Gerrard has most nominations but Man United dominate over last 26 seasons in PFA TOTY

Looking back through the Premier League teams of the season since the competition began in 1992 reads like a who's who of English football over the last 26 years.

Some of the game's most iconic players appear time and again, showing the strength of the league and the supreme talent which has graced it since the big shake-up in 1992.

Only 11 players can be awarded such an honour each season, preserving their status in history, but what is the make-up of these 286 selections? Where did they come from? Who did they play for? Sportsmail takes a look.

As expected, with 13 titles in 25 seasons, Manchester United are far and away the leader when it comes to team of the year selections with 80 out of a possible 275. That averages out at more than three per campaign, with the Red Devils only failing to send a player to the team on one occasion.

When the Red Devils won the treble in 1999 they had five players named in the side, but their peak came in the 2006-07 season when they completely dominated, earning an incredible eight of the 11 selections.

The likes of Roy Keane, Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs have all rightfully received multiple nominations throughout their long Premier League careers, while Nemanja Vidic and Cristiano Ronaldo have all been mainstays of the side at various stages.

Keane made his mark before moving to Old Trafford, too, with selection while a Nottingham Forest player in the inaugural Premier League season. Other names to make the very first all-star side for the new top flight included David Bardsley of QPR (their only representative) and Tony Dorigo of Leeds, while Peter Schmeichel received his one and only selection that year.

In truth, nobody is even close to matching the Old Trafford club, with Arsenal the nearest challengers on 43. The Gunners are not represented in this year's team-sheet, though, and have only had eight of their players acknowledged this decade.

Chelsea are next on 34 but had to wait until the Roman Abramovich era to really get going, given they had just three of their selections in the Premier League side before his arrival. Ruud Gullit, Graham Le Saux and William Gallas were the men to make their mark before the millions arrived, but from then on the Stamford Bridge club have made up for lost time.

Liverpool and Tottenham have yet to win a Premier League title but have both produced exciting teams over the years, with their efforts rewarded with a significant number of appearances.

Two Premier League stalwarts, though, have not contributed as many players as they may have been expected to, given the years they have spent in the competition.

Dimitri Payet is West Ham's sole representative, with his appearance coming after a stunning 2015-16 season which proved to be his last, while Everton had to wait until Leighton Baines' call-up in 2012 for the first of just four selections.

Steven Gerrard leads the way when it comes to personal appearances, with the former Liverpool skipper racking up eight nominations during his long career at Anfield. Premier League greats including Alan Shearer, Gary Neville, Giggs and Henry all lag behind on six.

When it comes to nationalities in the team of the year, there's unsurprisingly no catching England, who have seen players selected on 127 occasions.

While the usual suspects of Frank Lampard, Gerrard, Shearer, Michael Owen and Wayne Rooney all appear, there are also a number of lesser-lights who have been rewarded for exceptional campaigns.

Aston Villa pair Alan Wright and Ugo Ehiogu were named in 1995-96, United's Wes Brown in 2001, Kieron Dyer in 2003, while Ashley Young made back-to-back appearances while at Villa.

Pascal Chimbonda made the league's select XI while with Wigan.

The Republic of Ireland and Wales have all contributed double digits in terms of players, with Scotland chipping in with just four, but there has yet to be a Northern Irishman crack the Premier League's leading XI.

Colin Hendry (twice), Gary McAllister and Darren Fletcher have all be given the nod, but no player from north of the border has broken into the Premier League's best XI since 2010.

Aside from English players, France is the biggest contributor with 35 appearances, which is in no small part down to the influx at Arsenal in the early 2000s which saw Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira and Robert Pires all become mainstays of the side.

Indeed, Henry made the team for an impressive six successive seasons between 2001 and 2006.

While Spain and Belgium have both provided some of the most iconic Premier League players over the years, including the likes of Fernando Torres, Eden Hazard, Cesc Fabregas and Vincent Kompany, neither had any prominence at all through the first 15 years of the league.

That started to change in 2008 when Fabregas and Torres became the first of their countrymen to be named in the team of the year, with players from Spain being at the forefront ever since.

Thomas Vermaelen was the first Belgian to be rewarded for his displays when he was selected in 2009-10, with at least one player from the country making the team of the year in every subsequent season since.

Some of football's most famous nations find themselves at the bottom end of the list, with South American powerhouses Brazil and Argentina providing just three and five respectively, and Germany offering up just one Premier League all-star. That was Jurgen Klinsmann in 1995.

Denmark had contributed just once through Schmeichel until Christian Eriksen was named on this year's list, while Mohamed Salah became the first player from Egypt to make the cut after his sensational debut campaign with Liverpool.

Egypt are not the only country with just one representative, with Stig Inge Bjornebye (Norway), Emmanuel Adebayor (Togo), Dwight Yorke (Trinidad & Tobago), Harry Kewell (Australia) and Antonio Valencia (Ecuador) flying the flags for their respective nations.