explain the leagues in british football?
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The premiership is englands top league consisting of the top 20 teams in english football and they play each other home and away producing a 38 game season.\nThen there is the champinship the league below the premier with league one following and then league2 below this there is the conference which major difference from the above leagues is that not all the teams are full time some are part time but this league is not classed in the football league.\nThe fa cup is Englands top cup competition where any team in the land is allowed to enter and have to go through qualifying to get to the first round ,where the remaining teams are then joined by league one and two teams, then in the third round all the championship and premiership teams join in and the remaining 2 teams after all the knockout rounds contest the final.\nThen there is the carling cup which many of the top teams do not take seriously and often use younger players.\n\nThe uefa cup is a europeans knockout tournament when usually the fifth placed team in the premiership and the 2 cup winners will be entered into.\n\nthen there is the champions league where usually the top 4 teams will be entered into or if the defending champs finish out of the top 4 then the top 3 and the previous winners will be entered
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It's similar to American football. That's because American football developed from Rugby.\n\nThe main and most obvious differences are:\n\n- You can only throw the ball backwards\n\n- You don't wear padding or helmets\n\n- It isn't broken up into plays or downs, play continues after a tackle non-stop\n\n- The endzone is called the In-goal area. \n\n- 5 points for a try (like a touchdown), 2 points for a conversion (like an extra point kick), 3 points for a drop goal (like a field goal)\n\nThat's rugby UNION. Rugbly LEAGUE is different in it's points system (4 for a try, 2 for a conversion, 1 for a field goal), and it has a "set" of 6 tackles that are like gridion 'downs'.
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It is a commercial campaign trying to explain that footbll is the peoples game. If you see the commercials, these football stars go into small towns and pick 10 other players and play matches against other stars and their teams. So, it is Beckham +10 versus Kaka +10 for example.
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It deals with the task of putting together a league schedule.  Who plays who, where, when and so forth.  There are software tools available to help.\n\nCheck this out for a general explananation.\nhttp://www.askmen.com/sports/business_150/156_sports_business.html?RSS
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History and development\n\n    See also: Football\n\nThe Laws of the Game are based on efforts made in the mid-19th century to standardise the rules of the widely varying games of football played at the independent schools of England. The first set of rules resembling the modern game were produced at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1848, at a meeting attended by representatives from Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester and Shrewsbury, but they were far from universally adopted. During the 1850s, many clubs were formed, throughout the English-speaking world, independent of schools or universities, to play various forms of football. Some came up with their own distinct codes of rules, most notably the Sheffield Football Club (formed by former pupils from Harrow) in 1857, which led to formation of a Sheffield FA in 1867. In 1862, John Charles Thring of Uppingham School also devised an influential set of rules.\n\nThese efforts contributed to the formation of The Football Association (The FA) in 1863 which first met on the morning of 26 October 1863 at the Freemason's Tavern in Great Queen Street, London[2]. The only school to be represented on this occasion was Charterhouse. The Freemason's Tavern was the setting for five more meetings between October and December, which eventually produced the first comprehensive set of rules. At the final meeting, the first FA treasurer, who was the representative from Blackheath, withdrew his club from the FA over the removal of two draft rules at the previous meeting, the first which allowed for the running with the ball in hand and the second, obstructing such a run by hacking (kicking an opponent in the shins), tripping and holding. Other English rugby clubs followed this lead and did not join the FA but instead in 1871 formed the Rugby Football Union. The eleven remaining clubs, under the charge of Ebenezer Cobb Morley, went on to ratify the original fourteen rules of the game. Despite this, the Sheffield FA played by its own rules until the 1870s.\n\nToday the laws of the game are determined by the International Football Association Board (IFAB). The Board was formed in 1886[3] after a meeting in Manchester of The Football Association, the Scottish Football Association, the Football Association of Wales, and the Irish Football Association.\n\nThe world's first football league was founded in England in 1888 by Aston Villa director, William McGregor[4]. The original format contained 12 clubs from the Midlands and the North of England.\n\nThe Fédération Internationale de Football Association FIFA, the international football body, was formed in Paris in 1904 and declared that they would adhere to the rules laid down by the IFAB. The growing popularity of the international game led to the admittance of FIFA representatives to the IFAB in 1913. Today the board is made up of four representatives from FIFA and one representative from each of the four British associations.
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The English Premiership runs from August up to May of the following year. There are 20 teams hence 380 games. There are no play offs since the team with the highest points are the winners.
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To be a team in any of the European Leagues you have to start in the lower leagues and build your way upto the higher leagues season by season.  \n\nIn the Premier League the 3 lowest placed teams get demoted to the championship league while the 3 highest clubs in the championship have the chance to win a place in the Premier League, this doesn't happen in the MLS.  in the MLS you can buy a major league spot by paying $25 million and meeting a few criteria.  This means the same teams play the same teams year in and year out forever and ever without ever achieving anything at all.  It's dull and boring with no passion or achievement.
