The name 'Champion's League' is a joke. How many teams in it aren't 'Champions' of anything? The European Cup was JUST for, er, Champions of their respective top leagues. The Champion's League isn't.
@@gibson617ajg I agree. It really is a joke. In 2016. FC Villareal (Spain) went into semifinals of the UCL... If by some case happened they win the Champions League that year, that would be their first title in the history of the club (since 1923). They never won any trophy in their home country. As a matter of fact, their first trophy in history was the UEFA Europa Ligue just 3 years ago.
A club is an organisation. One club would have a men's team, a women's team, an u21s team, a u18s team etc. Some clubs (Real Madrid, Barcelona etc) even have basketball teams, handball teams etc, all under their club's organisation
“European football” is everywhere in the world, even the US although in a much smaller way. When we say the “World Cup” it literally is the entire world rather than so-called World Series in just America!
For me as a Europen it not looks so popular. Here when there is big game, a derby, or a final WHOLE cities are going crazy about it. Football is almost a religion. It can decide your mood for the week if your team win or lose. And when the National Team playing, the entire country goes mad.
@user-dv1hu5vq5m Here's the thing, though, the USA has the third largest population of any country in the world, and there are a lot of pro sports played there. That said, even though football (soccer) is basically the 5th most popular sport in the USA, that's still 5th most popular in a country with well over 300 million people, so even if that only amounts to a tenth of their population, that's still over 30 million people, which to put it into perspective, is only less than each of the total populations of the 9 largest European countries by population; and statistically, not everyone in even those countries follows football religiously. As such, relatively speaking, even with soccer being the 5th most popular sport in the USA, that's comparable to, or well in excess of, most individual countries in Europe. A lot of the fan culture you speak of in Europe, does exist in the USA too, but instead of it mostly being centered around just football, it's divided among multiple sports, and while certainly not without it's differences, there are still a lot of similarities too. Here in Canada, a lot of our sporting cultures are a hybrid of both American and European sentiments and mentalities.
FIFA - football federation that covers the whole world. UEFA - subdivision of FIFA that covers Europe. South America, Africa, Asia, etc. each have their own.
Also anyone who doesn't know the reason it's called FIFA and not InternationalFederationofAssociationFootball, is because it's French and the original is Fédération internationale de football association hence it's FIFA instead of IFAF
Sport in the rest of the world is sport, the team competes because it wants to win. Sport in the USA is an entertainment franchise, the team participates because they're allowed to, and if it's profitable for the sports organiser.
@@JeffisboreddLOL Your lot have 6 teams who can never be relegated realistically and many who blood oil money propping up your teams that make no profits. So f off with your "we don't understand competition" BS. You don't care about that either At least our sport has parody between top flight teams Stop being whinging pretentious pricks
You just described all pro sports, including the one we're discussing today. The European system is more orientated towards a traditional system, where you're pushed to survive relegation or manage promotion. America's systems have parity so that the league isn't dominate by the gigantic markets of ny, Chicago, la, Houston, and Boston for some fluky reason. In baseball, which has a draft, but no salary cap, the big markets do generally dominate. Yankees have won like 30 titles atp. I love the beautiful game, and I enjoy its system, but as a fan from a small market team, imma enjoy the semi-enforced parity. It is generally more fun as a neutral too if you genuinely have no clue who's gonna beat who any given Sunday.
@zanehuseth8621 except the packers can compete, the cardinals from st. Louis and are one of the most successful National League, in Hockey the Red Wings Avs, and Pittsburgh, and Tampa can compete. European sports are dominated by the few, American sports have greater parity beyond just "who wins the league"
Many americans seem to not understand the difference between a club team and a national team. A football club can have many teams. A male and a female pro team and then usually any number of academy teams for younger players such as the under 19 or under 21. The are all playing for the same club (for example Liverpool or Real Madrid), but not in the same team. What he talkes about in this video is club football, not national teams. I usually try to explain the difference by talking about the NHL. Each NHL team has players from many different countries playing for them (same as a fotball team in club football does). But come the olympics, only the US players get to play for the US national team. They are two different things. This is why Messi, Neymar and Mbappe can play for the same club team, but in the World Cup they represent 3 different countries (Argentina, Brazil and France respectively). I hope this makes some sense.
This was just about club football not national football. There is the World Cup and the European Cup both played every 4 years. The European Cup ( UEFA Euro 2024 )is starting this June. The World Cup is in 2026 hosted by USA, Canada and Mexico
FIFA. Mean fédération internationale football association. FIFA World cup is thé contest of thé all country and all continent qualify for thé World cup
The off season isn't 4 months, it's about 10 weeks - but the players don't get 10 weeks off because they start pre-season training well before the season starts, and the big clubs - like Manchester United, Read Madrid, Juventus - all have huge international followings, so they will do pre-season tours and play friendly games in other countries. In reality, the players will get maybe 4 weeks off. Also, the off-season in Europe will often have big tournaments in that time, like the World Cup, or the European championship (which starts mid-June). However, these are tournaments for countries to play each other, not clubs.
tyler the cup, can be a boost or life saver for some of the real lower teams, for example, the low team might get 2k fans per week, semi pro, they work through the week and play on weekend, they may get a good run, get into the 3rd round, when the big guns come in to the cup, the premier league, if your drawn against them at there ground, with 70k fans, you get have the money of the gate, the tickets to watch, you also get half the money from TV revenue, which then can be used to recruit, better players, or pay the bills to keep you alive for next season, maybe sign a good goal scorer, move up a league, better revenue and bigger gates.
That GREEDY xxxxxxx have ensured NO lucrative replays from the 3rd Round unlike before. My first Millwall memory from 1961 was 31,000 under floodlghts seeing them beat Top Tier Fulham. No replays, under lights now or replays, after drawing at home and going to the massive stadiums just to benefit the Big Clubs..
@@Isleofskye agreed, im a sunderland fan, and can remember playing leeds in 1973, we were second division then, leeds first division as it was back then, beating leeds 1.0, but the revenue to the lower clubs, is a must, , but they want to keep the premiership boys happy, not to uch football, as they get a bit tired, 250k a week, and they get tired, hmmm strange
@@seanmc1351 I bet you remember midweek replays at Roker Park with "The Roker Roar" under lights. All gone and then,as the season ends, they goto the other side of the World for friendlies.
@@Anna-gm6zy Coventry were robbed as it was 2 centimetres offside which no human eye can see and as it was given as a winning goal then it was not a "clear and obvious mistake" and I am not a City fan.
In the 90's, former english striker Gary Lineker said : "Football is a simple game, 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes, and at the end the Germans always win" Now you can add : "The Champion's League is a european tournament with the best european football clubs, and at the end the Real Madrid always win"
Beauty of a League Pyramid is that you could have a team in every decent sized US city and even rivals from cities like Indiana or San Diego. Someone from Tulsa wouldn't have to cheer for the nearest team to them as they would always have their own, even though they would most likely play down the divisions due to the market being a big disadvantage but they would still have the possibility to reach the top with great all-round management. London have 7 teams playing in the top division in England but you could go down to the smallest cities and towns in England and they would still have a team that in theory could promote through divisions and eventually win the top division.
Always amazes me how Football in the US is almost excluded from your news cycles, when it is by light years the biggest sport on any level in the world.
We don't call it HOME and ON THE ROAD ! We say HOME and AWAY. I'd like to see him get his head around the OFFSIDE RULE !! CLUB =TEAM. UEFA = EUROPE. FIFA = WORLD. There are also other tournaments throughout the year for the teams that finish below FIRST place.
I've seen this (original) video a few times now. The narrator does switch to saying 'away' towards the end, probably feeling that people will now understand 'on the road' = 'away'. (By people I mean Americans.
The 4 months of time off are usually for international tournaments like the World Cup, European Championships, Copa America, etc (this means football players are representing their countries and not their clubs). So the actual off season is much shorter.
To answer your question on winning 2 trophies: It does happen! We give names to when this happens. Those being "The double", "the treble" and "the quadruple". Though you might also hear of "a treble" or "a quintuple" or something else. It's important to understand the difference between THE treble and A treble. In every country, there are 2 major trophies. Those being the Cup and the League. (winning a league is also called winning a title, btw). If you win both of those trophies, that is THE double. However, some countries also have smaller trophies, such as England. They have a League Cup (a smaller cup where only the top 4 divisions may compete). If you win the league title and the league cup, or win the league cup and the FA Cup (the name of the English cup), that is sometimes called "a double" or "a baby double". But THE double is League Title + Cup. The treble refers to winning all 3 major trophies available. Which means League Title, the Cup and the Champions League. Trebles are extremely rare. It has only been done 10 times! The first time it happened was Celtic's "Lisbon Lions". So let's talk about those Lisbon Lions. *The* Quadruple refers to winning the League Cup, the League Title, the Cup AND the Champions League in a single season. This is not even possible in every country, as some countries don't have league cups! But Scotland does have one. And in 1967, Celtic won the Champions League (called "European Cup" back then). Completing the Quadruple. They are STILL the only team in history to win the quadruple. Last year in 2023, Manchester City won the treble. Making Manchester the ONLY City in European football with two different Treble winning clubs. Those being Manchester United (1999) and Manchester City (2023). What is a club, btw? A club is a team. But a team isn't always a club. Put simply: a club is an organization that has a team. I'll take Manchester City again as an example. They have their own team. But the club is more than just the players and staff. It is the ownership, the security guard who happens to work there, the staff, the dinner lady, the fans, the women's team, and even TEAMS IN DIFFERENT SPORTS! That is the most important difference between a club and a team. A club is an organization that HAS teams. A team is, well, a team. In football, you have "Club football" and "International football". International football refers to when players play to represent their country. If you are born in Belgium, you can be chosen by the Belgian Football Association to play for the Belgian team in the European Championship. But that doesn't mean you have to play football in Belgium. I'll take Manchester City as example again. 2 of their players are from Belgium despite them being an English team.
Great comment and will be really helpful for him but idk if you can gatekeep something that most teams can’t even get as only a few countries hold League Cups as the definition of the quadruple and then claim you are the only one to do it, works for England and Scotland (which yes, have separate leagues despite being in the UK because they invented the sport just in case he reads this comment) and some others but at that point you kinda have to count the other trophies too imo. For example, Bayern has won a sextuple (6 trophies) in 2020 by winning the league, cup and Champions League in the 2019-20 season as usual plus the national Supercup (a one-off game at the start of the season played between the cup and league winner or the 1st and 2nd place teams if one has won the double, considered a minor trophy which is why there is an argument on whether to include it), European Supercup (played between the Champions League winners and the winners of the lesser European competition, the Europa League. A third rate competition, the Conference League also exists) and the Club World Cup (football is actually governed by FIFA the organisation which yes, has lent its name to EA to make the FIFA videogame for a long time but that no longer happens and the videogame has been renamed to EAFC starting with the current game. FIFA is made of 6 continental associations:UEFA for Europe, AFC for Asia, CONMEBOL for South America, CONCACAF for North America, CAF for Africa and OFC for Oceania. They each hold their own Champions Leagues and then send their representatives to this elimination style tournament which is set to be expanded to a 32 team tournament held every 4 year. The current version will be renamed to FIFA International Cup and still held every year which is super idiotic but whatever. The UEFA team wins this pretty much every time lately with a few CONMEBOL upsets even if historically the UEFA-CONMEBOL matches used to be a lot more even) and he will think that never happened if he goes by your comment alone. Find it weird that he is confused by what a club is as I thought Americans use that term too
Watching Tyler watching football would be excruciating. He'd be pausing the action every few seconds to ask if that guy is about to score a point, without actually watching to see if the guy scores a goal. Tyler has mastered the art of asking a question which is just about to be answered.
