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Structure of the English Game - Insider - Football Culture - British Council Korea (644 words) |
 | The English league system consists of a hierarchy of leagues, with teams able to earn promotion to higher leagues or be relegated to lower leagues depending on their level of success. |
| The Premier League is the richest football league in the world, with enormous club revenues believed to be 40 per cent higher than the nearest competitor, the Italian top league. |
| While the structure of the English league remained the same for many years it was shaken up in 1992 when the top clubs broke away from the old Football League to form the Premier League. |
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English Football League teams - Wikipedia (641 words) |
| As a further incentive to teams to avoid the comfort zone of mid-table mediocrity, play-offs have been instituted for teams from Divisions 1, 2, and 3 finishing within 4 positions of the automatic qualifiers in their respective divisions. |
| The rewards for Premiership teams are places in European competitions such as The European Champions League, and represent a considerable financial incentive for teams. |
| There are also competitions restricted to lower-division clubs: the Football League Trophy (Associate Members' Cup) for members of the Second and Third Divisions, the FA Trophy[?] for semi-professional non-league clubs, and the FA Vase[?] for lower-ranking non-league clubs. |
