Football is the national sport of England, and as such has an important place within English national life. The English national football team represents England in international football and is controlled by The Football Association, the governing body for football Wembley Stadium is a Stadium in Wembley, located in the London Borough of Brent in London, England. A national sport is a Sport or Game that is considered to be a intrinsic part of the culture of a Nation. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The culture of England is sometimes difficult to separate clearly from the cultures of its neighbouring countries and to understand how these cultures intermingled and influenced The sport is almost always referred to simply as football; it is unusual for it to be called soccer and it is only referred to as "association football" in very limited circumstances. Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered Any unqualified reference to football in an English context should be read as a reference to association football rather than to any other member of the football family of sports. Football is the word given to a number of similar Team sports all of which involve (to varying degrees kicking a Ball with the foot in an attempt to score a The only other members of this family played to any great extent in England belong to the rugby football sub-family, and are usually referred to as rugby. Rugby football (usually just " rugby " may refer to a number of sports through history descended from a common form of Football developed at Rugby School The title and remainder of this article refers to football in its English sense.
Kicking ball games are described in England since at least 1280. England has the earliest ever documented use of the English word "football" (1409) and the earliest reference to football in French (1314). French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people A description of an exclusively kicking ball game from Nottinghamshire in the fifteenth century bears similarity to football. Nottinghamshire (abbreviated Notts) is an English county in the East Midlands, which borders South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire There is good evidence for refereed, team "foteball" games being played in English public schools since at least 1581. [1] The modern global game of football was first codified in 1863 in London by the English Football Association, the oldest football association in the world. The Football Association, also known as simply The FA, is the governing body of football in England and the Crown Dependencies of Jersey The modern passing game is believed to have been innovated in London in the early 1870s. [2][3] England is home to the oldest association football clubs in the world (dating from at least 1857), the world's oldest competition (the FA Cup founded in 1871) and the first ever football league (1888). Sheffield Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Sheffield FC or Sheffield, is an English Amateur football club from Sheffield The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football, run by and named after The Football League, also known as the Coca-Cola Football League for sponsorship reasons is a league competition featuring professional football clubs For these reasons England is considered the home of the game of football. [4]
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League system
The Football League, established in 1888 by Aston Villa director William McGregor, was the first professional football league in the world. The English football league system, also known as the football pyramid, is a series of interconnected leagues for club football in England (although The Football League, also known as the Coca-Cola Football League for sponsorship reasons is a league competition featuring professional football clubs William McGregor (13 April 1846 &ndash 20 December 1911 was an Association football administrator in the Victorian era who is regarded as the founder of The Since its founding, however, many other leagues have been founded in England. Over recent years there has been an increasing effort to link all these leagues together in a Pyramidal structure allowing promotion and relegation between different levels. The English football league system, also known as the football pyramid, is a series of interconnected leagues for club football in England (although The primary motivation for this drive is to maintain the possibility that any club in England may dream of one day rising to the very top, no matter what status they currently hold. There are around 40,000 clubs registered with the FA - this is 11,000 more than any other country; even without taking relative population into account, England has more football clubs than any other country in the world. [5]
Premier League
The Premier League was founded in 1992 after England's top clubs broke away from the Football League in a successful effort aimed at increasing their income at the expense of clubs in the lower divisions. The Premier League, colloquially referred to as the Premiership, is an English professional league for football clubs Links with The Football League were maintained, and each season the bottom three clubs are relegated from the Premier League and replaced by three from the Championship. The Football League Championship (often referred to as The Championship for short or the Coca-Cola Football League Championship for sponsorship reasons
The Football League
Although the oldest league in the world, The Football League now ranks second in the hierarchy of English football after the split of England's top clubs in 1992 to form the FA Premier League. The Football League, also known as the Coca-Cola Football League for sponsorship reasons is a league competition featuring professional football clubs The Football League has 72 member clubs evenly divided among three divisions, currently named the Championship, League One and League Two. The Football League Championship (often referred to as The Championship for short or the Coca-Cola Football League Championship for sponsorship reasons Football League One (often referred to as League One for short or Coca-Cola Football League 1 for sponsorship reasons is the second-highest division of The Football Football League Two (often referred to as League Two for short or Coca-Cola Football League 2 for Sponsorship reasons is the third-highest division of
English football league system
Below the Football League is what is commonly known as "non-League football". The English football league system, also known as the football pyramid, is a series of interconnected leagues for club football in England (although Non-League football is football in England played at a level below that of the Premier League and The Football League. This term is confusing, as it refers to those clubs outside the (Football) League, although they still play in organised league competitions. In recent years, the top few levels have been consolidated into the National League System, operated by the FA. The National League System comprises the seven levels of the English football league system immediately below the level of the FA Premier League and The Football Most clubs in the Conference National division are fully professional, the remainder are semi-professional. Conference National (currently named the Blue Square Premier for sponsorship reasons is the top division of the Football Conference.
