Premier League: Clubes, Historia y Dominio en el Fútbol Mundial

The Premier League

The Premier League, also known in England as The Premiership, or in Spanish liga premier, is the highest category of the English football league system. It began to be disputed in the 1992-93 season and since then it has been held without interruptions. For historical reasons, it can also include those Welsh clubs that wish to participate, provided they have competed continuously in the English football system since at least June 30, 1992. This is the case of the Swansea City Association Football Club, a Wales-based club that participates in the league and has come to represent England in European competitions.

Manchester United

It is also considered one of the most popular sports clubs in the world. In 2012 it had a base of 659 million followers worldwide, mostly in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and America. Since 1994, it has remained the club with the highest attendance in its league matches, with an average of more than 14,000 fans per game. In financial terms, it is one of the sports teams with the highest market value in the world, being the first to exceed 3,000 million USD in 2013.

Arsenal

Arsenal has one of the largest fan bases in the world. According to Forbes magazine, the club was the fifth most valuable club in the world in 2014, with a value of 1,300 million pounds.

Liverpool

The English club with the most international titles, with five European Cups, three UEFA Cups and three European Super Cups. Nationally, it has won eighteen league titles, seven FA Cups, eight League Cups (the most of any team) and fifteen Community Shields, totaling more than sixty official titles.

The League

During the 1990s, the competition began to be called the "league of the stars", due to the growing number of renowned footballers who began arriving in Spain and who, along with those already in the country, gave great projection to the international competition. The appearance of private television channels in Spain and the pay-per-view system, thanks to which clubs greatly increased their income through broadcasting contracts for televised matches, encouraged this expansion. It was one of the main reasons that allowed them to hire many of the best players in the world, who in previous decades had used to play in England and Italy. These circumstances, however, were to the detriment of Spanish players, who saw more and more players arriving from different nationalities.