Premier League Mainstay - Everton?

European football leagues are the greatest competitive leagues in the world - specially because there are divisions of play in the professional leagues and promotion and relegation that dictate where teams play from year to year.  Play poorly and finish in the bottom three, and you drop from the top league to the second division! No team is exempt from relegation! 

In fact, the 2016 champions of the league, Leicester City, were relegated last year and played in the second division this year (today they earned promotion back to next year's Premier League.)

This year, alongside massive clubs in the Premier League is tiny Luton Town FC, who in 2010 were in the fifth division of English football! Many brilliant and successful seasons later, they have been promoted five times all the way up to the Premier League! Alas, they look destined for relegation at the conclusion of this season.

Since the inception of the Premier League in 1992, only six teams have been in the league the entire time...and hearing that, you might think it would be the "Big Six" - Liverpool, both Manchester clubs - United and City - and Chelsea, Tottenham and Arsenal from London.

But little known fact is that...Manchester City was out of the Premier League from its inception until 2002 (it has not been relegated since, and is surely the premier club in the league for the past ten years.)

Meanwhile...ahem...Everton (from Liverpool) has been in the league every year, and has the second longest running streak in first division football in England, having been in the top flight since 1954. (Arsenal has been in the top division since 1919.) 

Today, Everton (can you tell I am a fan of the Toffees?) won their third game in a row, thereby clinching a respectable mid-lower table finish and that they would be in the Premier League in 2024-25. I would say it was never in doubt, but...it was definitely in doubt.

Nonetheless, Go Toffees!