There is automatic promotion and relegation between League Two and Conference National, and for several levels below the Conference, although this becomes more irregular further down the league system. The non-League system is often known as the "pyramid", because the number of leagues at each level begins to increase as you go down through the levels, with each league covering a smaller geographic area.
Amateur football
Although the Football Association abandoned a formal definition of "amateur" in the early 1970s, the vast majority of clubs still effectively play as amateurs, with no financial reward. The Amateur Football Alliance is the largest organised of such competitions, being particularly strong in the London area. The Amateur Football Alliance is a County Football Association in England London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom.
Smaller-sided versions of the game such as five-a-side and Futsal are becoming increasingly popular too. These are often played informally, but there are many competitive small-sided leagues running across the country.
Reserve leagues
Many teams operate reserve teams in separate leagues; in some lower levels of the pyramid, reserve teams play against first teams. The top division for reserve teams of professional clubs is the FA Premier Reserve League. The Premier Reserve League (officially known as the Barclays Premier Reserve League for sponsorship reasons is the top Reserve team league Beneath that operate the Central League, and the Football Combination, which cover the north and south of England respectively.
Youth leagues
Many club sides have Academy (youth) teams; the top level of youth football is the FA Premier Academy League, consisting of Premier League and Football League club's Academy sides, which operates at U18 and U16 levels (although the latter is non-competitive). The Premier Academy League is the top level of youth Football in England. The next level below the Academy League is the Football League Youth Alliance, in which the remainder of Football League clubs field their youth teams. The Football League Youth Alliance (known sometimes as the Puma Youth Alliance after its sponsors Puma) is the second tier of youth football competition in There is also the FA Youth Cup, a nationwide cup competition for U18 teams. The Football Association Youth Challenge Cup is an English football competition run by The Football Association for under-18 sides
Beyond organised football
Football in England is not just a spectator sport or the preserve of official leagues and clubs, but a sport attracting mass participation at many different levels and in a wide variety of forms, including Sunday league football and five-a-side football. Sunday league football is a term used in England to describe those Association football leagues which play on Sunday as opposed to the more usual Saturday Five-a-side football is a variation of Football (soccer in which each team fields five players (four Outfield players and a Goalkeeper) rather than the
Cup competitions
The two most important cup competitions in England are the FA Cup and the League Cup, but several other national cups are targeted at clubs at different levels.
The FA Cup, first held in 1872, is the oldest and most respected national cup competition in the world. The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football, run by and named after It is open to around 600 clubs in the higher levels of the pyramid. The FA Community Shield is played each August as a one-off match between the FA Cup winners and the Premier League champions.
The League Cup (currently known as the Carling Cup) is England's second major cup competition, and is contested by the 92 Premier League and Football League clubs. The Football League Cup, commonly known as the League Cup, is an English football competition The winners of both main cup competitions qualify for the UEFA Cup, and both are considered as important tournaments.
