Premier League: 2019 – 2020: Latest news from the English Football League

Premier League

The Premier League is the First Division soccer league of England in which 20 teams play. The teams of Wales can also play, but not those of Scotland, which has its league apart. The 20 teams meet twice throughout the competition, one home game each, making the Premier League schedule 38.

The team that occupies the first place in the Premier League standings when the 38 matches are over is the league champion and the last three ranked teams descend to the Football League Championship.

The English league is considered one of the most powerful in the world for three reasons: the level of the teams that participate, the large budget that many of them manage and the results of the Premier League, which usually bring surprises due to the great competitiveness that exists. The most outstanding teams are Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal and Tottenham.

Premier League history

The Premier League was born in 1992, the year in which the first season was played under this new brand created by the clubs that abandoned the Football League, which was the highest competition in English football for more than a century (between 1888 and 1992) .