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The programme covers the English Football League, replacing EFL on Quest which had been broadcast on the Quest channel. Its launch marked a return for football highlights to terrestrial television and a return to ITV after thirteen years. [1] ITV signed a two-year deal which also includes highlights from the EFL Cup and EFL Trophy. [2] [3]
The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, it is the oldest football league in the world, and was the top-level football league in England from its foundation until 1992, when the top 22 clubs split from it to form the Premier League.
[3] In an attempt to persuade fans to return to the stadia, the Football League had rejected a £19 million television deal to broadcast matches live on the BBC and ITV before the 1985–86 Football League season, with League president Jack Dunnett suggesting that "football is prepared to have a year or two with no television". [ 4 ]
The EFL said in its news release on 4 May 2018 that "the partnership between the EFL and Quest will guarantee accessible high quality, free-to-air coverage for football fans across the country". [3] When the first programme was broadcast on 4 August 2018, viewers experienced frequent breakup of picture and the screen aspect was reduced to the ...
EFL Cup, an annual knockout association football competition in men's domestic English football (tier one to tier four) EFL Trophy, an annual English association football knock-out competition (tier three to tier four) All pages with titles beginning with EFL; All pages with titles containing EFL; Eastern Football League (disambiguation)
Football League Tonight was a football highlights programme on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom. The show covered the English Football League and its cup competitions; the EFL Cup and the EFL Trophy. It was replaced for the 2018–19 season by EFL on Quest. The show was sponsored by Sky Bet (also sponsors of the Football League), Ginsters and ...
Anglia Television launched Match of the Week five weeks later, which showed highlights of matches from around East Anglia. It is often written that the first match shown was Ipswich Town's 3–2 defeat at the hands of Wolves at Portman Road on 22 September 1962. [12] However, this was a pilot programme and was not transmitted.
[3] [4] This was the first season that the winner of the competition qualified for the play-off round of the newly introduced UEFA Europa Conference League rather than the second qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League. It was also the first season where the semi-finals were single matches, instead of two-legged fixtures.