The Premier League is the top tier of English football and starts each season in August. There are 20 teams in the league; Each team plays a total of 38 matches, both home and away, throughout the season. At the end of the season, the three best teams are promoted to the English Football League, while the worst three teams from the Premier League are relegated to the lower league. This structure keeps the competition in the league fresh every year.
Ligan is organized as a company in which clubs come together as shareholders. Although matches are usually played on weekend afternoons, the term "matchday" is used to describe ten separate matches taking place in the same week, as there can be more than one league week in the calendar. To date, the league has reached a cross-border structure, hosting 49 English and 2 Welsh clubs (Swansea City and Cardiff City).
The Premier League was founded on 20 February 1992 as the FA Premier League; This decision was a result of the teams in the Football League First Division leaving the Football League, which was founded in 1888. Since its founding, television rights revenues have been a major source of income for the league; In the 2013-2014 period, local broadcasting rights were worth approximately ยฃ1 billion, and international rights were worth 2.2 billion euros per year.
Thanks to these revenues, the league is the most watched sports league in the world; It reaches 643 million homes and 4.7 billion potential viewers in 212 different regions. In terms of average attendance, the Premier League maintains the second highest average after the Bundesliga.
When we look at the history of the league, 51 different clubs have competed since 1992 and seven clubs have won the championship: Manchester United 13 times, Manchester City 8 times, Chelsea 5 times, Arsenal 4 times, Liverpool 2 times, Blackburn Rovers and Leicester City once each. In the 2003-04 season, Arsenal completed the league without losing a single match and received the title of "The Invincibles".
In 2017-18, Manchester City reached 100 points and collected the highest points in a season and became the team that won the most consecutive championships with four consecutive championships between 2021-2024. Arsenal last won the championship in the 2025โ26 season.
