The Football Association Challenge Cup also known as the FA Cup is run by and named after the Football Association. This competition is a knock out (single elimination) basis. The FA Cup began in 1871-1872 and is one of the oldest football competitions in the world. Any club in Great Britain can compete in the FA Cup; when teams play there is the possibility for the ¨underdog¨ a low division club become a ¨giant killers¨ by eliminating top clubs from the tournament, although lower division teams rarely reach the finals.In 2007-2008 the FA Cup 731 teams where accepted to compete in the cup. The current holder of the FA CUP is Chelsea who beat Manchester United 1-0 in extra time in 2007 final, on 19 May 2007. As well as being presented with the cup the winning team also qualifies by right for the first round of the UEFA Cup, unless they have already qualified for Europe when the spot goes to the runners-up or to the highest placed Premier League side without European qualification
The League Cup is less prestigious than the FA Cup, which also is a knock out (single elimination) basis. The League Cup is seen by some big Clubs as a lower priority compared to other competitions. Clubs such as Manchester United and Arsenal in particular, have used the competition to give players valuable game experience.
Since 1982, the League Cup has been named after its sponsor, giving it the
following names:
• Milk Cup (1981–82 to 1985–86), sponsored by the Milk Marketing Board
• Littlewoods Challenge Cup (1986–87 to 1989–90), sponsored by Littlewoods
• Rumbelows Cup (1990–91 and 1991–92), sponsored by Rumbelows
• Coca-Cola Cup (1992–93 to 1997–98), sponsored by Coca-Cola
• Worthington Cup (1998–99 to 2002–03) , sponsored by Worthington Draught bitter
• Carling Cup (2003–04 to present), sponsored by Carling
The Premier League( Officially known as the Barclays Premier League for sponsorship reasons, also known as the Premier League) is an English professional league for football clubs. The Premier League is the country’s (Great Britain) primary football competition. There are 20 teams that compete in the league and operate the system of promotion and relegation with the football league. The Premier League was found the 20 February 1992 and the first games were played the 15 August that year. From that game a decision was made by the clubs in the Football League First Division to break away from the Football League to take advantage of a lucrative television rights deal; the league had served as England and Wales' primary football competition since 1888. Since then, the Premier League has become the world's most watched sporting league and the most lucrative football league, with cumulative club revenues of around £1.4 billion. The league is a corporation with the 20 clubs acting as shareholders.
A total of 40 clubs have competed in the Premier League, but only four have won the title: Manchester United, Blackburn Rovers, Arsenal, and Chelsea. The current Premier League champions are Manchester United, who won their ninth title in the 2006–07 season, the most of any Premier League team.
2 comments:
This is an awesome blog! I really enjoy soccer and I try to follow all the action over in Europe but there's so much going on over there that it's hard to! This blog looks like it will break things down and make it easy for someone with little or no knowledge of the sport to become an immediate fan. I look forward to more posts!
I didn't realize that multiple cups were played in soccer unlike Hockey or Basketball where there is one big game.
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