The Football League Trophy is a competition for clubs in Football League One and Football League Two. Structure The Trophy is currently contested by just Football League One and Football League Two clubs and from season 2006-07 is played in a knock-out (
The FA Trophy is open to clubs in the top four levels of the National League System, and the FA Vase is for clubs in the next couple of levels below that. History It was created by The Football Association in 1969 for Semi-professional teams to complement the existing FA Amateur Cup. The Football Association Challenge Vase is an annual football competition for teams playing in the lower regional leagues of England. These competitions replaced the FA Amateur Cup, which was the leading competition for amateur non-League teams for many years. The FA Amateur Cup was an English football competition The cup was launched by The Football Association in 1893 as a response to the domination Representative teams from leagues lower still, mostly at county level, contest the FA National League System Cup, and the FA Sunday Cup is for Sunday league football teams. The FA National League System Cup is a football competition run by The Football Association. The FA Sunday Cup is a knock-out competition for English Sunday league football teams Sunday league football is a term used in England to describe those Association football leagues which play on Sunday as opposed to the more usual Saturday
Defunct national cup competitions include:
Qualification for European competitions
- See also: English clubs in European football
Clubs who do well in either the Premier League, FA Cup or League Cup can qualify to compete in various UEFA-organised Europe-wide competitions in the following season (as well as continuing to play in domestic competitions). The Full Members Cup was an English football cup competition held from 1985 to 1992. This was a one-off English football club tournament held in 1985-86 The Anglo-Italian Cup, sometimes referred to as the Anglo-Italian Tournament, was a football cup competition held between clubs in England and Italy The Anglo-Scottish Cup was a tournament arranged for teams in English and Scottish football leagues during the summer for several years during the The Texaco Cup was an Association football competition that involved clubs from the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland which had not qualified for European The Watney Mann Invitation Cup (normally referred to as simply the Watney Cup) was a short-lived English football tournament held in the early 1970s English football clubs have entered European Association football competitions ( UEFA Champions League/European Cup, UEFA Cup/Inter-Cities Fairs Cup The Union of European Football Associations (Union des associations européennes de football is the administrative and controlling body for European football. The number of English clubs playing in Europe in any one season can range from seven to eleven, depending on the qualification scenarios. Currently, England is awarded the following places in European competitions:
| Competition | Who Qualifies | Notes |
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| UEFA Champions League | Club finishing 1st in the Premier League | |
| Club finishing 2nd in the Premier League | ||
| UEFA Champions League Third Qualifying Round | Club finishing 3rd in the Premier League | |
| Club finishing 4th in the Premier League | Ordinarily, the fourth-place Premier League club automatically earns a spot in the Champions League qualifying rounds. See also List of European Cup and UEFA Champions League winners The UEFA Champions League, which evolved from the European Champion Clubs' Cup is a seasonal club However, a fourth-place performance will not grant the fourth-place finisher a place in the Champions League competition should another, below-fourth-place-finishing Premier League club have also been the previous season's Champions League winner. This is because winners of the Champions League competition earn automatic qualification for the following season's Champions League event, regardless of their performance in their club league. Therefore, in such a case, the fourth-place Premier League club would qualify only for the UEFA Cup. | |
| UEFA Cup | Club finishing 5th in the Premier League | If the fifth-placed club has already qualified for Europe through the FA Cup or League Cup, then the next-highest Premier League finishers get this place |
| FA Cup winners | If the FA Cup winners have already qualified for the UEFA Champions League, by the UEFA Cup regulations (Regulation 1.04), the runners-up qualify for the spot; if they have also qualified for the Champions League, the next highest league finisher not already qualified for Europe takes the place. The UEFA Cup is a football competition for European club teams organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA. | |
| League Cup winners | If the League Cup winners have already qualified for Europe by a high Premier League finish, then the next highest-finishing Premier League club gets this place | |
| Any English club that wins the UEFA Cup and has not already qualified for the Champions League or UEFA Cup | By the UEFA Cup regulations (Regulation 1.06), this club's entry into the UEFA Cup will not be at the expense of any other entries to which its national federation is entitled | |
| UEFA Cup First Qualifying Round | FA Premier League club with the best UEFA Fair Play ranking that has not already qualified for Europe, but only if England has the best fair play ranking or has a fair play score of above 8 and is one of the two countries drawn out of the hat | |
