We've been learning about different Sports that aren't nearly as popular in the United States as other places. We have been dancing around learning about European Football and today we decided to learn not the rules, but the differences between European Football and American Sports, the leagues, how player's contracts work and much more! The comparison to American Sports that we know and love was SO helpful here! We got a lot out of this video and are now itching to learn more! We hope you enjoy this episode, we really did!! We certainly are starting to understand the MASSIVE appeal of Football in other parts of the World! Thanks to each of YOU for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!
Hi Natasha,Hi Debbie, Australia is on the same level of the USA which soccer isn't the number one sport played here at the top level although it's the number 1 choice for Australian children sport up to around 10years of age when they then start playing AFL ,Rugby league or Rugby union which are our main winter sports Soccer dropping to 4th most popular here.Maybe in the near future you may want to check out Rugby league which is the main sport in the states of NSW and Queensland, Russell Crowe (actor) is the part owner of the South Sydney Rugby league club which has a history of over 100 years👍
ok, so let's be clear, a game is not finished as and when a referee wants it to, there are rules.. A game is a total of 90 minutes total playing time (similar to NFL, the clock is stopped when there are game interruptions, but it is only on the referees watch) There are two halves (rather than four quarters) of 45 minutes each, at the end of a 45 minutes half any stoppage times are added by the referee so you may see a half run for some minutes past the 45 minutes for that half.
I think you would enjoy watching The Beauty of Football - Le Breton. It is a compilation of some of the worlds top players, games and important goals and really conveys the passion all over the world for the game.
Also, it would get stagnant if one team moved? It does make it more exciting. My home team were in the premiere league...but we're in Wales? We always get left out!😊 love your show girls.....love & light 🏴🌻🦄
The quadruple hasn't been done in England yet. The treble has been a couple of times. Relegation and promotion are absolutely inherent to the game if football. The hope of the potential for success versus the fear of the failure of relegation is what drives every club every fan at every level EVERY YEAR! The 3 up 3 down rule for relegation/promotion is to make sure as many games as possible stay as competitive as possible. Either you are challenging for the league or euro qualification or to avoid relegation, it means lots of games really matter.
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow leicester City are the closest team to win the premiership from nowhere in 2016... they were 5000 to 1!!! They went from the 2nd tier team (championship) to the premiership one year, then the next they won it!! Even on your ellen show, she announced this miracle to her audience (it's on UA-cam if u want to see it).. leicesters entire team cost the same as 1 player in many of the top clubs!!! Amazing
My team, Wimbledon, managed to go from what is now the National League up to the Premiere in 10 years between 1976-86, and won the FA Cup in 1988. It can be done, and that's why we have promotion and relegation. Its a race and its exciting!
Similar, my team Inverness Caledonian Thistle, took 10 years from their entry into main Scottish leagues to climb 4 leagues to Scottish premier from 1994 to 2004. Currently languishing about mid table in the Scottish championship league (one below Premier) cos we are a bit shit. :)
Relegation and promotion are just as important as winning the league itself. Some of the most exciting games are when a team has 90 mins at the end of the season to completely change the destiny of the club, the elation when it happens, fans running onto the pitch in celebration....and the flip side, you don't win that one game that means you stay where you are for another season and have to do it all again next year, absolute desolation for fans and players alike. Excitement levels are off the page with this system, love it! 👍
Relegations are important because this way all teams are competing for something for the whole season till the very end of It and this goes for the lower leagues too , they have promotions to the top ranking leagues and May even qualify for an International Cup , night not be the Champions League, but still an International Trophy won against your peers So basically the First ten teams compete ti qualify for an International Cup, the other ten to avoid relegation everybody has something to win or something to lose, there's no comfort zone
FC Bayern Munich won the historic sextuple in season 2019-2020. Also beating FC Barcelona by the biggest margin in a UCL quarterfinal ever, 8-2! You must check out that match, it was sensational.
Relegation is an integral part of football no way I would ever want to see it stopped it keeps games real some of the toughest matches for the top teams to play are against teams that are battling for there lives down near the bottom.
They tried to start a European league with the big clubs recently. There was no relegation and the supporters demonstrated instantly against it in huge numbers. Within a day the clubs had to back down. Clubs involved were Liverpool,Man UTD, Juventus, Barcelona and other huge clubs. We do not want a closed league without promotions and relegation cause it will kill the lower league clubs. The system now is healthy.
what is implied in the relegation system, everybody being able to start a new team in the lowest league, children starting to play for some team, etc, but was not specifically mentioned: many/most fans are loyal to their regional team and follow it up and down through all leagues and relegations (some may also be fans of another big team from the first league to be able to attend and watch/cheer better games in bigger stadiums or on tv). No matter how improbable, the theoretical ability to go all the way up or all the way down makes it so interesting. And lots of games are favored not because of one big team being the best and winning, but because of it (hopefully) being better than the team of the neighboring village/town/region. without relegation, and instead having a limited number of slots into which a rich sponsor buys in (who even might relocate a team that he bought to another city), would make it boring and reduce the emotional loyalty to "your" local/regional team. ps/example: a player from a low league became a legend and famous for decades in his village/region, when he could do a goal against the best top league team when they played one such cup game and the small team lost (as expected). but it was an event to remembered by generations, and it also got the small team new equipment from the entry fees when they usually played only in front of a few dozen local fans.
The concept of promotion and relegation is awesome cause it creates stories and drama. The biggest one just happened last season when Luton Town, one of the founders of the English Premier League back in 92, got promoted back to Premier League after spending 3 decades in the lower leagues even all the way down to the National league. I'm no Luton Town fan but can't wait to see them in the Prem next season!
The one thing it seems confuses most Americans about football is that they are clubs not franchises, most teams were originally formed as social clubs, the same as cricket clubs or darts clubs, the local pub can have a Sunday league club that plays against other local pubs. So the idea of relegation and promotion is what makes teams try to succeed every season, the clubs earn more when they get promoted and lose money when relegated, players have the insensitive to improve every season. Clubs who get promoted to the premier league get millions of pounds from the English FA. Brentford is an example of a small team from the lower leagues that has made to to the top of English football, and that is the same thing Ryan Reynolds wants to happen to Wrexham. The TV show, welcome to Wrexham is a great insight on how a small club in Wales that was bought by a couple of wealthy Hollywood celebrities fell in love with the game and the club are helping the club and the community. Football is all about the community not the franchise owners, but maybe that socialist thinking doesn’t work for Americans. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Having been a Wolves fan my entire life, I’ve seen both promotions and relegations in that time. I wouldn’t change any of it. Not only because it maintains the idea that the game is a meritocracy that rewards success and punishes failure, but because the heartbreak is just as much a part of the game as the ecstasy. The feelings and memories of those so neat yet so far moments stick with you more than the glory for most fans, certainly that I’ve spoken to. This season aside, Wolves have been on a decent run over the last 5 years, but the memory that sticks with me in that time is blowing a 2-0 lead in an F.A. Cup semi-final, losing 3-2. I still look back on that day and wonder “what if”. Or the day we missed out on automatic promotion on the final day of the season, blowing an 11 point lead with 10 games to go, and being overtaken by our big local rivals. These memories are an intrinsic part of the fan experience I think, and they make you appreciate the good times while they last. Also, it’s not strictly true that we don’t have playoffs. We do, they’re just in the 3 divisions below the Premier League. In the leagues with promotion, the top 2 will go up automatically, while the teams finishing 3rd through 6th will go into the playoffs. 3rd play 6th and 4th play 5th. They’ll play home and away, and the scores combined over the two games. So if 3rd play 6th, and the team in 3rd wins the first game 2-0 and the second game finishes 1-1, the overall result will be the team in 3rd winning 3-1. The winners from each of the semi-finals will go on to the final at Wembley, and play a one off game, with the winner getting the third and final promotion place. This is immensely valuable if the prize is a place in the Premier League, as that will gain the winning team at least £100m for the upcoming season.
My team Manchester United are in with a shout of A quadruple this season. Premier league title Carabo Cup (League cup) FA Cup Europe League. Not too shabby. However the prestigious quadruple would be Premier League winners League Cup FA Cup and UEFA Cup (European Cup or Champions League winners)
Relegation and promotion are the lifeblood of football, it is what creates some of the most insane moments.... I support Charlton and in 25 years ive experienced 4 promotions and 5 relegations and seen my team play at 75000 all seater stadiums and more recently due to decline much more modest 2000 stadiums, still love them and one day we will come back up, because the systems there
@@karenclover4948 I was born in 86 so I missed all of the drama of the 80s losing the old valley and groundsharing at Selhurst, I know a lot of good people stuck by the club at the time
I know all a about relegation being a Barnsley FC fan, we seem to make it hard for ourselves and don't help ourselves by selling our players to other teams for peanuts , plus making costly mistakes when playing the game itself. Other than that I'm very happy with the history we have created from playing in the Premier League / Premiership in 1997 - 1998 season, beating Liverpool and Chelsea in the same FA Cup back in 2008 ,but unfortunate losing to a flukes goal by Joe ledley for Cardiff (and I was at wembley , gutted when we lost that game). As for the recent game between (us) Barnsley VS Sheffield Wednesday I can't helpmbut feel hard done by, I mean I don't mind losing, as long as it's fair. HoweverI can't help but feel we were cheated out of promotion as we dominated them even with 10 players, that was a definite penalty as gregory made clear contact with kitchens foot and that red card wasn't a red card , it was a yellow at the most, because Phillips didn't make contact with gregory. Gregory got straight back up a after rolling around on the floor, tapping the floor like his leg was broken , but then getting back up straight away after getting Phillips sent off 🙄. Even Jeff Stelling , former Sheffield Wednesday player Clinton morrison, reading's player Jobi Mcanuff even admitted it was a penalty for Barnsley and NOT a sending off for Philip's and (us) Barnsley aswell. The ref and officials in var box were clearly biased and obviously wanted wednesday to win and gain promotion in that game imo. Anyway can't wait to see Wednesday get battered in championship next season, while (we) Barnsley attempt to get promoted to the championship again and Wednesday get annihilated and relegated at bottom of the championship.
I moved to the UK in 2006... for the football and Live music scene in pubs lol. Best decision ever, now have a family here. :) Worked in pubs and as a bouncer in night clubs. Enjoying every second of it.
Relegation and promotion is an integral to all the world football leagues (apart apparently from US football). It adds to the excitement of the leagues and if you are a smaller town like mine being promoted can be a big thing - even if it is just in the lower leagues
As an example on the South Coast , in 2011 my team Portsmouth were in the FA cup final , Bournemouth and Brighton were in Leagues 1 and 2 in the intervening years Pompey went bankrupt ,were rescued by the fans and were almost relegated out of league 2 . We are now currently in League 1 whilst our neighbours are Premiership clubs . The thing to appreciate is that most clubs are 100 years plus and generations of families have supported them through good , and had times - once you support a club it's usually for life .
Pompey were in the FA Cup Final in 2010, the year they got relegated. In 2010-11 and 2011-12 they were in the Championship. The latter season season they were playing newly promoted Brighton, and of course Southampton (who had also come up from League One and were immediately promoted to the Premier League). Funny you forgot them😅 Still, if things carry on as they are and you lot can put a winning run together and reach the play-offs, you might be playing Saints again next season.
Typical Pompey. Doesn't mention the Scummers, their nearest neighbour, won the FA Cup ( beating Man U) while in the old 2nd div (Championship) and have remained (just about) in 1st (Premier) most of the time since.
