We've been learning about different Sports that aren't nearly as popular in the United States as other places. We have been dancing around learning about European Football and today we decided to learn not the rules, but the differences between European Football and American Sports, the leagues, how player's contracts work and much more! The comparison to American Sports that we know and love was SO helpful here! We got a lot out of this video and are now itching to learn more! We hope you enjoy this episode, we really did!! We certainly are starting to understand the MASSIVE appeal of Football in other parts of the World! Thanks to each of YOU for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!

The threat of relegation or the promise of promotion makes football more exciting!

The quadruple hasn't been done in England yet. The treble has been a couple of times. Relegation and promotion are absolutely inherent to the game if football. The hope of the potential for success versus the fear of the failure of relegation is what drives every club every fan at every level EVERY YEAR! The 3 up 3 down rule for relegation/promotion is to make sure as many games as possible stay as competitive as possible. Either you are challenging for the league or euro qualification or to avoid relegation, it means lots of games really matter.

One German team made it from the 5th league to the Top division in i think 10 years. And they’re now one of the top teams in that league

My team, Wimbledon, managed to go from what is now the National League up to the Premiere in 10 years between 1976-86, and won the FA Cup in 1988. It can be done, and that's why we have promotion and relegation. Its a race and its exciting!

Relegation and promotion are just as important as winning the league itself. Some of the most exciting games are when a team has 90 mins at the end of the season to completely change the destiny of the club, the elation when it happens, fans running onto the pitch in celebration....and the flip side, you don't win that one game that means you stay where you are for another season and have to do it all again next year, absolute desolation for fans and players alike. Excitement levels are off the page with this system, love it! 👍

Relegation is an integral part of football no way I would ever want to see it stopped it keeps games real some of the toughest matches for the top teams to play are against teams that are battling for there lives down near the bottom.

FC Bayern Munich won the historic sextuple in season 2019-2020. Also beating FC Barcelona by the biggest margin in a UCL quarterfinal ever, 8-2! You must check out that match, it was sensational.

They tried to start a European league with the big clubs recently. There was no relegation and the supporters demonstrated instantly against it in huge numbers. Within a day the clubs had to back down. Clubs involved were Liverpool,Man UTD, Juventus, Barcelona and other huge clubs. We do not want a closed league without promotions and relegation cause it will kill the lower league clubs. The system now is healthy.

Football* It is played all over the world, not just in Europe...

Relegation and promotion are the lifeblood of football, it is what creates some of the most insane moments.... I support Charlton and in 25 years ive experienced 4 promotions and 5 relegations and seen my team play at 75000 all seater stadiums and more recently due to decline much more modest 2000 stadiums, still love them and one day we will come back up, because the systems there

The concept of promotion and relegation is awesome cause it creates stories and drama. The biggest one just happened last season when Luton Town, one of the founders of the English Premier League back in 92, got promoted back to Premier League after spending 3 decades in the lower leagues even all the way down to the National league. I'm no Luton Town fan but can't wait to see them in the Prem next season!

Having been a Wolves fan my entire life, I’ve seen both promotions and relegations in that time. I wouldn’t change any of it. Not only because it maintains the idea that the game is a meritocracy that rewards success and punishes failure, but because the heartbreak is just as much a part of the game as the ecstasy. The feelings and memories of those so neat yet so far moments stick with you more than the glory for most fans, certainly that I’ve spoken to. This season aside, Wolves have been on a decent run over the last 5 years, but the memory that sticks with me in that time is blowing a 2-0 lead in an F.A. Cup semi-final, losing 3-2. I still look back on that day and wonder “what if”. Or the day we missed out on automatic promotion on the final day of the season, blowing an 11 point lead with 10 games to go, and being overtaken by our big local rivals. These memories are an intrinsic part of the fan experience I think, and they make you appreciate the good times while they last. Also, it’s not strictly true that we don’t have playoffs. We do, they’re just in the 3 divisions below the Premier League. In the leagues with promotion, the top 2 will go up automatically, while the teams finishing 3rd through 6th will go into the playoffs. 3rd play 6th and 4th play 5th. They’ll play home and away, and the scores combined over the two games. So if 3rd play 6th, and the team in 3rd wins the first game 2-0 and the second game finishes 1-1, the overall result will be the team in 3rd winning 3-1. The winners from each of the semi-finals will go on to the final at Wembley, and play a one off game, with the winner getting the third and final promotion place. This is immensely valuable if the prize is a place in the Premier League, as that will gain the winning team at least £100m for the upcoming season.

