English Football League : All In One Wiki (Founder, History, Teams and Jersey)
English Football League : All In One Wiki (Founder, History, Teams and Jersey), Professional football teams from England and Wales compete in the English Football League (EFL). The league is the oldest such tournament in the world, having been established in 1888 as the Football League.
From its inception until 1992, when the top 22 teams broke from it to establish the Premier Competition, it served as England’s top-tier football league.
Since the 1983–84 season, the Football League has had a sponsor and has gone by a number of names. The league changed its name to the English Football League for the 2016–17 season (EFL).
The EFL Cup and the EFL Trophy are two knockout cup tournaments that are also organized by the English Football League. The Football League’s administrative headquarters are in Preston, but its corporate headquarters are in London.
69 professional association football clubs in England and 3 in Wales make up the Football League. It oversees the world’s oldest professional football league. The EFL Cup and EFL Trophy are two knockout cup events that are organized by it as well.
Founder
William McGregor, the director of Aston Villa, formed the Football League in 1888. There were initially 12 clubs that made up the league. The League had 92 clubs by 1950 as a result of consistent development and the creation of new divisions.
Board Members
The Football League Board, which consists of two independent directors, three representatives from the Championship, two from League One, and one from League Two, meets once a month. Members as of today are:
- Rick Parry as the Chairman
- Trevor Birch as the Chief Executive
- Debbie Jevans CBE as the Independent non-executive Director
- Simon Bazalgette as the Independent non-executive Director
- Richard Bowker CBE. as the Independent Director
Levels
At the moment, the system operates as follows, starting at the bottom:
- FA Premier League, level 1.
- EFL Championship, level 2.
- EFL League One is at Level 3.
- EFL League 2 is level four.
- Step 1 of Level 5, National League.
- National League North and South are Level 6 at Step 2
Famous Teams
Early in the 1990s, the Premier League was established in English football. When Greg Dyke, the managing director of London Weekend Television (LWT), met with the representatives of the “big five” clubs—David Dein of Arsenal, Philip Carter of Everton, Noel White of Liverpool, Martin Edwards of Manchester United, and Irving Scholar of Tottenham Hotspur—that meeting was the first significant step toward the formation of the organization. The purpose of the meeting was to lay the groundwork for a split from the Football League. Only the country’s largest clubs should be aired on national television, according to Dyke, who also sought to determine whether the clubs would be interested in receiving a larger portion of the television rights revenue.