Promotion and relegation is the best! I remember our team was promoted to the Premier League and the whole time had a party as if we’ve already won! And the fighting to stay in the league makes it so much more exciting! Great video as always xx
There are ten levels in the English football pyramid. It’s almost impossible to move from near the bottom to the Premier League, especially as another factor is that clubs need to have certain facilities like a stadium with a certain capacity. It’s not unknown for a club to be rejected for promotion because their ground (another term for pitch+stadium) is not acceptable
There are actually 20 levels, the top 10 levels are administered nationally by the FA (Football Assciiation) and levels 11 to 20 are administered by the regional football associations. As you say its unlikely that teams can move from level 20 to the premier league, however Wimbledon did rise from a low point of level 8 to the premier league and Accrington Stanley when reformed moved from level 10 and are now level 3
Like a lot of non league teams have 4G so the weather doesn’t affect their games being postponed as much… but the football league only permits grass - so the likes of Sutton (if I remember) and Harrogate have had to groundshare whilst their real ground changes to grass
@@GroinStrain_ That all makes perfect sense. I am all for Non-league grounds making their money as Eastbourne staged 4 games on that kind of pitch,the other weekend. and other things can be organized there however those pitches are ok for that level but it's not the same feel or game as grass and I am in my 7th decade of attending matches and remember the dreadful QPE and a few others having Omniturf which was farcical as no tackling could be done and the ball bounced like a rubber ball.. lol
24:34 FC Barcelona have won the Sextuple in 2009 (meaning 6 trophys in 1 season) by winning La Liga(Spanish league) Copa Del Rey(Spains version of FA Cup) Spanish Super Cup (winniers from the previous season battle it out) UEFA Champions League(big boys from all Europe) UEFA Super Cup (one off game against the winner of the UEFA Europa League) and the FIFA Club World Cup (several of the best clubs in the world battle it out). Also in 2020 Bayern Munich have done it too. FC Barcelona and Bayern Munich are the only teams that have accoplished that.
The bottom 3 in the prem go ' down' in the other leagues the top 2 gain automatic promotion to the next league. The next 4 teams have a mini league competition against each other and the eventually winner goes up. The play off finals are played at Wembley, which means lower league teams get a chance to play at the national stadium.
I think 'European football' is a bit misleading. It's 'World Football'. I know you were focusing on European leagues but football is a universal language. Apart from anything else you need nothing to play apart from something on the ground to mark the goals. In the UK this is often coats or schoolbags. A friend who was in Kenya saw kids playing barefoot and using a plastic bag filled with paper scraps and tied to be more-or-less spherical.
Why would they only relegate 1 team in a 20 team league? That'd be almost the same as having no relegation at all. It'd take half a decade, at least, to kick clubs who underperform, all the while taking the same time to promote clubs who deserve a shot in the big leagues. It's not so much the bottom 3 from the big leagues that matter, it's the top 3 from the feeder series that people sometimes get excited about, especially when the division 2 has a top 3 fight all season long. Seeing them go up and how they fare against the big teams is a show in itself, not to mention the opportunity they get. As for the relegated, too bad. Perform well in division 2 and you're back into the big league next season, if not, it's not meant to be.
The fact that 3 teams get promoted and 3 teams get relegated is awesome, cause if a team is in second or third place and the first place team is far witho many points ahead and the other teams have no chance to win the league, they still have to battle to the end to try to be between the 3 top teams to get promoted...the same happens with the last teams. If a team is in 17th place in the league, it still have to battle a lot to win points every round to not become in the 3 last teams and not get relegated. This system makes every single game in any moment at the season counts a lot and be more exciting.
I'm still getting my head around about leagues that relegation is not a threat and promotion is not a possibility?!?!??! If a team goes to hell, why should they stay up and if a team blossoms why should it be held down?
Climbing to the Premier League from nothing is possible but not unheard of. Wimbledon FC started out as an Amateur team. After a lot of success in Amateur football they went professional in 1964 starting at the Southern League which is two leagues below the National League that the guy in the video mentioned. So seven or eight leagues down from the Premier, although at the time it was just the first division. They won the Southern League three times from 1974 to 1976 they were promoted to what is now called League Two. Promoted to what is now League 1 in 1978, then spent the next few years moving between League one and two. They then advanced back to League One in 1983, then got another promotion to the Championship the following year. They remained in the Championship the next year, and then having reached Third Place, Wimbledon FC reached Division One (Now the Premier League) in 1986. From Division four to Division One in four years was crazy. When the real Premier League was created in 1992, Wimbledon was still there.
Relegation as a threat ensures the top teams don't get too lazy and take their positions for granted. It also gives the lower level clubs a hope of breaking through to the next level.
Having three teams move up a league or down a league creates a lot of drama. The stakes are really high considering the difference in money the teams receive from one division to another, it can make or break some teams entirely. Would be great to see you do more football stuff on the channel!
The FA Cup is an exiting competition to watch. Especially when Non League teams beat top flight teams. Plus if that happens it brings in more money to these smaller clubs.
Barcelona from Spain & Bayern Munich from Germany are the only two teams in history to win the sextuple or all 6 trophies available in a single season. Barca did it in 2009 & Bayern did it in 2020
Liverpool came very close to winning the quadruple last season. They won the FA Cup and League Cup but lost in the final of the Champions League and came 2nd in the Premier League.
One thing not touched upon in this video is the fifa club world cup,the best clubs from each region(ie the best from uefa,acl,afcon ect) all play in another tournament to decide who the best club in the world is
Bayern Munich 2019/2020, did the Sextuple. After the season's Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal, they qualified for next season's DFL-Supercup, which they went on to win. Additionally, as a result of winning this season's UEFA Champions League, they qualified for both the UEFA Super Cup as well as the FIFA Club World Cup for next season and went on to win both of those competitions as well. Collectively, winning all six competitions available in the 2020 calendar year, namely the 2019-2020 season's Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal, and UEFA Champions League followed by the 2020-2021 season's DFL-Supercup, UEFA Super Cup, and FIFA Club World Cup was a feat known as the "sextuple" and this was one of only two times the feat had been accomplished in the history of European football.
Dude, the closest thing here in Brazil would be for a team to win the State Cup, the Brasileirão (the National Championship), the Copa do Brasil (the Brazilian Cup, formed by the teams who had won the Brasileirão), the Libertadores (South America championship, the equivalent of the UEFA Champions League, where the winners of each country's National Championship of South America play), the World Cup, and the same team be the one representing the country to the Olympics ALL IN THE SAME YEAR! Dude, what your guys eat? Whey? Meat? The souls of the damned? Because that is WILD!
You asked how quickly teams can move up through the divisions. Currently in the Premier League is Brentford. They were promoted to the Premier League for this season. Five years ago they were in division 1 which is the lowest fully professional division in english football. In fact, five years ago they were almost relegated into the National League. They survived on the last day of the season. Also in the video that you watched the creator said that there were around 700 football clubs involved in the FA Cup. In actual fact there are close to 1,000.
Points system 3 for a win 1 for a draw. promotion gives Teams that are doing very well to go up a league. Relegation gives teams at the lower end something to fight for.
In 2009, Guardiola's Barcelona won six trophies - La Liga, Copa del Rey, Champions League, Spanish Super Cup, European Super Cup and the Club World Cup - becoming the first team to achieve that.
The greatest UCL robbery of all time. They wouldn't have won it all if they didn't cheat Chelsea in the ucl semi finals. GOAT team, incredible robbery.
As an Englishman, when I discovered that your teams couldn't be relegated I was baffled. What are the stakes? Where are the risks? Given America's fundamental dream of anyone being able to rise from the dirt to the highest heights, it makes no sense to me that sports are so... safe, in that regard. Plus, the incessant scoring does make for short term enjoyment but goals being so hard to score in football builds and builds tension, often to unbearable levels. And if you don't feel that tensions, then you're not truly invested in any particular team. Once that switch is flicked and you really care about winning, OMG the stress and anguish and joy and ecstasy it can create. To understand this, look for England vs Greece in the World Cup qualifying stages 20 years ago (2001), when we were losing and only needed a draw to qualify for the tournament (it wasn't even the ACTUAL tournament!?!) - it went right to the wire at 2-1. We just couldn't score. Then, in the 92nd minute (so into added time, thus the ref could blow the whistle and end the game at any point), David Beckham, the captain, the most influential player in that game who seemed to be trying to win all on his own, gets a free kick... and scores it, putting us through. Orgasmic result. ua-cam.com/video/Fo5y3Ydyhtc/v-deo.html Or the 1999 Champions League final. Manchester United (my team - no doubt saying that will trigger abuse by other commenters!) were on for the treble. We were 1-0 down for the whole game. Looked like we'd finally been beaten in the biggest game of the season to a really weak Bayern Munich free kick we should never have conceded. But, in the 91st minute, again in injury time, Teddy Sheringham equalised. We all thought we were in for 30 mins of extra time and maybe penalties, but, in the 93RD minute, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer scored the winner. I was up on the table in the pub screaming with ecstasy. ua-cam.com/video/1yON3ySblWQ/v-deo.html And once it gets you, you're hooked. Just look at Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney after buying Wrexham, trying to throw money at it to progress, to WIN, because now they care. It is the beautiful game. Love the channel - as a Yankophile, it's so cool to see Anglophiles in the US. x
A lot of English clubs have their own song that fan sing . Wolverhampton Wanderers have 'Hi Ho Silver Lining ( and its hi Ho Wolverhamton') Liverpool have' You'll never walk alone' West Ham ' I'm forever blowing bubbles.' Manchester City ''Blue Moon'. You get the idea .
We would never get rid of relegation and promotion - it is a pillar of football culture in Europe and it means that clubs at all levels get fan bases excited/nervous and have great stories to tell. The reason 3 teams go up and down rather than 1 (it's actually different in some cases - in England, 4 teams move up/down between the 3rd and 4th division and 2 teams move up/down between the 4th and 5th) is because the level of football played by the best teams in one league is roughly the same as the worst teams in the league above, and it's pretty much always multiple clubs at that level rather than just one team completely dominating a league or sucking more than anyone else.
Don’t forget at one time almost all villages in England had a village football team and they all played in some form of league. This basically was how Football started in a semi professional form, you play in a village team make a name locally for yourself which gets you noticed by the local town/city club agents and you get an invite to show what you can do. The city/town team nowadays tend to have their own Football academies usually from the age of maybe 6 to 10 with children who have some quality that agents can root out and bring forward to the team managers. There is also the schools route where schools play in the schools league, locally then area and then at county level, at this point the agents can root out any talent from that source. This is how football stars are found and nurtured, of course this is also the same for Rugby players and also cricket players in the Uk it’s ubiquitous within each discipline. How is this ladder to stardom accomplished in the US?
Debbie was correct about the offside rule. My team is Norwich City and we bounce between the premier league and the championship which is the next one down from the premier league.
Here in the UK there will be 13 promotions needed, if you started a new team and took it to the top. It's even less likely to do it even if you won every year, as you'd need to upgrade your facilities, home ground etc... to meet each leagues standards as you grew as well
The quadruple has never been done in England but my team Liverpool came very close last season winning the FA cup and League cup, losing the premier league by 1 point to Man City and getting beaten by Real Madrid in the Champions League Final.
Celtic from Scotland won the quadruple in 1967 and ten of the players in the European Cup Final were from Glasgow and the other was from about 20 miles from Glasgow (no substitutes back then)
there have been occasions in the English league when sides have gone from the 4th tier to the top in consecutive years. Leicester City were in the 3rd tier (League One) in 2009 and were premier league champions in 2016!