The one thing it seems confuses most Americans about football is that they are clubs not franchises, most teams were originally formed as social clubs, the same as cricket clubs or darts clubs, the local pub can have a Sunday league club that plays against other local pubs. So the idea of relegation and promotion is what makes teams try to succeed every season, the clubs earn more when they get promoted and lose money when relegated, players have the insensitive to improve every season. Clubs who get promoted to the premier league get millions of pounds from the English FA. Brentford is an example of a small team from the lower leagues that has made to to the top of English football, and that is the same thing Ryan Reynolds wants to happen to Wrexham. The TV show, welcome to Wrexham is a great insight on how a small club in Wales that was bought by a couple of wealthy Hollywood celebrities fell in love with the game and the club are helping the club and the community. Football is all about the community not the franchise owners, but maybe that socialist thinking doesn’t work for Americans. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I've experienced the joys of promotion , the pain of relegation, the absolute craziness of last day survival. The enjoyment of cup and play off finals

Promotion and relegation is the best! I remember our team was promoted to the Premier League and the whole time had a party as if we’ve already won! And the fighting to stay in the league makes it so much more exciting! Great video as always xx

As an example on the South Coast , in 2011 my team Portsmouth were in the FA cup final , Bournemouth and Brighton were in Leagues 1 and 2 in the intervening years Pompey went bankrupt ,were rescued by the fans and were almost relegated out of league 2 . We are now currently in League 1 whilst our neighbours are Premiership clubs . The thing to appreciate is that most clubs are 100 years plus and generations of families have supported them through good , and had times - once you support a club it's usually for life .

I think 'European football' is a bit misleading. It's 'World Football'. I know you were focusing on European leagues but football is a universal language. Apart from anything else you need nothing to play apart from something on the ground to mark the goals. In the UK this is often coats or schoolbags. A friend who was in Kenya saw kids playing barefoot and using a plastic bag filled with paper scraps and tied to be more-or-less spherical.

I moved to the UK in 2006... for the football and Live music scene in pubs lol. Best decision ever, now have a family here. :) Worked in pubs and as a bouncer in night clubs. Enjoying every second of it.

Relegation and promotion is an integral to all the world football leagues (apart apparently from US football). It adds to the excitement of the leagues and if you are a smaller town like mine being promoted can be a big thing - even if it is just in the lower leagues

Having three teams move up a league or down a league creates a lot of drama. The stakes are really high considering the difference in money the teams receive from one division to another, it can make or break some teams entirely. Would be great to see you do more football stuff on the channel!

There are ten levels in the English football pyramid. It’s almost impossible to move from near the bottom to the Premier League, especially as another factor is that clubs need to have certain facilities like a stadium with a certain capacity. It’s not unknown for a club to be rejected for promotion because their ground (another term for pitch+stadium) is not acceptable

The FA Cup is an exiting competition to watch. Especially when Non League teams beat top flight teams. Plus if that happens it brings in more money to these smaller clubs.

Relegation as a threat ensures the top teams don't get too lazy and take their positions for granted. It also gives the lower level clubs a hope of breaking through to the next level.

The bottom 3 in the prem go ' down' in the other leagues the top 2 gain automatic promotion to the next league. The next 4 teams have a mini league competition against each other and the eventually winner goes up. The play off finals are played at Wembley, which means lower league teams get a chance to play at the national stadium.