| UEFA Intertoto Cup Final Round | Club finishing highest in the Premier League to have entered and not qualified for any other European competition | If the club finishes lower than four places below the last club to have qualified for the UEFA on the basis on league position, this place will be reallocated to another country; conversely, if another country does not take up their Intertoto Cup allocation, England may receive two places in the competition |
In addition, once in a European competition, it becomes possible to qualify for others:
- All the winners of the Champions League Third Qualifying Round go forward to the Champions League
- All the losers of the Champions League Third Qualifying Round go forward to the UEFA Cup
- All the winners of the UEFA Cup Second Qualifying Round go forward to the UEFA Cup
- All the winners in the Intertoto Cup Final Round go forward to the UEFA Cup Second Qualifying Round
- Any clubs playing in the Champions League that finish third in the group stage go into the UEFA Cup Round of 32
England national team
Women's football
The first recorded women's football match in England was more than 100 years ago but it is only in recent years that women's football has begun to receive some serious attention, in the form of televised matches (such as the FA Women's Cup final and matches of the national team), international games being held at larger stadia and, to a lesser extent, the comedy film Bend It Like Beckham. The UEFA Fair Play ranking is used by UEFA to grant three berths for the first qualifying round of the UEFA Cup. The UEFA Intertoto Cup, also abbreviated as UI Cup and originally called the International Football Cup, was a summer football competition for The English national football team represents England in international football and is controlled by The Football Association, the governing body for football The Football Association Women’s Challenge Cup Competition, commonly referred to as the FA Women's Cup, is the top cup competition for women's football Bend It Like Beckham
Burton Brewers' 57-0 loss against Willenhall Town on March 4, 2001 in the West Midland Regional Women's Football League, Division One North may be a British record for the biggest defeat in a football match [1]. Events 51 - Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title Princeps iuventutis (head of the youth Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar.
History of English football
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For more details on this topic, see History of English football. The History of English football is a long and detailed one as it is not only the national sport but England was where the game was developed and codified
The modern global game of Football was first codified in 1863 in London. The impetus for this was to unify English public school and university football games. There is evidence for refereed, team football games being played in English schools since at least 1581. An account of an exclusively kicking football game from Nottinghamshire in the fifteenth century bears similarity to association football. Nottinghamshire (abbreviated Notts) is an English county in the East Midlands, which borders South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire England can boast the earliest ever documented use of the English word "football" (1409) and the earliest reference to the sport in French (1314). The modern passing game is believed to have been innovated in London [6][7] and England is home to the oldest football clubs in the world (dating from at least 1857), the world's oldest competition (the FA cup founded in 1871) and the first ever association football league (1888). For these reasons England is considered the home of the game of football.
Football was played in England as far back as medieval times, with the first account of a football-like game coming in 1280, and references to "foot balls" dating as far back as 1314. A football is a Ball used to play one of the various sports known as Football. By the 16th centuries references to organised teams and goals had appeared. Goal refers to a method of scoring in many sports It can also refer to the physical structure or area of the playing surface in which a score is made The 19th century saw the origins of codification of the game, by members of the nation's public schools and universities//. The term public school has two distinct (and virtually opposite meanings depending on the location of usage in the United States, Australia and A university is an institution of Higher education and Research, which grants Academic degrees in a variety of subjects The Cambridge Rules were created in 1848, the Sheffield rules in 1857 and the Football Association was founded in 1863. The Cambridge Rules were a code of football rules first drawn up at Cambridge University in 1848 by a committee that included H The Sheffield Rules was a code of Football devised and played in the English city of Sheffield between 1857 and 1877 The Football Association, also known as simply The FA, is the governing body of football in England and the Crown Dependencies of Jersey That led to the foundation of the FA Cup in 1871, and the England team played the world's first international match, against Scotland, the following year. The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football, run by and named after The English national football team represents England in international football and is controlled by The Football Association, the governing body for football The Scotland national football team represents Scotland in international football and is controlled by the Scottish Football Association.