My favourite match ever is when Liverpool FC overturned a deficit against Barcalona. In the Champions league knockout stage the teams play each other home and away. Barcelona beat Liverpool 3-0 at their grind the Camp Nou. Everyone expected the return match to be more of the same but Liverpool turned it around to win 4-0. I know this match is on UA-cam.
offside rule for ladies: ) You’re in a shoe shop, second in the queue for the till. Behind the shop assistant on the till is a pair of shoes which you have seen and which you must have. The female shopper in front of you has seen them also and is eyeing them with desire. Both of you have forgotten your purses. It would be totally rude to push in front of the first woman if you had no money to pay for the shoes. The shop assistant remains at the till waiting. Your friend is trying on another pair of shoes at the back of the shop and sees your dilemma. She prepares to throw her purse to you. If she does so, you can catch the purse, then walk round the other shopper and buy the shoes. At a pinch she could throw the purse ahead of the other shopper and, *whilst it is in flight* you could nip around the other shopper, catch the purse and buy the shoes. Always remembering that until the purse had *actually been thrown* it would be plain wrong to be forward of the other shopper. sry girls 😇
OMG!!!!.....I've supported Lincoln City since I was 12!...67 now. I used to live nearby and for one season I went to every home game, Thank you, Natasha...made my day! xx
I’m from Lincoln, used to go in the 70’s with my mum to all the home games….we used to be a great team…still support my home city team as does my 82 year old mum
Sorry to keep on about this but we would never get rid of relegation and promotion as they are quite important, it adds excitement and ambition to the teams involved as well as the teams above and below them teams just above the relegation zone in a league will fight like hell to preserve their position as will the teams below otherwise what is there to play for at the end of the season, many teams would be just going through the motions. in the lower league, teams just below promotion will also play like hell trying to gain those extra points, again adding excitement and ambition It is not the end if a team is relegated to the lower leagues. For example Glasgow rangers were relegated out of the main leagues, but over the following 4 years they fought their way back into the top division again and actually went on to win the leageue competition that year.
I think the main point with relegation and promotion (going up a league) is that the higher in the league structure you are, the more money is to be made both from TV revenue and from sponsorships, and literally butts on seats. Looking at the statistics for butts on seats alone in the 21/22 season (so July August 2021 to May 2022) the premier league had 15 millions butts on seats, the championship had 9 million, league one 5½ million, league 2 2½... and of course as a team higher up you can also charge more per seat... So for a smaller team to go from league 2 to league 1 is likely to double their attendance, so more butts on seats, bigger sponsors and so on To counter this when players go up leagues they want more money, so the wage bill goes up accordingly. Why three teams? Well it's actually more complex than that. In the premier league the bottom three teams go down to the championship at the end of a season. That's after 38 games played. Simple right, but for the teams coming UP it's a lot more exciting. The team that wins the championship and the next team below them goes up automatically. They play the last game of the regular season and go off on holiday with a bottle of bubbly. But the next FOUR teams in that league then go to the playoffs which have two semi finals and a final, straight knock out. You win you go through, you lose you go home, season over. The finals of these playoffs are on a bank holiday weekend in the UK in May so the sun's usually out and these are the last league games of the season so everyone's on a high and probably drunk... The team that wins the playoffs goes to the premier league The same happens (give or take) for all the lower leagues so there is always one or more teams going up and one or more going down. You might have heard of Wrexham Town who Deadpool bought a few years back. The league they're in has a one up one down policy so literally ONLY the winners go up, no second chances Last point... on the FA cup. Yes there are 700 teams or whatever but the cup is structured so that there are several "preliminary rounds" and it's only non-league clubs which play (so the ones outside of the professional game, not in a league you saw on screen in the video). Then next few rounds the "league" teams come in, but not the premier league. Those teams don't come in til round 3 (so the seventh game overall). Why is this important? Goes back to sponsors and bums on seats. The way the FA cup teams are chosen to face each other is a random draw, so every round they put a load of numbers on balls and draw these out of a bag, so in theory it's completely random and you could have two premier league teams facing off (a really big game) or you could get a really small club, against Liverpool or Man United. Which club gets drawn first is at home, so they get the bums on THEIR seats Imagine you're a tiny club with an attendance of 2000 a week, and then you get Liverpool... suddenly you've got TV cameras, thousands of people wanting to watch Liverpool, all the sponsors wanting to be at your club even for one week... That's a hell of a pay day for the smaller club. And of course if you manage to scrape a win your clubs in the papers, your players go up in value and you could end the season selling off a few players for bigger money than you normally would get A good cup run, with a few big home games can keep a club flush with money for a few years...
Giant killers is the term for smaller Teams doing well .League two team Grimsby won against Southampton premiership side earlier in the week to go into next round of the FA cup.
About promotion and relegation, yeah i think its cool cuz after watching mls for a while i feel like the "madness" and i'd guess the overall competitivness fizzles out after mid-season where all the playoff spots are kinda set, while in other leagues like the premier league for example, by giving 3 relegation spots already guarantees you 6 teams competing to stay in it until the end of the season. Also the way teams qualify to the champions league or the europa league (in premier the top 4 teams qualify to CL and the two teams below them will go to the Europa league) gives you a "it isn't over 'till it's over" kind of feeling, its awesome.
Oh Natasha and Debbie I wish you could have watched last nights Europa League between Manchester United and Barcelona. Was unbelievable the whole place was bouncing. Next up a cup final on Sunday with Newcastle united.
The great football manager Pep Guardiola once said “it’s not a sport if success is guaranteed” so yeah relegation is very important. It’s what makes football great and competitive. I don’t get why American sport has zero competition and no failures it’s absurd
Think of it as you said. You grew up in a very sports oriented family. Imagine say there was an American Football team from like Richmond, Reno, Virginia beach, any smaller city or town (there are many lol) and those people love their team and where they are from. If that team was able to work its way up to the NFL through merit it would mean so much to the people. Thats what happens when teams come up through the leagues. Its a great system.
I think the 3-4 team relegation/promotion system makes the whole season more exciting, most teams would be the middle of the table so if only one team moves you can be in the safe zone much earlier in the season rather than having to fight til the end. On the otherhand it's not completely devastating for a lower team to get relegated to the 2nd division, there's still some money to be made there, they still have access to the league cup, then there's 3 spots for them to take in order to get back to the top tier the next season. Anyway, it's usually the same teams that get relegated and promoted every other season, but once in a while one of those teams will break out and displace a top team and it just makes an amazing story.
Hi ladies, another great reaction and so impressed that you like learning!! The threat of relegation and the hope of promotion is one of the most powerful drivers of the game of football and should remain.
The bottom 3 are classed as in the relegation zone, End of season the bottom 3 with the lowest points get relegated down. Premier League winners is first past the post. In the lower leagues the top 2 get automatically promoted up, the next four teams play each other in a knockout competition to find the 3rd team to be promoted. Sometimes goal difference can decide who gets relegated or promoted if the points are the same with 2 or 3 teams.
I'm from the UK, it's a bit interesting because I've seen some teams from division2 work their way to the premiere over a few seasons with a good manager, and some surprises of teams who have been in the premiere league for a long time end up in division 2 over a few seasons usually over poor management and money problems
The biggest teams in Europe recently proposed a super league which would have included many of the top teams - and it would _not_ have had relegation or promotion. This caused general outrage among fans. As a side-note - a striker is the same thing (almost) as a centre-forward. The position just behind the centre-forward has a variety of names, depending on just what they do. #10, #8, inside-forward(that's a bit old-fashioned now), playmaker, etc. The players who operate just behind the striker tend to be the most famous and admired (though centre-forwards are popular as well). Messi, Zidane, Maradona. Maradona would be closer to being a pure striker, Zidane closer to being a midfielder. This is a hugely complex area, and there can be endless disagreement about this position - which is often, strangely, referred to as playing in the hole.
THE BEAUTY OF FOOTBALL is a video you will LOVE but read the bottom captions for the significance of some of what you see like Leicester City winning The Premier League at World Record odds of 5,000 to 1...lol
The 'off-side' rule. It's simple and it allows for a better game... . When one kicks the ball forward (towards the goal (any point past the halfway line)), and the receiver of the pass was closer to the goal than the last defender it is deemed as an offside play.
I love relegation as a concept, would absolutely not get rid of it and I’m a Notts County fan, arguably the oldest professional league football team (founded in 1862), were relegated out of the professional leagues essentially a few years ago but are now really close to getting back into League 2 (bottom tier of professional football in England). Their biggest rival in that regard this season is Wrexham, who have become huge jn the US recently - highly recommend watching the series Welcome to Wrexham for a look at the lower end of football, arguably the grass roots of the sport
I might be able to give you a point about the logic of relegation and why people like it... In US pro sports the teams are actually a company, an enterprise, own by one rich guy or a group of rich guys. They basically pick a city to do business at and buy a spot in the tournament that is created for teams owned by rich guys and every year they make money. In the soccer world they are usually not only teams but clubs. Traditionally, this soccer clubs where founded a hundred years ago by a guy or a group of guys and were joined by the neighbors. So the club is own by the community, have strong ties to the city or that part of the city and they grow from there. So the team is not in your city, It IS the city's team (They never move away, they may promote local talent and the members have a say in the decisions). As rich guys have move into soccer more and more clubs are being bought by private firms but they would never move a club to a different city because their fan base is local and the other cities already have their local teams. So, there are hundreds of this clubs in a soccer country. To find which one is the best they have tournaments but since there are so many of them... they are basically divided in tiers based on their performance the previous year. So, you can actually cheer for your local team in a competitive tournament and set your own goals. Even in the top divisions there are clubs that play for titles, there are the ones that play just for the privilege to finish in a better position than last year or better than that other team they hate and some teams that just play not to be relegated every year and that is their thrill. Every club has to fight always for every thing they get. Your team might not be in the fanciest division but they are there and eventhough it sucks when YOUR team gets relegated it is also great when YOUR team wins even when it is only for the opportunity to play with bigger boys next year...
Great video,it explains European football very well, just one thing that frustrates me is how he pronounces (and also spells) Premier League as Premiere League.
Hiya David, I hope Derby County get out the horrible hole there in at the moment, I forcasted the night before Derby County won at Old Trafford in 1997, 3-2, Paolo Wanchope scored a worldy goal, if you can remember
Honestly some people make dumb comments lol I am 67, been watching "soccer" all my life and have never seen the stretcher come on 6 times in a game, in fact I rarely see it at all, its a really rare event and only when there is serious injury. So please ignore this comment people.
Offside is when the attacker is closer to the opponent goal line than the last defending player at the moment of the teammate kicking the ball to pass to them, that's the simplest gist of it. Offside is a bit more complicated than this, because the rule is officially the last 2 defending player including the goalie, but the situation where the goalie isn't the very last player is rare, but does happen when the goalie tries to come out, fails, the attacker can go past him and when he passes only one defender is closer to the goal line, since the goalie is far. Otherwise, offside rule can be overwritten in a couple of ways, like when they throw the ball in after the ball left the pitch, offside can't be applied. When the attacking player is still on his own half of the pitch, offside can't be applied. When the attacking player is further from the goal line than the ball itself, offside can't be applied. And to make it more annoying, nowadays only blocking the view of the defenders or "disturbing" the defenders while you were closer to the goal line than the last defender at the moment of the kicking is also an offside, which is very hard to determine when it is appliable and when isn't. But yeah, this is the offside rule, kinda complicated, but when you watch the matches, it's not that bad.
When he said, you can't run to the bathroom or get a drink during a match, it will always remind me of Germany vs Brazil in the 2014 world cup. My mate went the shop down the road about 20 minutes in, he was gone literally 10 minutes, it went from being 1-0 Germany to 5-0, he was fuming he missed 4 goals. His own fault for going in the first place.
I absolutely would not get rid of relegation. If you're low down in the league, you're fighting for your life. If you do get relegated, you want to bounce back straight away if you can, but there are no guarantees. There have been fairy tales like just this season. A few years ago Luton Town, were in the old division one until they were relegated in the season right before the PREMier, not premEER ;), League was founded and ultimately dropped all the way down to the National League (amateur level and for many years called the Conference). They have now been promoted to the Premier League after climbing up five divisions in less than ten years I think. It can just make for great stories like that. Relegated teams can profit from so-called parachute payments when they go down, and teams striving for promotion have the incentive of increased income from playing in the league above, especially the Premier League which is popular worldwide. In a nutshell I'd say it's about risk versus reward. In the midst of all this is so-called mid-table obscurity. It means you're just in the middle of the table and not fighting for the title or promotion, nor fighting to avoid relegation. In that regard, being in the bottom few places can be more exciting.