Liverpool came very close to winning the quadruple last season. They won the FA Cup and League Cup but lost in the final of the Champions League and came 2nd in the Premier League.

offside rule for ladies: ) You’re in a shoe shop, second in the queue for the till. Behind the shop assistant on the till is a pair of shoes which you have seen and which you must have. The female shopper in front of you has seen them also and is eyeing them with desire. Both of you have forgotten your purses. It would be totally rude to push in front of the first woman if you had no money to pay for the shoes. The shop assistant remains at the till waiting. Your friend is trying on another pair of shoes at the back of the shop and sees your dilemma. She prepares to throw her purse to you. If she does so, you can catch the purse, then walk round the other shopper and buy the shoes. At a pinch she could throw the purse ahead of the other shopper and, *whilst it is in flight* you could nip around the other shopper, catch the purse and buy the shoes. Always remembering that until the purse had *actually been thrown* it would be plain wrong to be forward of the other shopper. sry girls 😇

The quadruple has never been done in England but my team Liverpool came very close last season winning the FA cup and League cup, losing the premier league by 1 point to Man City and getting beaten by Real Madrid in the Champions League Final.

In 2009, Guardiola's Barcelona won six trophies - La Liga, Copa del Rey, Champions League, Spanish Super Cup, European Super Cup and the Club World Cup - becoming the first team to achieve that.

Bayern Munich 2019/2020, did the Sextuple. After the season's Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal, they qualified for next season's DFL-Supercup, which they went on to win. Additionally, as a result of winning this season's UEFA Champions League, they qualified for both the UEFA Super Cup as well as the FIFA Club World Cup for next season and went on to win both of those competitions as well. Collectively, winning all six competitions available in the 2020 calendar year, namely the 2019-2020 season's Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal, and UEFA Champions League followed by the 2020-2021 season's DFL-Supercup, UEFA Super Cup, and FIFA Club World Cup was a feat known as the "sextuple" and this was one of only two times the feat had been accomplished in the history of European football.

The Premier League is for English and Welsh teams (no Welsh clubs in the PL at the moment but both Cardiff and Swansea have played in the PL in the last decade) 3 teams means more competition between the bottom clubs from one league and the 3 going up! More to play for and makes the competition more exciting. You should watch 'Welcome To Wrexham'. Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney bought a professional football club in Wales and are trying to rise through the leagues to the Premier League

You asked how quickly teams can move up through the divisions. Currently in the Premier League is Brentford. They were promoted to the Premier League for this season. Five years ago they were in division 1 which is the lowest fully professional division in english football. In fact, five years ago they were almost relegated into the National League. They survived on the last day of the season. Also in the video that you watched the creator said that there were around 700 football clubs involved in the FA Cup. In actual fact there are close to 1,000.

A lot of English clubs have their own song that fan sing . Wolverhampton Wanderers have 'Hi Ho Silver Lining ( and its hi Ho Wolverhamton') Liverpool have' You'll never walk alone' West Ham ' I'm forever blowing bubbles.' Manchester City ''Blue Moon'. You get the idea .

A little ray of sunshine in my day! Keep up the super work guys!

Barcelona from Spain & Bayern Munich from Germany are the only two teams in history to win the sextuple or all 6 trophies available in a single season. Barca did it in 2009 & Bayern did it in 2020

In the book " soccer nomics" the author says something like " It is ironic that sports in USA, free market's paradigma, follow a socialist system"

My favourite match ever is when Liverpool FC overturned a deficit against Barcalona. In the Champions league knockout stage the teams play each other home and away. Barcelona beat Liverpool 3-0 at their grind the Camp Nou. Everyone expected the return match to be more of the same but Liverpool turned it around to win 4-0. I know this match is on KZfaq.

When he said, you can't run to the bathroom or get a drink during a match, it will always remind me of Germany vs Brazil in the 2014 world cup. My mate went the shop down the road about 20 minutes in, he was gone literally 10 minutes, it went from being 1-0 Germany to 5-0, he was fuming he missed 4 goals. His own fault for going in the first place.