The late nineteenth century was dominated by the growing split between the amateur and professional teams, which was roughly aligned along a North-South divide; northern clubs were keen to adopt professionalism as workers could not afford to play on an amateur basis, while Southern clubs by the large part stuck by traditional "Corinthian" values of amateurism. In Great Britain the term North-South divide refers to the Economic and Cultural differences between southern England the South East, Corinth, or Korinth ( Greek Κόρινθος ( is a city in Greece. Amateurism (from Fr amateur "lover of" from OFr from L Eventually, in 1885 the FA legalised professionalism, which led in turn to the foundation of the Football League by twelve clubs in 1888. The Football League, also known as the Coca-Cola Football League for sponsorship reasons is a league competition featuring professional football clubs Preston North End were inaugural winners in 1888-89, and also were the first team to complete the Double. Preston North End Football Club is an English professional football club located in the Deepdale area of the city of Preston, Lancashire The Double is a term in football, which refers to winning a country's top tier division and its primary cup competition in the same season Aston Villa repeated the feat in 1896-97.
The League expanded over the next 25 years as football boomed in England, from one division of twelve teams in 1888, to two divisions of 40 by 1914; during this time sides from the North and Midlands dominated, with Aston Villa, Sunderland, The Wednesday and Newcastle United all winning three or more league titles in the period leading up to World War I. Sunderland Association Football Club is a professional Association football team based in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, which plays in Newcastle United Football Club (also known as The Magpies or The Toon) is an English football club based in Newcastle upon World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All During hostilities, competitive football was suspended but games were still played at a regional and less official level.
The inter-war years were dominated by Huddersfield Town, Everton and Arsenal, who won 11 of the 18 league titles contested between them, with Huddersfield and Arsenal each grabbing a hat-trick, and Arsenal taking five in total, as well as two FA Cups. Huddersfield Town Football Club is an English football club formed in 1908 and based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Everton Football Club is an English football club located in the city of Liverpool. The national stadium at Wembley was opened in 1923, with the "White Horse Final" being the first FA Cup final to be played there. original Wembley Stadium was a football Stadium in Wembley, a suburb of north-west London, standing on the site now occupied by the Route to the final FA Cup 1922-23 Match summary Build-up Such was the eagerness of fans and casual observers to attend the final at the new National By the turn of the thirties, the League expanded to include two whole new divisions and 88 clubs, and the national side started to play sides from outside the British Isles. The British Isles (Irish variously Na hOileáin Bhriotanacha, Oileáin Iarthair Eorpa, Éire agus an Bhreatain Mhór; Ellanyn Goaldagh Eileanan However, the FA's resignation from FIFA in 1928 meant that England did not contest any of the first three World Cups. The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (French for International Federation of Association Football) The FIFA World Cup, occasionally called the Football World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international Association football
The post-war years were dominated first by Manchester United (three titles and an FA Cup) and Wolverhampton Wanderers (two titles and two FA Cups), although the former's progress was halted by the 1958 Munich air disaster. The Munich air disaster took place on 6 February 1958 when British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a Slush -covered runway at Munich-Riem However, during this time English football was being outstripped abroad; England lost 1-0 to the United States at the 1950 World Cup, and then 6-3 to Hungary at Wembley in 1953. On June 29, 1950, at the 1950 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, the United States defeated the English team 1–0 in group play The United States men's national soccer team is the national Soccer team of the United States for men and is controlled by the United States Soccer The 1950 FIFA World Cup, held in Brazil from June 24 to July 16, was the fourth staging of the World Cup and the first staged in 12 years due to World England v Hungary (1953 refers to a historic football match that ended England's unbeaten home run against sides from outside the British Isles The Hungary national football team represents Hungary in international football and is controlled by the Hungarian Football Federation. English clubs had little success in the European club competitions set up; The Football Association and the Football League persuaded the 1955 English champions Chelsea from participating in the first European Cup competition (1955/56). The Union of European Football Associations (Union des associations européennes de football is the administrative and controlling body for European football. The Football Association, also known as simply The FA, is