The Premier League is the top league..In that it’s got the most money and it’s the most well-known and supported worldwide And the top managers. The other leagues just don’t have the money.. but they are very well supported also. Take care guys. ❤from England 🏴🇬🇧
And yet the PL teams - despite all their money - are still underwhelming in European competitions. Yes, you have the occasional Chelsea or Liverpool CL win but La Liga has been absolutely clear in Europe for the last 20 years and Bayern was and would still be the favourite against pretty much all PL clubs. The PL is absolutely the best league, no debate about that, but the most successful clubs are from different countries. Real Madrid with 14 CL titles, Barca who have been dominating world football for 7-8 years in the early 2010s, Bayern, serial EL winner Sevilla. Purely speaking about titles Chelsea is the only club that is part of that group. And most people still wouldn't consider them 'elite'
@@schwaiger1995 The premier league recruitment is just poor compared to other leagues and they seem to get quality players for so much cheaper. Also, players from our own nation suffer from the ‘English tax’ .
Why would you get rid of relegation? It pushes the worst teams to be competitive all year long and it leads to some big upsets, especially towards the end of the season, where they become desperate and beat the top teams, which leads to a roller coaster at the top of the table as well. it also gives smaller teams a chance to play at the top level and sometimes you get huge surprises where a small team like Leicester City will be promoted and then go on to win the Premier League.
I've got to point out that throughout that video the narrator was referring to the Premiere League, it's not the Premiere league it's the Premier League without the trailing 'e'. Also, in the UK it's pronounced like 'prem-ee-uh'. As for promotion/relegation it's a fundamental part of Football. A few years ago some of the top European clubs talked about forming a European Super League for the top clubs in Europe without promotion/relegation and fans across Europe were absolutely furious. The whole promotion/relegation adds so much to the game, it makes far more matches important and in theory allows any team in the country to make it to the top or crash down the leagues. For example, in the early nineties Oldham Athletic were in the Premier League. Since then they've been relegated multiple times and are now playing in the National League. Conversely in the early 2000's AFC Bournemouth were struggling in League Two and now they're in the Premier League.
As a Norwich City supporter, we get to celebrate promotion one year and bemoan relegation the next. Makes things much more interesting than being a middle of the table club. Plus, we get a trophy for winning the league (Championship) so we have more silverware than many clubs😂
For lower league and non league teams in competitions like the FA Cup it's more about good cup runs and the money they can earn from that such as TV money, winning each round and if you get a tie against a top opponent especially away from home you get half the gate receipts so half the match ticket money for that match. So to use an example my club has a 42'000 seater stadium. A lower league side gets drawn against us in the FA Cup. They would get half the money from the match day tickets so say £30 × 21,000. That's £630'000 that club is going to get just for playing that game. Even If they get beaten badly. That could fund a club easily for a while at their level
promotion to the next league is very aspirational,and gives hope to the fans. Relegation on the other hand could spell disaster and is very much to be feared. It's snakes and ladders,and I should know,having supported Newcastle United all my life! Love your show btw
Offside rule explained (simple): A player is offside if, when one of their teammates passes them the ball and they were standing in front of the ball, in their oppositions half, and behind the last defender, they interfere with play. Interfere with play often means touching the ball, but can sometimes mean blocking a player's sight (especially the goalkeeper's) or attempting to touch the ball but missing. More intricate: Actually, the rule states the 2nd last player on the opposing team, not the last defender. It is often assumed that the goalkeeper was already behind the ball, but there are rare situations where this is not the case and can catch out players. Also, the time of the offside is specifically the last point at which your team mate touched the ball, so after the ball has been played, you can run into an offside position to gather the ball and it is OK. Offside is also measured from the closest point to the opponents goal that is allowed to touch the ball (essentially, everywhere except your hands and arms, but also could include loose pieces of clothing if you're particularly unlucky). It is also a common misconception that a "backwards pass" cannot be offside. This is not true, if the pass was backwards but the player getting the ball was forwards (and still meeting all other criteria for offside), then it would still count. An offside also cannot occur directly from a goal kick, corner or throw in regardless of the rest of the rules. Any time the opponent intentionally plays the ball, you cannot be offside until one of your teammates touches the ball. You can steal the ball from on opponent in an offside position and it will be legal. If a player leaves the pitch without the referee's authorisation, they are still considered to be in play and therefore can count either as a last defender or, when coming back on to the pitch, be caught offside.
For the National League in England, I recommend the show 'This is Wrexham'. Disney + over here in the UK but I'm not sure which service in the US (think it's Hulu Plus). Documentary series about Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney buying a fifth tier club. It really explains it well and shows off the culture and running of the club. Follows along the seasons as well.
I'm from Wrexham North Wales and love Wrexham fc I recommend you watch welcome to Wrexham, on hulu I think it is or Disney+ over here , Our owners are Ryan Renalds and Rob mcelhenney,
A player is offside when there are fewer than two opposing players between him / her and the goal line, when the ball is passed.. The goalie is usually one, so it is usually when the attacking player is in front of the last defender.
Ryan Reynolds bought Wrexham FC which plays in the National League. From near bankruptcy Reynolds made them into championship material which is on the verge of gaining promotion. From an unknown local team he made them recognisable internationally. Maybe you should watch the docudrama Welcome To Wrexham and possibly you'll start supporting Wrexham FC.
Good morning, girls. Lovely to see you although I don't know what I'm doing up so early! I thought when I retired I'd be able to lie in bed in the mornings, especially when I've had a very late night, but that hasn't worked out. At least this is a good start to the day. 🙂
Curioso que en el video no mencionó (aunque sí mostró en el mapa) a Conmebol, que es una confederación importante tanto por los países campeones del mundo,como por los jugadores históricos importantes que han salido de ahí.
It's 3 partially to prevent a yoyo effect where 2 teams just keep switching positions with each other, But mostly because the battle for last place isn't really that competitive, So by adding 2 for each end suddenly at least 6 clubs are involved adding a more dramatic flair to it.
I always thought relegation and promotion would fit well with the US's idea that wherever you come from in the US you can aspire to the highest offices in the land. Odd that!
I can not recomend the show Welcome to Wrexham enough, it is a bit like a real life Ted Lasso. It is a documentary about a team in the lowest division of UK football that gets bought by actors Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds. Trust me it has so much heart and highlights the highs and lows of being a fan of lower leauge football
Luton Town were playing in the Football Conference League (5th tier of English football) in 2013/14 and were promoted the Premier League this year. It took them 9 years. 2013/14-2022/23.
Great video ladies,you need to check out the ladies game,the USA are one of the top teams but England are not far behind,they are so skilled and as good,in my opinion as the men.
I actually think the Lionesses may be better know. We won the Euro’s and in out last friendly we beat the USA ladies. Let’s see what the World Cup brings this summer, exciting times.
Respectfully disagree. The women's game is the women's game. Perfectly OK in its own right. However, imho, it does not measure up to the men's game. 😉😁
@@pedanticlady9126 watch the lionesses v Belgium the other night passing was fantastic so much skill,and they don't fall over holding their face when kicked in the leg e.g grealish,Messi ect
@@stevejohnson9234 It ain’t as fast paced though so hence less exciting. I did watch England throughout the Euros though and i thought they’d play very well but because women’s football is relatively new, i just don’t think the skill and player quality is up to par yet.
Delusional Statement Steve! Women’s Football is proven to be no better than school boy football! Stats, Media & UA-cam Clips prove this time & time again, as follows: Current World Beaters; the USA Women’s Team lost 5-2 to FC Dallas Under-15s Boys Team back in 2017, whilst being ranked Number One in Women football Rankings! In 2021, Brazil’s National Women’s Team lost 6-0 to a U-16 Boys Team in a shortened one hour game (could have been a lot worse if a true 90 minute game been played)! In 2019, in England, a team of very Over-Weight Beer-Bellied Ex-Men Players beat the then current Crystal Palace Professional Women’s Team 1-0. Then there’s the Very Successful Arsenal Women’s Team (58 Major Trophies inc European & World Club Trophies), well their 1st Team lost 5-0 to a U-15 Boys Team only in Aug 2022. Man Utd Women lost 9-0 to Salford boys team in 2018! Back in 2017, Australia’s Women Team lost 7-0 to U-15 Boys side Newcastle Jets, whilst being ranked 5th in the world of Women’s Football! All clips/full video’s can be found on UA-cam, and there are many more video clips where young amateur boy players show their skills against Professional Ladies Teams or individuals! The Standards are NOT the same, and probably won’t ever be! Men have been playing Football for over a Hundred Years in England! It’s why Millions tune in to watch Football on TV, or go to games around the World! The Men’s Game sells tickets and is the Product! Women’s football, needs to grow! Yeah, it’s great for getting girls interested, but in no way can it compete with the Men’s Game! Just like the US WNBA, it can’t compete in audience or pay to the Men’s league! *Do I think Women’s Football has gotten better in the last 10 years on all continents? Well yeah of course it has! But it’s STILL no-where near the Men’s! The Standard of Teenage Boys football in Established Footballing Countries like: England, Spain, Italy, Germany, Portugal, France, Croatia, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico etc to name a few, is so much higher than in any of the Current National Women’s Teams! And that’s a FACT! Just watch a Men’s Game, & then instantly watch a Woman’s Professional Game and you’ll see the difference straightaway! Unless you are Steve with blinkers on, that is!
On the relegation thing dont think too much about the trams being relegated going down and try imagine wat it feels like for the teams getting promoted going up...and also watching ur team go from the bottom and slowly worjing themselves back up and being a fan and witnessing all that over the course of 10...20...sometimes 30 years...also watchingteams that wer at the top decline and get relegated and slowly working their way back up...thats why we love it so much
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Hi Natasha,Hi Debbie, Australia is on the same level of the USA which soccer isn't the number one sport played here at the top level although it's the number 1 choice for Australian children sport up to around 10years of age when they then start playing AFL ,Rugby league or Rugby union which are our main winter sports Soccer dropping to 4th most popular here.Maybe in the near future you may want to check out Rugby league which is the main sport in the states of NSW and Queensland, Russell Crowe (actor) is the part owner of the South Sydney Rugby league club which has a history of over 100 years👍
ok, so let's be clear, a game is not finished as and when a referee wants it to, there are rules.. A game is a total of 90 minutes total playing time (similar to NFL, the clock is stopped when there are game interruptions, but it is only on the referees watch) There are two halves (rather than four quarters) of 45 minutes each, at the end of a 45 minutes half any stoppage times are added by the referee so you may see a half run for some minutes past the 45 minutes for that half.
Promotion and relegation is vital in football. Every team in England is part of the pyramid. It rewards success and punishes failure.
I think you would enjoy watching The Beauty of Football - Le Breton. It is a compilation of some of the worlds top players, games and important goals and really conveys the passion all over the world for the game.
And you haven't covered the third great sport.....cricket.
Currently, the women s t20 world cup is being played in South africa.
The threat of relegation or the promise of promotion makes football more exciting!
Exactly. I'm a season ticket holder at a premier league club, but I also love the EFL.
Hiya Barty, years ago it was always Southampton that got away with it always on the last day, usually Matt Le Tissier, that kept them up
Also, it would get stagnant if one team moved? It does make it more exciting. My home team were in the premiere league...but we're in Wales? We always get left out!😊 love your show girls.....love & light 🏴🌻🦄
That excitement does become constant nausea when you’re in the relegation zone.
Ted Lasso described the American way of no relegation as dumb
One German team made it from the 5th league to the Top division in i think 10 years. And they’re now one of the top teams in that league
rassenball leipzig??
Hoffenheim!?
The magic of big money...
Union Berlin guys
Heidenheim my friends😉 same Manager then over an Decade. Now they try the first try in the Bundesliga and they dont do bad!
The quadruple hasn't been done in England yet. The treble has been a couple of times.
Relegation and promotion are absolutely inherent to the game if football. The hope of the potential for success versus the fear of the failure of relegation is what drives every club every fan at every level EVERY YEAR! The 3 up 3 down rule for relegation/promotion is to make sure as many games as possible stay as competitive as possible. Either you are challenging for the league or euro qualification or to avoid relegation, it means lots of games really matter.