Don’t forget at one time almost all villages in England had a village football team and they all played in some form of league. This basically was how Football started in a semi professional form, you play in a village team make a name locally for yourself which gets you noticed by the local town/city club agents and you get an invite to show what you can do. The city/town team nowadays tend to have their own Football academies usually from the age of maybe 6 to 10 with children who have some quality that agents can root out and bring forward to the team managers. There is also the schools route where schools play in the schools league, locally then area and then at county level, at this point the agents can root out any talent from that source. This is how football stars are found and nurtured, of course this is also the same for Rugby players and also cricket players in the Uk it’s ubiquitous within each discipline. How is this ladder to stardom accomplished in the US?

Oh Natasha and Debbie I wish you could have watched last nights Europa League between Manchester United and Barcelona. Was unbelievable the whole place was bouncing. Next up a cup final on Sunday with Newcastle united.

My team Portsmouth has played in all 4 leagues in my lifetime. It has also won in all 4 leagues.

there have been occasions in the English league when sides have gone from the 4th tier to the top in consecutive years. Leicester City were in the 3rd tier (League One) in 2009 and were premier league champions in 2016!

OMG!!!!.....I've supported Lincoln City since I was 12!...67 now. I used to live nearby and for one season I went to every home game, Thank you, Natasha...made my day! xx

Debbie was correct about the offside rule. My team is Norwich City and we bounce between the premier league and the championship which is the next one down from the premier league.

Celtic from Scotland won the quadruple in 1967 and ten of the players in the European Cup Final were from Glasgow and the other was from about 20 miles from Glasgow (no substitutes back then)

I think the main point with relegation and promotion (going up a league) is that the higher in the league structure you are, the more money is to be made both from TV revenue and from sponsorships, and literally butts on seats. Looking at the statistics for butts on seats alone in the 21/22 season (so July August 2021 to May 2022) the premier league had 15 millions butts on seats, the championship had 9 million, league one 5½ million, league 2 2½... and of course as a team higher up you can also charge more per seat... So for a smaller team to go from league 2 to league 1 is likely to double their attendance, so more butts on seats, bigger sponsors and so on To counter this when players go up leagues they want more money, so the wage bill goes up accordingly. Why three teams? Well it's actually more complex than that. In the premier league the bottom three teams go down to the championship at the end of a season. That's after 38 games played. Simple right, but for the teams coming UP it's a lot more exciting. The team that wins the championship and the next team below them goes up automatically. They play the last game of the regular season and go off on holiday with a bottle of bubbly. But the next FOUR teams in that league then go to the playoffs which have two semi finals and a final, straight knock out. You win you go through, you lose you go home, season over. The finals of these playoffs are on a bank holiday weekend in the UK in May so the sun's usually out and these are the last league games of the season so everyone's on a high and probably drunk... The team that wins the playoffs goes to the premier league The same happens (give or take) for all the lower leagues so there is always one or more teams going up and one or more going down. You might have heard of Wrexham Town who Deadpool bought a few years back. The league they're in has a one up one down policy so literally ONLY the winners go up, no second chances Last point... on the FA cup. Yes there are 700 teams or whatever but the cup is structured so that there are several "preliminary rounds" and it's only non-league clubs which play (so the ones outside of the professional game, not in a league you saw on screen in the video). Then next few rounds the "league" teams come in, but not the premier league. Those teams don't come in til round 3 (so the seventh game overall). Why is this important? Goes back to sponsors and bums on seats. The way the FA cup teams are chosen to face each other is a random draw, so every round they put a load of numbers on balls and draw these out of a bag, so in theory it's completely random and you could have two premier league teams facing off (a really big game) or you could get a really small club, against Liverpool or Man United. Which club gets drawn first is at home, so they get the bums on THEIR seats Imagine you're a tiny club with an attendance of 2000 a week, and then you get Liverpool... suddenly you've got TV cameras, thousands of people wanting to watch Liverpool, all the sponsors wanting to be at your club even for one week... That's a hell of a pay day for the smaller club. And of course if you manage to scrape a win your clubs in the papers, your players go up in value and you could end the season selling off a few players for bigger money than you normally would get A good cup run, with a few big home games can keep a club flush with money for a few years...

