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Premier League
File:Premier League Logo.svg
Founded20 February 1992; 33 years ago (1992-02-20)
CountryEngland
ConfederationUEFA
Number of teams20 (since 1995–96)
Level on pyramid1
Relegation toEFL Championship
Domestic cup(s)
League cup(s)EFL Cup
International cup(s)
  • UEFA Champions League
  • UEFA Europa League
  • UEFA Conference League
Current championsManchester City (8th title)
(2023–24)
Most championshipsManchester United (13 titles)
Most appearancesGareth Barry (653)
Top goalscorerAlan Shearer (260)
TV partners
  • Sky Sports
  • TNT Sports
  • Amazon Prime Video
    (live matches)
  • BBC Sport
    (highlights)
  • International:
  • Broadcasters
Websitepremierleague.com
Current: 2024–25 Premier League

The Premier League (legal name: The Football Association Premier League Limited) is the highest level of the English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Football League (EFL). Seasons typically run from August to May with each team playing 38 matches against all other teams both home and away.[1] Most games are played on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, with occasional weekday evening fixtures.[2]

The competition was founded as the FA Premier League on 20 February 1992 following the decision of First Division (top-tier league from 1888 until 1992) clubs to break away from the English Football League. However, teams may still be relegated into and promoted from the EFL Championship. The Premier League takes advantage of a lucrative television rights sale to Sky:[3] from 2019 to 2020, accumulated television rights were worth around £3.1 billion a year, with Sky and BT Group securing the domestic rights to broadcast 128 and 32 games respectively.[4][5] The Premier League is a corporation where chief executive Richard Masters is responsible for its management, with member clubs acting as shareholders.[6] Clubs were apportioned central payment revenues of £2.4 billion in 2016–17, with a further £343 million in solidarity payments to EFL clubs.[7]

The Premier League is the most-watched sports league in the world, broadcast in 212 territories to 643 million homes and a potential TV audience of 4.7 billion people.[8][9] For the 2018–19 season, the average Premier League match attendance was at 38,181,[10] second to the German Bundesliga's 43,500,[11] while aggregated attendance across all matches was the highest of any association football league at 14,508,981,[12] and most stadium occupancies are near capacity.[13] As of 2023, the Premier League is ranked first in the UEFA coefficient rankings based on performances in European competitions over the past five seasons, ahead of Spain's La Liga.[14] The English top-flight has produced the second-highest number of European Cup / UEFA Champions League titles, with a record six English clubs having won fifteen European championships in total.[15]

Fifty-one clubs have competed since the inception of the Premier League in 1992: forty-nine English and two Welsh clubs. Seven of them have won the title: Manchester United (13), Manchester City (8), Chelsea (5), Arsenal (3), Blackburn Rovers (1), Leicester City (1) and Liverpool (1).[16] Only two of them have won three titles in a row (Manchester United – twice – and Manchester City), while only six clubs have avoided relegation: Arsenal, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham.[17]

See also[]

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  • List of English football champions
  • List of English Football League managers
  • FA Women's Super League (highest league of women's football in England)
  • Football records and statistics in England
  • List of professional sports teams in the United Kingdom

References[]

  1. ↑ "When will goal-line technology be introduced?". Archived from the original on 9 July 2013. The total number of matches can be calculated using the formula n*(n-1) where n is the total number of teams.
  2. ↑ "Why is there a Saturday football blackout in the UK for live streams & TV broadcasts?". Goal. Archived from the original on 2 May 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
  3. ↑ "United (versus Liverpool) Nations". The Observer. 6 January 2002. Archived from the original on 1 October 2006. Retrieved 8 August 2006.
  4. ↑ "English Premier League broadcast rights rise to $12 billion". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 19 August 2021. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
  5. ↑ "Sky and BT pay less in new £4.46bn Premier League football deal". Sky News. Archived from the original on 19 August 2021. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
  6. ↑ Smith, Rory; Draper, Kevin; Panja, Tariq (9 February 2020). "The Long Search to Fill Soccer's Biggest, Toughest Job". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 9 February 2020. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
  7. ↑ "Premier League value of central payments to Clubs". Premier League. 1 June 2017. Archived from the original on 14 June 2007. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  8. ↑ "History and time are key to power of football, says Premier League chief". The Times. 3 July 2013. Archived from the original on 9 November 2016. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
  9. ↑ "Playing the game: The soft power of sport". British Council. Archived from the original on 10 October 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  10. ↑ "English Premier League Performance Stats – 2018–19". ESPN. Archived from the original on 16 August 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  11. ↑ "Bundesliga Statistics: 2014/2015". ESPN FC. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  12. ↑ "English Premier League Performance Stats – 2018–19". ESPN. Archived from the original on 16 August 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  13. ↑ Chard, Henry. "Your ground's too big for you! Which stadiums were closest to capacity in England last season?". Sky Sports. Archived from the original on 6 November 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  14. ↑ uefa.com (6 May 2021). "Member associations – Country coefficients – UEFA.com". Archived from the original on 4 December 2019. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  15. ↑ O, Gerard. "Champions League: What Country Has Been the Most Successful". Bleacher Report. Archived from the original on 2 May 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
  16. ↑ "Premier League Competition Format & History | Premier League". Archived from the original on 24 July 2022. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
  17. ↑ "How long have Everton been in top-flight, which other clubs have never gone down". 14 May 2023. Archived from the original on 9 May 2023. Retrieved 9 May 2023.

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  • Hammam, Sam (14 January 2000). The Wimbledon We Have. London: Wimbledon FC.

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