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Manchester City have become the fourth English team to win a hat-trick of consecutive league titles.
Manchester City have become the fourth English team to win a hat-trick of consecutive league titles. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian
Manchester City have become the fourth English team to win a hat-trick of consecutive league titles. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

Football quiz: can you identify the team title streak from the runners-up?

We’ll give you a list of the second-best sides, and it’s up to you to name the dynasty that kept them in the shade

  1. 1.Let's start with (hopefully) an easy one. Who beat Manchester United, then Liverpool and Arsenal to the title in successive seasons?
  2. 2.Next: Ipswich Town, Watford, Southampton.
  3. 3.Staying in the First Division: Cardiff, West Brom, Arsenal.
  4. 4.Over the Channel now. Who kept Nantes, Nice, Bordeaux and Marseille off top spot?
  5. 5.Over to Germany now: Hertha Berlin, Hamburg, Schalke.
  6. 6.From 1948 to 1991, East Germany had a separate top division, the Oberliga. Which team finished above Dynamo Dresden (six times), Lokomotive Leipzig (twice), Carl Zeiss Jena and Vorwärts Frankfurt?
  7. 7.Our next sequence of second-placed sides: Spartak Vladikavkaz, Rotor Volgograd, Dynamo Moscow. Who beat them?
  8. 8.Serie A next, and the following list: Roma, Roma, Roma, Juventus, Roma.
  9. 9.Over to Austria: who beat Rapid Vienna, Sturm Graz and Rapid Vienna (again) to the title?
  10. 10.A short hop over to Hungary, and this sequence: Vidi, Fehervar, Puskas Akademia, Kisvarda, Kecskemet.
  11. 11.Between 2012 and 2018, which team dominated the Chinese Super League, keeping Beijing Guoan (twice), Jiangsu Suning (twice), Shanghai SIPG (twice) and Shandong Luneng off the top?
  12. 12.Finally, good luck with this one ... Cliftonville, Crusaders, Portadown.
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