As an Englishman, when I discovered that your teams couldn't be relegated I was baffled. What are the stakes? Where are the risks? Given America's fundamental dream of anyone being able to rise from the dirt to the highest heights, it makes no sense to me that sports are so... safe, in that regard. Plus, the incessant scoring does make for short term enjoyment but goals being so hard to score in football builds and builds tension, often to unbearable levels. And if you don't feel that tensions, then you're not truly invested in any particular team. Once that switch is flicked and you really care about winning, OMG the stress and anguish and joy and ecstasy it can create. To understand this, look for England vs Greece in the World Cup qualifying stages 20 years ago (2001), when we were losing and only needed a draw to qualify for the tournament (it wasn't even the ACTUAL tournament!?!) - it went right to the wire at 2-1. We just couldn't score. Then, in the 92nd minute (so into added time, thus the ref could blow the whistle and end the game at any point), David Beckham, the captain, the most influential player in that game who seemed to be trying to win all on his own, gets a free kick... and scores it, putting us through. Orgasmic result. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fNVlrJaKyd_MpJc.html Or the 1999 Champions League final. Manchester United (my team - no doubt saying that will trigger abuse by other commenters!) were on for the treble. We were 1-0 down for the whole game. Looked like we'd finally been beaten in the biggest game of the season to a really weak Bayern Munich free kick we should never have conceded. But, in the 91st minute, again in injury time, Teddy Sheringham equalised. We all thought we were in for 30 mins of extra time and maybe penalties, but, in the 93RD minute, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer scored the winner. I was up on the table in the pub screaming with ecstasy. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z99_gZaquMjQh4U.html And once it gets you, you're hooked. Just look at Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney after buying Wrexham, trying to throw money at it to progress, to WIN, because now they care. It is the beautiful game. Love the channel - as a Yankophile, it's so cool to see Anglophiles in the US. x

In Ireland we call it Soccer too because we have our own football which is Gaelic football. You can check it out on you tube.

The reason for the 3 teams going up and down is because it adds more excitement to the leagues as it gives everyone something to play for.

THE BEAUTY OF FOOTBALL is a video you will LOVE but read the bottom captions for the significance of some of what you see like Leicester City winning The Premier League at World Record odds of 5,000 to 1...lol

I'm am always amazed that the Americans call a game, where the players mostly carry or throw the ball and rarely kick it, football.

I have seen the video a bunch of times, but I can say that this was definitely the most interesting reaction video about it. Good job.

Great video,it explains European football very well, just one thing that frustrates me is how he pronounces (and also spells) Premier League as Premiere League.

Here in the UK there will be 13 promotions needed, if you started a new team and took it to the top. It's even less likely to do it even if you won every year, as you'd need to upgrade your facilities, home ground etc... to meet each leagues standards as you grew as well

Relegation is one of the most exciting parts of Football.

Climbing to the Premier League from nothing is possible but not unheard of. Wimbledon FC started out as an Amateur team. After a lot of success in Amateur football they went professional in 1964 starting at the Southern League which is two leagues below the National League that the guy in the video mentioned. So seven or eight leagues down from the Premier, although at the time it was just the first division. They won the Southern League three times from 1974 to 1976 they were promoted to what is now called League Two. Promoted to what is now League 1 in 1978, then spent the next few years moving between League one and two. They then advanced back to League One in 1983, then got another promotion to the Championship the following year. They remained in the Championship the next year, and then having reached Third Place, Wimbledon FC reached Division One (Now the Premier League) in 1986. From Division four to Division One in four years was crazy. When the real Premier League was created in 1992, Wimbledon was still there.