Just in case Tyler reads a comment and in answer to his question, in the 98-99 season Manchester United won the English Premiership, the FA Cup and the EUFA Champions League, becoming the first team ever to achieve this.
I presumed it would be some one like Real Madrid to have won the main treble first, but no! Celtic were actually the first throughout Europe to win the main treble.
I was at Old Trafford for the semi-final, and Hillsborough for the replay, after David Elleray screwed Chesterfield over at Old Trafford. The first games my ex missus ever went to. I was also at Wembley when my team, Sheffield Wednesday (in the division below Man. Utd. in the league) Won the League cup with an absolute belter from Sheridan, with the U.S. international John Harkes having a brilliant game for us.
I remember being at the Recreation ground and Notts. County for the 2 legged Anglo Scottish Cup final. As it was the last time this competition took place, Chesterfield still have the trophy.
@Shoomer1988 Does it matter? He says he's here to learn. Very often the people who comment know more than the people who produce the videos he reacts to.
@@Lily_The_Pink972 Of course it matters - It's a reaction channel, not a review channel. "Very often the people who comment know more than the people who produce the videos he reacts to." Even if that is true, so? What has that got to do with him?
We call teams "clubs" because in mayority of countries, like Argentina for example, they are not only football teams, they also participate in other sports, so is a club. Also because it's societary, we don't have owners or enterprises. Clubs are societies and their dirigents are ellected by elections between the club members.
Let me clear the confusion Each country has a league system all feeding into one another , usually 1st-4th division is considered Pro and anything below semi-pro to amateur. A country's CUP consists of teams all around the country , in England last year over 600+ teams in total competed Some countries also have what we call a League Cup which is the same as the normal Cup but only open to the top 3/4 divisions For most people the difficulty and matter of competitions goes like this , Uefa Champions League > League > Cup > League Cup Yes both the regural league and all the tournaments happen on a weekly scedule in tandem with each other. There are 3 European Tournaments , the Champions League (UCL) , the Europa League (UEL) and the Conference League (UECL). UCL > UEL > UECL While these seem like divisions all 3 of these only have teams from the Top divisions aka leagues of the countries around Europe , depending on your placement in the 1st division you are invited accordingly but generally Top 7 and above will get you a spot. In the UCL and UEL the top 2 of the groups advance to the knock-outs while the 4th is kicked out of european competition completely and the 3rd of the group drops to the lower tier European tournament in the knock-out stage. Some countries have more spots than others or more spots in the bigger tournament and some countries even the winner of their league needs to play qualifying matches to even get to the bigger tournament in order to keep the playing field level , some countries 1st team might be able to battle it out with the 1st of another but head to head some countries have generally better quality all around rather than 1 or 2 clubs
Within professional football England and Wales there are also two major knockout tournaments with quarter and semi finals etc: the Football Association (FA) Cup and the English Football League (EFL) Cup (named after the sponsor; currently Carabao). These run in parallel with the points-base leagues. Plus one Charity Shield match between the winners of those two cups.
Tyler, the world's most expensive stadium is in YOUR OWN country (SoFi in LA). Each of the 30 NFL stadiums have a capacity of 61,500 and up. Approx. 70 of the many college stadiums have a capacity of 50,000 and up.
A great example for an underdog story in the cup was this years DFB-Pokal in Germany, where 1. FC Kaiserslautern went all the way into the final and lost, but at the same time was fighting to avoid relegation in the second Bundesliga division, so they could have been potentially been a Cup winner going down into the third division! Also third tier club 1. FC Saarbrücken was kicking out a couple clubs from the Bundesliga (first division in germany) including FC Bayern who won the Bundesliga 11 times in a row at that time :D
I have found the best thing about being a soccer fan is that it is a sport you can watch year round. European soccer goes from Aug to May but as soccer in Europe starts to wind down soccer in the west in North Central and South America (not to mention International soccer) are just getting started and then wind down in In October and December So you could watch soccer year round.
Man I know, the wait for American football always sucks, especially not being a basketball or baseball fan there's just nothing in the spring and summer for me
@@CatFungi Very true although I do like going to baseball games ( both MLB and AAA) it was never something I could watch on TV so that gap in spring and summer was bad. Now that I am into soccer that means every weekend now someone is playing something somewhere all year round.
It's more like two months off - end of May to the beginning of August. But even then, every two years there is a major international tournament. This years it's the Euros and in 2026 will be the next World Cup. These are for international teams, i.e. countries and clubs are football teams that represent specific areas/towns/cities.
I still remember the year my little town team made it to the 3rd round, when the pro teams join in. Two of my mates played, as well as working full time at their normal jobs. Huge day in town, we got to play Northampton Town, a 4th division club, and got thrashed. Still a great day.
We talk about "clubs" because in their origins they were groups of people who got organised in a spontaneous way to play football, not for money. FC Barcelona, for example, was created by a Swiss man in Barcelona who wanted to play the sport and knew no one to play with in the city, so he put on an ad in a newspaper asking for people to play together. This was 1899. Arsenal is called that way bc it was created by the workers in a factory making cannons in London, even before, in 1886. Therefore, teams were created as "clubs" of people who wanted to play. It has only been recently, some 30-40 years ago, that clubs became companies and megacorporations. They used to have associates who chose presidents in elections. Nowadays, most of them are companies with stockholders and owners. In Spain, were I am from, only 4 teams in La Liga (our top division) remain as clubs (Athletic Bilbao, FC Barcelona, Real Madrid and Osasuna Pamplona).
Another thing that may be weird for an American sports follower: clubs are not franchises. Meaning that they are absolutely and inextricably linked to the city/town/neighbourhood they play in. It is almost impossible (maybe small teams may do so) to move to another city, just as the Lakers did from Minneapolis to LA. Therefore, followers react so viscerally to wins and defeats, and never ever change colours and start supporting other teams.
5:47 - as extra info - the 1st Bundesliga have 18 teams and no 18. and 17. goes directly down to 2nd Bundesliga and are replaced by 1st and 2nd of the actual season of the 2nd league. The 16th for 1st and the 3rd from 2nd league plays two games for the place in the top league. So in case 16th place they stay in the 1st league for the new season.
10:10 There're many stories like that. Like real madrid facing real madrid b team in the final. A japanese high school team reaching their cup final etc.
Lots of stuff that wasn't mentioned or gone into detail on, but overall a decent explaination of the basics. I might make my own explanation video, if I do I'll come back later and add the link to this comment
The "off season" depends on if your team need to qualify for a cup or European competition. And is usually between 6-8 weeks as 1 season ends in mid may and starts at the beginning of August
If you’re interested, there is another video called “(European) Soccer Explained for Americans” by “TheOnDeckCircle” channel that explains all of this a little more in depth. He also explains what’s up with the acronyms (FIFA, UEFA, CAF, etc.). Side note: the “Teams” here are called football “Clubs”.
Another point to add is TRANSFER WINDOWS. There are 2 time periods during the year, one in summer during the off period and one in winter midway through the season, when all teams in Europe can trade players. The summer transfer window is from 14 June to 31 Aug and the winter transfer window is from 1 January to 1 February. When a team buys a new player it pays the other team a transfer fee determined by the selling team and the market value of the player being sold or, if it's included in the player's contract, the value of the release clause. Some transfers can also include add-ons which are non guaranteed fees which can be based on various factors like the number of goals the player scores, or the number of appearances or the whether the team wins a trophy or the player wins a personal trophy. These terms are usually negociated between clubs, the player in question and his agent (who helps the player get the best contract, and who also gets paid a commission). Usually the summer window is when clubs make several big transfers to refresh certain positions in their first team where they underperformed in the season that just finished, and the winter window is for small upgrades to the team for example if a player in one position is going to miss the rest of season because of injury, a team can buy a player in the winter window to replace the injured player. Sometimes transfers can be loan deals which are temporary. Loan deals commonly have 2 purposes : to fill in for an injured player, or to allow young players who are not being picked in the first team to have regular game time in another club to give them first team experience which will help them develop, after which they may come back if their club needs them. Some loan deals may have a buy option or a buy obligation at the end of the loan. A buy option means that the club that took the player on loan is allowed to make the transfer permanent if they choose to. A buy obligation, as the name suggest, means the club has to buy the player at the end of the loan. Transfer windows can be interesting to follow as often times young talented players can be coveted by several big European clubs and this creates a bidding war to buy that player. Sometimes a club might have agreements with the player regarding his contract terms, the selling club also agreed the transfer terms, and everything is set to be finalised, but at the last moment another big club come in and hijacks the deal with a better contract and a bigger bid. Clubs must also try to keep their best players and discuss extension to their contracts or a new upgraded contract preferably 1 year before the end of their contract. If they fail to do so the player will be free to go when his contract expires. This allows a another club to sign the player without having to pay a transfer fee. So in order to not lose a player who is being coveted by another big club for free a club will try to sell him for a huge fee before his contract expires. Transfers are regulated to prevent big clubs with bigger budgets to have an unfair advantage when buying players. Every club must balance their player purchases with player sales, which brings a certain fairness for every team trying to upgrade. Coaches are usually not sold. Most of the time coaches are sacked if they underperform. The sacking can happen at any point in time during or after the season. The club then needs to find a new coach. If it happens in the middle of the season they usually replace him internally with an interim coach until the off season when they can get another coach. Mostly they will sign a coach who is already out of contract. But sometimes a club can poach another club's coach. In this case there is a compensation fee that needs to be paid, which usually is not as high as player transfer fees.
The word “clubs” is used to differentiate between local town and city clubs vs international teams for a country. Also the champions league is a tournament that runs like the cup thru the season and the top 4 positions in each league and the cup winner qualify automatically for next year. The top 4 only get in the from the top leagues the lesser leagues get 2-3 spots
It's only in the best leagues that the top 4 qualify. England, Spain, Germany, and maybe France? The number of teams to qualify from each league is based on the combined performances of clubs from each country in European competitions in the last 5 seasons.
and UEFA European Championship "EURO"... like the "World Cup" but only for European countries... by the way, on these dates... we are already making more of it, hahahaha😉
All three competitions run all season, September to May. So a top team will play its home league games usually at the weekend, and home cup games and, if they qualify, UEFA cup games mid week. They will play national league games to the end of the season; they will keep playing cup competition games until they are knocked out. So if they are doing well, they could be playing three times a week for the entire season.
During the 'off-season', which lasts for 2.5 months from the end of may until mid August, there are super prestigious international tournaments. Most notably UEFA Euro 24 and COPA America 24 are both about to kick off and will each run for 3-4 weeks. The best players in the world will have the privilege of representing their countries (not their clubs) in these tournaments to determine the national team champions of Europe and S America. EDIT: Also, bare in mind, qualification for these tournaments is decided in international matches which are played during the regular season (yep, more football squeezed into the exhausting annual schedule)
I mean there *are* playoffs. Promotion in the English leagues has a playoff element - and in some other european countires, there also can be relegation ppayoffs where a team in a.league below plays a team from the league above to sort a promotion/relegation spot
A club is an association owned by all their registered members. These clubs join national and international public federations to compete in leagues and tournaments through a qualifying process. In US you have a private business league that owns several privately owned franchises. It's a total different system, one is originally based in competition and the other one in the show product.