the governing body of football in England and the Crown Dependencies of Jersey The Football League, also known as the Coca-Cola Football League for sponsorship reasons is a league competition featuring professional football clubs Chelsea's successors as English champions, Manchester United ignored such advice and reached the semi-final of the 1957 European Cup, where they lost to the eventual winners Real Madrid. The following season, United defeated Red Star Belgrade in the quarter final only to be decimated in the Munich Air Disaster when returning from Belgrade. The Munich air disaster took place on 6 February 1958 when British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a Slush -covered runway at Munich-Riem Their patched-up team proved no match for A.C. Milan in the semi-finals. Associazione Calcio Milan, commonly referred to by the abbreviation Milan, is an Italian professional football club based in Milan, Lombardy Subsequent European Cup campaigns by Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1959 and 1960 ended in the first round and the quarter finals respectively. A London XI and Birmingham City did reach the finals of the first two Inter-Cities Fairs Cup tournaments. The London XI was an Association football representative team specially created to take part in the 1955-58 edition of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, the Birmingham City Football Club is an English Professional football club based in the city of Birmingham. History Spanish era The first competition was to be held over two seasons to avoid clashes with national leagues fixtures
Modernisation followed in the 1960s, with revolutions in the game such as the George Eastham case allowing players greater freedom of movement, and the abolition of the maximum wage in 1961. For George Eastham Jr's father see George Eastham Sr George Edward Eastham, OBE (born September 23, 1936 in A maximum wage, also often called a wage ceiling, is a State enforced limit on how much Income an individual can earn Tottenham Hotspur became the first club to win The Double in the 20th century in 1960-61, and the first English club to win a European trophy, the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1962-63. Tottenham Hotspur, ˈtɒʔnəm is an English professional football club which currently plays in the Premier League. The Double is a term in football, which refers to winning a country's top tier division and its primary cup competition in the same season The most marked success of the era, however, was Alf Ramsey's England side, which won the 1966 FIFA World Cup on home soil after controversially beating West Germany 4-2 after extra time, the first and only time the national side has won the trophy. Sir Alfred Ernest 'Alf' Ramsey (22 January 1920 &ndash 28 April 1999 was a footballer and manager of the English national football team from 1963 to 1974 The 1966 FIFA World Cup, the eighth staging of the World Cup was held in England from 11 July to 30 July The German national football team (Die deutsche Fußballnationalmannschaft From 1950 to 1990 the team was also informally called West Germany in English as since Aggregated Extra Time (AET, commonly known as extra time is an additional period played in some sports codes if the score is tied at the end of normal time
Two years later Manchester United became the first English club to win the European Cup, while Leeds United and Arsenal both enjoyed success in the late sixties and early seventies. Leeds United Association Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Leeds United or informally Leeds, are an English professional football However, it was Liverpool who came to dominate the game from the early seventies onwards, for nearly two decades; they won 11 titles and four European Cups between 1972 and 1990. Liverpool Football Club are an English professional Association football club based in Liverpool England. Other successful sides in the 1970s and 1980s included their rivals Nottingham Forest, who won a title and two European Cups in the late seventies, and Everton, with two titles in the mid eighties, and Aston Villa with a European Cup in 1982. Nottingham Forest Football Club is an English professional football club based at the City Ground in West Bridgford, a suburb of Nottingham However while club sides thrived in European competition, the national team struggled, failing to qualify for both the 1974 and 1978 World Cups,
By this time serious problems had surfaced. The 1974 FIFA World Cup, the tenth staging of the World Cup was held in West Germany from June 13 to July 7. The 1978 FIFA World Cup, the 11th staging of the World Cup was held in Argentina between June 1 and June 25. The rise of hooliganism marred the game throughout the seventies and eighties, with attendances dipping. The nadir came in 1985, when Liverpool fans' hooliganism, combined with poor policing and infrastructure, led to the deaths of 39 Juventus fans before the European Cup final, in the Heysel Stadium disaster; English clubs were banned from Europe for five years as a result. The Heysel Stadium disaster occurred owing to Football hooliganism in which a retaining wall of the Heysel Stadium in Brussels collapsed on May 29 England's own ancient and poorly-built stadiums were responsible, along with other factors, for two disasters, one at Bradford in 1985 and the other at Hillsborough in 1989, killing 56 and 96 people respectively.
