When was premier league formed

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Description: Through the El Clasico, every year the citizens of Catalonia Barcelona is the capital have proclaimed their independence from Spain. It is possibly the most-watched and talked-about fixture.

The prestigious El Clasico started on May 13, For the season the Third Division was created and when for the season the Fourth Division was created. The Division 1, 2 and 3 was before the season renamed to The Championship, League 1 and League 2. Soon after the start of Premier League, the terraces for standing were forbidden and instead the whole audience was to sit down to watch the games.

Table 4 shows the capacity of all Premier League club stadiums based on the teams that participated in the league season — Manchester United's Old Trafford is the biggest in the league with capacity for over 70, people. To put the capacity in relation to the actual audience per match we could take Manchester United as an example.

The matches in Premier League are well sought after and the big stadiums are regularly full or almost at the competition. The diagram below shows aggregate attendance at games over seven seasons. Premier League is a league with lots of money involved. The television contracts are extremely expensive and result in big revenues for the association and the clubs. The matches are broadcasted in more than countries. The broadcast payments are divided into three parts: 1 Equal share payments — the biggest part which all teams get in the same size; 2 Facility fees — payment for a club being featured in a live match; 3 Merit payments — based on performance.

The money is also generated by ticket sales to the matches and the prices has increased significantly during the Premier League era. The rise of the Premier League made its members rich and foreign players and managers were imported in a scale never seen before in England. A judgement in , handed down by Justice Rose, cleared the way for a split between the top divison and the three tiers below it.

Following the ratification and final approval by the Football Association in February , the next step for the Premier League founders was to avert a players' strike.

With the players back on side following an agreement over pay and conditions, the Premier League clubs now faced another showdown. The BBC, who had thrown their lot in with the BSkyB bid, were given the highlights package so they could revive the popular Match of the Day programme. Greg Dyke was furious as ITV got nothing. With contracts signed, BSkyB splurged on a glossy advertising campaign to get armchair football fans signed up in time for the new season.

With some of the best games no longer available on terrestrial TV, some expressed their wider concerns about exclusive deals, including Sebastian Coe, the newly elected Conservative MP, who said: "I think it is wrong that only two million [satellite] dish owners get access to such major sporting events.