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Running the English Football Leagues

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English football (soccer) leagues season is considered the most coveted and most participated event in English Sports. It is participate by 140 leagues with more than 480 divisions. With quite a number of participants it is so confusing to understand how a single team in a certain division is able to rise to the Premiership as what they have called it. The English football leagues are governed by a certain system that determines the movement of each team in a division into different levels in a league. It is best …

AAFL – Another American Football League

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With the buzz growing around the new AAFL, is the U.S. ready for yet another American football league? The All American Football League thinks so. What is it? Football by any other name. The AAFL is hoping to attract football fans who need an outlet for professional football in the NFL’s offseason. What’s the attraction? Besides a spring and early summer season, the AAFL is associating itself with colleges known for football to attract college football fans in their offseason. This is critical to its approach because it intends to …

Football in Stoke

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For those couples who adore watching sports, especially football, Stoke is a great place for that holiday vacation. There are two teams in Stoke-on-Trent that compete in the Football League: the Stoke City Football Club and the Port Vale Football Club. Stoke City Football Club The Stoke City Football Club is regarded as the second-oldest British football league club. It was established in 1863 and was initially called the Stoke Ramblers. The first players of the team were students from Charterhouse School. The Stoke Ramblers had their first documented game …

National Football League (NFL) Football – A League Of Its Own

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Certain activities define the character of a nation. Likewise, the National Football League (NFL) defines the American character probably more than anything else. Conceived as the American Professional Football Association in 1920, it soon adopted the name National Football League in 1922. Undoubtedly the largest of all professional football leagues in America, NFL is made up of 32 teams coming from numerous American regions and cities. With seeds in the American college football genre, NFL football is a direct descendant of rugby football. Rugby football, in its turn, was imported …

The Italian Football League

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The Italian Soccer league is a series of matches played between various football clubs in Italy. They are all interconnected league matches among the various football clubs in Italy. The club that is at the top is Lega Calcio or the Lega Nazionale Professionisti. This club is divided into sections Serie A and Serie B The Second club in the ranking is Lega Pro; it rules first division and second division. The former has two parallel divisions and the latter has three parallel divisions. The next in the ranking is …

Fulham FC – London’s Oldest Professional Football Club

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There’s a lot more than just longevity to recommend a visit to Craven Cottage, the riverside home of Fulham Football Club since 1896. Although I lived a long way from London, Fulham were the first team from the higher divisions I ‘supported’. They had some fine players then – even though they seemed to yoyo between the top two divisions. Johnny Haynes, Tony Macedo, Tosh Chamberlain, George Cohen – all great players; Haynes one of the greatest ever. Since then, some wonderful players also turned out for the Cottagers at …

Football League & Premier League – 1888 to 2009

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The Football League is a league competition featuring professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888, it is the oldest such competition in world football. It was the top level football league in England from its foundation in the 19th century until 1992, when the top 22 clubs split away to form the FA Premier League. Since 1992 it has had 72 clubs evenly divided into three divisions, which are currently known as The Championship, League One, and League Two. After four years of debate, The Football Association …