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It didn't....\n\nThe Premiership started in the 1992-93 season, but before that it was always called Football League Division One. The clubs in it started the Premiership in order to brake away from the control of the Football League and enable them  to negotiate their own TV deals with Sky.\n\nSo, after the split , what was once the old Football League Division Two effectively now became the  top division of the Football League..and was promptly re-named Division One (similarly Division Three now became Divison Two, and Division Four became Division Three)\n\nThen, a couple of years ago, in order to try and jazz it up and  make the Football League more marketable commercially, Division One was re-named again as "The Championship", Division Two was re-named as "League One", and Division Three re-named as "League Two".\n\nConfusing, ain't it?
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All teams play in their domestic (home country) leagues. Teams finishing in the top 2, 3 or 4 places (depending on previous success) qualify for the UEFA Champions League. Teams from the major European countries (Spain, Italy, England, Germany) usually have three of four qualifiers. It is called the 'Champions League' because until 1993 a team had to win the national championship to qualify. Alas, this is no longer a requirement and teams can become 'Champions of Europe' without winning their own domestic league first.\nTeams from less succesful nations (e.g. Scotland, Belgium, Switzerland) may only have one or two qualifiers, and some countries with no proven history of success, and newcomers (Latvia, Estonia, Luxembourg) enter their Champions into a qualifying tournament.\nA consolation prize for teams finishing below the Champions League Qualification is the UEFA Cup. Teams placed from 3rd to as low as 6th place, plus the domestic knock-out cup winners, compete in this competition. The confusion for some is that some early eliminated teams from the Champions League are also put into the draw for this competition.\nMost countries in Europe have at least one professional domestic league (in England, the FA Carling Premiership; in Spain the Liga; in Germany the Bundesliga and in Italy the Serie A) and then depending on the numbers of registered players in a country several professional leagues below this one. In England there are a further three professional leagues in a tier system before amateur leagues.
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It sure does The United Kindom has a monopoly on the football and the football rights and dating back it is called football where as the Americans Football is much different.  but yes all football teams have firms in the UK, based on what you watched!
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In UK there were two forms of football, Rugby football and Association football.  Association Football became soccer for short when it got confused with Rugby.  Now Football is so popular in the uk everyone assumes you mean soccer, but in the US if you say football, everyone assumes Gridiron unless you say otherwise.
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Here's some info about it:\n\nThe history of association football can be traced back into ancient times, but the modern game has its roots firmly in the traditional football games played at the public schools of England. By the mid-19th century, the enthusiasm that some former public school pupils still had for the games of their youth led to them forming amateur football clubs, each playing to the rules of a particular school. When teams from different traditions played each other there were often disputes about exactly how the game should be played. In 1863 some of the clubs got together to form the The Football Association (FA) with the aim of creating a universal set of rules that would allow clubs to play each other without dispute. The impact of the FA was not immediate as football was still very much an amateur activity. The first professional clubs were formed once the working classes took up the sport, and businessmen saw an opportunity to make money from spectators coming to see star players. Once professionalism took hold the popularity of the game became immense and was soon spread throughout the world by British expatriates.
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Gillingham.  \nCharlton Athletic.  Are they classed as Kent or south London?\nMaidstone United played in the 4th division when there was no premiership, just divisions 1, 2, 3 and 4.  \nCan't think of any more, Kent doesn't really have any good footy teams :(
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Check this out...\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_rules_football_womens_leagues
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Quite simple...because only those of us who live in the North of England and a few people in London and Wales are interested in league. I lived in and around Leeds for 51 years and went to Headingly from 1967 to 2005 and all over the place to watch the Rhinos. I moved to Northern Scotland this year and as far as rugby league is concerned it is like living on another planet...no one knows about it or understands it. No pub shows superleague but there is a league index on teletext and you sometimes get a challenege cup game on the BBC however they are always chuntering on about Celtic and Rangers even when that is on. The sunday papers carry the odd bit of news about the tri nations but that is it. The folk who run yahoo probably don't know there are two types of rugby....union...and the real rugby....rugby league.\n\nGeoff in the frozen North.
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i'm not sure exactly what type of league you're looking for.  where i live in the states, many local bars have 'beer leagues' just for fun... the competition is informal and the range of skills is very wide.  but it's 'just for fun'.  \n\ni found a link you may wish to check out... good luck.
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The two best leagues in the world at the moment are the English Premiership and the Spanish La Liga.Most of the worlds best players are involved in these two leagues.Italy used to have a decent league before they became rife in cheating and match fixing.