Why would they only relegate 1 team in a 20 team league? That'd be almost the same as having no relegation at all. It'd take half a decade, at least, to kick clubs who underperform, all the while taking the same time to promote clubs who deserve a shot in the big leagues. It's not so much the bottom 3 from the big leagues that matter, it's the top 3 from the feeder series that people sometimes get excited about, especially when the division 2 has a top 3 fight all season long. Seeing them go up and how they fare against the big teams is a show in itself, not to mention the opportunity they get. As for the relegated, too bad. Perform well in division 2 and you're back into the big league next season, if not, it's not meant to be.

I love relegation as a concept, would absolutely not get rid of it and I’m a Notts County fan, arguably the oldest professional league football team (founded in 1862), were relegated out of the professional leagues essentially a few years ago but are now really close to getting back into League 2 (bottom tier of professional football in England). Their biggest rival in that regard this season is Wrexham, who have become huge jn the US recently - highly recommend watching the series Welcome to Wrexham for a look at the lower end of football, arguably the grass roots of the sport

FC Barcelona(Spanish La Liga team) did it in 2010 they won 6 titles which means they won every tournament they took part in. it was the first time any team had done it, then they almost did it again in 2016 by finishing the year winning 5 tournaments out of the 6 they played in. so it can be done. Its also why many consider that side from that time as the greatest team ever assembled if u want to see what they could do the is a video called FC BARCELONA TIKI TAKA or FC BARCELONA THE GLORY DAYS I RECOMMEND IT WILL SHOW THE PASSING STRATEGY HE WAS TALKING ABOUT.

About promotion and relegation, yeah i think its cool cuz after watching mls for a while i feel like the "madness" and i'd guess the overall competitivness fizzles out after mid-season where all the playoff spots are kinda set, while in other leagues like the premier league for example, by giving 3 relegation spots already guarantees you 6 teams competing to stay in it until the end of the season. Also the way teams qualify to the champions league or the europa league (in premier the top 4 teams qualify to CL and the two teams below them will go to the Europa league) gives you a "it isn't over 'till it's over" kind of feeling, its awesome.

Hi ladies, another great reaction and so impressed that you like learning!! The threat of relegation and the hope of promotion is one of the most powerful drivers of the game of football and should remain.

I've got to point out that throughout that video the narrator was referring to the Premiere League, it's not the Premiere league it's the Premier League without the trailing 'e'. Also, in the UK it's pronounced like 'prem-ee-uh'. As for promotion/relegation it's a fundamental part of Football. A few years ago some of the top European clubs talked about forming a European Super League for the top clubs in Europe without promotion/relegation and fans across Europe were absolutely furious. The whole promotion/relegation adds so much to the game, it makes far more matches important and in theory allows any team in the country to make it to the top or crash down the leagues. For example, in the early nineties Oldham Athletic were in the Premier League. Since then they've been relegated multiple times and are now playing in the National League. Conversely in the early 2000's AFC Bournemouth were struggling in League Two and now they're in the Premier League.

I think the 3-4 team relegation/promotion system makes the whole season more exciting, most teams would be the middle of the table so if only one team moves you can be in the safe zone much earlier in the season rather than having to fight til the end. On the otherhand it's not completely devastating for a lower team to get relegated to the 2nd division, there's still some money to be made there, they still have access to the league cup, then there's 3 spots for them to take in order to get back to the top tier the next season. Anyway, it's usually the same teams that get relegated and promoted every other season, but once in a while one of those teams will break out and displace a top team and it just makes an amazing story.

