Arsenal won the Premier League in 2001-02 but the following season, Manchester United bounced back to regain the championship crown − their eighth since the Premiership was restructured in 1992-93.

That was indeed a remarkable feat by Alex Ferguson's team who came from behind in the last phase of the campaign to clinch the 15th league crown in their history.

The Red Devils went on to equal Liverpool's achievement of eight titles in 11 years that had been set between 1975-76 and 1985-86.

United's dominance in the revamped Premier League is phenomenal to say the least.

By the end of season 2002-03, the Old Trafford giants were crowned champions eight times, finished runners-up twice and third once as list denotes:

1992-93 Champions
1993-94 Champions
1994-95 Runners-up
1995-96 Champions
1996-97 Champions
1997-98 Runners-up
1998-99 Champions
1999-00 Champions
2000-01 Champions
2001-02 Third place
2002-03 Champions

In 2002-03, Arsenal looked to be on the road to retain the crown as they were eight points ahead at the start of March.

Yet, the Londoners began to falter, throwing away a priceless lead at Bolton and at the finish, they hoisted the white flag with a 3-2 home upset to Leeds.

Top scorers

25 − Van Nistelrooy (Man. United)

24 − Henry (Arsenal)

23 − Beattie (Southampton)

22 − Viduka (Leeds)

19 − Owen (Liverpool)

Transfers

Arsenal: Pascal Cygan from Lille, Gilberto Silva from Atletico Mineiro. Matthew Upson to Birmingham.

Aston Villa: Marcus Allback from Herenveen, Mark Kinsella from Charlton. George Boateng to Middlesbrough.

Birmingham: Robbie Savage from Leicester, Clinton Morrison from Crystal Palace. Andrew Johnson to Crystal Palace.

Blackburn: Dwight Yorke from Man. United, Phil Thompson from Coventry. Matt Jansen to Coventry.

Bolton: Jay-Jay Okocha from PSG, Chris Armstrong from Tottenham. Michael Ricketts to Middlesbrough.

Charlton: Gary Rowett from Leicester, Herman Hreidarsson from Ipswich. Andy Todd to Blackburn.

Chelsea: Enrique de Lucas from Espanyol, Jean-Yves Anis from Rennes. Sam Dalla Bona to Milan.

Everton: Joseph Yobo from Marseille, Richard Wright from Arsenal. Idan Tal to Rayo Vallecano.

Fulham: Facundo Sava from GE La Plata, Jinichi Inamoto from Gamba Osaka. Rufus Brevett to West Ham.

Leeds: Nick Barmby from Liverpool, Raul Bravo from Real Madrid. Rio Ferdinand to Man. United.

Liverpool: El Hadji Diouf from Lens, Bruno Cheyrou from Lille. Stephen Wright to Sunderland.

Manchester City: Sylvain Distin from PSG, Nicolas Anelka from PSG. Darren Huckerby to Nottingham Forest.

Manchester United: Ricardo Lopez from Real Valladolid, Luke Steele from Peterborough. Ronnie Wallwork to West Brom.

Middlesbrough: Massimo Maccarone from Empoli, Juninho from Atletico Madrid. Phil Stamp to Hearts.

Newcastle: Hugo Viana from Sporting Lisbon, Jonathan Woodgate from Leeds. Gary Caldwell to Coventry.

Southampton: David Prutton from N. Forest, Michael Svensson from Troyes. Scott McDonald to Huddersfield.

Sunderland: Matthew Piper from Leicester, Marcus Stewart from Ipswich. Lilian Laslandes to Bastia.

Tottenham: Jonathan Blondell from Mouscron, Robbie Keane from Leeds. Stephen Clemence to Birmingham.

West Bromwich: Jason Koumas from Tranmere, Lee Hughes from Coventry. Andy Petterson to Brighton.

West Ham: Les Ferdinand from Tottenham, Gary Breen from Coventry. Rigobert Song to Lens.

Other statistics

Champions United received £10,060,000 from the Premier League for winning the championship, while bottom-placed Sunderland pocketed £503,600.

While in the previous season only seven hat-tricks were registered in league action, in 2002-03 that figure almost doubled to 13.

Manchester United's Ruud van Nistelrooy hit a treble of goals on three occasions. In Arsenal's 6-1 victory over Southampton at home, both Pires and Pennant claimed hat-tricks.

Between the fifth and last day of the campaign, three different clubs led the classification − Arsenal, Liverpool and eventual champions United.

With five matches to go, Sunderland were already destined for relegation. Their fate was sealed on April 12.

No top-flight manager and player collected the monthly award on more than one occasion. Yet, Arsenal had three different men clinching the prize during the season - Sylvain Wiltord, Thierry Henry and Robert Pires.

Champions United chalked up eight league doubles, followed by Arsenal on seven.

Everton had the most sendings off in the Premiership with a total of seven.

Individual awards

PFA Player of the Year: Thierry Henry (Arsenal).

PFA Young Player of the Year: Jermaine Jenas (Newcastle).

Football Writers Footballer of the Year: Thierry Henry.

Manager of the Year: Alex Ferguson (Manchester United).