The Premier League (in Spanish, Major League), also known in England as The Premiership, is the highest category of the English football league system. It began to be played in the 1992-93 season, only being interrupted in the 2019-20 season by the coronavirus pandemic. For historical reasons, those Welsh clubs that so wish may also participate in it, provided they have competed continuously in the English federated football system since at least June 30, 1992. This is the case of Swansea City Association Football Club, a club based in Wales that participates in the league and has come to represent England in European competitions. Once the First Division of England known as The Football League was established in 1888 under the auspices of The Football Association, it became the «first football league in Europe. the world". It was merged in 1892 with the Football Alliance to form the first division system, and the main category was renamed the Football League First Division. This system was expanded until there was a split in the competition, becoming the Football League, which currently makes up three divisions, the Premier League, its main exponent, while the joint First Division of England and Wales of the Football League has passed. to be second in importance The current format was established following an agreement on February 20, 1992 between the First Division clubs by which they decided to separate from the Football League to take advantage of a lucrative television rights contract promoted by themselves. . It is therefore a competition of a private nature or society in which the twenty member clubs act as shareholders through a person delegated by each representative, who govern said committee together with Dave Richards, its director, and Richard Scudamore, its executive director. The Premier League is considered one of the five major European leagues together with the Spanish First Division, the Italian Serie A, the German Bundesliga and the French Ligue 1, 1 ranking second in the UEFA.n coefficient. 1 2 According to the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS), it is the «most relevant league in the world».
The tournament was considered by the IFFHS of the FIFA as the strongest league of the first decade of the 21st century in Europe, surpassing the First Division of Spain and the Serie A of Italy that occupied the second and third places respectively. edition and until the 2015-16 season the name of the main sponsor was reflected in its official name, the last being since 2004 when it was known as Barclays Premier League, a circumstance that ceased to be the case as of the 2016-17 season, when it disappeared any allusion to sponsors for the purpose of maintaining a clean commercial image. Since then it has been known simply as the Premier League Throughout its history seven clubs have become champions, with Manchester United being the most successful team with thirteen championships. 4 Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester City, Blackburn Rovers, Leicester City and Liverpool complete the rest. of titles from the twenty-eight seasons of the championship After the 2003-04 season, Arsenal acquired the nickname "The Invincibles" as they became, and still remain, the only club to complete a Premier League campaign without losing a The highest number of points in an edition, with one hundred, was achieved in the 2017-18 season by Manchester City FC, also achieving the record for goals in an edition with 106 in the same season In 2020 after the 2019 Premier League season- 20 Liverpool FC, would be crowned champion of the Premier League, achieving after almost 30 years of drought, its 19th trophy and the first since the English league was renamed Premier Le ague.F.