Oh ya, José Mourinho playing a defensive game is news to me and I've been around. Not even in Italy did he use this and Chelsea never specialised in a counter attack style. Baffled 😮

The relegation is good tbh it gives three teams from the champions league to prove themselves or fail. My team (sniffles) Leeds have been up two years now but look to go down again. Its a hard task staying up. Debbies off side explanation was a simple version but we should adopt it to make life easier. Great reaction as always. Do a highlight vid or greatest goals vid to wean your way in. 🇺🇸🇬🇧👍🏼❤️

promotion to the next league is very aspirational,and gives hope to the fans. Relegation on the other hand could spell disaster and is very much to be feared. It's snakes and ladders,and I should know,having supported Newcastle United all my life! Love your show btw

real cool content ! made my day

We would never get rid of relegation and promotion - it is a pillar of football culture in Europe and it means that clubs at all levels get fan bases excited/nervous and have great stories to tell. The reason 3 teams go up and down rather than 1 (it's actually different in some cases - in England, 4 teams move up/down between the 3rd and 4th division and 2 teams move up/down between the 4th and 5th) is because the level of football played by the best teams in one league is roughly the same as the worst teams in the league above, and it's pretty much always multiple clubs at that level rather than just one team completely dominating a league or sucking more than anyone else.

I'm still getting my head around about leagues that relegation is not a threat and promotion is not a possibility?!?!??! If a team goes to hell, why should they stay up and if a team blossoms why should it be held down?

Good morning, girls. Lovely to see you although I don't know what I'm doing up so early! I thought when I retired I'd be able to lie in bed in the mornings, especially when I've had a very late night, but that hasn't worked out. At least this is a good start to the day. 🙂

Well done on that offside explanation. You did really well Debbie!

Don't worry about the Offsides rule too much, not even TV commentators understand it half the time. No one can explain it, but it works.

For the National League in England, I recommend the show 'This is Wrexham'. Disney + over here in the UK but I'm not sure which service in the US (think it's Hulu Plus). Documentary series about Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney buying a fifth tier club. It really explains it well and shows off the culture and running of the club. Follows along the seasons as well.

Think of it as you said. You grew up in a very sports oriented family. Imagine say there was an American Football team from like Richmond, Reno, Virginia beach, any smaller city or town (there are many lol) and those people love their team and where they are from. If that team was able to work its way up to the NFL through merit it would mean so much to the people. Thats what happens when teams come up through the leagues. Its a great system.

3 goes up. The top 2 automatically. The 3rd team is the winner of "The play offs" which is a short knock out series of matches between positions 3,4,5 and 6

I'm not a sports fan however I love watching the pair of you taking everything in, Natasha your facial expressions crack me up. Debbie you know what you mean when you explain things even i understand what your trying to say. Keep up your great work girlies xx

The Premier League is the top league..In that it’s got the most money and it’s the most well-known and supported worldwide And the top managers. The other leagues just don’t have the money.. but they are very well supported also. Take care guys. ❤from England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

As a Norwich City supporter, we get to celebrate promotion one year and bemoan relegation the next. Makes things much more interesting than being a middle of the table club. Plus, we get a trophy for winning the league (Championship) so we have more silverware than many clubs😂

Hi ladies. It's worth noting he's explaining mens football, not womens. The USA are the current and most notable world champions, England won the European championships last summer and although the rules are the same, the leagues are a little different with fewer teams. Most teams have a mens and womens squad, and although the names are the same, Arsenal, Man City, Barca, their popularity and success differs too. The game itself is a little different but the skill, fitness and strategy are just as exciting and a must watch. Love watching you get exciting about stuff in the rest of the world and seeing you learn as you go. Brilliant stuff, keep going. Subscribing as we speak x

Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney bought Wrexham last February. They play in the English national league - the theory you’re asking about is that they could take them up to the English premier league in 5 years = 5 promotions; but they are a year in and are still in the National League and have an almighty battle with Notts County to get out of the national league this season as well (although they could still do it through the playoffs) So your answer is the shortest possible time for them to get to the top would 5 years but that never happens, the ability gap is to big between the leagues for that to happen.

I'm from the UK, it's a bit interesting because I've seen some teams from division2 work their way to the premiere over a few seasons with a good manager, and some surprises of teams who have been in the premiere league for a long time end up in division 2 over a few seasons usually over poor management and money problems

Not stopping the clock all the time and allowing the ref to end the game as he sees fair adds to the excitement.

