top-flight

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By the time Messi reached his 19th birthday on June 24, 2006, he had made just 41 top-flight appearances for the club.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

Not only in picking up 11 points from seven games to preserve the club's top-flight status, but his growing influence is instilling belief in the squad.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

Isak netted 54 goals from 86 appearances in the Premier League for Newcastle but scored just three times in 14 top-flight appearances for Liverpool, albeit six of those games were from off the bench.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

Liverpool followed up that 2019 Champions League success by winning the Premier League the following year - the club's first top-flight title in 30 years.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

Eric, by now a full-time employee at Andersen, thought he might like a computing school; the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign had a top-flight one.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz