scored by Willie MacFadyen, who remains to this day the record holder for most goals scored in a single season and one of the club's all-time top goalscorers with 251 goals.

It is the club's fourth AHAC championship in a row and second straight Cup title.

It was the club's first league championship win since the double winning season 1987 – 88 and stopped Old Firm rivals Rangers from breaking Celtic's record of nine titles in a row.

The was Colorado's first MLS Cup championship and also the first major trophy in the club's history.

In 1984 and 1986, the club rose up again with the Uruguayan championship, being the last of these conquests particularly unique, since the club's economic problems did not allow the team to play the first match of this year, losing points accordingly.

Before the 1967 season began, the Cardinals named Musial the team's general manager, and he oversaw the club's World Series championship that year.

The club's first season back in Newport, in 1994 – 95, saw them promoted to the Southern League Premier Division by winning the Midland Division Championship by a 14-point margin ; on the way to that championship, the club set a then Southern League record by winning 14 successive league matches.

Harford remained on the club's coaching staff and was crucial in Millwall's Division Two championship that season which ended a five-year exile from the upper tier of the English league.

In 1991, two years after the club's foundation, Paraná won its first state championship.

As the nineties were approaching their end, the 1998 / 99 championship was not finalized due to the Kosovo War, and Red Star finished at the third place, which was the club's only placement below the second position in the league in the previous 20 years.

The club's fortunes begun to rise from 1931 and they made a semi-final appearance in the 1932 German championship, losing 1 – 2 to Eintracht Frankfurt.

On 15 April 1989, the club's stadium was the scene of one of the worst sporting tragedies ever, at the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest, at which 96 Liverpool fans were fatally crushed in the Leppings Lane end of the stadium. The tragedy resulted in many changes taking places at Hillsborough and all other leading stadiums in England, namely the requirement of all-seater stadiumsand the removal of perimeter fencing.

The club's ten league titles is the most professional league titles won by a French club, while the six cup victories places the club third among most Coupe de France titles.

By the end of his first season at the Manor Ground, Houghton had helped to steer Oxford clear of the relegation places, ( just staying up with a win on the final day of the season ), but most notably scored the second goal in the club's 3 – 0 League Cup final victory over Jim Smith's new team QPR at Wembley.

With a positive pre-season, which included beating a young Manchester United team and some exciting prospects signing things appeared to be looking up, with chairman Bill Bratt claiming that the club's ambition would be challenging for play off places.

Histon finished the season in 7th, two places and 9 points away from the play-offs, and bade farewell to the club's record goalscorer, Neil Kennedy.

Smith scored 16 goals to finish as the club's top scorer, though they finished ten points short of Bolton Wanderers in the promotion places.

He collected a Second Division title medal the following year as the Hammers won promotion, and was still a very integral part of the side when they finished third in the league in 1986, just two places and four points short of what would have been the club's first ever top division title-an accolade that the club has yet to achieve 25 years later.

The club's home ground is Lokomotiv Stadium with 25, 000 places, a junior training center: Lokomotiv has an enthusiastic and well-organized fan-club.

This places him 3rd on the club's list of all-time goalscorers.