Herudover benyttes cookies til identifikation og profilering og med henblik på at vise individualiseret marketing indhold. The bottom three are relegated. The seven levels immediately below the and are known as the and come under the jurisdiction of. Clubs from these leagues may, if they feel they meet the appropriate standard of play and have suitable facilities, apply to join a league which does form part of the system. For each division, its official name, sponsorship name for levels 1—8, if it differs from its historic name and number of clubs is given.
These leagues are independent entities with no promotion or relegation involving the football pyramid. The 20 clubs in the Premier League and 72 clubs in the English Football League are all full-time professional clubs. The table below shows the current structure of the system. However, some Sunday League clubs have been known to join pyramid leagues if they desire to progress higher. Some of these clubs are full-time professional and the others are semi-professional. For at læse hele vores cookie politik -.
Many leagues have more than one division. Level 9 contains the top divisions of a large group of fourteen sub-regional leagues. Next down from the National League are three regional leagues, each associated with different geographical areas, although some overlap exists. Denne information bruges primært til at optimere hjemmesiden og til at præsentere indhold fra hjemmesiden på andre hjemmesider. The English football league system does not include the amateur version of the game often called.
Levels two to four are run by the. Lower-level leagues also tend to cater to progressively smaller geographic regions. Samo kliknite na naziv zemlje u lijevom meniju i izaberite vaše natjecanje rezultati liga, uživo rezultati nacionalnih kupova, ostala natjecanja. If, after promotion and relegation, the number of teams in the divisions is not equal, one or more teams are transferred between the four divisions to even them up again. The bottom four are relegated to either North or South division as appropriate. It evolved over many years. .
It contains a national division of 24 clubs Level 5 , and is the lowest level with a single nationwide league. The top tier of is the. In the most recent major re-organisation, two new leagues were entered at level six — the Conference North and Conference South now and — shifting the top divisions of the , and down to level seven. Level one in the pyramid, the top division of English football, is run by the which gives its name to the competition in that division , the winners of which are regarded as the champions of England. The bottom two teams in each division and two 20th-placed teams with lowest points per game ratio relegated to a level 8 division as appropriate. Newcastle - Wolves, Arsenal - Crystal Palace, Liverpool - Tottenham, Norwich - Manchester Utd, 02.
The has three parallel level-8 divisions of 20 teams each as well. The Premier League members are still often referred to as 'League' clubs because, before the establishment of the Premier League in 1992, the Football League, as it was called then, included all 92 clubs, in four divisions. Below these, and split by region, the and each have two parallel divisions of 20 teams Level 8. Manchester City - Aston Villa, Brighton - Everton, Watford - Bournemouth, West Ham - Sheffield Utd, Burnley - Chelsea, 27. Below this, the levels have progressively more parallel leagues, with each covering progressively smaller geographic areas. The top five levels contain one division each and are nationwide in scope. However, two Welsh teams and have since played in the league.
At the lower levels the existence of leagues becomes intermittent, although in some of the more densely populated areas there are leagues more than twenty layers below the Premier League. All of the leagues have Premier Divisions of 22 teams Level 7. The bottom two are relegated. This division like the four above is a full-time professional competition, although some promoted clubs retain part-time status. Main article: The English Football League was created in 1888 by Aston Villa director William McGregor. What follows is a representation of one possible structure, should the system be defined further. The twelve founding members consisted of six from Lancashire Blackburn Rovers, Burnley, Bolton Wanderers, Accrington, Everton and Preston North End and six from the Midlands Aston Villa, Derby County, Notts County, Stoke, West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton Wanderers.
It was dominated by those clubs who had supported professionalism. Each of these leagues has a different divisional setup, but they all have one thing in common: there are yet more leagues below them, each covering smaller and smaller geographical levels. The exact number of clubs varies from year to year as clubs join and leave leagues, fold or merge altogether, but an estimated average of 15 clubs per division implies that more than 7,000 teams of nearly 5,300 clubs are members of a league in the English men's football league system. At levels 1—8, each division promotes to the division s that lie directly above it and relegates to the division s that lie directly below it. Clubs outside this group are referred to as 'non-League' clubs ie non-Football League , although they too play their football in league competitions. Below Level 11 the pyramid becomes regional and the cups become accordingly regional. In theory, it is possible for a lowly local amateur club to achieve annual promotions and within a few years rise to the pinnacle of the English game and become champions of the.
If, after promotion and relegation, the number of teams in the divisions is not equal, one or more teams are transferred between the divisions to even them up again. Below the National League, some of the stronger clubs are semi-professional, but continuing down the tiers, soon all the clubs are amateur. Series of interconnected leagues The English football league system, also known as the football pyramid, is a series of for men's clubs in , with five teams from from 2019-20 , one from and one from also competing. A certain number of the most successful clubs in each league can rise to a higher league, whilst those that finish the at the bottom of their league can find themselves sinking down a level. In addition to sporting performance, promotion is usually contingent on meeting criteria set by the higher league, especially concerning appropriate facilities and finances. Below that level, individual league articles detail promotion and relegation arrangements. The system has a hierarchical format with between leagues at different levels, allowing even the smallest club the theoretical possibility of ultimately rising to the very top of the system.