Clubs aren’t necessarily owned by the members though, that s just a rule in Germany (and even there the exceptions of RB Leipzig, Wolfsburg, Bayer Leverkusen and Hoffenheim), other than that teams can be sold and are mostly privately owned with only a few other examples (the big Spanish teams, the big 4 in Portugal etc), he will misunderstand if he just reads your comment. But yeah, they don’t have to be approved by the one professional league for expansion to play like in the US, they register with a federation and play their way there. By the way, it is funny that the Americans explicitly ban collective ownership (you can’t have more than 32 owners and one of them must have at least a 30% share in the NFL for one) and yet America still has a member (also called socio from the Spanish word for member) -owned team, the Green Bay Packers because they were already owned by the community before the rule came into play
@@montxogandia I know, that s why I said big Spanish teams. Atletico to be fair isn’t but I kept it vague because I wasn’t sure if there are others than these that I knew of. Looking it up, Osasuna is also fan owned, idk who owns teams like Real Sociedad at a cursory search though. I know Valencia is owned by Peter Lim and all for example
@@montxogandia I know, I was saying that Atletico Madrid isn’t so my phrasing can be misleading (“the biggest Spanish teams” are usually considered Atletico, Real, Barca) but I did know about Bilbao and had them in mind when I made the original comment. We really are talking past each other lol
10:58 the US has the Open cup. MLS(1st division) USL(2nd division) and lower compete. There is no promotion/relegation in the states. And unfortunately MLS decided to pull most of there teams from the tournament bc of a “congested schedule”, even though the Open cup has been around for 100 years in this country.
What is a club? How is a club founded? Let me give you an example. Imagine a group of people who support the Palestinian cause and meet twice a week. One day to protest and another to plan the next steps. The group slowly begins to grow. One day one of the members decides to invite the rest to a barbecue after a meeting. Someone brings a football and they start playing. They decide to get together to play once a week among those gathered for the cause of Palestine. They continue to grow and realize that they have a good football team, so they decide to enter an amateur tournament. They name the team Palestine and ask the other protesters for a contribution to buy the equipment. They win some tournaments, it gives them visibility in some media. The group for the cause of Palestine decides that this publicity is convenient for them. Now the group is large enough to finance itself with everyone's contributions and they decide to get land where they can hold their political meetings but also so that the team can practice and continue winning. It is also a great place to have barbecues. In the nearby town there are people who are interested in the team and begin to encourage them, others want to have barbecues there, a few are also interested in the political cause. Everyone contributes monthly to use the facilities. The Palestine Football Club has been born. They join the country's football association and begin to compete in their leagues, dreaming of reaching the first division.
Well usually they played from late August to early June, but for example every 4 years there is the World Cup (in July), the European Championships (in July), the Olympics, etc... An Italian player who play for a top team can play around 70 matches in a season (38 in Serie A, 13 in Champions League, 7 in Coppa Italia, 7 in the World Cup, 7/8 with the National Team, 2 supercups and a couple in the FIFA Club World Cup)
Entry into the Champions League is determined by league finishing position from the previous year. Some countries get more allocation depending on the leagues' standing throughout Europe (some countries have been massively more successful than others). Lower ranked nations will have to go throught qualifying rounds to even reach the 8 groups of 4 described in the video (the format changes next year). There's also lower ranked European competitions called the Europa League and Europa Conference League - again entry is determined by league finishing position. You can also gain entry by winning one of these competitions yourself. Conference champs enter the Europa League and their champs enter the Champions League for the following year. The holders of the Champions Leauge are also re-entered, however they commonly also qualify by their league position, which can then give an extra spot to the next team in their countries' league. Winners of 'The Cup' tend to also get a Europa League spot
This is a way over simplified version of European football. This does give me an idea for a special video I could do for my birthday in September where I go into more detail. Thank you so much for the inspiration.
Clubs are organisations people can join to play a particular sport/game and get formal training. They often have several teams playing at different levels in the leagues. There are clubs for everything and they are usually non profit and not expensive to join and run by club members themselves, but bigger clubs can be more profit oriented and have professionnel structures and of course, in professional sports, it's all about money. Professional athletes in Europe usually start playing in their (small) local club and work their way up to clubs with professional teams.
FIFA is the World, Uefa is Europe, Concacaf is North & Central America, ie, including the US of A 🙂. There are also Confederations for South America, Africa, Asia and Oceania. They all hold tournaments to decide the Club champion for their Area annually, for their champion National team every four years and also for qualification for National teams to the World Cup every four years (on a different four-year cycle to the Area tournaments). Lots of football indeed, Tyler....
And allthough commercially not being a big deal, you might add that there is also a World Cup for club teams. The winners of each continental championship qualify for this tournament. It has been held each year since 2005, but I understand they're going to change the format to a tournament in every 4 years in 2025, with more teams (I don't know all the details yet).
Big club usually host game against semi-pro club and give their the revenue of the night. Recently Paris Saint German (French biggest club) played a club that was made out of 4 small village making a full team. They hosted them and gave them the revenue of the night, semi-pro's small club said it was enough to finance their jersey, travel and small city stadium for nearly a decade
Just for reference - Germany has the biggest football association in the world with over 7 million registered members. The german league system has 13 different levels with 1st and 2nd Bundesliga at the top and the leagues on the county level at the bottom. In total there are over 2000 leagues playing each season with over 30.000 teams compete in this system and that include all ages, gender and amateurs to full professionals.
One thing to note about the Champions league: not all leagues have the same quality, so the English, Spanish or German league for example get multiple teams that can participate in the Champions league, often without even having to play any qualifying games, whereas smaller leagues like the Romanian league for example that only get one team that is able to participate and even then they have to play a few qualifying games against teams that are in the same or similar situation. The UEFA league rankings determine how many teams from a certain league get the chance to participate, so the better ranked your league is, the more of your teams get a chance to play on the biggest stage. It's pretty much like an ELO rating in chess. So if your only team participating does well one season, you might get another team to represent your league the following season.
Most European teams are actually sent by a club, an association of people, who pay a monthly or yearly membership fee. While in some leagues, it is now common that a single investor owns all of the club, or the club has sold shares on the stock market, German soccer for instance has the 50 percent + 1 rule, where 50 percent plus one vote on the board is reserved to paying club members.
Also, certain leagues are structured different to others. For example: 1) The EFL championship (and leagues below it) allow the top 2 teams to qualify automatically for promotion to the league above, and the 4 teams after those 2 will play in a bracket style elimination tournament over the last promotion spot. These are the playoffs finals and generally garner a lot of attention. 2) I know the Scottish Premier League is also structured differently to the English leagues. While each team plays each other twice (home & away), the top 6 teams play each other once more and the bottom two teams play each other once more. Also, some countries have multiple cup competitions going on at once (in England there's the FA Cup & Carabao cup). Winning 2 competitions is referred to as a double, 3 a treble & 4 a quadruple. On rare occasions, because there are further club cup competitions across the world, it is also possible to win a sextuple, which to my knowledge has only been achieved twice (correct me if I'm wrong on that one).
He left out the Supercup Match between the League Winner and the Cup Winner in each Country.., Plus the European Championship (Champions League) Winner also plays with the South American Final Winner of the Supercup there in an Spetial Match, just to see wish team is best from both Continents.. hehe.. 😁 P.s. It never ends.. does it !!! .. Etc.. etc..
12:45 to explain the "club" (or at least how I understand the diffrence between club and team): A team is they players, trainers, staff and so on. The club is the "bigger picture". We (the fans) can become part of the club with buying memberships and having season passes to all the home games. Bayern Munich f.e. has 360'000 club members (I think most in the world) and Barcelona 150'000 club members.
The cup of the country. Give option to the low level teams to achieve reputation and maybe the players to be watched by elite teams. Also the champion team receives money. At the League, as high as you arrive as a team you receive more money to the team. Furthermore, the "champion" teams gives the chances to take part at the most prestigious tournament of Europe that is the champions League. There is also Europe League, the european tournament, for 5th and 6th place BEST team of each country. That tournament doesnt have the reputation of champions League but gives option to grow and give profits to the teams.
The cup for large teams is usually like a training session, where rotation players play. But for small teams it is an important game to get money from the public.
the schedule for top football teams these last few years has been insane, a team could play a league game on a saturday, have to play a champions league knockout game on tuesday, and then play a cup game the upcoming saturday, the deeper into the season the more intense these schedules become
@2:11 Not all countries play during winter (August-May) The Nordic countries, except Denmark, would be playing in snow, so they usually start the season in March or April.
Ah, with the legendary John Harkes of my team (Sheffield Wednesday) and the rock guitarist, bearded Alexei Lallas, who scored in a game against England at Wembley if I remember right. The U.S. beat England that day.
A club is kinda like a parent company, with a number of teams as subsidiaries. A major club will have a professional men's team, a professional women's team, professional reserve team, a number of youth teams (at least one for each age group). Also the video does not mention this, but there is also a system for transfers of adult players. A bit like trades in NFL, but it is one way, with one club offering to pay another club money for their players. Many smaller clubs rely on yearly player sales to keep their books balanced.
In Germany third to first division are fully professional. That means 20 + 18 + 18 = 56. The fourth tire has five regional leagues 18 teams each, together 90 teams. That are mostly semiprofessional teams. Below that you have various amateur leagues. All in all you find 11 tiers of football leagues with hundreds of teams. Theoretical a team can move up through all the tiers. The team that wins the first division, Bundesliga, is Deutscher Meister, the team that wins the trophy (Pokal)l, Pokalsieger. There are also European wide competitions, like the Champions League, top tier, or Europa League and Conference League, second and third tier. You get into this competitions by your standing in your home country's league or winning your home country's trophy. UEFA is the European Football association. FIFA is the world football association.
The Champions League format, which has been the same since 2003/04 is set to change from next season onwards. I personally think it’s an unnecessary change as players already have a demanding schedule but an explanation of the new Champions League format is here: ua-cam.com/video/nKYLmBEMTYw/v-deo.htmlsi=NPkiD2mgnLLoSQDs
In the UK, the top 4 clubs can potentially win 4 trophies: The Premier League Title, The League Cup, The FA Cup and the Champions League. There have been 3 occasions where a team has secured 3 trophies in one season, but never all 4. Manchester Utd 98/99 - Premiership, FA Cup and Champions League, Manchester City 18/19 - Premier League, League Cup, FA Cup and Manchester City 22/23 - Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League. These are considered among the best teams ever to play in the UK. In addition (and because I'm a Liverpool fan) - Liverpool in 00/01 won a cup treble of the League Cup, FA Cup and Europa League (This is the tournament below the Champions League). Not quite on the same level, but an impressive feat as it meant they played every game available to them in that year. They also came close to a quad in 21/22, losing the Premier League by 1 point to Manchester City, and being beaten in the Champions League Final by Real Madrid.
There's club (i.e., team) football and national football (i.e., countries). The football world is divided (roughly) into continents. So there's a North American Cup (the US soccer team plays it), a South American Cup, a European Cup, an African Cup, and an Asian Cup. These competitions are typically played every two years. And then, of course, there's the World Cup (played every 4 years), where the best nations in the world compete with each other. This summer (starting next week) there's the European Cup and the South American Cup. The competitions last about 3 weeks.
Tyler... if I may make a suggestion for a topic. Canadian Football verses American Football and some of the whacky history of the CFL (Canadian Football League). Saskatchewan's Eagle Keys breaking a leg, then returning to the game to snap the winning touchdown. Or the "Fog Bowl”. Or the Ottawa Rough Rider's star quarterback running and passing on Sunday, then going back to being the local high school Principal on Monday.
