Burnley will be back in the Championship next season after their relegation from the Premier League was confirmed with a 1-0 loss to Manchester City on Wednesday.
The Lancashire club only returned to England's top tier this season but now have an unassailable 13-point gap to 17th-place West Ham United with four games remaining.
It is Burnley's third relegation in their last three top-flight seasons and their fifth Premier League relegation overall, second only to Norwich City's six.
Wolves had already had their relegation confirmed, meaning only one spot remains to be decided. Tottenham currently occupy the final relegation place.
A return to the second tier had long looked inevitable for Scott Parker's side, who have now won just one of their last 25 league games. Defeat to Man City at Turf Moor also extended Burnley's winless home run to 13 league games.
Erling Haaland struck just five minutes in at a subdued Turf Moor as Man City went top of the table.
Burnley had chances of their own as City failed to finish them off, but were unable to trouble Gianluigi Donnarumma in search of a goal that would have delayed confirmation of their Championship status.
"We've had an understanding that the inevitable was getting closer," Parker told Sky Sports. "That curtain has come down on us now, the confirmation has been there. We've failed and come a little bit short today.
"I can't be critical of this team. This team have given us everything every single day. You can fault us in certain moments where we lacked a quality about us -- and we haven't got enough points in this division. I think tonight's performance represents us a little bit of what we are.
"I'm immensely proud of this team. I may get ridiculed for saying that in the world we live in. I'm being honest, but that's the way it is.
"These players have come in with a humongous challenge and we've fallen a little bit short. We needed to overachieve this year. Overachieve and overachieve, every single game. And we haven't managed to do that."
Parker declined to give a definitive answer about his own future and whether he would be the coach to try to lead Burnley back to the Premier League once more.
"Regarding myself, like always, we've given everything, sacrificed a lot of things and we've fallen short." he said.
"I hold the burden for that and the responsibility for that. We'll keep moving and keep going.
"Fundamentally now, the most important thing is reflecting on this season. Everyone at the football club, work out the way forward and go from there."
PA contributed to this report.
