During the 1992β93 English football season, Oldham Athletic competed in the inaugural season of the
FA Premier League, their second season since promotion back to the top flight of English football, and secured a third successive season at this level thanks to a three-match winning run at the end of the season which saved them from relegation on goal difference.
Season summary
Oldham started the season well and stood in midtable after eleven games, but struggled thereafter and were bottom of the Premier League with ten games left to play. Two successive wins briefly lifted Oldham out of the relegation zone, but failed to win any of their next four matches and looked dead and buried with three games left to play. For the club to survive relegation, three wins from their final three matches were required, and the Latics had to bank on
Crystal Palace gaining no more than one point from their final two matches. Oldham's first game of the final trio was away at second placed
Aston Villa, who had to win to have any hope of winning that year's title. In a battling display,
Nick Henry scored the winner midway through the first half, a shock result but one that gave hope to an unlikely escape and clinched the first title for 26 years for Oldham's local rivals
Manchester United. Three days later,
Liverpool were beaten 3β2 at Boundary Park, whilst Crystal Palace gained a draw at
Manchester City. For Oldham to survive, they would have to beat fellow strugglers
Southampton at home and hope that Crystal Palace were defeated at
Arsenal. Having led 4β1 at one point, Oldham survived a late Southampton comeback to win 4β3. Palace lost 3β0 at Arsenal, meaning that the Eagles were relegated on goal difference (-13 versus Oldham's -11), though even if Palace lost only 1β0, they still would've been relegated on goals scored (Oldham had 63 goals scored for them whereas Palace had 48 scored for them).