I figured you uploaded this when you did because the UEFA Champions League Final was yesterday (fyi Real Madrid of Spain beat BVB Dortmund of Germany). The main takeaways from the video for someone coming from an American sports mindset is understanding 3 things: 1) the lower divisions or tiers have completely unrelated teams (though some countries do allow reserve teams to play in the lower tiers they don’t dominate), and the top tiers are all fully professional- not amateur or “farm” teams like in US sports. (there’s also different tiers at the continental level - ie 3 in Europe - but let’s not get too far into the weeds as part of this introduction) 2) the concept of Promotion/Relegation between the tiers - and that this continues through all the levels (not just between 1st & 2nd but also between 2nd and 3rd, 3rd & 4th, etc., etc.). The specific details aren’t important (ie the number of teams is it 1, 2, or 3 - sometimes there’s a playoff for some or all of the spots while others or all are automatic, etc.), and the details change between countries and between levels. The main ideal is that it’s not fixed membership and there’s a meritocracy where the best teams will rise over time to the top, at least in theory (money can prevent or skew it in practice, but in theory it’s a clean meritocracy) & 3) understand that most teams have to compete simultaneously in multiple competitions over the course of the year. The domestic league, the domestic cup, & continental competitions are the big 3 but also various smaller trophies and competitions like a league cup, regional/state or lower-tier league or cup, if you did well last year maybe also a “super cup” or 2 (domestic & continental), & maybe even an intercontinental or world competition. Plus during the season your best players can get called away from the club for national team duty (ie World Cup, Olympics, Continental Championships, etc.). Obviously not every player can play in every game so you need a deep bench. It’s a very crowded schedule with little downtime, but most of those people complaining about ‘fixture congestion’ and ‘player fatigue’ are the same ones who keep adding or pushing for more exhibition/friendly tours or additional minor competitions. They want those because they bring in money unlike say the official FIFA international tournaments (Intercontinental cup and Club World Cup). On the other hand it’s hard to criticize when FIFA is also doing tons of corrupt money grabs left and right. Money is what allows the sport to be soo big, but it’s also completely destroying the game.
And on top of that, you have the women's game which is organised on similar lines but the leagues are usually smaller and relatively fewer teams are fully pro (this is changing though). Current men's champions are newly crowned Real Madrid, while for the women it's Barcelona.
no matter how much GOALS you archives as team in case of winning there are just 3 for you in the list . in theory: 1:0 = 3 points for the 1-goal- team 12:0 = 3 points for the 12-goal- team 0:0 = 1 point for both teams 22:22 = 1 point for both teams 1:0 = 0 points for the 0-goal-team 12:10 = 0 points fo the 10-goal-team
TBF I dont think this is exclusively a European thing, the same model has been adopted by the respective national and continental associations globally except the North America. Although each national and continental associations have their own way of doing things. For instance with relegation and promotion in Germany that finish 17th and 18th the Bundesliga automatically go down to the 2 Liga likewise the teams in the 2 Liga that finish 1st and 2nd automatically go up to the Bundesliga. But for the team that finish 16th in Bundesliga they play the team that finished 3rd in the 2 Liga home and away. But in England the bottom 3 of the Premier League automatically go down, but in the Championship (England’s second league) the top 2 automatically go up, places 3-6 go to the play offs. Team 3 plays team 6, team 4 plays team 5 home and away in the semi final, winner of the final goes up. They say the Championship play off final has the biggest prize in football (maybe in sport) as its worth £140 million. There’s also the UEFA Europa League and UEFA Conference League. The Europa league sort of absorbed the cup winners cup which was a similar idea to the Champions league but the winners of domestic cups. The conference league is quite a new addition to the calendar for smaller teams as the “top 5” leagues tend to dominate the Champions league and even the Europa League though occasionally a team like Ajax will produce an amazing season. Historically the only way to qualify for Champions League (when called the European Cup) you had to be the domestic champions of the your country the season before (or be the defending European champions) but now some countries champions don’t automatically qualify for it. Teams from Belgium, Scotland, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark etc. often struggle to qualify through the preliminary rounds (English, German, Italian, Spanish and French teams automatically qualify maybe Dutch and Portuguese too?) and they filter down into the Europa or Conference but that’s quite a complicated process for me to explain 😅. There’s also matches that act like the seasons curtain opener. The league champions will play the cup champions often in a 1 off match at neutral ground, Germany the cup champions host it. If the same team is the champion of both it will be a runner up instead. Similarly there is the UEFA Supercup as one off match between the Champions legaue winners vs Europa league winners at a neutral ground. And finally the champions league winners also qualify for the FIFA Club World Cup, where each of the Continental Champions play in a mini tournament, but the European and South American Champions go straight to the Semi Final. FIFA are really trying to push it as a major event but the European teams tend not to care if they win or lose it. FIFA is the world governing body UEFA is the European governing body, each continent has its own. With in UEFA you have the national football associations. The FA (England), DFB (Germany), the SFA (Scotland) FFF (France)
The term club for soccer teams comes from the fact that most were associations, that is, the team belonged to its members (fans who pay an annual fee to belong). Currently there are only a few clubs that remain that way (because many have been bought by large companies or Asian capitalists)
Football club is just a football team. A club, for example one you may have heard of - Manchester United, buys the best players they can afford and play together in all league and cup games. The World Cup is different in that to play for your national squad you need to be from that country. So the USA national team is are all Americans, but clubs in Major League Soccer can buy and play footballers from anywhere.
This year in Germany a cup a 3rd division team kicked out three first division teams. Among them Bayern, who have won the league 11 , years in a row, and Frankfurt who have been crowned European champion few years before. Actually in this year's cup, there was only one first division team left among the last 4 in the semifinals
Okay... So typically, a team will play 1 match from their league, 1 match from their cup and maybe 1 match from Champions league (or Europa league/conference league) PER WEEK. It's not a strict number, but 1 league match will always be there every week and only 1 league match. Cup and Champions league will depends on team by team basis
For a League, the entire last day of the season is "the final". All teams playing their final match, some teams needing to win, others needing other teams to win, or lose, to help them avoid relegation or to grab a final UEFA spot for the following year. It's a country-wide, league-spanning final day of competition. It very much has a "final" atmosphere, but across a whole nation rather than just one stadium and a couple of cities.
FYI there are tournaments where countries play against each other there’s the Euros which ran from June until July this year in Germany which Spain won against England. You had Copa America hosted in the US this summer which was won by Argentina. So off season for many players will be short this summer because the season starts up again around the 8th of August and they have pre season from the end of July to get fully fit again and ready for the new season. The final of the euros was on the 16th of July and the season starts again less then a month after so it’s a short turn around but the Euros happens every 4 years and so does the World Cup. So next World Cup will be in 2026 and the next Euros will be in 2028 but there is the Club World Cup next summer in the US. Great for football fans but I’m sure some of the players are tired of it. It’s a bit too much on their body in my opinion
12:46 The term "club" is for the team, In merica they are usually referred to as "franchises" probably because in the US sports are more of a business first sort of deal (instead of sport first as in Europe) at the pro level, that is why in the american pro sports leagues (NBA, NHL, MLS? etc.) there is no relegation in american leagues usually or at least to my knowledge and instead teams or rather franchises are sold to different cities at some instances, that would be unheard of in most of europe at least, because the teams/clubs are very local to a place/city/town and have been for ages.
Every country has a lot of professional teams, for example only in Italy there are 100 professional football clubs, 20 in the first division (Serie A), 20 in the second (Serie B) and 60 in the third (Serie C), over these there are 166 semi-pro football clubs in the fourth league (Serie D) and some other hundreds - for a total of 12127 - in the other amateur leagues (Eccellenza, Promozione, Prima Categoria, Seconda Categoria and Terza Categoria), this without counting the youth leagues. A team can pass from Terza Categoria to Serie A by continuing to win. For example Chievo Verona in 1968 was in Seconda Categoria and after 7 promotions arrived in Serie A in 2001, in 2006 played the qualification round of the Champions League.
When we say "club" we refer to a team that is not a national team. So a club is Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal, etc. While national teams are Spain, France, Italy, Germany, England, etc. So basically, the Champions League is like the World Cup but for European "clubs", instead of national teams, and it happens every year, not every four years.
Fun Fact, England has 4 professional leagues, with 92 teams total followed by 10-12 leagues that mainly consist of part time or even amateur clubs. There are also 2 domestic cup competitions every season. FIFA runs the game on a global scale, UEFA runs the European part, then each country has their own organizations that run the leagues. Anything the domestic organizations decide will only affect their leagues, anything UEFA decides only affects European teams and anything FIFA decides affects EVERY team.
The Champions League final was played at Wembley in London last night, June 1st. Real Madrid beat Borussia Dortmund 2-0
Thank you, I was just about to say the same thing 😀
The name 'Champion's League' is a joke.
How many teams in it aren't 'Champions' of anything?
The European Cup was JUST for, er, Champions of their respective top leagues.
The Champion's League isn't.
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Dude, don't be an old man yelling at clouds. You're correct. Nobody cares.
@@katydaniels481 Like wise
@@gibson617ajg I agree. It really is a joke. In 2016. FC Villareal (Spain) went into semifinals of the UCL... If by some case happened they win the Champions League that year, that would be their first title in the history of the club (since 1923). They never won any trophy in their home country. As a matter of fact, their first trophy in history was the UEFA Europa Ligue just 3 years ago.
A club is an organisation. One club would have a men's team, a women's team, an u21s team, a u18s team etc. Some clubs (Real Madrid, Barcelona etc) even have basketball teams, handball teams etc, all under their club's organisation
I've been a football fan my entire life, but I didn't know that last part.
@@brandonjames998yep and Barcelona and real madrids basketball teams have beaten the best nba teams before 😂😂
@@brandonjames998 Some clubs even have track and field.
For easier understanding, there is many club in a country but only one National Team for each country
I remember Rangers had a basketball and a F1 team 😂
“European football” is everywhere in the world, even the US although in a much smaller way. When we say the “World Cup” it literally is the entire world rather than so-called World Series in just America!
Soccer is so popular in the US idk what this guy is on about lol
For me as a Europen it not looks so popular. Here when there is big game, a derby, or a final WHOLE cities are going crazy about it. Football is almost a religion. It can decide your mood for the week if your team win or lose. And when the National Team playing, the entire country goes mad.
@luiki4189 the average American doesn't give a damn about soccer.
@@zyerman yes, even though it’s a minority sport when taking the global spectator numbers into consideration.
@user-dv1hu5vq5m Here's the thing, though, the USA has the third largest population of any country in the world, and there are a lot of pro sports played there. That said, even though football (soccer) is basically the 5th most popular sport in the USA, that's still 5th most popular in a country with well over 300 million people, so even if that only amounts to a tenth of their population, that's still over 30 million people, which to put it into perspective, is only less than each of the total populations of the 9 largest European countries by population; and statistically, not everyone in even those countries follows football religiously. As such, relatively speaking, even with soccer being the 5th most popular sport in the USA, that's comparable to, or well in excess of, most individual countries in Europe.
A lot of the fan culture you speak of in Europe, does exist in the USA too, but instead of it mostly being centered around just football, it's divided among multiple sports, and while certainly not without it's differences, there are still a lot of similarities too.
Here in Canada, a lot of our sporting cultures are a hybrid of both American and European sentiments and mentalities.
Just to put it in perspective to you. England has 92 pro football clubs in 4 divisions. Not mentioning semi pro and amatuer teams in lower divisions.
Also, the FA cup has about 750 teams in it, so you have premier league teams in competition with fully amateur teams.
"Not mentioning semi pro and amatuer teams in lower divisions."
But you did.
amutcher.
@@zo7034they aren’t amateur teams it’s semi pro teams
@@chopsquotes9326it depends on the cup. The FA cup invites several, but not all, fully amateur teams.
@@chrisbodum3621 He means,as you know, "not including"..
FIFA - football federation that covers the whole world.
UEFA - subdivision of FIFA that covers Europe.
South America, Africa, Asia, etc. each have their own.
Also anyone who doesn't know the reason it's called FIFA and not InternationalFederationofAssociationFootball, is because it's French and the original is Fédération internationale de football association hence it's FIFA instead of IFAF
@@elfishmoss1457 - The same with UEFA: Union des Associations Européennes de Football.
@@module79l28 Actually, the abbreviation comes from English: Union of European Football Associations, but the official full name is French.