The post-Hillsborough Taylor Report forced the conversion of stadiums to all-seater; at the same time, the money from television coverage was increasing rapidly. The Taylor Report is a document whose development was overseen by Lord Taylor of Gosforth, concerning the aftermath and causes of the Hillsborough disaster in Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic These, combined with England's relative success at the 1990 World Cup, reaching the semi-finals only to lose on penalties to West Germany, and a concerted effort to drive out hooliganism reinvigorated the national game. In the spring of 1992, the top 22 clubs resigned en masse from The Football League, forming a new top-level competition overseen by The FA and named The FA Premier League (from 2007, simply the Premier League). The Premier League came to be dominated by Manchester United in its first decade, who won eight titles and four FA Cups (including two Doubles) and a Champions League title between 1993 and 2003.
Although this boom brought wealth to the game, clubs' financial success also became more polarised, particularly after the collapse of ITV Digital in 2002, which led to lower-division clubs being put into administration and one or two facing near-bankruptcy. ITV Digital was a British Digital terrestrial television broadcaster, which launched a pay-TV service on the world's first digital terrestrial television network This polarisation has occurred even within the Premier League, with it becoming dominated by Manchester United, Arsenal (winning two doubles in 1998 & 2002, and a league title unbeaten in 2004), and Chelsea (who were bought by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich in 2003 and won back-to-back titles in 2005 and 2006). Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich (rɐˈman ɐrˈkadʲjevʲɪtɕ ɐbrɐˈmovʲɪtɕ Рома́н Арка́дьевич Абрамо́вич born on 24 October 1966
Despite the success of the domestic game, and a resurgence in fortunes for English clubs in Europe (Liverpool won the Champions League again in 2005), the national team's fortunes have been decidedly mixed, with them missing the '94 World Cup enitrely. The 1994 FIFA World Cup, the 15th staging of the FIFA World Cup, was held in the United States from June 17 to July 17 1994 They had their best post-1990 performance coming in Euro 96, where they were knocked out in the semi-finals on penalties by Germany; penalty shoot-out defeats went on to haunt England at the 1998 World Cup, Euro 2004 and the 2006 World Cup as well. The 1996 UEFA European Football Championship ( Euro 96) was hosted by England. The 1998 FIFA World Cup, the 16th staging of the World Cup was held in France from June 10 to July 12 after 60 years to celebrate the third edition scheduled The 2004 UEFA European Football Championship (or just Euro 2004) was the twelfth edition of the UEFA European Football Championship, a quadrennial football The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th instance of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament Most recently England failed to reach the finals of the European Football Championships to be held in 2008 following a laclustre display throughout the qualifying campaign, with manager Steve McClaren being sacked from his position of head coach as a result.
Stadia of English football
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For more details on this topic, see List of English football stadia by capacity. This is a list of English football stadia, ranked in descending order of capacity.
Seasons in English football
The following articles detail the major results and events in each season since 1871–72, when the first organised competition, the FA Cup, was created. Seasons in italics are wartime seasons, when official national competition was suspended, although regional football continued.
References
- ^ Mulcaster, Richard (1581)‘Positions Wherein Those Primitive Circumstances Be Examined, Which Are Necessarie for the Training up of Children’
- ^ Wall, Sir Frederick (2005). The 1952-53 season was the 73rd season of competitive football in England. 50 Years of Football, 1884-1934. Soccer Books Limited. ISBN 1-8622-3116-8.
- ^ History of Football
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- ^ FIFA Big Count 2006, p12
- ^ [Cox, Richard (2002) The encyclopaedia of British Football, Routledge, United Kingdom]
- ^ History of Football
See also
- National Football Centre
- Sport in England
- Football in Europe
- Football in the United Kingdom
- Football in London
- Football in Yorkshire
- The National Football Museum
- Football Supporters' Federation
- Football records in England
- Timeline of English football
- PFA Players' Player of the Year
- FWA Player of the Year
- PFA Young Player of the Year
- Futsal in England
- English Footballers who have Scored in a European Cup Final
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