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What is English Premier League?
English Premier League or just Premier League is the most popular football league and the most-watched sports league in the world. It is the highest level of the English Football League system. 20 clubs are part of the league and they play a total of 38 matches in home and away match format. A system of promotion and relegation is also followed and 3 teams get promoted to Premier League or relegated to the lower league. The English Premier League season runs from August to May.
English Premier League: History
The English Premier League began on February 20, 1992, after clubs in the first division took the decision to break away from the Football League, which was founded in 1888, and take the advantage of lucrative television rights deal on offer. For the 2013-14 season, Sky Sports and BT Group paid 1 billion pound for rights to broadcast all the matches. In 2018, Premier League negotiated a massive $5.96 billion UK television rights deal for a period of three years. Sky Sports, Amazon, and BT Sports pay a total of $1.98 billion per season while the foreign broadcasters pay a combined $1.85 billion per season.
The Premier League is the most-watched sports league in the world, with matches being shown in 212 territories to 643 million homes and a potential TV audience of 4.7 billion. The average attendance at the stadiums for the 2018-19 season was 38,181. The match day attendance was only second to German league, Bundesliga. However, the aggregated attendance across all matches over the season is the highest in any league at 14,508,981. The league is ranked second in Europe in the UEFA coefficients of leagues, just behind Spain’s La Liga.
The league boasts of some of the best, toughest and most-valued sports clubs in the world. Starting from Manchester United, Liverpool, and Arsenal to Chelsea, Manchester City, the clubs are household in every continent on earth. The league is considered to be the only football league, which has 5-6 title contenders each season making the league one of the most exciting leagues to watch.
Latest Updates on English Premier League
Tech giant Apple is preparing a bid for the rights to stream the English Premier League in the UK, the media reported
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Newcastle, Leeds and Brighton carried their strong Premier League form into the English League Cup by beating lower-league opposition in the second round
Fans are also being consumed by the impact the interruption will have on the contenders to domestic and European titles
Nottingham Forest pulled off its biggest signing since clinching a return to the Premier League by bringing in Jesse Lingard on a free transfer.
Riyad Mahrez on Friday signed a new two-year contract extension with Premier League champions Manchester City, which will keep him at the club until June 2025.
England star Raheem Sterling has joined Chelsea from Manchester City on a five-year contract.
Chelsea will be without N'Golo Kante and Ruben Loftus-Cheek for its preseason training camp and games in the United States because they do not meet the coronavirus vaccination requirements.
Arsenal have signed Gabriel Jesus from Manchester City on a long-term contract, the club said in a statement on Monday.
"We are honored to become the new custodians of Chelsea Football Club, Boehly said. We're all in 100% every minute of every match."
Nottingham Forest have ended their 23-year exile from the Premier League with a 1-0 win over Huddersfield Town in the Championship playoff final
The takeover is expected to be completed on Monday
At various levels the competition is fierce and it is not too difficult to imagine any one team transition to the tier above it with luck and commitment from all involved
The Premier League has approved the proposed sale of Chelsea to a consortium fronted by Los Angeles Dodgers part-owner Todd Boehly
Salah has now captured the Golden Boot on three occasions as the outright winner in the 2017-18 season and sharing the award twice, in 2018-19 and this season
What really made the difference was a three-month run from the start of November when City collected 43 points from a possible 45 to pull clear of Chelsea and Liverpool
The Ukrainian flag Oleksandr Zinchenko used to wipe away the tears also inspired Manchester City's Premier League title winner.