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 teams playing 38 matches. See below for predictions across all English Football Leagues.
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The competition was founded as the FA Premier League on 20 February 1992 following the decision of clubs in the Football League First Division to break away from the Football League, founded in 1888, and take advantage of a lucrative television rights sale to Sky. From 2019-20, the league’s accumulated television rights deals were worth around £3.1 billion a year. Premier League clubs were apportioned central payment revenues of £2.4 billion in 2016–17. Also, a further £343 million in solidarity payments is made to English Football League (EFL) clubs.
MEDIA COVERAGE
The Premier League is the most-watched sports league in the world. It is broadcast in 212 territories to 643 million homes and a potential TV audience of 4.7 billion people. For the 2018–19 season, the average match attendance was at 38,181, second to German Bundesliga’s 43,500. Also, aggregated attendance across all matches is the highest of any association football league at 14,508,981 and most stadiums are near capacity.
The Premier League ranks first in UEFA coefficients of leagues based on European competitions over the past five seasons (2021). Specifically, the English top-flight has produced the second-highest number of UEFA Champions League/European Cup titles, with five English clubs having won fourteen European trophies in total.
WINNERS
Fifty clubs have competed since the inception of the Premier League in 1992: forty-eight English and two Welsh clubs. However, only seven have won the title: Manchester United (13), Chelsea (5), Manchester City (5), Arsenal (3), Blackburn Rovers (1), Leicester City (1) and Liverpool (1).
