article_snippet: Liverpool’s are the biggest English club  when measured solely by the number of major trophies won, all-time.
article_snippet: The silverware has been totted up as part of a Sportsmail study to explore which English clubs are the ‘biggest’; 59 different teams of the current 92 in the top four divisions have been considered, having played in England’s top division for at least a season.
article_snippet: , winning is everything, second is nowhere.
article_snippet: Average league finish .
article_snippet: The average league finish position for each of the clubs since 1888-89.
article_snippet: The biggest clubs have generally had the most money and been able to buy and pay the best players.
article_snippet: Some trophies are bigger than others; few would disagree a league title is more impressive than an FA Cup, or that a European Cup is bigger than a the Club World Cup.
article_snippet: Liverpool stay at No1 for example ahead of United, weightings clear of Arsenal (28 trophies) in third, Aston Villa (20) in fourth and Chelsea (also 20) in fifth.
article_snippet: The full rankings of the ‘biggest’ clubs by trophies accompany this piece.
article_snippet: Of the 59 teams in our study, 46 of the 59 teams in our study have won at least one major trophy.
article_snippet: The 12 that haven’t are ranked by how closely the 59 teams in our study have come, for example as runners-up in the FA Cup (which is as close as Crystal Palace, Fulham and Hull among others have come), runners-up in the League Cup (Oldham) and then by the highest position the 59 teams in our study ever achieved in the top division.
article_snippet: After the top five trophy winners come Everton and Tottenham in sixth and seventh places, Everton ahead on points because their nine league titles, the last of their in 1986-87, are far superior to Tottenham’s two titles, the second and last in 1960-61.
article_snippet: Manchester City, Newcastle and Sunderland fill out the top 10 places, with rankings 10 to 20 dominated by former Premier League teams, among Manchester City, Newcastle and Sunderland Blackburn, Wolves, Nottingham Forest, Sheffield Wednesday, Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield United, Portsmouth and Preston among them, all of who have won the English title at least once and all of whom have won between four and 10 major trophies in all of whom histories.
article_snippet: Bolton in 23rd place are the highest-ranked club never to have won the title, and are 23rd courtesy of their four the European Cup wins.
article_snippet: their are a place above West Ham, who have also never won the title and have won three FA Cups.