Running the English Football Leagues

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 to fully understand the system that runs the entire leagues of the English Football in the United Kingdom, its framework and how it determines the promotion of a certain team. This system is called English Football League System (English Football Pyramid).

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How does the system works?

Running the English Football Leagues

There are variations in the promotion of the teams between leagues or division. Meeting the criteria set by the higher league, especially having the appropriate facilities and finances, is the main basis of the promotion. Each top five levels must contain one division. Under the top five levels are levels that progressively have more parallel leagues. In some areas there are as many as twenty levels. However, the existence of leagues becomes sporadic at the lower levels.

The amateur version of the game commonly called by English locale as Sunday League Football is not part of the English league system because these leagues are independent sectors without promotion or relegation involved in the football pyramid. However, if the club already has its appropriate playing standard and suitable facilities, it can still apply to join the English Football League that comprises the football pyramid and is still subject for further evaluation and assessment by the EFL System committee.

How does the leagues being structured?

The League has four divisions with 92 clubs as its playing members. These 92 clubs are considered as the full-time professional clubs and they are commonly referred to as the "League" clubs. The "non-League" clubs are football teams that are already outside the bracket of the "League" clubs, although they have played most of their football in the league competition.

The segregation of the professional clubs from the non-league clubs helps us to easily determine which club is included in the top levels.

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Champions League Draw - Chelsea Draw Barcelona For the Third Season Running

For the third season in succession Chelsea found themselves pitched against the current European champions, Barcelona in group A. Werder Bremen and Levski Sofia make up the quartet and it would be a huge surprise if either of those teams progressed.

In group B Inter Milan, Bayern Munich, Sporting Lisbon and Spartak Moscow will do battle. Bayern have been weakened by the loss of Ballack to Chelsea, but should still be good enough to get through. Inter Milan have strengthened at the expense of their scandal hit rivals in Italy and will be hard to beat.

Group C sees Liverpool, winners in 2005, returning to the scene of their Istanbul triumph to play Galatasaray. Turkish football seems to have gone off the boil and Gala might struggle against both PSV Eindhoven and Bordeaux.

Group D pitches Valencia, Roma, Olympiakos and the dangerous Shaktar Donetsk, and the first two should make the last sixteen.

Group E sees the most successful European team ever, Real Madrid against Lyon, Steau Bucharest and Dynamo Kiev. Real begin the campaign under the returning Fabio Capello and they should improve on last season's dismal performance. Lyon under Gerard Houllier are still improving and should qualify.

Group F coughs up an Anglo-Scottish clash. Manchester United sent a reserve team up to Glasgow just before the season started and duly thumped the Scottish champions 3-0. Not many give Celtic much chance against United's first XI who have started the season on fire. Benfica look dangerous again. They knocked both United and Liverpool out last term and will need to be respected. FC Copenhagen makes up the quartet and may surprise a few people.

Group G features Arsenal, last year's beaten finalists, and they take on Porto, CSKA Moscow and Hamburg, not an easy group on paper for any of them and Arsenal will have to improve on early poor results at their brand new stadium. But expect them to qualify. No London team has ever won the European Cup/Champions League and Arsenal are desperate to beat their rivals Chelsea and Spurs (they're in the UEFA cup this time) to that particular honour. But Arsenal have lost several notable players such as Pires, Campbell and Bergkamp and though they have young rapidly improving players like Van Persie and Walcott, it is hard to envisage them picking up the trophy this time round.

Group H sees the banned, but reinstated AC Milan host surprise qualifiers Lille, AEK Athens and Anderlecht. Expect AC to win the group comfortably, and the others to all take points from one another.

For those who like a bet, early odds quoted go: Barca 4/1 favourite, Chelsea 5/1, Real 9/1, AC Milan 10/1, Man Utd 11/1, Inter 13/1, Arsenal and Liverpool 18/1 and 20/1 plus on all the others. You can still get a free $30 bet at betfair.com by inputting the code 6CHE3VPWJ when required.

So who will land the pot of gold of the Champions League this year? Barca have added Thuram and Zambrotta from Italy, but they were surprisingly smacked 3-0 by their compatriots Sevilla in the Super Cup, the match between the Champions League and UEFA cup winners. Barca displayed a surprising weakness in the centre of their defence and John Terry and his pals at Stamford Bridge are certain to have noted that. Best of the outsiders is the fast improving Lyon.

Chelsea have added Ballack and the wonderful Shevchenko, and may be Ashley Cole too. As I have written elsewhere, I think Chelsea can do it this time. They would surely trade the Premier League title for the Champions League. But what do I know? I'm still working for a living. Make up your own mind. Good watching.

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