Just Complementing:
CONMEBOL - South America (It's also the oldest one)
CAF - Africa
AFC - Asia
OFC - Oceania
CONCACAF - North America
@@elfishmoss1457Although "I Faff" would be an excellent name for it!
Sport in the rest of the world is sport, the team competes because it wants to win.
Sport in the USA is an entertainment franchise, the team participates because they're allowed to, and if it's profitable for the sports organiser.
And if they have a very bad season, they're rewarded with ths first draft pick LOL
exactly!! americans dont seem to understand the difference between competition and entertainment
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Your lot have 6 teams who can never be relegated realistically and many who blood oil money propping up your teams that make no profits.
So f off with your "we don't understand competition" BS.
You don't care about that either
At least our sport has parody between top flight teams
Stop being whinging pretentious pricks
You just described all pro sports, including the one we're discussing today. The European system is more orientated towards a traditional system, where you're pushed to survive relegation or manage promotion. America's systems have parity so that the league isn't dominate by the gigantic markets of ny, Chicago, la, Houston, and Boston for some fluky reason. In baseball, which has a draft, but no salary cap, the big markets do generally dominate. Yankees have won like 30 titles atp. I love the beautiful game, and I enjoy its system, but as a fan from a small market team, imma enjoy the semi-enforced parity. It is generally more fun as a neutral too if you genuinely have no clue who's gonna beat who any given Sunday.
@zanehuseth8621 except the packers can compete, the cardinals from st. Louis and are one of the most successful National League, in Hockey the Red Wings Avs, and Pittsburgh, and Tampa can compete.
European sports are dominated by the few, American sports have greater parity beyond just "who wins the league"
Tyler, there are 17 Professional Football Teams in London alone!
But only like 3 or 4 in the premier league
@@chopsquotes9326It's 7 in the prem
@@chopsquotes9326 Tottenham, crystal palace, chelsea, West hem, arsenal, Brentford, fulham.. 7 clubs currently.
@@chopsquotes9326 Make it a "+" and you got it
@@chopsquotes9326 3 or 4 in WEST London,alone:)
Many americans seem to not understand the difference between a club team and a national team. A football club can have many teams. A male and a female pro team and then usually any number of academy teams for younger players such as the under 19 or under 21. The are all playing for the same club (for example Liverpool or Real Madrid), but not in the same team.
What he talkes about in this video is club football, not national teams. I usually try to explain the difference by talking about the NHL. Each NHL team has players from many different countries playing for them (same as a fotball team in club football does). But come the olympics, only the US players get to play for the US national team. They are two different things.
This is why Messi, Neymar and Mbappe can play for the same club team, but in the World Cup they represent 3 different countries (Argentina, Brazil and France respectively).
I hope this makes some sense.
It’s because in the states they call clubs ‘franchises’ I just explain that and it clicks
muito bom !!!
This was just about club football not national football. There is the World Cup and the European Cup both played every 4 years. The European Cup ( UEFA Euro 2024 )is starting this June. The World Cup is in 2026 hosted by USA, Canada and Mexico
This year there is also the Olympic tournament which is part of the youth track.
Think you mean the European Championships (Euro 2024). The "European Cup" was what the Champions League used to be called.
@@davidribeiro1064 and more 3old players
FIFA. Mean fédération internationale football association.
FIFA World cup is thé contest of thé all country and all continent qualify for thé World cup
The off season isn't 4 months, it's about 10 weeks - but the players don't get 10 weeks off because they start pre-season training well before the season starts, and the big clubs - like Manchester United, Read Madrid, Juventus - all have huge international followings, so they will do pre-season tours and play friendly games in other countries. In reality, the players will get maybe 4 weeks off. Also, the off-season in Europe will often have big tournaments in that time, like the World Cup, or the European championship (which starts mid-June). However, these are tournaments for countries to play each other, not clubs.
The reason you haven’t hear about clubs is that in the us it’s franchises. Chargers, Raiders etc… A football club doesn’t move. It’s the city club
Except for MK Dons 😂
It's slowly going down the franchise route, the city group owns multiple clubs now.
tyler the cup, can be a boost or life saver for some of the real lower teams, for example, the low team might get 2k fans per week, semi pro, they work through the week and play on weekend, they may get a good run, get into the 3rd round, when the big guns come in to the cup, the premier league, if your drawn against them at there ground, with 70k fans, you get have the money of the gate, the tickets to watch, you also get half the money from TV revenue, which then can be used to recruit, better players, or pay the bills to keep you alive for next season, maybe sign a good goal scorer, move up a league, better revenue and bigger gates.
That GREEDY xxxxxxx have ensured NO lucrative replays from the 3rd Round unlike before. My first Millwall memory from 1961 was 31,000 under floodlghts seeing them beat Top Tier Fulham. No replays, under lights now or replays, after drawing at home and going to the massive stadiums just to benefit the Big Clubs..
@@Isleofskye agreed, im a sunderland fan, and can remember playing leeds in 1973, we were second division then, leeds first division as it was back then, beating leeds 1.0, but the revenue to the lower clubs, is a must, , but they want to keep the premiership boys happy, not to uch football, as they get a bit tired, 250k a week, and they get tired, hmmm strange
@@seanmc1351 I bet you remember midweek replays at Roker Park with "The Roker Roar" under lights. All gone and then,as the season ends, they goto the other side of the World for friendlies.
Like how well Coventry did in the FA cup this year
@@Anna-gm6zy Coventry were robbed as it was 2 centimetres offside which no human eye can see and as it was given as a winning goal then it was not a "clear and obvious mistake" and I am not a City fan.
In the 90's, former english striker Gary Lineker said : "Football is a simple game, 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes, and at the end the Germans always win"
Now you can add : "The Champion's League is a european tournament with the best european football clubs, and at the end the Real Madrid always win"
The best answer a football made about his sport : " I spent all my money into luxury cars, women and booze. What's left ? I wasted it."
Champions league final was last night 😆
Try watching Welcome to Wrexham, gives you so much more insight especially for Americans.
Beauty of a League Pyramid is that you could have a team in every decent sized US city and even rivals from cities like Indiana or San Diego. Someone from Tulsa wouldn't have to cheer for the nearest team to them as they would always have their own, even though they would most likely play down the divisions due to the market being a big disadvantage but they would still have the possibility to reach the top with great all-round management. London have 7 teams playing in the top division in England but you could go down to the smallest cities and towns in England and they would still have a team that in theory could promote through divisions and eventually win the top division.
LUTON from The Top Division all the way down to the 5th Division, as you know, The National League, and all the way back again!
Fun fact: Wisla Krakow, currently a 2nd division club in Poland won the polish cup against teams from 1st division
Always amazes me how Football in the US is almost excluded from your news cycles, when it is by light years the biggest sport on any level in the world.
Well they live in their own world xD
I’m 4 mins into the reaction and I am screaming at my TV “just stop pausing and your questions will be answered!” 😂 patience my American friend 😂
Same 😂😂😂
They have the attention spam of a four years old kid. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
step 1: its not european football, its just football.
Step 2. "American football" is not football, 'cause it's played with the hands and with a thing that looks like an egg. 🙃🙃
American "soccer" doesn't have relegation 😂
We don't call it HOME and ON THE ROAD ! We say HOME and AWAY.
I'd like to see him get his head around the OFFSIDE RULE !!
CLUB =TEAM.
UEFA = EUROPE.
FIFA = WORLD.
There are also other tournaments throughout the year for the teams that finish below FIRST place.
I've seen this (original) video a few times now. The narrator does switch to saying 'away' towards the end, probably feeling that people will now understand 'on the road' = 'away'. (By people I mean Americans.
The 4 months of time off are usually for international tournaments like the World Cup, European Championships, Copa America, etc (this means football players are representing their countries and not their clubs). So the actual off season is much shorter.
There is pre-season and tours every year for clubs also
To answer your question on winning 2 trophies: It does happen!
We give names to when this happens. Those being "The double", "the treble" and "the quadruple". Though you might also hear of "a treble" or "a quintuple" or something else. It's important to understand the difference between THE treble and A treble.
In every country, there are 2 major trophies. Those being the Cup and the League. (winning a league is also called winning a title, btw). If you win both of those trophies, that is THE double. However, some countries also have smaller trophies, such as England. They have a League Cup (a smaller cup where only the top 4 divisions may compete). If you win the league title and the league cup, or win the league cup and the FA Cup (the name of the English cup), that is sometimes called "a double" or "a baby double". But THE double is League Title + Cup.
The treble refers to winning all 3 major trophies available. Which means League Title, the Cup and the Champions League. Trebles are extremely rare. It has only been done 10 times! The first time it happened was Celtic's "Lisbon Lions". So let's talk about those Lisbon Lions.
*The* Quadruple refers to winning the League Cup, the League Title, the Cup AND the Champions League in a single season. This is not even possible in every country, as some countries don't have league cups! But Scotland does have one. And in 1967, Celtic won the Champions League (called "European Cup" back then). Completing the Quadruple. They are STILL the only team in history to win the quadruple.
Last year in 2023, Manchester City won the treble. Making Manchester the ONLY City in European football with two different Treble winning clubs. Those being Manchester United (1999) and Manchester City (2023).
What is a club, btw? A club is a team. But a team isn't always a club. Put simply: a club is an organization that has a team. I'll take Manchester City again as an example. They have their own team. But the club is more than just the players and staff. It is the ownership, the security guard who happens to work there, the staff, the dinner lady, the fans, the women's team, and even TEAMS IN DIFFERENT SPORTS! That is the most important difference between a club and a team. A club is an organization that HAS teams. A team is, well, a team.
In football, you have "Club football" and "International football". International football refers to when players play to represent their country. If you are born in Belgium, you can be chosen by the Belgian Football Association to play for the Belgian team in the European Championship. But that doesn't mean you have to play football in Belgium. I'll take Manchester City as example again. 2 of their players are from Belgium despite them being an English team.
Great comment and will be really helpful for him but idk if you can gatekeep something that most teams can’t even get as only a few countries hold League Cups as the definition of the quadruple and then claim you are the only one to do it, works for England and Scotland (which yes, have separate leagues despite being in the UK because they invented the sport just in case he reads this comment) and some others but at that point you kinda have to count the other trophies too imo. For example, Bayern has won a sextuple (6 trophies) in 2020 by winning the league, cup and Champions League in the 2019-20 season as usual plus the national Supercup (a one-off game at the start of the season played between the cup and league winner or the 1st and 2nd place teams if one has won the double, considered a minor trophy which is why there is an argument on whether to include it), European Supercup (played between the Champions League winners and the winners of the lesser European competition, the Europa League. A third rate competition, the Conference League also exists) and the Club World Cup (football is actually governed by FIFA the organisation which yes, has lent its name to EA to make the FIFA videogame for a long time but that no longer happens and the videogame has been renamed to EAFC starting with the current game. FIFA is made of 6 continental associations:UEFA for Europe, AFC for Asia, CONMEBOL for South America, CONCACAF for North America, CAF for Africa and OFC for Oceania. They each hold their own Champions Leagues and then send their representatives to this elimination style tournament which is set to be expanded to a 32 team tournament held every 4 year. The current version will be renamed to FIFA International Cup and still held every year which is super idiotic but whatever. The UEFA team wins this pretty much every time lately with a few CONMEBOL upsets even if historically the UEFA-CONMEBOL matches used to be a lot more even) and he will think that never happened if he goes by your comment alone. Find it weird that he is confused by what a club is as I thought Americans use that term too
@@edi0157 The Quadruple is what it is. It's not really the Prem's fault that other leagues don't have a league cup.
