English premier league: on 8 June 2006

english premier league On 8 June 2006, FIFA requested that all major European leagues, including Italy's Serie A and Spain's La Liga , be reduced to 18 teams by the start of the 2007–08 season . The Premier League responded by announcing their intention to resist such a reduction. [ 86 ] Ultimately, the 2007–08 season kicked off again with 20 teams. [ 87 ]. sxmn thu 2 hang tuan minh ngoc Cùng mức độ kịch tính và ảnh hưởng toàn cầu, EPL hiện được xem là “giải đấu hấp dẫn nhất hành tinh”. Bạn đã chọn cho mình một đội bóng yêu thích chưa? kèo brighton Central payments for the 2016–17 season amounted to £2,398,515,773 across the 20 clubs, with each team receiving a flat participation fee of £35,301,989 and additional payments for TV broadcasts (£1,016,690 for general UK rights to match highlights, £1,136,083 for each live UK broadcast of their games and £39,090,596 for all overseas rights), commercial rights (a flat fee of £4,759,404) and a notional measure of "merit" which was based upon final league position. [ 144 ] The merit component was a nominal sum of £1,941,609 multiplied by each finishing place, counted from the foot of the table (e.g., Burnley finished 16th in May 2017, five places counting upwards, and received 5 × £1,941,609 = £9,708,045 merit payment). [ 144 ]