Premier League
The Premier League is the top 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. Seasons run from August to May with each team playing 38 matches. The league is a corporation in which the member clubs act as shareholders, and generates €2. 2billion per year in domestic and international television rights.
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The Premier League is the top 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. Seasons run from August to May with each team playing 38 matches. The league is a corporation in which the member clubs act as shareholders, and generates €2. 2 billion per year in domestic and international television rights. The Premier League ranks second in the UEFA coefficients of leagues based on performances in European competitions over the past five seasons as of 2019, only behind Spain’s La Liga. Forty-nine clubs have competed since the inception of the Premier League in 1992: forty-seven English and two Welsh clubs. Seven of them have won the title: Manchester United, Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, Blackburn Rovers, Leicester City and most recently Liverpool. The average Premier League match attendance was at 38,181, second to the Bundesliga’s 43,500, while aggregated attendance across all matches is the highest of any league at 14,508,981. The deal was worth around £1 billion a year domestically as of 2013–14, with Sky and BT Group securing the domestic rights to broadcast 116 and 38 games respectively. The late 1980s marked a low point for English football. Stadiums were crumbling, supporters endured poor facilities, hooliganism was rife, and English clubs had been banned from European competition for five years following the Heysel Stadium disaster in 1985. The Taylor Report on stadium safety standards, which proposed expensive upgrades to create all-seater stadiums in the aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster, was published in January 1990.
By the beginning of the 1990s, the big clubs again considered breaking away, especially now that they had to fund the cost of stadium upgrade away from home. The clubs in Division One threatened to break away from the Football League, and in so doing they managed to increase their voting power and gain a more favourable financial arrangement, taking a 50% share of all television and sponsorship income in 1986. By 1988, in a deal agreed with ITV, the price rose to £44 million over four years with the leading clubs taking 75% of the cash. At the 1990 FIFA World Cup, England reached the semi-finals; UEFA, European football’s governing body, lifted the five-year ban on English clubs playing in European competition in 1990, resulting in Manchester United lifting the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup in 1991. In 1988 negotiations were conducted to form a super league, with the top clubs taking the lion’s share of the deal. In 1990, Greg Dyke, managing director of London Weekend Television, convinced the bigger clubs that they needed to take the whole of First Division with them instead of a small number of smaller clubs. The negotiation then led to the creation of the FA Premier League on 20 February 1992. The competition was founded as the FAPremier League on20 February 1992 following the decision of clubs in the FootballLeague First Division to break.
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