This comment is super helpful and gives us perspective. Thank you!
"The quadruple hasn't been done in England yet." - Arsenal Women have done it.
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow leicester City are the closest team to win the premiership from nowhere in 2016... they were 5000 to 1!!! They went from the 2nd tier team (championship) to the premiership one year, then the next they won it!! Even on your ellen show, she announced this miracle to her audience (it's on UA-cam if u want to see it).. leicesters entire team cost the same as 1 player in many of the top clubs!!! Amazing
Manchester United completed the treble in 1999. That's the premier league title, fa cup, and the champions league.
@@neilgayleard3842. And what a season that was.
Sir Alex Ferguson the best Premier League manager of all time.
My team, Wimbledon, managed to go from what is now the National League up to the Premiere in 10 years between 1976-86, and won the FA Cup in 1988. It can be done, and that's why we have promotion and relegation. Its a race and its exciting!
It was unfortunate that you couldn't play in Europe due to the ban of English clubs competing at the time.
i did not know that. very impressive. thanks!
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@@paul73se but according to the scousers they "arent English" so why were we banned for their actions
Similar, my team Inverness Caledonian Thistle, took 10 years from their entry into main Scottish leagues to climb 4 leagues to Scottish premier from 1994 to 2004. Currently languishing about mid table in the Scottish championship league (one below Premier) cos we are a bit shit. :)
Relegation and promotion are just as important as winning the league itself. Some of the most exciting games are when a team has 90 mins at the end of the season to completely change the destiny of the club, the elation when it happens, fans running onto the pitch in celebration....and the flip side, you don't win that one game that means you stay where you are for another season and have to do it all again next year, absolute desolation for fans and players alike. Excitement levels are off the page with this system, love it! 👍
It is amazing how exciting it is, for me watching Birmingham City clutch up every season is very entertaining
@@internalpolitics461 this season you might not come 21st
Relegations are important because this way all teams are competing for something for the whole season till the very end of It and this goes for the lower leagues too , they have promotions to the top ranking leagues and May even qualify for an International Cup , night not be the Champions League, but still an International Trophy won against your peers
So basically the First ten teams compete ti qualify for an International Cup, the other ten to avoid relegation everybody has something to win or something to lose, there's no comfort zone
FC Bayern Munich won the historic sextuple in season 2019-2020. Also beating FC Barcelona by the biggest margin in a UCL quarterfinal ever, 8-2! You must check out that match, it was sensational.
@Adrian Nicholson thank you
Relegation is an integral part of football no way I would ever want to see it stopped it keeps games real some of the toughest matches for the top teams to play are against teams that are battling for there lives down near the bottom.
That's to make the leagues more competitive.
Man City vs QPR 2012
Football* It is played all over the world, not just in Europe...
They tried to start a European league with the big clubs recently. There was no relegation and the supporters demonstrated instantly against it in huge numbers. Within a day the clubs had to back down. Clubs involved were Liverpool,Man UTD, Juventus, Barcelona and other huge clubs. We do not want a closed league without promotions and relegation cause it will kill the lower league clubs. The system now is healthy.
what is implied in the relegation system, everybody being able to start a new team in the lowest league, children starting to play for some team, etc, but was not specifically mentioned: many/most fans are loyal to their regional team and follow it up and down through all leagues and relegations (some may also be fans of another big team from the first league to be able to attend and watch/cheer better games in bigger stadiums or on tv). No matter how improbable, the theoretical ability to go all the way up or all the way down makes it so interesting. And lots of games are favored not because of one big team being the best and winning, but because of it (hopefully) being better than the team of the neighboring village/town/region. without relegation, and instead having a limited number of slots into which a rich sponsor buys in (who even might relocate a team that he bought to another city), would make it boring and reduce the emotional loyalty to "your" local/regional team.
ps/example: a player from a low league became a legend and famous for decades in his village/region, when he could do a goal against the best top league team when they played one such cup game and the small team lost (as expected). but it was an event to remembered by generations, and it also got the small team new equipment from the entry fees when they usually played only in front of a few dozen local fans.
The promotion/relegation system is healthy. The finances are a very unhealthy part of the system at the minute
@@stalfithrildi5366 But it's better than in the US, where the ownership are protected at all costs, hence no relegation and the salary cap.
The concept of promotion and relegation is awesome cause it creates stories and drama. The biggest one just happened last season when Luton Town, one of the founders of the English Premier League back in 92, got promoted back to Premier League after spending 3 decades in the lower leagues even all the way down to the National league.
I'm no Luton Town fan but can't wait to see them in the Prem next season!
The one thing it seems confuses most Americans about football is that they are clubs not franchises, most teams were originally formed as social clubs, the same as cricket clubs or darts clubs, the local pub can have a Sunday league club that plays against other local pubs.
So the idea of relegation and promotion is what makes teams try to succeed every season, the clubs earn more when they get promoted and lose money when relegated, players have the insensitive to improve every season.
Clubs who get promoted to the premier league get millions of pounds from the English FA.
Brentford is an example of a small team from the lower leagues that has made to to the top of English football, and that is the same thing Ryan Reynolds wants to happen to Wrexham.
The TV show, welcome to Wrexham is a great insight on how a small club in Wales that was bought by a couple of wealthy Hollywood celebrities fell in love with the game and the club are helping the club and the community.
Football is all about the community not the franchise owners, but maybe that socialist thinking doesn’t work for Americans.
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Having been a Wolves fan my entire life, I’ve seen both promotions and relegations in that time. I wouldn’t change any of it. Not only because it maintains the idea that the game is a meritocracy that rewards success and punishes failure, but because the heartbreak is just as much a part of the game as the ecstasy. The feelings and memories of those so neat yet so far moments stick with you more than the glory for most fans, certainly that I’ve spoken to. This season aside, Wolves have been on a decent run over the last 5 years, but the memory that sticks with me in that time is blowing a 2-0 lead in an F.A. Cup semi-final, losing 3-2. I still look back on that day and wonder “what if”. Or the day we missed out on automatic promotion on the final day of the season, blowing an 11 point lead with 10 games to go, and being overtaken by our big local rivals. These memories are an intrinsic part of the fan experience I think, and they make you appreciate the good times while they last.
Also, it’s not strictly true that we don’t have playoffs. We do, they’re just in the 3 divisions below the Premier League. In the leagues with promotion, the top 2 will go up automatically, while the teams finishing 3rd through 6th will go into the playoffs. 3rd play 6th and 4th play 5th. They’ll play home and away, and the scores combined over the two games. So if 3rd play 6th, and the team in 3rd wins the first game 2-0 and the second game finishes 1-1, the overall result will be the team in 3rd winning 3-1. The winners from each of the semi-finals will go on to the final at Wembley, and play a one off game, with the winner getting the third and final promotion place. This is immensely valuable if the prize is a place in the Premier League, as that will gain the winning team at least £100m for the upcoming season.
My team Manchester United are in with a shout of A quadruple this season.
Premier league title
Carabo Cup (League cup)
FA Cup
Europe League.
Not too shabby.
However the prestigious quadruple would be
Premier League winners
League Cup
FA Cup
and
UEFA Cup (European Cup or Champions League winners)
As a villa fan hello dingles agree with your comment entirely though
sorry for your loss lol
@@simonjones1238 man u will not beat city or arsenal to the title so you are not going for the quadruple
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Relegation and promotion are the lifeblood of football, it is what creates some of the most insane moments.... I support Charlton and in 25 years ive experienced 4 promotions and 5 relegations and seen my team play at 75000 all seater stadiums and more recently due to decline much more modest 2000 stadiums, still love them and one day we will come back up, because the systems there
Spent a lot of the Chalton supporters club in the 80's as my parents friends where supporters and stewards at the club
@@karenclover4948 I was born in 86 so I missed all of the drama of the 80s losing the old valley and groundsharing at Selhurst, I know a lot of good people stuck by the club at the time
I know all a about relegation being a Barnsley FC fan, we seem to make it hard for ourselves and don't help ourselves by selling our players to other teams for peanuts , plus making costly mistakes when playing the game itself. Other than that I'm very happy with the history we have created from playing in the Premier League / Premiership in 1997 - 1998 season, beating Liverpool and Chelsea in the same FA Cup back in 2008 ,but unfortunate losing to a flukes goal by Joe ledley for Cardiff (and I was at wembley , gutted when we lost that game).
As for the recent game between (us) Barnsley VS Sheffield Wednesday I can't helpmbut feel hard done by, I mean I don't mind losing, as long as it's fair.
HoweverI can't help but feel we were cheated out of promotion as we dominated them even with 10 players, that was a definite penalty as gregory made clear contact with kitchens foot and that red card wasn't a red card , it was a yellow at the most, because Phillips didn't make contact with gregory. Gregory got straight back up a after rolling around on the floor, tapping the floor like his leg was broken , but then getting back up straight away after getting Phillips sent off 🙄. Even Jeff Stelling , former Sheffield Wednesday player Clinton morrison, reading's player Jobi Mcanuff even admitted it was a penalty for Barnsley and NOT a sending off for Philip's and (us) Barnsley aswell. The ref and officials in var box were clearly biased and obviously wanted wednesday to win and gain promotion in that game imo.
Anyway can't wait to see Wednesday get battered in championship next season, while (we) Barnsley attempt to get promoted to the championship again and Wednesday get annihilated and relegated at bottom of the championship.
I moved to the UK in 2006... for the football and Live music scene in pubs lol. Best decision ever, now have a family here. :) Worked in pubs and as a bouncer in night clubs. Enjoying every second of it.
I've experienced the joys of promotion , the pain of relegation, the absolute craziness of last day survival. The enjoyment of cup and play off finals
Relegation and promotion is an integral to all the world football leagues (apart apparently from US football). It adds to the excitement of the leagues and if you are a smaller town like mine being promoted can be a big thing - even if it is just in the lower leagues
As an example on the South Coast , in 2011 my team Portsmouth were in the FA cup final , Bournemouth and Brighton were in Leagues 1 and 2 in the intervening years Pompey went bankrupt ,were rescued by the fans and were almost relegated out of league 2 . We are now currently in League 1 whilst our neighbours are Premiership clubs . The thing to appreciate is that most clubs are 100 years plus and generations of families have supported them through good , and had times - once you support a club it's usually for life .
Pompey were in the FA Cup Final in 2010, the year they got relegated.
In 2010-11 and 2011-12 they were in the Championship. The latter season season they were playing newly promoted Brighton, and of course Southampton (who had also come up from League One and were immediately promoted to the Premier League). Funny you forgot them😅
Still, if things carry on as they are and you lot can put a winning run together and reach the play-offs, you might be playing Saints again next season.
Typical Pompey. Doesn't mention the Scummers, their nearest neighbour, won the FA Cup ( beating Man U) while in the old 2nd div (Championship) and have remained (just about) in 1st (Premier) most of the time since.
Not the best comparisons they've never been in the fourth tier of the football league .
You are right I'm sure , shame about that one , best view and only defeat of the 6 times I've watched them at Wembley.
The did go down to League One at one point. That's also the only thing they've ever won, almost 50 years ago - serial trophy dodgers 😁
Promotion and relegation is the best! I remember our team was promoted to the Premier League and the whole time had a party as if we’ve already won! And the fighting to stay in the league makes it so much more exciting! Great video as always xx
Which team
There are ten levels in the English football pyramid. It’s almost impossible to move from near the bottom to the Premier League, especially as another factor is that clubs need to have certain facilities like a stadium with a certain capacity. It’s not unknown for a club to be rejected for promotion because their ground (another term for pitch+stadium) is not acceptable
Oh really???
The rejection hasn;t happened between the top 2 divisions though but ,maybe, further down. THere would be riots..lol
There are actually 20 levels, the top 10 levels are administered nationally by the FA (Football Assciiation) and levels 11 to 20 are administered by the regional football associations.