You should try and follow the Euros this summer. First game is in less than 2 weeks. 14th June Germany vs Scotland is the first game of the tournament
Watching Tyler watching football would be excruciating. He'd be pausing the action every few seconds to ask if that guy is about to score a point, without actually watching to see if the guy scores a goal. Tyler has mastered the art of asking a question which is just about to be answered.
Just in case Tyler reads a comment and in answer to his question, in the 98-99 season Manchester United won the English Premiership, the FA Cup and the EUFA Champions League, becoming the first team ever to achieve this.
wrong in 1967 CELTIC won the scottish league scottish cup scottish league cup the glasgow cup and the european cup so man u were not first
@@jameskelly1115 Man Utd were the first English club then
I presumed it would be some one like Real Madrid to have won the main treble first, but no! Celtic were actually the first throughout Europe to win the main treble.
@@Lily_The_Pink972 That is what you should have said in the first place. I just like to get things right
@@markpodlesak7204 and with a full Scottish team
My home town team Chesterfield got to the FACup semi final in 1997 . Also an old school friend scored a goal in the game.
They were robbed.The ball was clearly over the line.
I was at Old Trafford for the semi-final, and Hillsborough for the replay, after David Elleray screwed Chesterfield over at Old Trafford. The first games my ex missus ever went to. I was also at Wembley when my team, Sheffield Wednesday (in the division below Man. Utd. in the league) Won the League cup with an absolute belter from Sheridan, with the U.S. international John Harkes having a brilliant game for us.
I remember being at the Recreation ground and Notts. County for the 2 legged Anglo Scottish Cup final. As it was the last time this competition took place, Chesterfield still have the trophy.
Congrats on your return to League 2! You beat my old home town team (Barnet) out of promotion this year. Deservedly so - you had a great season.
Was it Jamie Hewitt?
If Tyler bothered to watch before commenting, he would learn a great deal more!
Then it would be a review not a reaction.
@Shoomer1988 Does it matter? He says he's here to learn. Very often the people who comment know more than the people who produce the videos he reacts to.
@@Lily_The_Pink972 Of course it matters - It's a reaction channel, not a review channel.
"Very often the people who comment know more than the people who produce the videos he reacts to." Even if that is true, so? What has that got to do with him?
@@Shoomer1988 Pardon me for breathing!
@@Lily_The_Pink972it’s a reaction channel dawg, and he got the simplest basics of it down good enough
You don't know what a "league" means?
Um, NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS....
National Football Library of course.
I think they use the word "division" or "conference" a lot in the US, instead of "league"
He is just a twit !
@@Wickerrmaneh League is in the fucking name they picked.. National Football League. They better use it. 😅😅😅
He didn't know what a chain store, or what a high street was so not knowing this was hardly a surprise
We call teams "clubs" because in mayority of countries, like Argentina for example, they are not only football teams, they also participate in other sports, so is a club. Also because it's societary, we don't have owners or enterprises. Clubs are societies and their dirigents are ellected by elections between the club members.
Let me clear the confusion
Each country has a league system all feeding into one another , usually 1st-4th division is considered Pro and anything below semi-pro to amateur.
A country's CUP consists of teams all around the country , in England last year over 600+ teams in total competed
Some countries also have what we call a League Cup which is the same as the normal Cup but only open to the top 3/4 divisions
For most people the difficulty and matter of competitions goes like this , Uefa Champions League > League > Cup > League Cup
Yes both the regural league and all the tournaments happen on a weekly scedule in tandem with each other.
There are 3 European Tournaments , the Champions League (UCL) , the Europa League (UEL) and the Conference League (UECL). UCL > UEL > UECL
While these seem like divisions all 3 of these only have teams from the Top divisions aka leagues of the countries around Europe , depending on your placement in the 1st division you are invited accordingly but generally Top 7 and above will get you a spot. In the UCL and UEL the top 2 of the groups advance to the knock-outs while the 4th is kicked out of european competition completely and the 3rd of the group drops to the lower tier European tournament in the knock-out stage. Some countries have more spots than others or more spots in the bigger tournament and some countries even the winner of their league needs to play qualifying matches to even get to the bigger tournament in order to keep the playing field level , some countries 1st team might be able to battle it out with the 1st of another but head to head some countries have generally better quality all around rather than 1 or 2 clubs
Within professional football England and Wales there are also two major knockout tournaments with quarter and semi finals etc: the Football Association (FA) Cup and the English Football League (EFL) Cup (named after the sponsor; currently Carabao). These run in parallel with the points-base leagues. Plus one Charity Shield match between the winners of those two cups.
Tyler, the world's most expensive stadium is in YOUR OWN country (SoFi in LA).
Each of the 30 NFL stadiums have a capacity of 61,500 and up.
Approx. 70 of the many college stadiums have a capacity of 50,000 and up.
so what the most expensive its still not the biggest , your sports are a joke ,
😂😂😂😂
A great example for an underdog story in the cup was this years DFB-Pokal in Germany, where 1. FC Kaiserslautern went all the way into the final and lost, but at the same time was fighting to avoid relegation in the second Bundesliga division, so they could have been potentially been a Cup winner going down into the third division! Also third tier club 1. FC Saarbrücken was kicking out a couple clubs from the Bundesliga (first division in germany) including FC Bayern who won the Bundesliga 11 times in a row at that time :D
I have found the best thing about being a soccer fan is that it is a sport you can watch year round. European soccer goes from Aug to May but as soccer in Europe starts to wind down soccer in the west in North Central and South America (not to mention International soccer) are just getting started and then wind down in In October and December So you could watch soccer year round.
Man I know, the wait for American football always sucks, especially not being a basketball or baseball fan there's just nothing in the spring and summer for me
@@CatFungi Very true although I do like going to baseball games ( both MLB and AAA) it was never something I could watch on TV so that gap in spring and summer was bad. Now that I am into soccer that means every weekend now someone is playing something somewhere all year round.
It's more like two months off - end of May to the beginning of August. But even then, every two years there is a major international tournament. This years it's the Euros and in 2026 will be the next World Cup. These are for international teams, i.e. countries and clubs are football teams that represent specific areas/towns/cities.
there is no time off
It's just time for players to go play for their country's national team for international competitions (like copa america)
I still remember the year my little town team made it to the 3rd round, when the pro teams join in. Two of my mates played, as well as working full time at their normal jobs. Huge day in town, we got to play Northampton Town, a 4th division club, and got thrashed. Still a great day.
Never be a Journalist. lol
We STILL don't know who your town team are,my friend:)
We talk about "clubs" because in their origins they were groups of people who got organised in a spontaneous way to play football, not for money. FC Barcelona, for example, was created by a Swiss man in Barcelona who wanted to play the sport and knew no one to play with in the city, so he put on an ad in a newspaper asking for people to play together. This was 1899.
Arsenal is called that way bc it was created by the workers in a factory making cannons in London, even before, in 1886.
Therefore, teams were created as "clubs" of people who wanted to play. It has only been recently, some 30-40 years ago, that clubs became companies and megacorporations. They used to have associates who chose presidents in elections. Nowadays, most of them are companies with stockholders and owners.
In Spain, were I am from, only 4 teams in La Liga (our top division) remain as clubs (Athletic Bilbao, FC Barcelona, Real Madrid and Osasuna Pamplona).
Another thing that may be weird for an American sports follower: clubs are not franchises. Meaning that they are absolutely and inextricably linked to the city/town/neighbourhood they play in. It is almost impossible (maybe small teams may do so) to move to another city, just as the Lakers did from Minneapolis to LA. Therefore, followers react so viscerally to wins and defeats, and never ever change colours and start supporting other teams.
Real Madrid won the Champions League final last night. Club = Team
not really, a club has many teams: the men´s team, the women´s team, the youth teams, and even some other sports teams like basketball or volleyball
5:47 - as extra info - the 1st Bundesliga have 18 teams and no 18. and 17. goes directly down to 2nd Bundesliga and are replaced by 1st and 2nd of the actual season of the 2nd league. The 16th for 1st and the 3rd from 2nd league plays two games for the place in the top league. So in case 16th place they stay in the 1st league for the new season.
Your silliness to learn and enjoy learning new formats makes this so much fun to watch. From a European.... There is A LOT of football on.
10:10 There're many stories like that. Like real madrid facing real madrid b team in the final. A japanese high school team reaching their cup final etc.
Lots of stuff that wasn't mentioned or gone into detail on, but overall a decent explaination of the basics. I might make my own explanation video, if I do I'll come back later and add the link to this comment
The "off season" depends on if your team need to qualify for a cup or European competition. And is usually between 6-8 weeks as 1 season ends in mid may and starts at the beginning of August
If you’re interested, there is another video called “(European) Soccer Explained for Americans” by “TheOnDeckCircle” channel that explains all of this a little more in depth. He also explains what’s up with the acronyms (FIFA, UEFA, CAF, etc.).
Side note: the “Teams” here are called football “Clubs”.
Another point to add is TRANSFER WINDOWS. There are 2 time periods during the year, one in summer during the off period and one in winter midway through the season, when all teams in Europe can trade players. The summer transfer window is from 14 June to 31 Aug and the winter transfer window is from 1 January to 1 February.
When a team buys a new player it pays the other team a transfer fee determined by the selling team and the market value of the player being sold or, if it's included in the player's contract, the value of the release clause. Some transfers can also include add-ons which are non guaranteed fees which can be based on various factors like the number of goals the player scores, or the number of appearances or the whether the team wins a trophy or the player wins a personal trophy. These terms are usually negociated between clubs, the player in question and his agent (who helps the player get the best contract, and who also gets paid a commission).
Usually the summer window is when clubs make several big transfers to refresh certain positions in their first team where they underperformed in the season that just finished, and the winter window is for small upgrades to the team for example if a player in one position is going to miss the rest of season because of injury, a team can buy a player in the winter window to replace the injured player.
Sometimes transfers can be loan deals which are temporary. Loan deals commonly have 2 purposes : to fill in for an injured player, or to allow young players who are not being picked in the first team to have regular game time in another club to give them first team experience which will help them develop, after which they may come back if their club needs them. Some loan deals may have a buy option or a buy obligation at the end of the loan. A buy option means that the club that took the player on loan is allowed to make the transfer permanent if they choose to. A buy obligation, as the name suggest, means the club has to buy the player at the end of the loan.
Transfer windows can be interesting to follow as often times young talented players can be coveted by several big European clubs and this creates a bidding war to buy that player. Sometimes a club might have agreements with the player regarding his contract terms, the selling club also agreed the transfer terms, and everything is set to be finalised, but at the last moment another big club come in and hijacks the deal with a better contract and a bigger bid. Clubs must also try to keep their best players and discuss extension to their contracts or a new upgraded contract preferably 1 year before the end of their contract. If they fail to do so the player will be free to go when his contract expires. This allows a another club to sign the player without having to pay a transfer fee. So in order to not lose a player who is being coveted by another big club for free a club will try to sell him for a huge fee before his contract expires.
Transfers are regulated to prevent big clubs with bigger budgets to have an unfair advantage when buying players. Every club must balance their player purchases with player sales, which brings a certain fairness for every team trying to upgrade.
Coaches are usually not sold. Most of the time coaches are sacked if they underperform. The sacking can happen at any point in time during or after the season. The club then needs to find a new coach. If it happens in the middle of the season they usually replace him internally with an interim coach until the off season when they can get another coach. Mostly they will sign a coach who is already out of contract. But sometimes a club can poach another club's coach. In this case there is a compensation fee that needs to be paid, which usually is not as high as player transfer fees.
The word “clubs” is used to differentiate between local town and city clubs vs international teams for a country. Also the champions league is a tournament that runs like the cup thru the season and the top 4 positions in each league and the cup winner qualify automatically for next year. The top 4 only get in the from the top leagues the lesser leagues get 2-3 spots
It's only in the best leagues that the top 4 qualify. England, Spain, Germany, and maybe France? The number of teams to qualify from each league is based on the combined performances of clubs from each country in European competitions in the last 5 seasons.