Barcelona won the Sextuple in 2009. The first and only time ever a team won all six trophies in a season. That Barcelona team had Messi and all other legends. That Barcelona team was unbeatable and the best team ever.

Relegation is essential for a heightened sense quality and competitiveness in the game everyone love a underdog

Great video ladies,you need to check out the ladies game,the USA are one of the top teams but England are not far behind,they are so skilled and as good,in my opinion as the men.

Curioso que en el video no mencionó (aunque sí mostró en el mapa) a Conmebol, que es una confederación importante tanto por los países campeones del mundo,como por los jugadores históricos importantes que han salido de ahí.

Sometimes you get a runaway winner and the top of the league can get boring. But the bottom of the table scrap keeps going till the very last day and the heartbreak can be extreme.

Ryan Reynolds' team Wrexham are in the national League at the mo.

Relegation is really necessary!...If you are constantly loosing and keep staying at the bottom of the league then you dont really deserve to stay in the top league and be among the best!...so just kick them out and bring in the top 3 teams from the lower league!....why not give them a chance to play in the top league and let them prove that they are the best and they actually deserve to be among the best!...if they fail in the top league and stay in the bottom 3, then will get relegated to their previous league where, if they really want to be the best, can prove themselves worthy and come back to the top league the next year!

Ryan Reynolds bought Wrexham FC which plays in the National League. From near bankruptcy Reynolds made them into championship material which is on the verge of gaining promotion. From an unknown local team he made them recognisable internationally. Maybe you should watch the docudrama Welcome To Wrexham and possibly you'll start supporting Wrexham FC.

Enjoyable video ladies 😄 thanks x

A sport without relegation and promotion is very boring.

Without relegation there is no consequences to playing bad. It's pointless

I have been supporting Man utd since i was 5, i am 53 now and grew up on football in South East Asia!!!! My eldest sister got me interested in the game as i was the only boy and youngest in the family!!!! I have watched many different European leagues on TV live so support different clubs from the different European countries!!!!! I am a supporter of the AFL, Aussie Rules Football, my favourite team is the West Coast Eagles of Perth, WA!!!! I am also a fan of the NFL, i support the Green Bay Packers since i was around 9 years old!!!!! Hope you will find out more about Europe football rules and regulations, Natasha and Debbie so have a great day!!!!!

Promotion to the Premiership is worth about $200 milion. One of the biggest prizes in world sport.

I can not recomend the show Welcome to Wrexham enough, it is a bit like a real life Ted Lasso. It is a documentary about a team in the lowest division of UK football that gets bought by actors Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds. Trust me it has so much heart and highlights the highs and lows of being a fan of lower leauge football

I love this. Very interesting presentation. I have played both football and b'ball, but in the UK football is much more than a sport...its a way of life. The relegation/promotion issue is what really stirs the passion. There's nothing like watching the faces of fans on the last day of the season when their club can't quite claw its way out ofcthe relegation zone...or the excitement of fans watching their club be promoted to the big league: more money, better stadium, TV coverage etc. The FA Cup is also a really brilliant tournament, every year some small town club who play on the local park somehow manage to scrape through a few rounds and end up having their day playing at Man Utd or Arsenal. Clubs that manage to knock out a Premier League club are hailed as giant-killers. In England you tend to support a team from birth and you never change no matter their fortunes so these rules really make a difference to the fans. Love your content girls xx

The quadruple has never been done. Last season, Liverpool fc got the closest, ending up winning two competitions, losing the champions league final, by one goal, in the premier league with 12 minutes remaining they were in first position, but finished second. It was still arguably the greatest season a team has ever had. They played every possible game available to play. This has never been done, to put it in prospective. The league was formed in 1888.

Swedish Liverpool fan here....this video was very good and also fun made! Hope you watched some game after this!?? 😉

The League system gives all teams a chance to improve so even the lower league teams can get better and rise to another division. So if you lose a lot then you deserve to play in a lower league, giving the lesser teams something to look up to