As you say its unlikely that teams can move from level 20 to the premier league, however Wimbledon did rise from a low point of level 8 to the premier league and Accrington Stanley when reformed moved from level 10 and are now level 3
Like a lot of non league teams have 4G so the weather doesn’t affect their games being postponed as much… but the football league only permits grass - so the likes of Sutton (if I remember) and Harrogate have had to groundshare whilst their real ground changes to grass
@@GroinStrain_ That all makes perfect sense. I am all for Non-league grounds making their money as Eastbourne staged 4 games on that kind of pitch,the other weekend. and other things can be organized there however those pitches are ok for that level but it's not the same feel or game as grass and I am in my 7th decade of attending matches and remember the dreadful QPE and a few others having Omniturf which was farcical as no tackling could be done and the ball bounced like a rubber ball.. lol
24:34 FC Barcelona have won the Sextuple in 2009 (meaning 6 trophys in 1 season) by winning La Liga(Spanish league) Copa Del Rey(Spains version of FA Cup) Spanish Super Cup (winniers from the previous season battle it out) UEFA Champions League(big boys from all Europe) UEFA Super Cup (one off game against the winner of the UEFA Europa League) and the FIFA Club World Cup (several of the best clubs in the world battle it out). Also in 2020 Bayern Munich have done it too. FC Barcelona and Bayern Munich are the only teams that have accoplished that.
The bottom 3 in the prem go ' down' in the other leagues the top 2 gain automatic promotion to the next league. The next 4 teams have a mini league competition against each other and the eventually winner goes up. The play off finals are played at Wembley, which means lower league teams get a chance to play at the national stadium.
I think 'European football' is a bit misleading. It's 'World Football'. I know you were focusing on European leagues but football is a universal language. Apart from anything else you need nothing to play apart from something on the ground to mark the goals. In the UK this is often coats or schoolbags. A friend who was in Kenya saw kids playing barefoot and using a plastic bag filled with paper scraps and tied to be more-or-less spherical.
Why would they only relegate 1 team in a 20 team league? That'd be almost the same as having no relegation at all. It'd take half a decade, at least, to kick clubs who underperform, all the while taking the same time to promote clubs who deserve a shot in the big leagues.
It's not so much the bottom 3 from the big leagues that matter, it's the top 3 from the feeder series that people sometimes get excited about, especially when the division 2 has a top 3 fight all season long. Seeing them go up and how they fare against the big teams is a show in itself, not to mention the opportunity they get.
As for the relegated, too bad. Perform well in division 2 and you're back into the big league next season, if not, it's not meant to be.
The fact that 3 teams get promoted and 3 teams get relegated is awesome, cause if a team is in second or third place and the first place team is far witho many points ahead and the other teams have no chance to win the league, they still have to battle to the end to try to be between the 3 top teams to get promoted...the same happens with the last teams. If a team is in 17th place in the league, it still have to battle a lot to win points every round to not become in the 3 last teams and not get relegated. This system makes every single game in any moment at the season counts a lot and be more exciting.
I'm still getting my head around about leagues that relegation is not a threat and promotion is not a possibility?!?!??! If a team goes to hell, why should they stay up and if a team blossoms why should it be held down?
Climbing to the Premier League from nothing is possible but not unheard of. Wimbledon FC started out as an Amateur team. After a lot of success in Amateur football they went professional in 1964 starting at the Southern League which is two leagues below the National League that the guy in the video mentioned. So seven or eight leagues down from the Premier, although at the time it was just the first division. They won the Southern League three times from 1974 to 1976 they were promoted to what is now called League Two. Promoted to what is now League 1 in 1978, then spent the next few years moving between League one and two. They then advanced back to League One in 1983, then got another promotion to the Championship the following year. They remained in the Championship the next year, and then having reached Third Place, Wimbledon FC reached Division One (Now the Premier League) in 1986. From Division four to Division One in four years was crazy. When the real Premier League was created in 1992, Wimbledon was still there.
Relegation as a threat ensures the top teams don't get too lazy and take their positions for granted. It also gives the lower level clubs a hope of breaking through to the next level.
Having three teams move up a league or down a league creates a lot of drama. The stakes are really high considering the difference in money the teams receive from one division to another, it can make or break some teams entirely. Would be great to see you do more football stuff on the channel!
The FA Cup is an exiting competition to watch. Especially when Non League teams beat top flight teams. Plus if that happens it brings in more money to these smaller clubs.
I'm am always amazed that the Americans call a game, where the players mostly carry or throw the ball and rarely kick it, football.
Barcelona from Spain & Bayern Munich from Germany are the only two teams in history to win the sextuple or all 6 trophies available in a single season. Barca did it in 2009 & Bayern did it in 2020
Liverpool came very close to winning the quadruple last season. They won the FA Cup and League Cup but lost in the final of the Champions League and came 2nd in the Premier League.
One thing not touched upon in this video is the fifa club world cup,the best clubs from each region(ie the best from uefa,acl,afcon ect) all play in another tournament to decide who the best club in the world is
Bayern Munich 2019/2020, did the Sextuple. After the season's Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal, they qualified for next season's DFL-Supercup, which they went on to win. Additionally, as a result of winning this season's UEFA Champions League, they qualified for both the UEFA Super Cup as well as the FIFA Club World Cup for next season and went on to win both of those competitions as well. Collectively, winning all six competitions available in the 2020 calendar year, namely the 2019-2020 season's Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal, and UEFA Champions League followed by the 2020-2021 season's DFL-Supercup, UEFA Super Cup, and FIFA Club World Cup was a feat known as the "sextuple" and this was one of only two times the feat had been accomplished in the history of European football.
Dude, the closest thing here in Brazil would be for a team to win the State Cup, the Brasileirão (the National Championship), the Copa do Brasil (the Brazilian Cup, formed by the teams who had won the Brasileirão), the Libertadores (South America championship, the equivalent of the UEFA Champions League, where the winners of each country's National Championship of South America play), the World Cup, and the same team be the one representing the country to the Olympics ALL IN THE SAME YEAR!
Dude, what your guys eat? Whey? Meat? The souls of the damned? Because that is WILD!
Ryan Reynolds' team Wrexham are in the national League at the mo.
You asked how quickly teams can move up through the divisions. Currently in the Premier League is Brentford. They were promoted to the Premier League for this season. Five years ago they were in division 1 which is the lowest fully professional division in english football. In fact, five years ago they were almost relegated into the National League. They survived on the last day of the season.
Also in the video that you watched the creator said that there were around 700 football clubs involved in the FA Cup. In actual fact there are close to 1,000.
League 2 (fourth tier) is the lowest fully professional league. A lot of the National League teams are also now professional as well.
Points system 3 for a win 1 for a draw.
promotion gives Teams that are doing very well to go up a league.
Relegation gives teams at the lower end something to fight for.
In 2009, Guardiola's Barcelona won six trophies - La Liga, Copa del Rey, Champions League, Spanish Super Cup, European Super Cup and the Club World Cup - becoming the first team to achieve that.
Possibly the best line-up ever!
VISCA BARCA!!! HASTA LA MUERTE!
@@zoroslost1199 Força Barça
Bayern has done it in 2020 as well
The greatest UCL robbery of all time. They wouldn't have won it all if they didn't cheat Chelsea in the ucl semi finals. GOAT team, incredible robbery.
As an Englishman, when I discovered that your teams couldn't be relegated I was baffled. What are the stakes? Where are the risks? Given America's fundamental dream of anyone being able to rise from the dirt to the highest heights, it makes no sense to me that sports are so... safe, in that regard. Plus, the incessant scoring does make for short term enjoyment but goals being so hard to score in football builds and builds tension, often to unbearable levels. And if you don't feel that tensions, then you're not truly invested in any particular team. Once that switch is flicked and you really care about winning, OMG the stress and anguish and joy and ecstasy it can create. To understand this, look for England vs Greece in the World Cup qualifying stages 20 years ago (2001), when we were losing and only needed a draw to qualify for the tournament (it wasn't even the ACTUAL tournament!?!) - it went right to the wire at 2-1. We just couldn't score. Then, in the 92nd minute (so into added time, thus the ref could blow the whistle and end the game at any point), David Beckham, the captain, the most influential player in that game who seemed to be trying to win all on his own, gets a free kick... and scores it, putting us through. Orgasmic result. ua-cam.com/video/Fo5y3Ydyhtc/v-deo.html Or the 1999 Champions League final. Manchester United (my team - no doubt saying that will trigger abuse by other commenters!) were on for the treble. We were 1-0 down for the whole game. Looked like we'd finally been beaten in the biggest game of the season to a really weak Bayern Munich free kick we should never have conceded. But, in the 91st minute, again in injury time, Teddy Sheringham equalised. We all thought we were in for 30 mins of extra time and maybe penalties, but, in the 93RD minute, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer scored the winner. I was up on the table in the pub screaming with ecstasy. ua-cam.com/video/1yON3ySblWQ/v-deo.html And once it gets you, you're hooked. Just look at Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney after buying Wrexham, trying to throw money at it to progress, to WIN, because now they care. It is the beautiful game. Love the channel - as a Yankophile, it's so cool to see Anglophiles in the US. x
A lot of English clubs have their own song that fan sing .
Wolverhampton Wanderers have 'Hi Ho Silver Lining ( and its hi Ho Wolverhamton')
Liverpool have' You'll never walk alone'
West Ham ' I'm forever blowing bubbles.'
Manchester City ''Blue Moon'.
You get the idea .
We would never get rid of relegation and promotion - it is a pillar of football culture in Europe and it means that clubs at all levels get fan bases excited/nervous and have great stories to tell. The reason 3 teams go up and down rather than 1 (it's actually different in some cases - in England, 4 teams move up/down between the 3rd and 4th division and 2 teams move up/down between the 4th and 5th) is because the level of football played by the best teams in one league is roughly the same as the worst teams in the league above, and it's pretty much always multiple clubs at that level rather than just one team completely dominating a league or sucking more than anyone else.
Don’t forget at one time almost all villages in England had a village football team and they all played in some form of league. This basically was how Football started in a semi professional form, you play in a village team make a name locally for yourself which gets you noticed by the local town/city club agents and you get an invite to show what you can do. The city/town team nowadays tend to have their own Football academies usually from the age of maybe 6 to 10 with children who have some quality that agents can root out and bring forward to the team managers. There is also the schools route where schools play in the schools league, locally then area and then at county level, at this point the agents can root out any talent from that source. This is how football stars are found and nurtured, of course this is also the same for Rugby players and also cricket players in the Uk it’s ubiquitous within each discipline. How is this ladder to stardom accomplished in the US?
Hiya Nick, like Cleator Moor Celtic and Workington Reds
My dogs would run on the pitch to play with the local teams. The lads at the miners lamp offered them a place on the team but they wouldn't pass.
Debbie was correct about the offside rule. My team is Norwich City and we bounce between the premier league and the championship which is the next one down from the premier league.
Here in the UK there will be 13 promotions needed, if you started a new team and took it to the top. It's even less likely to do it even if you won every year, as you'd need to upgrade your facilities, home ground etc... to meet each leagues standards as you grew as well
Its designed to mean you have to get rich and powerful people in to invest. Having a true community club is against the ethos of capitalism.
The quadruple has never been done in England but my team Liverpool came very close last season winning the FA cup and League cup, losing the premier league by 1 point to Man City and getting beaten by Real Madrid in the Champions League Final.
Celtic from Scotland won the quadruple in 1967 and ten of the players in the European Cup Final were from Glasgow and the other was from about 20 miles from Glasgow (no substitutes back then)
In Ireland we call it Soccer too because we have our own football which is Gaelic football. You can check it out on you tube.
A little ray of sunshine in my day! Keep up the super work guys!
Thanks! That's very sweet
there have been occasions in the English league when sides have gone from the 4th tier to the top in consecutive years. Leicester City were in the 3rd tier (League One) in 2009 and were premier league champions in 2016!
