Football Premier League

Almost two years ago, a dozen elite football clubs proposed a breakaway European Super League. The objective was to establish one single league competition that ...

And on the horizon is a tightening of spending rules for clubs competing in pan-European competitions. English football is awaiting the establishment of its own independent regulator, with the UK government due to publish a white paper outlining its scope this month. In the past decade, Premier League teams have won the Champions League twice — the same number of European titles as Bayern Munich. The Premier League’s move against Manchester City last week served as a sharp reminder that leagues and governing bodies have the power to step in where they see foul play. Accounts for the Premier League show that revenue was £45.7 million in fiscal 1993, versus £34 million for the EFL. Rick Parry was the first chief executive of the Premier League after helping to orchestrate its formation in 1992. “There’s huge amounts of money flowing in at the top, it’s not flowing downwards.” “If you’re a broadcaster in the Far East or Latin America, the Premier League became head and shoulders above everybody else,” he says. The response was a major overhaul of infrastructure, bringing in all-seater stadiums just as pay TV was gaining traction. It may not be broken in England for the time being, but even there it will lead to something which is unsustainable,” says Dariusz Mioduski, president of Polish team Legia Warsaw. “The system in European football is broken. Over the past two weeks, the same goal has been on its way to being accomplished — albeit in a very different form.