![]() If there’s already a disparity between the Premier League and the divisions below it in the footballing pyramid then there’s an even bigger gap between those in the Championship or below and those in the Champions League. It’s why relegation can be such a painful experience for teams at the bottom of the Premier League, despite about £70 million in 'parachute payments' to help ease the pain. ![]() There’s no question, therefore, that there’s something of a disparity between the teams at the top and everyone else. The 72 teams below the top-flight shared £195 million over three years from 2012 to 2015, which is one heck of a contrast to what the big boys get paid. It goes without saying that any sense of trickle down economics does not play out as you might wish it to in the English Football League pyramid. The TV money is shared equally between clubs, so the £5 billion plus paid by BT Sport and Sky to cover the league from 2015 - 2019 was worth £81 million per season to each club in the league. In 2015 the Premier League received over £5 billion in television rights, compared to the roughly £1 billion paid to La Liga. ![]() Of all of the leagues in the world, the English top-flight is the one most people want to watch and is therefore the one that brings in the most money. Little wonder, then, that television rights are so hotly contested between the companies that can afford to bid for them. Yet around 700 million people around the world will watch Liverpool play Manchester United in a run-of-the-mill Premier League game. Over 100 million American tune in to watch the Super Bowl every year, which is impressive. That puts the 15 million viewers of the previous year’s World Series final to shame and gives a real indication of how many people in America alone like 'soccer'. The Americans might like to refer to the final of their inter-state baseball competition as the 'World Series', but when the US played Portugal in the World Cup in 2014 over 24 million people tuned in to watch. By Steindy (talk) 20:54, 3 June 2010 (UTC) (Own work), via Wikimedia Commonsįootball is the most popular sport in the world.
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