My favourite match ever is when Liverpool FC overturned a deficit against Barcalona. In the Champions league knockout stage the teams play each other home and away. Barcelona beat Liverpool 3-0 at their grind the Camp Nou. Everyone expected the return match to be more of the same but Liverpool turned it around to win 4-0. I know this match is on UA-cam.
For me it’s the Champions League final Liverpool-Milan. Liverpool overturning a 0-3 halftime to 4-3!
offside rule for ladies: ) You’re in a shoe shop, second in the queue for the till. Behind the shop assistant on the till is a pair of shoes which you have seen and which you must have.
The female shopper in front of you has seen them also and is eyeing them with desire. Both of you have forgotten your purses.
It would be totally rude to push in front of the first woman if you had no money to pay for the shoes.
The shop assistant remains at the till waiting.
Your friend is trying on another pair of shoes at the back of the shop and sees your dilemma.
She prepares to throw her purse to you.
If she does so, you can catch the purse, then walk round the other shopper and buy the shoes.
At a pinch she could throw the purse ahead of the other shopper and, *whilst it is in flight* you could nip around the other shopper, catch the purse and buy the shoes.
Always remembering that until the purse had *actually been thrown* it would be plain wrong to be forward of the other shopper.
sry girls 😇
The reason for the 3 teams going up and down is because it adds more excitement to the leagues as it gives everyone something to play for.
OMG!!!!.....I've supported Lincoln City since I was 12!...67 now. I used to live nearby and for one season I went to every home game, Thank you, Natasha...made my day! xx
I’m from Lincoln, used to go in the 70’s with my mum to all the home games….we used to be a great team…still support my home city team as does my 82 year old mum
My team Portsmouth has played in all 4 leagues in my lifetime. It has also won in all 4 leagues.
Sorry to keep on about this but we would never get rid of relegation and promotion as they are quite important, it adds excitement and ambition to the teams involved as well as the teams above and below them teams just above the relegation zone in a league will fight like hell to preserve their position as will the teams below otherwise what is there to play for at the end of the season, many teams would be just going through the motions. in the lower league, teams just below promotion will also play like hell trying to gain those extra points, again adding excitement and ambition It is not the end if a team is relegated to the lower leagues. For example Glasgow rangers were relegated out of the main leagues, but over the following 4 years they fought their way back into the top division again and actually went on to win the leageue competition that year.
I think the main point with relegation and promotion (going up a league) is that the higher in the league structure you are, the more money is to be made both from TV revenue and from sponsorships, and literally butts on seats. Looking at the statistics for butts on seats alone in the 21/22 season (so July August 2021 to May 2022) the premier league had 15 millions butts on seats, the championship had 9 million, league one 5½ million, league 2 2½... and of course as a team higher up you can also charge more per seat... So for a smaller team to go from league 2 to league 1 is likely to double their attendance, so more butts on seats, bigger sponsors and so on
To counter this when players go up leagues they want more money, so the wage bill goes up accordingly.
Why three teams?
Well it's actually more complex than that. In the premier league the bottom three teams go down to the championship at the end of a season. That's after 38 games played. Simple right, but for the teams coming UP it's a lot more exciting. The team that wins the championship and the next team below them goes up automatically. They play the last game of the regular season and go off on holiday with a bottle of bubbly. But the next FOUR teams in that league then go to the playoffs which have two semi finals and a final, straight knock out. You win you go through, you lose you go home, season over.
The finals of these playoffs are on a bank holiday weekend in the UK in May so the sun's usually out and these are the last league games of the season so everyone's on a high and probably drunk... The team that wins the playoffs goes to the premier league
The same happens (give or take) for all the lower leagues so there is always one or more teams going up and one or more going down. You might have heard of Wrexham Town who Deadpool bought a few years back. The league they're in has a one up one down policy so literally ONLY the winners go up, no second chances
Last point... on the FA cup. Yes there are 700 teams or whatever but the cup is structured so that there are several "preliminary rounds" and it's only non-league clubs which play (so the ones outside of the professional game, not in a league you saw on screen in the video). Then next few rounds the "league" teams come in, but not the premier league. Those teams don't come in til round 3 (so the seventh game overall). Why is this important? Goes back to sponsors and bums on seats.
The way the FA cup teams are chosen to face each other is a random draw, so every round they put a load of numbers on balls and draw these out of a bag, so in theory it's completely random and you could have two premier league teams facing off (a really big game) or you could get a really small club, against Liverpool or Man United. Which club gets drawn first is at home, so they get the bums on THEIR seats
Imagine you're a tiny club with an attendance of 2000 a week, and then you get Liverpool... suddenly you've got TV cameras, thousands of people wanting to watch Liverpool, all the sponsors wanting to be at your club even for one week... That's a hell of a pay day for the smaller club. And of course if you manage to scrape a win your clubs in the papers, your players go up in value and you could end the season selling off a few players for bigger money than you normally would get
A good cup run, with a few big home games can keep a club flush with money for a few years...
Giant killers is the term for smaller Teams doing well .League two team Grimsby won against Southampton premiership side earlier in the week to go into next round of the FA cup.
About promotion and relegation, yeah i think its cool cuz after watching mls for a while i feel like the "madness" and i'd guess the overall competitivness fizzles out after mid-season where all the playoff spots are kinda set, while in other leagues like the premier league for example, by giving 3 relegation spots already guarantees you 6 teams competing to stay in it until the end of the season. Also the way teams qualify to the champions league or the europa league (in premier the top 4 teams qualify to CL and the two teams below them will go to the Europa league) gives you a "it isn't over 'till it's over" kind of feeling, its awesome.
Oh Natasha and Debbie I wish you could have watched last nights Europa League between Manchester United and Barcelona. Was unbelievable the whole place was bouncing. Next up a cup final on Sunday with Newcastle united.
Hiya Diana, I hope Newcastle win, as I'm a geordie
@@paulguise698 Newcastle 67 years without a domestic trophy.! Sorry but we want to win more. xx GGMU
@@TheDizzydianaWhere coming down in our thousands, win or lose the Toon Army will support the Toon all the way. Howay the lads.
The great football manager Pep Guardiola once said “it’s not a sport if success is guaranteed” so yeah relegation is very important. It’s what makes football great and competitive. I don’t get why American sport has zero competition and no failures it’s absurd
In the book " soccer nomics" the author says something like " It is ironic that sports in USA, free market's paradigma, follow a socialist system"
Headline: Debbie nails the offside rule.
Think of it as you said. You grew up in a very sports oriented family. Imagine say there was an American Football team from like Richmond, Reno, Virginia beach, any smaller city or town (there are many lol) and those people love their team and where they are from. If that team was able to work its way up to the NFL through merit it would mean so much to the people. Thats what happens when teams come up through the leagues. Its a great system.
I think the 3-4 team relegation/promotion system makes the whole season more exciting, most teams would be the middle of the table so if only one team moves you can be in the safe zone much earlier in the season rather than having to fight til the end. On the otherhand it's not completely devastating for a lower team to get relegated to the 2nd division, there's still some money to be made there, they still have access to the league cup, then there's 3 spots for them to take in order to get back to the top tier the next season. Anyway, it's usually the same teams that get relegated and promoted every other season, but once in a while one of those teams will break out and displace a top team and it just makes an amazing story.
Hi ladies, another great reaction and so impressed that you like learning!!
The threat of relegation and the hope of promotion is one of the most powerful drivers of the game of football and should remain.
The bottom 3 are classed as in the relegation zone, End of season the bottom 3 with the lowest points get relegated down.
Premier League winners is first past the post. In the lower leagues the top 2 get automatically promoted up, the next four teams play each other in a knockout competition to find the 3rd team to be promoted. Sometimes goal difference can decide who gets relegated or promoted if the points are the same with 2 or 3 teams.
I'm from the UK, it's a bit interesting because I've seen some teams from division2 work their way to the premiere over a few seasons with a good manager, and some surprises of teams who have been in the premiere league for a long time end up in division 2 over a few seasons usually over poor management and money problems
The biggest teams in Europe recently proposed a super league which would have included many of the top teams - and it would _not_ have had relegation or promotion. This caused general outrage among fans.
As a side-note - a striker is the same thing (almost) as a centre-forward. The position just behind the centre-forward has a variety of names, depending on just what they do. #10, #8, inside-forward(that's a bit old-fashioned now), playmaker, etc. The players who operate just behind the striker tend to be the most famous and admired (though centre-forwards are popular as well). Messi, Zidane, Maradona. Maradona would be closer to being a pure striker, Zidane closer to being a midfielder. This is a hugely complex area, and there can be endless disagreement about this position - which is often, strangely, referred to as playing in the hole.
THE BEAUTY OF FOOTBALL is a video you will LOVE but read the bottom captions for the significance of some of what you see like Leicester City winning The Premier League at World Record odds of 5,000 to 1...lol
The 'off-side' rule. It's simple and it allows for a better game... . When one kicks the ball forward (towards the goal (any point past the halfway line)), and the receiver of the pass was closer to the goal than the last defender it is deemed as an offside play.
I love relegation as a concept, would absolutely not get rid of it and I’m a Notts County fan, arguably the oldest professional league football team (founded in 1862), were relegated out of the professional leagues essentially a few years ago but are now really close to getting back into League 2 (bottom tier of professional football in England). Their biggest rival in that regard this season is Wrexham, who have become huge jn the US recently - highly recommend watching the series Welcome to Wrexham for a look at the lower end of football, arguably the grass roots of the sport
C’mon Wrexham 🏴😁
Respect from a Wrexham fan.😊
I might be able to give you a point about the logic of relegation and why people like it...
In US pro sports the teams are actually a company, an enterprise, own by one rich guy or a group of rich guys. They basically pick a city to do business at and buy a spot in the tournament that is created for teams owned by rich guys and every year they make money.
In the soccer world they are usually not only teams but clubs. Traditionally, this soccer clubs where founded a hundred years ago by a guy or a group of guys and were joined by the neighbors. So the club is own by the community, have strong ties to the city or that part of the city and they grow from there. So the team is not in your city, It IS the city's team (They never move away, they may promote local talent and the members have a say in the decisions). As rich guys have move into soccer more and more clubs are being bought by private firms but they would never move a club to a different city because their fan base is local and the other cities already have their local teams.
So, there are hundreds of this clubs in a soccer country. To find which one is the best they have tournaments but since there are so many of them... they are basically divided in tiers based on their performance the previous year. So, you can actually cheer for your local team in a competitive tournament and set your own goals. Even in the top divisions there are clubs that play for titles, there are the ones that play just for the privilege to finish in a better position than last year or better than that other team they hate and some teams that just play not to be relegated every year and that is their thrill. Every club has to fight always for every thing they get.
Your team might not be in the fanciest division but they are there and eventhough it sucks when YOUR team gets relegated it is also great when YOUR team wins even when it is only for the opportunity to play with bigger boys next year...
Great video,it explains European football very well, just one thing that frustrates me is how he pronounces (and also spells) Premier League as Premiere League.
I thought it was terrible tbh. American explains football to Americans. Never going to be great lol
Hiya David, I hope Derby County get out the horrible hole there in at the moment, I forcasted the night before Derby County won at Old Trafford in 1997, 3-2, Paolo Wanchope scored a worldy goal, if you can remember
Honestly some people make dumb comments lol I am 67, been watching "soccer" all my life and have never seen the stretcher come on 6 times in a game, in fact I rarely see it at all, its a really rare event and only when there is serious injury. So please ignore this comment people.
Without relegation there is no consequences to playing bad. It's pointless
Offside is when the attacker is closer to the opponent goal line than the last defending player at the moment of the teammate kicking the ball to pass to them, that's the simplest gist of it.
Offside is a bit more complicated than this, because the rule is officially the last 2 defending player including the goalie, but the situation where the goalie isn't the very last player is rare, but does happen when the goalie tries to come out, fails, the attacker can go past him and when he passes only one defender is closer to the goal line, since the goalie is far.
