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In European football, the UEFA coefficients are statistics based in weighted arithmetic means used for ranking and seeding teams in club and international competitions. . Introduced in 1979 for men's football tournaments (country rankings only), [1] [2] and after applied in women's football and futsal, the coefficients are calculated by UEFA, who administer football within Europe, and the ...
No professional league in any of the major pro sports leagues in the U.S. or Canada uses a system of promotion and relegation. [1] The country's governing body for the sport, the United States Soccer Federation (also known as the USSF or U.S. Soccer), oversees the league system and is responsible for sanctioning professional leagues.
FA Inter-League Cup: Level 11 (contested by representative teams from each league) National League Cup: Level 5 (16 U21 teams from clubs in Levels 1 and 2 also compete) [4] In the case of the FA Cup, entrance from Level 10 clubs depends upon ranking within the league the club is in, and depends on the number of Level 9 clubs participating.
The UEFA league coefficients, also known as the UEFA rankings, are used to rank the leagues of Europe, and thus determine the number of clubs from a league that will participate in UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. A country's ranking determines the number of teams competing in the season after the next; the 2009 rankings determined ...
At the semi-professional level, the USL League Two and the National Premier Soccer League have teams. Two professional women's soccer leagues are sanctioned by U.S. Soccer, both at the top level— the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), which has operated since 2013, and the USL Super League (USLS), which started play in the 2024–25 ...
Cup competition by top six teams held in 2018 and 2019; the top six teams will be the clubs ranked 1–5 in the Bahraini Premier League and the Bahraini King's Cup winners. Bangladesh [ edit ]
The Big Five refers to the association football markets of England, Germany, Spain, Italy and France.As of 2024, they are the five European leaders in size and popularity of the main domestic football leagues – the Premier League, Bundesliga, La Liga, Serie A and Ligue 1 respectively in men's football, and the Women's Super League, Frauen-Bundesliga, Liga F, Serie A, and Première Ligue ...
The clubs playing in top-level league compete for the title as the country' champions, and also for places in next season's AFC club competitions: the AFC Champions League Elite, the AFC Champions League Two and the AFC Challenge League. Due to promotion and relegation, the clubs playing in the top-level league are usually different every season.