The English Premiership

 The........English premiership features  the biggest 20 football clubs in the league system of English football.The league first started in1992, when the First Division football clubs broke away from the Football League after securing a greatly improved TV rights deal with the then  satellite television company BSkyB. The league was renamed the Premiership and with the championship at the time called the first division. The Premiership has some of the worlds best players who come from all over the world. The youth rank system is one example.

They compose of 20 clubs in the Premier League. During the course of a season each club plays the others twice, once at their home stadium and once at that of their opponents for a total of 38 games for each club, and a total of 380 games in a Premier League season. At the end of each season the three lowest placed teams are relegated into the Football League Championship and the top two teams from the Championship, together with the winner of a play-off involving the 3rd to 6th placed clubs, are promoted in their place.

The top four teams in the Premiership qualify for the UEFA Champions League, with the top two teams directly entering the group phase. The third and fourth placed teams enter the competition at the third qualifying round and must win a two-legged knockout tie in order to enter the group phase.

The fifth placed premiership  in the league  qualifies for the UEFA Cup which is another European tournament. While the sixth and seventh placed teams can also qualify, depending on what happens in the two domestic cup competitions. If the FA Cup champions and runners-up both finish in the top 5 of the Premier League, the FA Cup's UEFA Cup spot goes to the sixth placed team in the League. If the League Cup is won by a team that has already qualified for Europe, the League Cup's UEFA Cup spot also goes to the next highest placed team in the League.

The Premiership has been promoted as  "The Greatest Show On Earth", the FA Premier League is the world's most popular and most watched sporting league, followed worldwide by over a billion people^.  Over 260 foreign players compete in the league which is natural for the current day of football, and 101 stars from England's domestic leagues competed in the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan. It is widely watched overseas, with matches being shown in over 150 countries.

Premier League teams have had some brilliant players over the years such as  Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and star players over the years such as Eric Cantona, Ryan Giggs, David Beckham, Alan Shearer, Gianfranco Zola and recently Thierry Henry, Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Wayne Rooney have become worldwide sporting icons.

 The Premier League is really popular in Scandinavia, with ferry operators offering "football ferries" to Norwegian football fans wishing to see their favourite teams in action. The Premier League is also very popular in Asia. In Southeast Asia, it is broadcasted by ESPN-Star.. The broadcast is done from Singapore.