Otherwise, offside rule can be overwritten in a couple of ways, like when they throw the ball in after the ball left the pitch, offside can't be applied. When the attacking player is still on his own half of the pitch, offside can't be applied. When the attacking player is further from the goal line than the ball itself, offside can't be applied.
And to make it more annoying, nowadays only blocking the view of the defenders or "disturbing" the defenders while you were closer to the goal line than the last defender at the moment of the kicking is also an offside, which is very hard to determine when it is appliable and when isn't.
But yeah, this is the offside rule, kinda complicated, but when you watch the matches, it's not that bad.
When he said, you can't run to the bathroom or get a drink during a match, it will always remind me of Germany vs Brazil in the 2014 world cup. My mate went the shop down the road about 20 minutes in, he was gone literally 10 minutes, it went from being 1-0 Germany to 5-0, he was fuming he missed 4 goals. His own fault for going in the first place.
I absolutely would not get rid of relegation. If you're low down in the league, you're fighting for your life. If you do get relegated, you want to bounce back straight away if you can, but there are no guarantees. There have been fairy tales like just this season. A few years ago Luton Town, were in the old division one until they were relegated in the season right before the PREMier, not premEER ;), League was founded and ultimately dropped all the way down to the National League (amateur level and for many years called the Conference). They have now been promoted to the Premier League after climbing up five divisions in less than ten years I think. It can just make for great stories like that. Relegated teams can profit from so-called parachute payments when they go down, and teams striving for promotion have the incentive of increased income from playing in the league above, especially the Premier League which is popular worldwide. In a nutshell I'd say it's about risk versus reward. In the midst of all this is so-called mid-table obscurity. It means you're just in the middle of the table and not fighting for the title or promotion, nor fighting to avoid relegation. In that regard, being in the bottom few places can be more exciting.
The Premier League is the top league..In that it’s got the most money and it’s the most well-known and supported worldwide And the top managers. The other leagues just don’t have the money.. but they are very well supported also. Take care guys. ❤from England 🏴🇬🇧
And yet the PL teams - despite all their money - are still underwhelming in European competitions. Yes, you have the occasional Chelsea or Liverpool CL win but La Liga has been absolutely clear in Europe for the last 20 years and Bayern was and would still be the favourite against pretty much all PL clubs.
The PL is absolutely the best league, no debate about that, but the most successful clubs are from different countries. Real Madrid with 14 CL titles, Barca who have been dominating world football for 7-8 years in the early 2010s, Bayern, serial EL winner Sevilla. Purely speaking about titles Chelsea is the only club that is part of that group. And most people still wouldn't consider them 'elite'
@@schwaiger1995 The premier league recruitment is just poor compared to other leagues and they seem to get quality players for so much cheaper. Also, players from our own nation suffer from the ‘English tax’ .
Why would you get rid of relegation? It pushes the worst teams to be competitive all year long and it leads to some big upsets, especially towards the end of the season, where they become desperate and beat the top teams, which leads to a roller coaster at the top of the table as well. it also gives smaller teams a chance to play at the top level and sometimes you get huge surprises where a small team like Leicester City will be promoted and then go on to win the Premier League.
I've got to point out that throughout that video the narrator was referring to the Premiere League, it's not the Premiere league it's the Premier League without the trailing 'e'. Also, in the UK it's pronounced like 'prem-ee-uh'.
As for promotion/relegation it's a fundamental part of Football. A few years ago some of the top European clubs talked about forming a European Super League for the top clubs in Europe without promotion/relegation and fans across Europe were absolutely furious. The whole promotion/relegation adds so much to the game, it makes far more matches important and in theory allows any team in the country to make it to the top or crash down the leagues. For example, in the early nineties Oldham Athletic were in the Premier League. Since then they've been relegated multiple times and are now playing in the National League. Conversely in the early 2000's AFC Bournemouth were struggling in League Two and now they're in the Premier League.
Eddie Howe was manager, look at him now
I have seen the video a bunch of times, but I can say that this was definitely the most interesting reaction video about it. Good job.
As a Norwich City supporter, we get to celebrate promotion one year and bemoan relegation the next. Makes things much more interesting than being a middle of the table club. Plus, we get a trophy for winning the league (Championship) so we have more silverware than many clubs😂
Hahahah! Sounds better than a boring mid table supporter!
For lower league and non league teams in competitions like the FA Cup it's more about good cup runs and the money they can earn from that such as TV money, winning each round and if you get a tie against a top opponent especially away from home you get half the gate receipts so half the match ticket money for that match.
So to use an example my club has a 42'000 seater stadium. A lower league side gets drawn against us in the FA Cup. They would get half the money from the match day tickets so say £30 × 21,000. That's £630'000 that club is going to get just for playing that game. Even If they get beaten badly. That could fund a club easily for a while at their level
promotion to the next league is very aspirational,and gives hope to the fans. Relegation on the other hand could spell disaster and is very much to be feared. It's snakes and ladders,and I should know,having supported Newcastle United all my life! Love your show btw
Offside rule explained (simple):
A player is offside if, when one of their teammates passes them the ball and they were standing in front of the ball, in their oppositions half, and behind the last defender, they interfere with play.
Interfere with play often means touching the ball, but can sometimes mean blocking a player's sight (especially the goalkeeper's) or attempting to touch the ball but missing.
More intricate:
Actually, the rule states the 2nd last player on the opposing team, not the last defender. It is often assumed that the goalkeeper was already behind the ball, but there are rare situations where this is not the case and can catch out players.
Also, the time of the offside is specifically the last point at which your team mate touched the ball, so after the ball has been played, you can run into an offside position to gather the ball and it is OK.
Offside is also measured from the closest point to the opponents goal that is allowed to touch the ball (essentially, everywhere except your hands and arms, but also could include loose pieces of clothing if you're particularly unlucky).
It is also a common misconception that a "backwards pass" cannot be offside. This is not true, if the pass was backwards but the player getting the ball was forwards (and still meeting all other criteria for offside), then it would still count.
An offside also cannot occur directly from a goal kick, corner or throw in regardless of the rest of the rules.
Any time the opponent intentionally plays the ball, you cannot be offside until one of your teammates touches the ball. You can steal the ball from on opponent in an offside position and it will be legal.
If a player leaves the pitch without the referee's authorisation, they are still considered to be in play and therefore can count either as a last defender or, when coming back on to the pitch, be caught offside.
For the National League in England, I recommend the show 'This is Wrexham'. Disney + over here in the UK but I'm not sure which service in the US (think it's Hulu Plus). Documentary series about Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney buying a fifth tier club. It really explains it well and shows off the culture and running of the club. Follows along the seasons as well.
I'm from Wrexham North Wales and love Wrexham fc I recommend you watch welcome to Wrexham, on hulu I think it is or Disney+ over here ,
Our owners are Ryan Renalds and Rob mcelhenney,
A player is offside when there are fewer than two opposing players between him / her and the goal line, when the ball is passed..
The goalie is usually one, so it is usually when the attacking player is in front of the last defender.
Ryan Reynolds bought Wrexham FC which plays in the National League. From near bankruptcy Reynolds made them into championship material which is on the verge of gaining promotion. From an unknown local team he made them recognisable internationally. Maybe you should watch the docudrama Welcome To Wrexham and possibly you'll start supporting Wrexham FC.
In México we got rid of relegation and it's the worst, we need relegation back ASAP!!
Good morning, girls. Lovely to see you although I don't know what I'm doing up so early! I thought when I retired I'd be able to lie in bed in the mornings, especially when I've had a very late night, but that hasn't worked out. At least this is a good start to the day. 🙂
José Mourinho is considered one of the best manages there is and he has the trophies to back it up….except when he was at Tottenham 😂
Curioso que en el video no mencionó (aunque sí mostró en el mapa) a Conmebol, que es una confederación importante tanto por los países campeones del mundo,como por los jugadores históricos importantes que han salido de ahí.
It's 3 partially to prevent a yoyo effect where 2 teams just keep switching positions with each other,
But mostly because the battle for last place isn't really that competitive,
So by adding 2 for each end suddenly at least 6 clubs are involved adding a more dramatic flair to it.
Not stopping the clock all the time and allowing the ref to end the game as he sees fair adds to the excitement.
I always thought relegation and promotion would fit well with the US's idea that wherever you come from in the US you can aspire to the highest offices in the land. Odd that!
I can not recomend the show Welcome to Wrexham enough, it is a bit like a real life Ted Lasso. It is a documentary about a team in the lowest division of UK football that gets bought by actors Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds. Trust me it has so much heart and highlights the highs and lows of being a fan of lower leauge football
Love Ted Lasso.
Luton Town were playing in the Football Conference League (5th tier of English football) in 2013/14 and were promoted the Premier League this year. It took them 9 years. 2013/14-2022/23.
Great video ladies,you need to check out the ladies game,the USA are one of the top teams but England are not far behind,they are so skilled and as good,in my opinion as the men.
I actually think the Lionesses may be better know. We won the Euro’s and in out last friendly we beat the USA ladies. Let’s see what the World Cup brings this summer, exciting times.
Respectfully disagree. The women's game is the women's game. Perfectly OK in its own right. However, imho, it does not measure up to the men's game. 😉😁
@@pedanticlady9126 watch the lionesses v Belgium the other night passing was fantastic so much skill,and they don't fall over holding their face when kicked in the leg e.g grealish,Messi ect
@@stevejohnson9234 It ain’t as fast paced though so hence less exciting. I did watch England throughout the Euros though and i thought they’d play very well but because women’s football is relatively new, i just don’t think the skill and player quality is up to par yet.
Delusional Statement Steve! Women’s Football is proven to be no better than school boy football! Stats, Media & UA-cam Clips prove this time & time again, as follows: Current World Beaters; the USA Women’s Team lost 5-2 to FC Dallas Under-15s Boys Team back in 2017, whilst being ranked Number One in Women football Rankings! In 2021, Brazil’s National Women’s Team lost 6-0 to a U-16 Boys Team in a shortened one hour game (could have been a lot worse if a true 90 minute game been played)! In 2019, in England, a team of very Over-Weight Beer-Bellied Ex-Men Players beat the then current Crystal Palace Professional Women’s Team 1-0. Then there’s the Very Successful Arsenal Women’s Team (58 Major Trophies inc European & World Club Trophies), well their 1st Team lost 5-0 to a U-15 Boys Team only in Aug 2022. Man Utd Women lost 9-0 to Salford boys team in 2018! Back in 2017, Australia’s Women Team lost 7-0 to U-15 Boys side Newcastle Jets, whilst being ranked 5th in the world of Women’s Football! All clips/full video’s can be found on UA-cam, and there are many more video clips where young amateur boy players show their skills against Professional Ladies Teams or individuals! The Standards are NOT the same, and probably won’t ever be! Men have been playing Football for over a Hundred Years in England! It’s why Millions tune in to watch Football on TV, or go to games around the World! The Men’s Game sells tickets and is the Product! Women’s football, needs to grow! Yeah, it’s great for getting girls interested, but in no way can it compete with the Men’s Game! Just like the US WNBA, it can’t compete in audience or pay to the Men’s league! *Do I think Women’s Football has gotten better in the last 10 years on all continents? Well yeah of course it has! But it’s STILL no-where near the Men’s! The Standard of Teenage Boys football in Established Footballing Countries like: England, Spain, Italy, Germany, Portugal, France, Croatia, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico etc to name a few, is so much higher than in any of the Current National Women’s Teams! And that’s a FACT! Just watch a Men’s Game, & then instantly watch a Woman’s Professional Game and you’ll see the difference straightaway! Unless you are Steve with blinkers on, that is!
On the relegation thing dont think too much about the trams being relegated going down and try imagine wat it feels like for the teams getting promoted going up...and also watching ur team go from the bottom and slowly worjing themselves back up and being a fan and witnessing all that over the course of 10...20...sometimes 30 years...also watchingteams that wer at the top decline and get relegated and slowly working their way back up...thats why we love it so much