12:41 just picture it as this : World Cup = Tournament Between COUNTRY, UEFA Champions League = Tournament Between BEST CLUB from EACH COUNTRY.
and UEFA European Championship "EURO"... like the "World Cup" but only for European countries... by the way, on these dates... we are already making more of it, hahahaha😉
All three competitions run all season, September to May. So a top team will play its home league games usually at the weekend, and home cup games and, if they qualify, UEFA cup games mid week. They will play national league games to the end of the season; they will keep playing cup competition games until they are knocked out. So if they are doing well, they could be playing three times a week for the entire season.
During the 'off-season', which lasts for 2.5 months from the end of may until mid August, there are super prestigious international tournaments. Most notably UEFA Euro 24 and COPA America 24 are both about to kick off and will each run for 3-4 weeks. The best players in the world will have the privilege of representing their countries (not their clubs) in these tournaments to determine the national team champions of Europe and S America.
EDIT: Also, bare in mind, qualification for these tournaments is decided in international matches which are played during the regular season (yep, more football squeezed into the exhausting annual schedule)
I mean there *are* playoffs. Promotion in the English leagues has a playoff element - and in some other european countires, there also can be relegation ppayoffs where a team in a.league below plays a team from the league above to sort a promotion/relegation spot
A club is an association owned by all their registered members. These clubs join national and international public federations to compete in leagues and tournaments through a qualifying process. In US you have a private business league that owns several privately owned franchises. It's a total different system, one is originally based in competition and the other one in the show product.
Clubs aren’t necessarily owned by the members though, that s just a rule in Germany (and even there the exceptions of RB Leipzig, Wolfsburg, Bayer Leverkusen and Hoffenheim), other than that teams can be sold and are mostly privately owned with only a few other examples (the big Spanish teams, the big 4 in Portugal etc), he will misunderstand if he just reads your comment. But yeah, they don’t have to be approved by the one professional league for expansion to play like in the US, they register with a federation and play their way there. By the way, it is funny that the Americans explicitly ban collective ownership (you can’t have more than 32 owners and one of them must have at least a 30% share in the NFL for one) and yet America still has a member (also called socio from the Spanish word for member) -owned team, the Green Bay Packers because they were already owned by the community before the rule came into play
@@edi0157 FC Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atletic de Bilbao are also owned by fans.
@@montxogandia I know, that s why I said big Spanish teams. Atletico to be fair isn’t but I kept it vague because I wasn’t sure if there are others than these that I knew of. Looking it up, Osasuna is also fan owned, idk who owns teams like Real Sociedad at a cursory search though. I know Valencia is owned by Peter Lim and all for example
@@edi0157 Mate I mean Athletic Club from Bilbao, they are also owned by 43,699 fans.
@@montxogandia I know, I was saying that Atletico Madrid isn’t so my phrasing can be misleading (“the biggest Spanish teams” are usually considered Atletico, Real, Barca) but I did know about Bilbao and had them in mind when I made the original comment. We really are talking past each other lol
10:58 the US has the Open cup. MLS(1st division) USL(2nd division) and lower compete. There is no promotion/relegation in the states. And unfortunately MLS decided to pull most of there teams from the tournament bc of a “congested schedule”, even though the Open cup has been around for 100 years in this country.
What is a club? How is a club founded? Let me give you an example. Imagine a group of people who support the Palestinian cause and meet twice a week. One day to protest and another to plan the next steps. The group slowly begins to grow. One day one of the members decides to invite the rest to a barbecue after a meeting. Someone brings a football and they start playing. They decide to get together to play once a week among those gathered for the cause of Palestine. They continue to grow and realize that they have a good football team, so they decide to enter an amateur tournament. They name the team Palestine and ask the other protesters for a contribution to buy the equipment. They win some tournaments, it gives them visibility in some media. The group for the cause of Palestine decides that this publicity is convenient for them. Now the group is large enough to finance itself with everyone's contributions and they decide to get land where they can hold their political meetings but also so that the team can practice and continue winning. It is also a great place to have barbecues. In the nearby town there are people who are interested in the team and begin to encourage them, others want to have barbecues there, a few are also interested in the political cause. Everyone contributes monthly to use the facilities. The Palestine Football Club has been born. They join the country's football association and begin to compete in their leagues, dreaming of reaching the first division.
I cant believe theres people alive who dont know these basics 😅
Good to know that Americans ain't the only ones who are ignorant 😅
Well usually they played from late August to early June, but for example every 4 years there is the World Cup (in July), the European Championships (in July), the Olympics, etc...
An Italian player who play for a top team can play around 70 matches in a season (38 in Serie A, 13 in Champions League, 7 in Coppa Italia, 7 in the World Cup, 7/8 with the National Team, 2 supercups and a couple in the FIFA Club World Cup)
Very simplified. Missed out a lot !
Entry into the Champions League is determined by league finishing position from the previous year. Some countries get more allocation depending on the leagues' standing throughout Europe (some countries have been massively more successful than others). Lower ranked nations will have to go throught qualifying rounds to even reach the 8 groups of 4 described in the video (the format changes next year).
There's also lower ranked European competitions called the Europa League and Europa Conference League - again entry is determined by league finishing position.
You can also gain entry by winning one of these competitions yourself. Conference champs enter the Europa League and their champs enter the Champions League for the following year. The holders of the Champions Leauge are also re-entered, however they commonly also qualify by their league position, which can then give an extra spot to the next team in their countries' league.
Winners of 'The Cup' tend to also get a Europa League spot
This is a way over simplified version of European football. This does give me an idea for a special video I could do for my birthday in September where I go into more detail. Thank you so much for the inspiration.
Clubs are organisations people can join to play a particular sport/game and get formal training. They often have several teams playing at different levels in the leagues. There are clubs for everything and they are usually non profit and not expensive to join and run by club members themselves, but bigger clubs can be more profit oriented and have professionnel structures and of course, in professional sports, it's all about money.
Professional athletes in Europe usually start playing in their (small) local club and work their way up to clubs with professional teams.
FIFA is the World, Uefa is Europe, Concacaf is North & Central America, ie, including the US of A 🙂. There are also Confederations for South America, Africa, Asia and Oceania. They all hold tournaments to decide the Club champion for their Area annually, for their champion National team every four years and also for qualification for National teams to the World Cup every four years (on a different four-year cycle to the Area tournaments). Lots of football indeed, Tyler....
And allthough commercially not being a big deal, you might add that there is also a World Cup for club teams. The winners of each continental championship qualify for this tournament. It has been held each year since 2005, but I understand they're going to change the format to a tournament in every 4 years in 2025, with more teams (I don't know all the details yet).
Big club usually host game against semi-pro club and give their the revenue of the night.
Recently Paris Saint German (French biggest club) played a club that was made out of 4 small village making a full team. They hosted them and gave them the revenue of the night, semi-pro's small club said it was enough to finance their jersey, travel and small city stadium for nearly a decade
Just for reference - Germany has the biggest football association in the world with over 7 million registered members.
The german league system has 13 different levels with 1st and 2nd Bundesliga at the top and the leagues on the county level at the bottom. In total there are over 2000 leagues playing each season with over 30.000 teams compete in this system and that include all ages, gender and amateurs to full professionals.
One thing to note about the Champions league: not all leagues have the same quality, so the English, Spanish or German league for example get multiple teams that can participate in the Champions league, often without even having to play any qualifying games, whereas smaller leagues like the Romanian league for example that only get one team that is able to participate and even then they have to play a few qualifying games against teams that are in the same or similar situation.
The UEFA league rankings determine how many teams from a certain league get the chance to participate, so the better ranked your league is, the more of your teams get a chance to play on the biggest stage. It's pretty much like an ELO rating in chess.
So if your only team participating does well one season, you might get another team to represent your league the following season.
Most European teams are actually sent by a club, an association of people, who pay a monthly or yearly membership fee. While in some leagues, it is now common that a single investor owns all of the club, or the club has sold shares on the stock market, German soccer for instance has the 50 percent + 1 rule, where 50 percent plus one vote on the board is reserved to paying club members.
Also, certain leagues are structured different to others.
For example:
1) The EFL championship (and leagues below it) allow the top 2 teams to qualify automatically for promotion to the league above, and the 4 teams after those 2 will play in a bracket style elimination tournament over the last promotion spot. These are the playoffs finals and generally garner a lot of attention.
2) I know the Scottish Premier League is also structured differently to the English leagues. While each team plays each other twice (home & away), the top 6 teams play each other once more and the bottom two teams play each other once more.
Also, some countries have multiple cup competitions going on at once (in England there's the FA Cup & Carabao cup). Winning 2 competitions is referred to as a double, 3 a treble & 4 a quadruple.
On rare occasions, because there are further club cup competitions across the world, it is also possible to win a sextuple, which to my knowledge has only been achieved twice (correct me if I'm wrong on that one).
Well, i don't know why but this was very interesting to see, like a toddler learning about words😅
Club is the umbrella term for the team, however each club can consist of several teams such as women's and youth teams.
He left out the Supercup Match between the League Winner and the Cup Winner in each Country.., Plus the European Championship (Champions League) Winner also plays with the South American Final Winner of the Supercup there in an Spetial Match, just to see wish team is best from both Continents.. hehe.. 😁 P.s. It never ends.. does it !!! .. Etc.. etc..
12:45 to explain the "club" (or at least how I understand the diffrence between club and team): A team is they players, trainers, staff and so on. The club is the "bigger picture". We (the fans) can become part of the club with buying memberships and having season passes to all the home games. Bayern Munich f.e. has 360'000 club members (I think most in the world) and Barcelona 150'000 club members.
The cup of the country. Give option to the low level teams to achieve reputation and maybe the players to be watched by elite teams. Also the champion team receives money.
At the League, as high as you arrive as a team you receive more money to the team. Furthermore, the "champion" teams gives the chances to take part at the most prestigious tournament of Europe that is the champions League. There is also Europe League, the european tournament, for 5th and 6th place BEST team of each country. That tournament doesnt have the reputation of champions League but gives option to grow and give profits to the teams.
The cup for large teams is usually like a training session, where rotation players play. But for small teams it is an important game to get money from the public.
oh boy i thought your brother was hard to watch but this just takes it to another level :D
the schedule for top football teams these last few years has been insane, a team could play a league game on a saturday, have to play a champions league knockout game on tuesday, and then play a cup game the upcoming saturday, the deeper into the season the more intense these schedules become
@2:11 Not all countries play during winter (August-May) The Nordic countries, except Denmark, would be playing in snow, so they usually start the season in March or April.
And remember the most important fact ..... football was invented long before 1992 when sky TV loaded it with money !!!!
This whole video ‘Woooow’ ‘Whoaaaaa’ ‘OMGGGG’
Coming soon:
"I didn't know America will be hosting the World Cup in 2026."
"I didn't know America hosted the World Cup before, in 1994."
Etc.
America is jointly hosting the T20 Cricket World Cup this month; I bet Tyler doesn’t know that either
@@juliarabbitts1595
He probably has no idea what cricket is! 🤣
@@juliarabbitts1595 It's already started. Game 2 starts in 5min. I'm just killing time till the 1st delivery. Go PNG.
Ah, with the legendary John Harkes of my team (Sheffield Wednesday) and the rock guitarist, bearded Alexei Lallas, who scored in a game against England at Wembley if I remember right. The U.S. beat England that day.
the World Cup in 2026 Copa america in 2024
A club is kinda like a parent company, with a number of teams as subsidiaries. A major club will have a professional men's team, a professional women's team, professional reserve team, a number of youth teams (at least one for each age group).
