The Premier League had its earliest beginnings in an previous
league, that was known as the Football League. The League first began in
1888. This league basically consisted of competitions between
professional football clubs from all over Wales and England. As it began
in 1888, it is considered to be the oldest competition in World
Football.
The Football League was the highest football league in
England from its beginning until 1992. Since 1995 until the present day,
there are 72 clubs in the Football League, that break down into three
divisions, League One, League Two and the Championship. One feature of
the league is to give the top Championship clubs the opportunity to
change places with the lowest ranked clubs from the Premiership.
It
was the work of William McGregor,a director at Aston Villa, who first
suggested the creation of a league competition to supply a number of
fixtures for the club membership each season.
The meeting that
started it all was held in London, on the very night of the Football
Association Cup, in London at the Anderson Hotel, March 23, 1888. The
Football League was officially formed and named at the Royal Hotel in
Manchester on April 17, 1888.
By 1992, the resignation of the
First Division clubs occurred when they sought to take an opportunity of
a television rights deal. So then the Premiership was created on May
27, 1992. After 104 years the Football league was in for a change. A
league that operated with four divisions, now was change to a Premier
League and the Football League had three.
The competition format
stayed the same, the regulation and promotion between the Premiership
was put in place, and there was no change in competition format. The
same number of teams competed in the top flight, and promotion and
relegation between the Premier League and the new First Division
remained on the same terms as between the old First and Second
Divisions.
There have been seven steadfast clubs with membership
since the very beginning of the Premiership competition for every single
season. This group consists of Aston Villa, Arsenal, Everton, Chelsea,
Manchester United, Liverpool, and Tottenham Hotspur.
While the
League had been known as FA Premier League for many years, the name was
changed in 2007 to just the Premier League. It is also commonly referred
to as the Premiership.
Premiership Trivia
The
record for the largest number of Premier League appearances is held by
David James, beating the record of appearances made by Gary Speed in
February of 2009.
Brian Deane, playing for Sheffield United scored the very first goal in the Premier League against Manchester United.
The
all time record amount of transfer in the history of the sport involved
a Premier League club selling Cristiano Ronaldo in 2009 to Manchester
United for the sum of £80 million from Real Madrid.
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