The English Premier League is the first division football league in England. It used the name Premier League in 1992, and is considered the highest level in English football. The league consists of 20 teams. The league begins in August and ends in May, and each team plays 38 matches, for a total of 380 matches per season. Most matches are played on Saturdays and Sundays, but a small number of matches are played during midweek evenings.
Until 1992, the highest tier in English football was the First Division; Since then, the English Premier League has become the highest. The English Premier League competition was formed on February 20, 1992, after the first division clubs decided to secede from the First Division League, which was founded in 1888, in order to benefit from lucrative deals from television broadcasting rights. Since then, the English Premier League has become the most watched league in the world, and it is also the most profitable football league, with combined club revenues amounting to $1.93 billion in the 2007-2008 season, and it is also ranked first in the European Football Association’s ranking of leagues in terms of performance. In European championships over the past five years, ahead of the Spanish League and the Italian League.
Since the current tournament system began in 1992, out of a total of 50 clubs competing for the English Premier League, only seven clubs have won the title: Manchester United (13 titles), Manchester City (8 titles), Chelsea (5 titles), Arsenal (3 titles). , Blackburn Rovers (one title), Leicester City (one title), Liverpool (one title). The current league champion is Manchester City.
Tournament history
The previous English Premier League logo was used until the name was changed in 2007
The Premier League was formed on 20 February 1992, which replaced the English Professional League for the 1992–93 season. This historic step means changing the system of a tournament that has lasted 104 years and changing its system, which contains a four-tier league. This step was to strengthen football in England after suffering in the mid-eighties from weak financial capabilities and the problems of English football hooligans.
The first meeting to sign the tournament charter took place on July 17, 1991. After agreeing to establish the league, work began to search for sponsors for the tournament and issue a special license for television broadcasting. On May 27, 1992, the Premier League was established as a company operating in cooperation with the English Football Association.
2020
Project Big Picture was announced in October 2020 which described a plan to reunite the Premier League's top clubs with the English Football League, proposed by Premier League clubs such as Manchester United and Liverpool. It has been criticized by the Premier League leadership and the UK government's Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
On 26 April 2021, play was stopped during a match between Leicester City and Crystal Palace to allow players Wesley Fofana and Cheikhou Kouyaté to break their fast during Ramadan. This is believed to be the first time in Premier League history that a match has been paused to allow Muslim players to eat and drink after sunset in accordance with the rules of the faith.
The 2022–23 season will be the first to take a six-week break between November and December 2022 to allow for the first Winter World Cup, with the return of Boxing Day matches.
In April 2022, a report from Der Spiegel claimed, based on leaked internal documents, that the Abu Dhabi owners had made payments to the club disguised as sponsorship payments by UAE companies such as Al-Ittihad and Etisalat (the same claim which the club successfully defended at the CAS in 2020); Sheikh Mansour's Abu Dhabi United Group allegedly indirectly paid underage players to sign with the club; The club claimed that it used a fictitious contract between Roberto Mancini and Mansour's Al Jazira Club to pay a large compensation fee to the former manager, in addition to his salary. The three cases have been under investigation by the Premier League for the past three years. In response, the club rejected the allegations as untrue, with sources close to the club saying the report was a continuation of an “organised campaign” and part of an “endless attempt to harm us”.
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The first match broadcast on the radio was the match between Arsenal and Sheffield United at Highbury Stadium, on Saturday afternoon, January 22, 1927. The match ended in a 1-1 draw. The match was broadcast on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), and was only broadcast within the capital, London.
The first match that was broadcast widely on radio was the match between Arsenal and Cardiff City in the cup final, and Cardiff City won the match with a score of 0-1.
The first match broadcast via video (television) was an experiment between two teams from Arsenal Club, at Highbury Stadium in London, on Thursday evening, September 16, 1937.
The first club to win the English Premier League in its old form is Preston North End.
The first club to win the Premier League in its new format is Manchester United.
Rebecca Welsh is the first woman to referee a match in the English Premier League as a primary referee in the history of the tournament.