Also the video does not mention this, but there is also a system for transfers of adult players. A bit like trades in NFL, but it is one way, with one club offering to pay another club money for their players. Many smaller clubs rely on yearly player sales to keep their books balanced.
And a lot of clubs have different sports with similar football systeam (youth intake, women's teams, etc)
In Germany third to first division are fully professional. That means 20 + 18 + 18 = 56. The fourth tire has five regional leagues 18 teams each, together 90 teams. That are mostly semiprofessional teams. Below that you have various amateur leagues. All in all you find 11 tiers of football leagues with hundreds of teams. Theoretical a team can move up through all the tiers.
The team that wins the first division, Bundesliga, is Deutscher Meister, the team that wins the trophy (Pokal)l, Pokalsieger.
There are also European wide competitions, like the Champions League, top tier, or Europa League and Conference League, second and third tier. You get into this competitions by your standing in your home country's league or winning your home country's trophy.
UEFA is the European Football association.
FIFA is the world football association.
The Champions League format, which has been the same since 2003/04 is set to change from next season onwards. I personally think it’s an unnecessary change as players already have a demanding schedule but an explanation of the new Champions League format is here: ua-cam.com/video/nKYLmBEMTYw/v-deo.htmlsi=NPkiD2mgnLLoSQDs
In the UK, the top 4 clubs can potentially win 4 trophies: The Premier League Title, The League Cup, The FA Cup and the Champions League. There have been 3 occasions where a team has secured 3 trophies in one season, but never all 4. Manchester Utd 98/99 - Premiership, FA Cup and Champions League, Manchester City 18/19 - Premier League, League Cup, FA Cup and Manchester City 22/23 - Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League. These are considered among the best teams ever to play in the UK. In addition (and because I'm a Liverpool fan) - Liverpool in 00/01 won a cup treble of the League Cup, FA Cup and Europa League (This is the tournament below the Champions League). Not quite on the same level, but an impressive feat as it meant they played every game available to them in that year. They also came close to a quad in 21/22, losing the Premier League by 1 point to Manchester City, and being beaten in the Champions League Final by Real Madrid.
There's club (i.e., team) football and national football (i.e., countries). The football world is divided (roughly) into continents. So there's a North American Cup (the US soccer team plays it), a South American Cup, a European Cup, an African Cup, and an Asian Cup. These competitions are typically played every two years.
And then, of course, there's the World Cup (played every 4 years), where the best nations in the world compete with each other.
This summer (starting next week) there's the European Cup and the South American Cup. The competitions last about 3 weeks.
Tyler... if I may make a suggestion for a topic. Canadian Football verses American Football and some of the whacky history of the CFL (Canadian Football League). Saskatchewan's Eagle Keys breaking a leg, then returning to the game to snap the winning touchdown. Or the "Fog Bowl”. Or the Ottawa Rough Rider's star quarterback running and passing on Sunday, then going back to being the local high school Principal on Monday.
I figured you uploaded this when you did because the UEFA Champions League Final was yesterday (fyi Real Madrid of Spain beat BVB Dortmund of Germany).
The main takeaways from the video for someone coming from an American sports mindset is understanding 3 things:
1) the lower divisions or tiers have completely unrelated teams (though some countries do allow reserve teams to play in the lower tiers they don’t dominate), and the top tiers are all fully professional- not amateur or “farm” teams like in US sports. (there’s also different tiers at the continental level - ie 3 in Europe - but let’s not get too far into the weeds as part of this introduction)
2) the concept of Promotion/Relegation between the tiers - and that this continues through all the levels (not just between 1st & 2nd but also between 2nd and 3rd, 3rd & 4th, etc., etc.). The specific details aren’t important (ie the number of teams is it 1, 2, or 3 - sometimes there’s a playoff for some or all of the spots while others or all are automatic, etc.), and the details change between countries and between levels. The main ideal is that it’s not fixed membership and there’s a meritocracy where the best teams will rise over time to the top, at least in theory (money can prevent or skew it in practice, but in theory it’s a clean meritocracy)
& 3) understand that most teams have to compete simultaneously in multiple competitions over the course of the year. The domestic league, the domestic cup, & continental competitions are the big 3 but also various smaller trophies and competitions like a league cup, regional/state or lower-tier league or cup, if you did well last year maybe also a “super cup” or 2 (domestic & continental), & maybe even an intercontinental or world competition. Plus during the season your best players can get called away from the club for national team duty (ie World Cup, Olympics, Continental Championships, etc.). Obviously not every player can play in every game so you need a deep bench. It’s a very crowded schedule with little downtime, but most of those people complaining about ‘fixture congestion’ and ‘player fatigue’ are the same ones who keep adding or pushing for more exhibition/friendly tours or additional minor competitions. They want those because they bring in money unlike say the official FIFA international tournaments (Intercontinental cup and Club World Cup). On the other hand it’s hard to criticize when FIFA is also doing tons of corrupt money grabs left and right. Money is what allows the sport to be soo big, but it’s also completely destroying the game.
And on top of that, you have the women's game which is organised on similar lines but the leagues are usually smaller and relatively fewer teams are fully pro (this is changing though).
Current men's champions are newly crowned Real Madrid, while for the women it's Barcelona.
I lived in Europe a few years back. Tyler, you are incarnating the vibe.
no matter how much GOALS you archives as team in case of winning there are just 3 for you in the list .
in theory:
1:0 = 3 points for the 1-goal- team
12:0 = 3 points for the 12-goal- team
0:0 = 1 point for both teams
22:22 = 1 point for both teams
1:0 = 0 points for the 0-goal-team
12:10 = 0 points fo the 10-goal-team
OMG... you still have so much more to learn. Yes the US had a tournament for all professional and amateur teams. It's called the US Open Cup.
TBF I dont think this is exclusively a European thing, the same model has been adopted by the respective national and continental associations globally except the North America. Although each national and continental associations have their own way of doing things. For instance with relegation and promotion in Germany that finish 17th and 18th the Bundesliga automatically go down to the 2 Liga likewise the teams in the 2 Liga that finish 1st and 2nd automatically go up to the Bundesliga. But for the team that finish 16th in Bundesliga they play the team that finished 3rd in the 2 Liga home and away. But in England the bottom 3 of the Premier League automatically go down, but in the Championship (England’s second league) the top 2 automatically go up, places 3-6 go to the play offs. Team 3 plays team 6, team 4 plays team 5 home and away in the semi final, winner of the final goes up. They say the Championship play off final has the biggest prize in football (maybe in sport) as its worth £140 million.
There’s also the UEFA Europa League and UEFA Conference League. The Europa league sort of absorbed the cup winners cup which was a similar idea to the Champions league but the winners of domestic cups. The conference league is quite a new addition to the calendar for smaller teams as the “top 5” leagues tend to dominate the Champions league and even the Europa League though occasionally a team like Ajax will produce an amazing season. Historically the only way to qualify for Champions League (when called the European Cup) you had to be the domestic champions of the your country the season before (or be the defending European champions) but now some countries champions don’t automatically qualify for it. Teams from Belgium, Scotland, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark etc. often struggle to qualify through the preliminary rounds (English, German, Italian, Spanish and French teams automatically qualify maybe Dutch and Portuguese too?) and they filter down into the Europa or Conference but that’s quite a complicated process for me to explain 😅.
There’s also matches that act like the seasons curtain opener. The league champions will play the cup champions often in a 1 off match at neutral ground, Germany the cup champions host it. If the same team is the champion of both it will be a runner up instead. Similarly there is the UEFA Supercup as one off match between the Champions legaue winners vs Europa league winners at a neutral ground.
And finally the champions league winners also qualify for the FIFA Club World Cup, where each of the Continental Champions play in a mini tournament, but the European and South American Champions go straight to the Semi Final. FIFA are really trying to push it as a major event but the European teams tend not to care if they win or lose it.
FIFA is the world governing body
UEFA is the European governing body, each continent has its own.
With in UEFA you have the national football associations. The FA (England), DFB (Germany), the SFA (Scotland) FFF (France)
The term club for soccer teams comes from the fact that most were associations, that is, the team belonged to its members (fans who pay an annual fee to belong). Currently there are only a few clubs that remain that way (because many have been bought by large companies or Asian capitalists)
Football club is just a football team. A club, for example one you may have heard of - Manchester United, buys the best players they can afford and play together in all league and cup games.
The World Cup is different in that to play for your national squad you need to be from that country. So the USA national team is are all Americans, but clubs in Major League Soccer can buy and play footballers from anywhere.
This year in Germany a cup a 3rd division team kicked out three first division teams. Among them Bayern, who have won the league 11 , years in a row, and Frankfurt who have been crowned European champion few years before. Actually in this year's cup, there was only one first division team left among the last 4 in the semifinals
Okay... So typically, a team will play 1 match from their league, 1 match from their cup and maybe 1 match from Champions league (or Europa league/conference league) PER WEEK.
It's not a strict number, but 1 league match will always be there every week and only 1 league match. Cup and Champions league will depends on team by team basis
For a League, the entire last day of the season is "the final". All teams playing their final match, some teams needing to win, others needing other teams to win, or lose, to help them avoid relegation or to grab a final UEFA spot for the following year. It's a country-wide, league-spanning final day of competition. It very much has a "final" atmosphere, but across a whole nation rather than just one stadium and a couple of cities.
FYI there are tournaments where countries play against each other there’s the Euros which ran from June until July this year in Germany which Spain won against England. You had Copa America hosted in the US this summer which was won by Argentina. So off season for many players will be short this summer because the season starts up again around the 8th of August and they have pre season from the end of July to get fully fit again and ready for the new season. The final of the euros was on the 16th of July and the season starts again less then a month after so it’s a short turn around but the Euros happens every 4 years and so does the World Cup. So next World Cup will be in 2026 and the next Euros will be in 2028 but there is the Club World Cup next summer in the US. Great for football fans but I’m sure some of the players are tired of it. It’s a bit too much on their body in my opinion
12:46 The term "club" is for the team, In merica they are usually referred to as "franchises" probably because in the US sports are more of a business first sort of deal (instead of sport first as in Europe) at the pro level, that is why in the american pro sports leagues (NBA, NHL, MLS? etc.) there is no relegation in american leagues usually or at least to my knowledge and instead teams or rather franchises are sold to different cities at some instances, that would be unheard of in most of europe at least, because the teams/clubs are very local to a place/city/town and have been for ages.
Every country has a lot of professional teams, for example only in Italy there are 100 professional football clubs, 20 in the first division (Serie A), 20 in the second (Serie B) and 60 in the third (Serie C), over these there are 166 semi-pro football clubs in the fourth league (Serie D) and some other hundreds - for a total of 12127 - in the other amateur leagues (Eccellenza, Promozione, Prima Categoria, Seconda Categoria and Terza Categoria), this without counting the youth leagues. A team can pass from Terza Categoria to Serie A by continuing to win. For example Chievo Verona in 1968 was in Seconda Categoria and after 7 promotions arrived in Serie A in 2001, in 2006 played the qualification round of the Champions League.
When we say "club" we refer to a team that is not a national team. So a club is Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal, etc. While national teams are Spain, France, Italy, Germany, England, etc.
So basically, the Champions League is like the World Cup but for European "clubs", instead of national teams, and it happens every year, not every four years.
Fun Fact, England has 4 professional leagues, with 92 teams total followed by 10-12 leagues that mainly consist of part time or even amateur clubs. There are also 2 domestic cup competitions every season. FIFA runs the game on a global scale, UEFA runs the European part, then each country has their own organizations that run the leagues. Anything the domestic organizations decide will only affect their leagues, anything UEFA decides only affects European teams and anything FIFA decides affects EVERY team.