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Football association: The Football Association; Top-level league: Premier League; UEFA ranking: 1st [6] Soccerway profile: here; Founded in 1888, the Football League was the world's first national football league. [48] The inaugural competition was won by Preston North End, who remained unbeaten throughout the entire season.
Pages in category "Top level football leagues in Europe" The following 60 pages are in this category, out of 60 total. ... List of top-division football clubs in UEFA ...
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 ...
Therefore, the coverage only considers for domestic competitions the top-division of the national league and its cups (national cup, league cup, super cup); for continental competitions, all UEFA club competitions including – although recognized but not organized by UEFA – the Fairs Cup as the predecessor to the UEFA Cup; [1] [2] and ...
UEFA member countries by club competition entry entitlements, 2009/10. The top-ranked UEFA competition is the UEFA Champions League, which started in 1955 as the European Champion Clubs' Cup (or simply the European Cup) and initially only gathered the top team of each country; this competition has since been expanded to gather the top 1–4 ...
Top 10 clubs [107] Rank Club Confederation Points 1: Lyon: UEFA: 178: 2 VfL Wolfsburg: UEFA 130 3 Bayern Munich: UEFA 98 4 Paris Saint-Germain: UEFA 97 5 Portland Thorns FC: CONCACAF 87 6 Barcelona: UEFA 74 7 Chelsea: UEFA 69 8 North Carolina Courage: CONCACAF 67 9 Manchester City: UEFA 48 10 Rosengård: UEFA 47
The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competition winners through the eight-week league phase to qualify for a double-legged knockout format, and a single leg final.
Like the FIFA World Cup, the UEFA Champions League is sponsored by a group of multinational corporations, in contrast to the single main sponsor typically found in national top-flight leagues. When the Champions League was created in 1992, it was decided that a maximum of eight companies should be allowed to sponsor the event, with each ...